Members of Student Assembly unanimously ratified the proposed amendments to the Student Assembly constitution authored by Will Hix '12, during Tuesday's General Assembly meeting. The amendments will provide for the election of committee chairs by the General Assembly, schedule the student body president's inauguration sometime before May, allow the new Assembly to elect officers, remove defunct positions and streamline the Constitution from 18 pages to six. Members from the Student Budget Advisory Committee also gave a presentation to the General Assembly, explaining their organization's restructuring process and goals. They announced the formation of an advising committee that will look into methods of improving the advising system on campus and discussed ideas for future activities, including exploring the feasibility of an institutionalized peer advising system.
Zdenek Bakala Tu'89 recently donated $2.5 million to establish the Bakala Professor of Management faculty chair at the Tuck School of Business, according to a Tuck press release published Tuesday. The faculty position will support the "Tuck 2012" initiative by increasing student access to faculty members, the press release stated. Bakala is originally from the Czech Republic and is a well-known figure in the Czech business community, where he has been involved in finance and business since the early 1990s, according to the press release. In 1991, Bakala established the Prague office of Credit Suisse First Boston, and he founded the Czech investment boutique Patria Finance in 1994, the press release said.
Mitchel Wallerstein '71 was named President of Baruch College part of the City University of New York system following the approval of his appointment by the CUNY trustees on Monday, The New York Times reported. Wallerstein, who will succeed interim president Stan Altman in August, was the vice president of the philanthropic group the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and held a defense post under President Bill Clinton according to The Times. After graduating from Dartmouth, Wallerstein received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Masters in public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse, The Times reported. For the past seven years, Wallerstein served as the dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, according to a CUNY press release.
