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The dean of the City University of New York’s journalism school announced Monday that she would step down next June, ending a nine-year tenure during which enrollment increased more than 40 percent while the percentage of students of color rose above 50 percent.
Sarah Bartlett became the dean in 2014, after joining the school as a professor in 2006, the year of its founding. Before that, she worked as a reporter and editor at Business Week, The New York Times and Fortune.
As dean, Ms. Bartlett created a foundation that raised nearly $70 million for the school, CUNY said in a statement. The gifts included $20 million from Craig Newmark, the founder of the classified ads website Craigslist, a donation that let the school to change its name from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. (Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the chairman emeritus of The New York Times Company, is the foundation’s vice chairman.)
In a brief interview Monday, Ms. Bartlett — who spent the day at the school’s Midtown Manhattan building, where last week students returned to in-person classes for the first time since the pandemic’s onset — said she was proud to have increased enrollment while keeping costs relatively low.
“We need to find a way to make newsrooms more inclusive, and more committed to engaging with more broadly based communities,” she said. “All J schools need to be working on solving that problem.”
Tuition and fees for a New York resident’s three semesters at the school come to approximately $18,000, compared with $70,000 or more at several peer institutions.
Ms. Bartlett also cited among her main accomplishments the school’s development of a bilingual program for Spanish-English speakers, the country’s first; a new master’s program in audience engagement; and an online-only certificate program in entrepreneurial journalism, for journalists who wish to strike out on their own with a newsletter or podcast. There will be a nationwide search for Ms. Bartlett’s successor.
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