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II-B-4JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICEAppointment of Dr. Monika Son with Tenure at John Jay College of Criminal JusticeWHEREAS, the SEEK Program is highly successful in supporting students in their goal to obtainan undergraduate degree and therefore requires strong leadership; andWHEREAS, Dr. Monika Son has been a member of the SEEK Department for well over a decadeand is fully prepared to assume this leadership position, having advised students, supervisedcounseling staff, implemented technology initiatives, and helped develop academic policies; andWHEREAS, After a search, Dr. Son was chosen as the preferred candidate to be the chair of theSEEK Department; andWHEREAS, she holds a doctorate in Developmental Psychology from CUNY and her researchfocuses on academic success in college for students from marginalized communities; andWHEREAS, Dr. Son has already provided a significant amount of service to both John Jay andthe University holding a Certificate of Continuous Employment from the University; andWHEREAS, Dr. Son’s candidacy has been endorsed by the department, the College Personneland Budget Committee, the Provost and the President; therefore be itRESOLVED, that Monika Son be awarded immediate tenure as an Assistant Professor in the SeekDepartment at John Jay College with a waiver of bylaw 6.2.b effective December 10, 2018.EXPLANATION: John Jay is one of only two CUNY senior colleges in which SEEK, a highereducation opportunity program, is an academic department rather than a program. In additional tosome teaching, the SEEK faculty advise students in individual and group settings. The SeekDepartment is in need of a new chair. In additional to teaching and supervising the other facultymembers, the chair is responsible for managing professional and support staff and overseeing thedepartment’s budget and academic support initiatives. After a search, Dr. Son was chosen as thepreferred candidate to be chair. She has been a doctoral lecturer in the SEEK Program since 2004.She holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center and her researchhas focused on college student success. Because Dr. Son has a Certificate of ContinuousEmployment from the University and not tenure this bylaw waiver is being requested. Hercandidacy has been endorsed by the department, the college personnel and budget committee, theProvost, and the President.

Nh.aro l \ . \la o11President 12. 3 .8600pre ide n1 @,jja . c u11 .NiuDecember 19. 20 I 8Kenneth NorzUniversity Academic Affairs RelationsCity University ofNew York205 E 42"d StreetNew York. Y 10017Justification for the Immediate Tenure of Dr. Monika Son, John Jay CollegeThis letter sets out to explain why Dr. Monika Son merits immediate tenure. Dr. Son has been aLecturer in the SEEK department since 2003, and is the college's choice to chair the SEEKDepartment. Part of the request that she be granted immediate tenure is related to her uniquequalifications to lead John Jay's SEEK Department, and thus some background information as toour search for its leader is necessary. In addition, while this tenure may be technically"immediate,'' it in fact comes 15 years after Dr. Son started at John Jay as a Lecturer, and manyyears since she gained her C.C.E. (certificate of continuous employment), which is equivalentto tenure for faculty members in lecturer lines.John Jay College is one of two CUN Y senior colleges that have faculty lines in their SEEKDepartments. As such, SEEK at John Jay is both a Department and a Program, and thereforemust have as its leader a person who functions both as its Chair (who per CUNY bylaws must bea tenured member of the faculty), and its Director. The Chair/Director of SEEK at John Jayreports to the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Provost, and externally reports to theCUNY Office of Special Programs. The program is responsible for the effective use of federalfunds to support approximately 1, 100 low-income and traditionally under-represented students asthey pursue their college degrees. The program oversees counseling as well as academicsupport, and essentially functions like a small college within our college. The Chair/Director ofsuch a program has to have a multi-faceted skill set, including academic skills, counseling skill s.and administrative skills. We believe Dr. Monika Son has all of these necessary skills. Becauseshe has C.C.E. status, has been in this role at John Jay for fifteen years, and has been workingwith the Office of Special Programs for six years, Monika has the experience to keep our SEEKprogram on track.Currently there are five faculty members in John Jay's SEEK Department: 2 tenured AssociateProfessors. 1 tenured Assistant Professor, and 2 Lecturers (including Dr. Son) with C.C.E. AfterOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019Iwww.jjay.cuny.eduTHE GREATESTURBAN UNIVERSITYIN THE WORLD

one failed search for an external candidate to lead the Department, Dr. Son applied for theposition in our second search. She was easily the best qualified to lead the program. She hasbeen instrumental in writing the Department's social-justice focused curriculum, She has hadadministrative and assessment responsibility of the counseling function of SEEK since 2012, hasassisted in outcomes assessment work, and teaches the Department's core curriculum. Inaddition, of course, she has a case load of 80 students.To understand why it makes sense to tenure Dr. Son, one must understand that the SEEK facultyworkload is very different from other CUNY Faculty. In addition to teaching, each SEEKfaculty counselor has a caseload of 80-137 students to counsel/manage, while also devising andoverseeing the special programs that help SEEK students to be retained and excel. A CUNYBoard of Trustees 1995 Memorandum outlines that "a minimum of 80 percent of facultycounselor hours-twenty-four hours-should be assigned to scheduled student counseling inindividual or group sessions. The SEEK Department Chair, faculty and HEO staff receive norelease time. The SEEK Department Chair maintains a 5-day workload, counseling facultymaintain a 4-day workload, and HEO counselors maintain a 5-day workload. Given that SEEKDepartment faculty are required to commit 80% of their workload to serving students throughteaching and counseling, service and teaching have a larger than typical share in the assessmentof SEEK Department faculty job performance.Dr. Son joined the faculty in 2003 and received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from theCUNY Graduate Center in 2013. She has a body of scholarship to date, in keeping with herLecturer line. but in converting to a tenure-track line she is committed to developing it further.Her research centers around internalized narratives of student success for immigrant and under represented individuals. She addresses issues of injustice in pedagogy and seeks to developclassrooms as transforrnative spaces for young people from marginalized communities.Dr. Son's scholarly activity includes:Publications: e Forthcoming-Spring of20I9 invited book chapter titled "Re-examining the "You're NoteGood Enough" narrative through a contemplative, embodied practice and framework inePracticing Liberation around issues of oppression in educational spaces and what kinds ofepractices offer healing and liberation for people of color in these spaces.e e May 1018 "Pushing Our Will to Experience Resilience" in the Journal of College andeCharacter (May 2018). This article explores the low enrollment, retention. andegraduation rate among men of color in higher education.e e Bender, H.A., Ruiz-Navarro. P., Feygina, I., Echavarria-Son, M., Gaytan, F.X., Lucic. Le(2010). The History of Immigration in the United States. Encyclopedia of Cross- CulturaleSchool Psychology. pp.529-535, Springer, USeRecent Presentations:

August 24 2018 "Se que soy negra: Why affirming Afro-Native Latinidad is necessary toending anti-blackness, injustice, and implicit bias in the Latinx and Higher Edcommunities. Latina Researchers Conference at John JayVi siting Scholar Smith College - Summer 2018 one of six lead faculty for the Center forContemplative Mind Association of Higher Education annual summer session for faculty.The weeklong session in August, houses 85 faculty from all over the country at "Growingand Supporting Students' Comfort with Discomfort when Facilitating Discussions aboutEducation, Justice and Critical Consciousness" and the plenary, "I wish you well: APractice in Healing for Students of Color".Invited presentation October 2018 Amherst College: Presenting at The Center forContemplative Mind Association for Higher Education, "A Journey on Becoming aChange Agent in Academia; Leaning into Our Discomfort and Withdrawing OurCommitment from Oppressive Spaces"Dr. Son's teaching is an area of strength. She teaches the courses she helped develop, Educationand Justice l 00 and 300 which facilitate challenging dialogue around issues of power, privilege.race, gender and oppression and build awareness of how education as an institution is structuredto replicate experiences of injustice in marginalized groups, to engage the student in criticalanalysis of oppression and injustice as it pertains to educational systems in general and thenhigher educcr:ion specifically. Dr. Son has an average student evaluation score of 4.89 (out of 5)and receives consistent positive evaluations.Dr. Son has !: ee'1 a highly committed and effective member not just of the SEEK Depai1ment butalso of John .fay and CUNY. Recently she has served in the following ways: " Department: Counseling Coordinator Fall 2012-Spring 2018 " College Service 2017-Present Board of Directors, Children's Center 2012 - 20 16 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and Programs Subcommittee 1015 -2016 Behavioral Intervention Tearn 2012- 20 18 Academic Advising Council 20 l 2 and 2016 Department Search Committee, (HEO Counselor line) " University Service 2012-20 18 Council of Counseling Coordinators, Office of Special Programs, CentralOffice CUNY 2016 Fall Search Committee for Director of Office of Special Programs/ CentralOffice/CUNY 2015 Spring Advisory Committee to the Dean/Office of Special Programs(Counseling lines)Because CUNY does not link tenure to promotion, and because SEEK Department faculty aremandated by CUNY to devote 80% of their workload to student counseling, Dr. Son has theyears of experi ence, the teaching prowess, the service commitment and the research outputbefitting a SEEK Department tenured Assistant Professor. John Jay College needs her leadership

to ensure that our SEEK program continues to excel, propelling more low-income and under represented students to degree completion. Again, while this tenure may be technically"Immediate." it in fact comes 15 years after Dr. Son started at John Jay as a Lecturer, and manyyears since she gained her C.C.E. She is a permanent member of our faculty already. Grantingher tenure will allow her to be a pem1anent member of the faculty whose title allows her toassume the leadership position she has earned and that we need to be filled by Dr. Son.Sincerely,Karol V. MasonPresidentYi Provost and VP for Academic Affairs