Wellington Z. Chen was appointed by Governor George Pataki in June 2000 as a member of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York. Mr. Chen was born in Taiwan, and lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Brazil before arriving in New York over 30 years ago as an adolescent. He is conversant in several languages, including Chinese (Amoy, Cantonese, Mandarin), and Brazilian-Portuguese.

Mr. Chen, a resident of Queens and a long-time communtity leader, graduated from the School of Architecture and Environmental Studies at City College. He was the first Chinese American in Queens to serve on a community planning board, where he chaired the cultural affairs, housing, landmarks, planning and zoning committees and helped to bring about the revival of downtown Flushing. More recently, Mr. Chen was a Commissioner of the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals which reviews zoning variances, special permits, and other land use appeals. He is also currently serving as Vice Chair of the Queens County Traffic Safety Board. A planning, design, and land use consultant, Mr. Chen is senior vice president at the TDC Development Corporation, a real estate company in Queens. He is also a Senior Associate of the posts in private industry, including four years in the early 1980's with the firm of I.M. Pei & Partners. During that time, he was part of the team that developed the 70-story Bank of China building in Hong Kong and the ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas. His special interests are in the areas of Main Street revitalizations and urban entertainment centers.

Mr. Chen holds membership on the Board's Standing Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, the Standing Committee on Facilities, Planning, and Management, and the Standing Committee on Faculty, Staff, and Administration. He serves as Vice Chair of the Board's Standing Committee on Academic Policy, Program, and Research.

Otis H. Hill assumed the position of Vice Chancellor for Student Development and Enrollment Services on August 14, 2000. He serves as the advocate for student concerns to the University and shapes various aspects of student recruitment, retention and enrollment.

Dr. Otis Hill has served in a variety of teaching and managerial positions for the last 30 years at Kingsborough Community College. For the last six years he served as Vice President for Student Development and Chairperson of the Department of Student Development. He previously held the positions of Dean of Students, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of an off-campus facility.

Dr. Hill received his Ed.D from Rutgers University, his M.S. Degree from City College and his B.S. Degree from Knoxville College. He has done additional graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University and at Fairleigh Dickenson University.

Vice Chancellor Hill has varied research interests in student development but is best known for his student retention initiatives at Kingsborough, including the Wall of Fame and the Early Attrition project. He has published and served as a consultant and presenter at several national workshops. The Noel Levitz National Conference on Student Retention granted him the Retention Excellence Award in 1989 for his work in the field.

Russell Hotzler currently serves as the Vice Chancellor for Academic Program Planning at the City University of New York, a position that holds system-wide responsibility for planning and program initiatives including those related to transfer and articulation. Prior to becoming Vice Chancellor Dr. Hotzler held the position of Interim President at York College, guiding the College through a period of administrative transition. This appointment followed his two-year tenure as Interim President at Queens College where he also directed the College through a period of administrative transition and restructuring. Dr. Hotzler joined the City University of New York as a faculty member at Queensborough Community College in 1971 where he taught and served Vice President for Academic Affairs prior to joining the University's central administration in 1996 as University Dean for Academic Affairs.

His University-wide responsibilities have included, oversight of academic program initiatives and liaison to the State Education Department and the Middle States Association in matters related to program review and college accreditation. He also coordinated the University’s Teacher Education initiatives and worked with the colleges to ensure compliance with new State requirements for the professions and teacher education. In addition, he served as liaison to the NYC Board of Education in matters of teacher Education and development of new performance standards for K-12 mathematics and science instruction.

Dr. Hotzler currently serves as Chair of the New York State Regents Advisory Committee on Accreditation. His other experiences include, working with the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Bio-Engineering Department where he studied metal-tissue interactions and wear characteristics of metal implants, and serving as a NASA research fellow studying the microstructure and characteristics of oxide-dispersion strengthened alloys at the NASA Research Center in Ohio.

Dr. Hotzler was awarded the American Society for Metals ‘Education Award’ given in recognition of contributions to the teaching of science and was elected to the Board of the National Education Committee of American Society of Metals. He is also a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the Christopher Columbus Award from the Italian Charities of America. Dr. Hotzler has been active in numerous professional societies including the American Society for Metals, the American Society for Testing and Materials, the American Society for Engineering Education, and Sigma XI.

A native New Yorker, Dr. Hotzler holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering and a Ph.D. In Physical Metallurgy from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (Polytechnic University) where he also served as a member of the faculty in the Department of Physical and Engineering Metallurgy.