Welcome to the homepage of CUNY's Office of General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs. We hope this website will be helpful in providing you with a great understanding of the role of Legal Affairs at CUNY.
The University’s Office of the General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs (OGC) is counsel to the Board of Trustees as well as to the University, providing timely and thoughtful legal assistance and advice to the Board of Trustees, the University’s central administration and its constituent colleges.
Frederick P. Schaffer
General Counsel and
Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
Jane Sovern is Deputy General Counsel
Contact
Office of General Counsel andSenior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
The City University of New York
535 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10075
Phone: 212.794.5382
Fax: 212.794.5426
ogc@mail.cuny.edu
The Office of General Counsel does not provide personal legal advice or representation to CUNY faculty members, staff or students.
If you need an attorney for personal matters please see the following link to the ' Legal Assistance Resource Information' - which is a list of free or reduced cost legal services in non-criminal legal matters in the New York City Metropolitan area.
Advisories
Governance Plans
Policies & Procedures
- Academic Integrity pdf
- Affirmative Action
- Computer Use pdf
- Conflict of Interest pdf
- Contract Signing Authority pdf
- Domestic Violence and the Workplace
- Drug and Alcohol pdf
- Facility Use pdf
- FERPA pdf
- FERPA Forms pdf
- FOIL pdf
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Information Security Program pdf
- Identity Theft Prevention Program pdf
- Information Security
- Intellectual Property pdf
- Marketing of Credit Cards to Students
- Medical Withdrawal pdf
- Military Leave pdf
- Records Retention and Disposition Schedule pdf
- Research Misconduct pdf
- Sexual Assault pdf
- Student Complaints pdf
- Travel
- Workplace Violence
