Félix V. Matos Rodríguez has served as the eighth Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) since May 2019. Matos Rodríguez is the first educator of color and the first Latino to lead the nation’s largest urban public university, serving 243,000 degree-seeking students across 25 New York City campuses. Committed to CUNY’s unrivaled role as an engine of upward mobility and a driver of New York’s economy, Matos Rodríguez has focused on bringing down barriers to students' success. He erased more than $100 million in unpaid tuition and fees for more than 57,000 students, ended the practice of holding transcripts of students with outstanding balances, and has developed career pipelines for students through a series of public-private partnerships with some of New York’s largest employers. A historian, Rodríguez served for two decades as faculty at Hunter College and as president of Hostos Community College and Queens College.