Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, President of The City College of New York, is the recipient of the NYC Building and Construction Trades Council 2025 Building Futures Award. This distinguished award was presented by NYC & NYS BCTC President Gary LaBarbera on October 2, 2025.
“Without President Boudreau’s understanding and support of the family-sustaining career opportunities the union construction industry can create for New Yorkers of all backgrounds, the innovative partnership between CSKILLS and CCNY would not be evolving in the way it is today,” said LaBarbera, who is also President and CEO of The Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Construction Skills (CSKILLS). “He has full belief in the benefits the CSKILLS curriculum can offer CCNY student and is dedicated to helping provide more individuals in these programs a clearer path to the middle class. It was a pleasure to recognize President Boudreau’s contributions to growing our programs and we are thankful for our collaboration with CCNY, which is giving more hard-working New Yorkers the opportunities to build the skills and experience necessary to lead a successful career in the trades.”
Boudreau said CCNY’s Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative (RIWI) entered a new and exciting phase of its work when it partnered with BCTC. “Our historic vision of educating the whole people often did not reach deeply into the world of non-degree workforce development, but it should have. Working shoulder to shoulder with BCTC is a tremendous gift, especially because we see in them an organization whose values, aspirations and practices utterly mirror our own. Together, we have the chance to bring vast segments of our communities into lives of remunerative and stable work, and it’s been a joy to work together,” Bourdreau added.
The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) represents more than 100,000 tradesmen and tradeswomen across New York City and consists of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions.
