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La Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York ( CUNY / k Ju n i / kyoo -nee ) es el público sistema universitario de la ciudad de Nueva York . Es el sistema universitario urbano más grande de los Estados Unidos, que comprende 25 campus: once colegios superiores, siete colegios comunitarios, un colegio universitario con honores y siete instituciones de posgrado. Si bien sus universidades constituyentes se remontan a 1847, la City University se estableció en 1961. La universidad inscribe a más de 275,000 estudiantes y cuenta con trece ganadores del Premio Nobel y veinticuatro MacArthur Fellows entre sus ex alumnos. [9]

Historia [ editar ]

Fundación [ editar ]

En 1960, John R. Everett se convirtió en el primer Canciller del Sistema de Colegios Municipales de la Ciudad de Nueva York, que pasó a llamarse CUNY, por un salario de $ 25,000 ($ 216,000 en dólares actuales). [10] [11] [12] CUNY fue creado en 1961, por la legislación del estado de Nueva York , promulgada por el gobernador Nelson Rockefeller . La legislación integró las instituciones existentes y una nueva escuela de posgrado en un sistema coordinado de educación superior para la ciudad, bajo el control de la "Junta de Educación Superior de la Ciudad de Nueva York", que había sido creada por la legislación del estado de Nueva York en 1926 En 1979, la Junta de Educación Superior se había convertido en la "Junta de Síndicos de la CUNY". [13]

Las instituciones que se fusionaron para crear CUNY fueron: [13]

  • La Academia Libre - Fundada en 1847 por Townsend Harris , fue diseñada como "una Academia Libre con el propósito de extender los beneficios de la educación gratuitamente a las personas que han sido alumnos de las escuelas comunes de la ciudad y el condado de Nueva York". La Academia Libre se convirtió más tarde en el City College de Nueva York .
  • La Escuela Normal y Secundaria Femenina - Fundada en 1870, y luego rebautizada como Universidad Normal . Volvería a llamarse en 1914 a Hunter College . A principios del siglo XX, Hunter College se expandió al Bronx, con lo que se convirtió en Herbert Lehman College . [13]
  • Brooklyn College : fundado en 1930.
  • Queens College : fundado en 1937.

Educación accesible [ editar ]

CUNY ha prestado servicios a un cuerpo estudiantil diverso, especialmente a aquellos excluidos o que no pueden pagar universidades privadas. Sus universidades de cuatro años ofrecían una educación gratuita y de alta calidad a los pobres, la clase trabajadora y los inmigrantes de la ciudad de Nueva York que cumplían con los requisitos de grado para el estado matriculado. Durante la era posterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial , cuando algunas universidades de la Ivy League , como la Universidad de Yale , discriminaban a los judíos, muchos académicos e intelectuales judíos estudiaron y enseñaron en CUNY. [14] El City College de Nueva York se ganó la reputación de ser "la Harvard del proletariado". [15]

A medida que la población de la ciudad de Nueva York y la matrícula de las universidades públicas crecieron a principios del siglo XX y la ciudad luchó por los recursos, las universidades municipales lentamente comenzaron a adoptar matrículas selectivas, también conocidas como cuotas de instrucción, para un puñado de cursos y programas. Durante la Gran Depresión , con los fondos para las universidades públicas severamente restringidos, se impusieron límites al tamaño de la Sesión Diurna gratuita de las universidades y se impuso la matrícula a los estudiantes considerados "competentes" pero no académicamente calificados para el programa diurno. La mayoría de estos estudiantes de "matrícula limitada" se matricularon en la sesión vespertina y pagaron matrícula. [dieciséis]Además, a medida que la población de Nueva York crecía, CUNY no pudo satisfacer la demanda de educación superior. Se impusieron requisitos cada vez más altos para la admisión; en 1965, un estudiante que buscaba ser admitido en CUNY necesitaba un promedio de 92, o A-. [17] Esto ayudó a asegurar que la población estudiantil de CUNY siguiera siendo mayoritariamente blanca y de clase media. [17]

La demanda de educación superior en los Estados Unidos creció rápidamente después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, a mediados de la década de 1940, comenzó un movimiento para crear colegios comunitarios para brindar educación y capacitación accesibles. En la ciudad de Nueva York, sin embargo, el movimiento de los colegios comunitarios se vio limitado por muchos factores, incluidos "problemas financieros, percepciones limitadas de responsabilidad, debilidades organizativas, factores políticos adversos y otras prioridades en competencia". [18]

Los colegios comunitarios se habrían extraído de las mismas arcas de la ciudad que financiaban los colegios superiores, y los funcionarios de educación superior de la ciudad opinaban que el estado debería financiarlos. No fue hasta 1955, en virtud de un acuerdo de financiación compartida con el estado de Nueva York, que la ciudad de Nueva York estableció su primer colegio comunitario en Staten Island. A diferencia de los estudiantes universitarios diurnos que asisten gratis a las universidades públicas de bachillerato de la ciudad, los estudiantes de las universidades comunitarias tenían que pagar las tasas de matrícula según la fórmula de financiación del estado y la ciudad. Los estudiantes de colegios comunitarios pagaron tasas de matrícula durante aproximadamente 10 años. [18]

Con el tiempo, las tasas de matrícula para estudiantes con matrícula limitada se convirtieron en una fuente importante de ingresos del sistema. En el otoño de 1957, por ejemplo, casi 36.000 asistieron a Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens y City Colleges de forma gratuita, pero otros 24.000 pagaron tasas de matrícula de hasta $ 300 al año ($ 2700 en términos de dólares actuales). [19] La matrícula de pregrado y otras tarifas estudiantiles en 1957 comprendieron el 17 por ciento de los $ 46,8 millones en ingresos de las universidades, alrededor de $ 7,74 millones ($ 70,460,000 en términos de dólares actuales). [20]

Se establecieron tres colegios comunitarios a principios de 1961, cuando el estado codificó los colegios públicos de la ciudad de Nueva York como una sola universidad con un rector a la cabeza y una infusión de fondos estatales. Pero la lentitud de la ciudad en la creación de los colegios comunitarios a medida que la demanda de plazas universitarias se estaba intensificando y había provocado una creciente frustración, especialmente por parte de las minorías, porque las oportunidades universitarias no estaban disponibles para ellos.

En 1964, cuando la Junta de Educación Superior de la ciudad de Nueva York tomó medidas para asumir la responsabilidad total de los colegios comunitarios, los funcionarios de la ciudad les extendieron la política de matrícula gratuita de los colegios superiores, un cambio que fue incluido por el alcalde Robert F. Wagner Jr. en su presupuesto. planes y entró en vigor con el año académico 1964-1965. [21]

Los llamamientos para un mayor acceso a la educación superior pública de las comunidades negras y puertorriqueñas en Nueva York, especialmente en Brooklyn, llevaron a la fundación del "Community College Number 7", más tarde Medgar Evers College, en 1966-1967. [17] En 1969, un grupo de estudiantes negros y puertorriqueños ocuparon City College y exigieron la integración racial de CUNY, que en ese momento tenía un alumnado mayoritariamente blanco . [18]

Protestas estudiantiles [ editar ]

Los estudiantes de algunos campus se sintieron cada vez más frustrados con el manejo de la administración universitaria por parte de la universidad y la Junta de Educación Superior. En Baruch College en 1967, más de mil estudiantes protestaron contra el plan de hacer de la universidad una escuela de división superior limitada a estudiantes de tercer, cuarto y tercer año de estudios. [22] En Brooklyn College en 1968, los estudiantes intentaron una sentada para exigir la admisión de más estudiantes negros y puertorriqueños y un plan de estudios adicional de estudios negros. [23] Los estudiantes de Hunter College también exigieron un programa de estudios para negros . [24]Los miembros del programa SEEK, que brindó apoyo académico a estudiantes desfavorecidos y con poca preparación, organizaron una toma de posesión de un edificio en Queens College en 1969 para protestar por las decisiones del director del programa, quien luego sería reemplazado por un profesor negro. [25] [26] Los estudiantes puertorriqueños del Bronx Community College presentaron un informe ante la División de Derechos Humanos del Estado de Nueva York en 1970, alegando que el nivel intelectual de la universidad era inferior y discriminatorio. [27] Hunter College quedó paralizado durante varios días por una protesta de 2.000 estudiantes que tenían una lista de demandas centrada en una mayor representación estudiantil en la administración universitaria. [28]En todo CUNY, los estudiantes boicotearon sus campus en 1970 para protestar por un aumento en las tarifas de los estudiantes y otros problemas, incluido el plan de admisión abierta propuesto (y luego implementado). [29]

Like many college campuses in 1970, CUNY faced a number of protests and demonstrations after the Kent State shootings and Cambodian Campaign. The Administrative Council of the City University of New York sent U.S. President Richard Nixon a telegram in 1970 stating, "No nation can long endure the alienation of the best of its young people."[30] Some colleges, including John Jay College of Criminal Justice, historically the "college for cops," held teach-ins in addition to student and faculty protests.[31]

Open admissions[edit]

Under pressure from community activists and CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker, the Board of Higher Education (BHE) approved an Open Admissions plan in 1966, but it was not scheduled to be fully implemented until 1975.[17] However, in 1969, students and faculty across CUNY participated in rallies, student strikes, and class boycotts demanding an end to CUNY's restrictive admissions policies. CUNY administrators and Mayor John Lindsay expressed support for these demands, and the BHE voted to implement the plan immediately in the fall of 1970.[17]

The doors to CUNY were opened wide to all those demanding entrance, assuring all high school graduates entrance to the university without having to fulfill traditional requirements such as exams or grades. This policy was known as open admissions and nearly doubled the number of students enrolling in the CUNY system to 35,000 (compared to 20,000 the year before). With greater numbers came more diversity: Black and Hispanic student enrollment increased threefold.[32] Remedial education, to supplement the training of under-prepared students, became a significant part of CUNY's offerings.[33]

Additionally, ethnic and Black Studies programs and centers were instituted on many CUNY campuses, contributing to the growth of similar programs nationwide.[17]

However, retention of students in CUNY during this period was low, with two-thirds of students enrolled in the early 1970s leaving within four years without graduating.[17] Robert Kibbee was Chancellor of the City University of New York, the third-largest university in the United States, from 1971 to 1982.[34]

Financial crisis of 1976[edit]

In fall 1976, during New York City's fiscal crisis, the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.[35] Tuition, which had been in place in the State University of New York system since 1963, was instituted at all CUNY colleges.[36][37]

Meanwhile, CUNY students were added to the state's need-based Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), which had been created to help private colleges.[38] Full-time students who met the income eligibility criteria were permitted to receive TAP, ensuring for the first time that financial hardship would deprive no CUNY student of a college education.[38] Within a few years, the federal government would create its own need-based program, known as Pell Grants, providing the neediest students with a tuition-free college education. Joseph S. Murphy was Chancellor of the City University of New York from 1982 to 1990, when he resigned.[39] CUNY at the time was the third-largest university in the United States, with over 180,000 students.[40]

By 2011, nearly six of ten full- time undergraduates qualified for a tuition-free education at CUNY due in large measure to state, federal and CUNY financial aid programs.[41] CUNY's enrollment dipped after tuition was re-established, and there were further enrollment declines through the 1980s and into the 1990s.[citation needed]

Financial crisis of 1995[edit]

In 1995, CUNY suffered another fiscal crisis when Governor George Pataki proposed a drastic cut in state financing.[42] Faculty cancelled classes and students staged protests. By May, CUNY adopted deep cuts to college budgets and class offerings.[43] By June, to save money spent on remedial programs, CUNY adopted a stricter admissions policy for its senior colleges: students deemed unprepared for college would not be admitted, this a departure from the 1970 Open Admissions program.[44] That year's final state budget cut funding by $102 million, which CUNY absorbed by increasing tuition by $750 and offering a retirement incentive plan for faculty.

In 1999, a task force appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani issued a report that described CUNY as "an institution adrift" and called for an improved, more cohesive university structure and management, as well as more consistent academic standards. Following the report, Matthew Goldstein, a mathematician and City College graduate who had led CUNY's Baruch College and briefly, Adelphi University, was appointed chancellor. CUNY ended its policy of open admissions to its four-year colleges, raised its admissions standards at its most selective four-year colleges (Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter and Queens), and required new enrollees who needed remediation, to begin their studies at a CUNY open-admissions community college.[45]

2010 onwards[edit]

CUNY's enrollment of degree-credit students reached 220,727 in 2005 and 262,321 in 2010 as the university broadened its academic offerings.[46] The university added more than 2,000 full-time faculty positions, opened new schools and programs, and expanded the university's fundraising efforts to help pay for them.[45] Fundraising increased from $35 million in 2000 to more than $200 million in 2012.[47]

As of Autumn 2013, all CUNY undergraduates are required to take an administration-dictated common core of courses which have been claimed to meet specific "learning outcomes" or standards. Since the courses are accepted university-wide, the administration claims it will be easier for students to transfer course credits between CUNY colleges. It also reduced the number of core courses some CUNY colleges had required, to a level below national norms, particularly in the sciences.[48][49] The program is the target of several lawsuits by students and faculty, and was the subject of a "no confidence" vote by the faculty, who rejected it by an overwhelming 92% margin.[50]

Chancellor Goldstein retired on July 1, 2013, and was replaced on June 1, 2014, by James Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska, and a graduate of the University of Nebraska and New York University Law School.[51] Milliken retired at the end of the 2018 academic year and moved on to become the Chancellor for the University of Texas system.[52][53]

In 2018, CUNY opened its 25th campus, the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, named after former president Joseph S. Murphy and combining some forms and functions of the Murphy Institute that were housed at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.[54]

On February 13, 2019, the Board of Trustees voted to appoint Queens College President Felix V. Matos Rodriguez as the chancellor of the City University of New York.[55] Matos became both the first Latino and minority educator to head the University. He assumed the post May 1.[56]

Enrollment and demographics[edit]

CUNY is the fourth-largest university system in the United States by enrollment, behind the California State University system, the State University of New York (SUNY) system, and the University of California system. More than 271,000-degree-credit students, continuing, and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all five New York City boroughs.[57]

The university has one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States, with students hailing from around the world, but mostly from New York City. The black, white and Hispanic undergraduate populations each comprise more than a quarter of the student body, and Asian undergraduates make up 18 percent. Fifty-eight percent are female, and 28 percent are 25 or older.[58] In the 2017–2018 award year, 144,380 CUNY students received the Federal Pell Grant.[59]

Academics[edit]

Component institutions[edit]

Grad Center
Grad Center
Law
Law
Journalism
Journalism
Public Health
Public Health
Med School
Med School
BMCC
BMCC
Bronx
Bronx
Guttman
Guttman
Hostos
Hostos
Kingsborough
Kingsborough
LaGuardia
LaGuardia
Queensborough
Queensborough
City College
City College
Hunter
Hunter
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Baruch
Baruch
City Tech
City Tech
John Jay
John Jay
Lehman College
Lehman College
Macaulay
Macaulay
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
Queens College
Queens College
College of Staten Island
College of Staten Island
York College
York College
Location of CUNY campuses within New York City.
Black: Senior Colleges; Red: Graduate and Professional Schools; Yellow: Community Colleges.

Management structure[edit]

Seal of the CUNY Board of Trustees

The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City. Members of the Board of Education, chaired by the President of the board, served as ex officio trustees. For the next four decades, the board members continued to serve as ex officio trustees of the College of the City of New York and the city's other municipal college, the Normal College of the City of New York.

In 1900, the New York State Legislature created separate boards of trustees for the College of the City of New York and the Normal College, which became Hunter College in 1914. In 1926, the Legislature established the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, which assumed supervision of both municipal colleges.

In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: the City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College. In 1979, the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education became the City University of New York Board of Trustees.

Today, the City University is governed by the Board of Trustees composed of 17 members, ten of whom are appointed by the Governor of New York "with the advice and consent of the senate," and five by the Mayor of New York City "with the advice and consent of the senate." The final two trustees are ex officio members. One is the chair of the university's student senate, and the other is non-voting and is the chair of the university's faculty senate. Both the mayoral and gubernatorial appointments to the CUNY Board are required to include at least one resident of each of New York City's five boroughs. Trustees serve seven-year terms, which are renewable for another seven years. The Chancellor is elected by the Board of Trustees, and is the "chief educational and administrative officer" of the City University.

The administrative offices are in Midtown Manhattan.[63]

Chairs of the board[edit]

  • 1847 Townsend Harris
  • 1848 Robert Kelly
  • 1850 Erastus C. Benedict
  • 1855 William H. Neilson
  • 1856 Andrew H. Green
  • 1858 William H. Neilson
  • 1859 Richard Warren
  • 1860 William E. Curtis
  • 1864 James M. McLean
  • 1868 Richard L. Larremore
  • 1870 Bernard Smyth
  • 1873 Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • 1874 William H. Neilson
  • 1876 William Wood
  • 1880 Stephen A. Walker
  • 1886 J. Edward Simmons
  • 1890 John L.N. Hunt
  • 1893 Adolph Sanger
  • 1894 Charles H. Knox
  • 1895 Robert Maclay (merchant)
  • 1897 Charles Bulkley Hubbell
  • 1899 J. Edward Swanstrom / Joseph J. Little
  • 1901 Miles M. O'Brien
  • 1902 Edward Lauterback / Charles C. Burlingham
  • 1903 Henry A. Rogers
  • 1904 Edward M. Shepard
  • 1905 Henry N. Tifft
  • 1906 Egerton L. Winthrop Jr.
  • 1911 Theodore F. Miller
  • 1913 Frederick P. Bellamy / Thomas Winston Churchill
  • 1914 Charles Edward Lydecker
  • 1915 Paul Fuller
  • 1916 George McAneny / Edward J. McGuire
  • 1919 William G. Willcox
  • 1921 Thomas Winston Churchill
  • 1923 Edward Swann / Edward C. McParlan
  • 1924 Harry P. Swift
  • 1926 Moses J. Strook
  • 1931 Charles H. Tuttle
  • 1932 Mark Eisner
  • 1938 Ordway Tead
  • 1953 Joseph Cavallaro
  • 1957 Gustave G. Rosenberg
  • 1966 Porter R. Chandler
  • 1971 Luis Quero-Chiesa
  • 1974 Alfred A. Giardino
  • 1976 Harold M. Jacobs
  • 1980 James Murphy
  • 1997 Ann Paolucci
  • 1999 Herman Badillo
  • 2001 Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
  • 2016 Bill Thompson

Faculty[edit]

CUNY employs 6,700 full-time faculty members and over 10,000 adjunct faculty members.[64][65] Faculty and staff are represented by the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), a labor union and chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.[66]

Notable faculty[edit]

  • André Aciman, writer[where?]
  • Ali Jimale Ahmed, poet and professor of Comparative Literature, Queens College and Graduate Center[67]
  • F. Murray Abraham, actor of stage and screen; professor of theater, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor, Brooklyn College
  • Chantal Akerman, film director, City College of New York
  • Meena Alexander, poet and writer, Graduate Center and Hunter College
  • Hannah Arendt, philosopher and political theorist; author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition (1958), Brooklyn College
  • Talal Asad, anthropologist, Graduate Center
  • John Ashbery, poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, Brooklyn College
  • William Bialek, biophysicist, Graduate Center
  • Edwin G. Burrows, historian and writer, Pulitzer Prize for History winner for co-writing Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 with Mike Wallace, Brooklyn College
  • Dee L. Clayman, classicist, Graduate Center
  • Margaret Clapp, scholar, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, President of Wellesley College, Brooklyn College
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer, journalist, and activist, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
  • Billy Collins, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Lehman College (retired)
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook, historian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center
  • John Corigliano, composer, Graduate Center
  • Michael Cunningham, writer, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours, Brooklyn College
  • Roy DeCarava, artist and photographer, Hunter College[68]
  • Carolyn Eisele, mathematician, Hunter College
  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore, geographer, Graduate Center
  • Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, Brooklyn College
  • Aaron Goodelman, sculptor[69]
  • Joel Glucksman, Olympic saber fencer, Brooklyn College
  • Ralph Goldstein, Olympic épée fencer, Brooklyn College
  • Michael Grossman, economist, Graduate Center
  • Kimiko Hahn, poet, winner of PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, Queens College
  • David Harvey, geographer, Graduate Center
  • bell hooks, educator, writer and critic, City College of New York[70]
  • Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn College
  • John Hospers, first presidential candidate of the US Libertarian Party, Brooklyn College
  • Tyehimba Jess, poet, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, College of Staten Island
  • KC Johnson born (1967),[where?]
  • Michio Kaku, physicist, City College
  • Jane Katz, Olympian swimmer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Alfred Kazin, writer and critic, Hunter College and Graduate Center
  • Saul Kripke, philosopher, Graduate Center
  • Irving Kristol, journalist, City College
  • Paul Krugman, economist, Graduate Center
  • Peter Kwong, journalist, filmmaker, activist, Hunter College and Graduate Center
  • Nathan H. Lents, scientist, author, and science communicator, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Ben Lerner, writer, MacArthur Fellow, Brooklyn College
  • Audre Lorde, poet and activist, City College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Cate Marvin, poet, Guggenheim Fellowship winner, College of Staten Island
  • Abraham Maslow, psychologist in the school of humanistic psychology, best known for his theory of human motivation which led to a therapeutic technique known as self-actualization, Brooklyn College
  • John Matteson, historian and writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Maeve Kennedy McKean, attorney and public health official
  • Stanley Milgram, social psychologist, Graduate Center
  • June Nash, anthropologist, Graduate Center
  • Denise O'Connor, Olympic foil fencer, Brooklyn College
  • Itzhak Perlman, violinist, Brooklyn College[71]
  • Frances Fox Piven, political scientist, activist, and educator, Graduate Center
  • Roman Popadiuk, US Ambassador to Ukraine, Brooklyn College
  • Graham Priest, philosopher, Graduate Center
  • Inez Smith Reid, Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Brooklyn College
  • Adrienne Rich, poet and activist, City College of New York[72]
  • David M. Rosenthal, philosopher, Graduate Center
  • Mark Rothko (born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz), influential abstract expressionist painter, Brooklyn College
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., historian and social critic, Graduate Center
  • Flora Rheta Schreiber, journalist, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, literary critic, Graduate Center
  • Betty Shabazz, educator and activist, Medgar Evers College
  • Mark Strand, United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning poet, essayist, and translator, Brooklyn College
  • Dennis Sullivan, mathematician, Graduate Center
  • Harold Syrett (1913–1984), President of Brooklyn College
  • Katherine Verdery, anthropologist, Graduate Center
  • Michele Wallace, women's studies and film studies, City College and Graduate Center
  • Mike Wallace, historian and writer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center
  • Ruth Westheimer (better known as Dr. Ruth; born Karola Ruth Siegel), sex therapist, media personality, author, radio, television talk show host, and Holocaust survivor, Brooklyn College
  • Elie Wiesel, novelist, political activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal, City College
  • C. K. Williams, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Brooklyn College
  • Andrea Alu, engineer and physicist, Graduate Center
  • Robert Alfano, physicist, discovered the supercontinuum, City College
  • Branko Milanović, economist most known for his work on income distribution and inequality; a visiting presidential professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study and former lead economist in the World Bank's research department.

Public Safety Department[edit]

CUNY has its own public safety Department whose duties are to protect and serve all students and faculty members, and to enforce all state and city laws at the 26 CUNY campuses.

The Public Safety Department came under heavy criticism from student groups, after several students protesting tuition increases tried to occupy the lobby of the Baruch College. The occupiers were forcibly removed from the area and several were arrested on November 21, 2011.[73]

City University Television (CUNY TV)[edit]

CUNY also has a broadcast TV service, CUNY TV (channel 75 on Spectrum, digital HD broadcast channel 25.3), which airs telecourses, classic and foreign films, magazine shows and panel discussions in foreign languages.

City University Film Festival (CUNYFF)[edit]

The City University Film Festival is CUNY's official film festival. The festival was founded in 2009 by Hunter College student Daniel Cowen.

Notable alumni[edit]

CUNY graduates include 13 Nobel laureates, 2 Fields Medalists, a U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, several New York City mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, scientists, artists, and Olympians.[58][74]

See also[edit]

  • City University of New York Athletic Conference
  • CUNY Academic Commons
  • Education in New York City
  • Guide Association
  • State University of New York (SUNY) system.
  • The William E. Macaualay Honors College

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External links[edit]

  • Official website
  • City University of New York in Open NY (https://data.ny.gov/)
  • "New York, College of the City of" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.
  • "New York, College of the City of" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

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