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The school was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the … city and county of New York". [10] The Free Academy later became the City College of New York, the oldest institution among the CUNY colleges. [11]
The oldest constituent college of CUNY, City College of New York, was originally founded in 1847 and became the first free public institution of higher learning in the United States. [9] In 1960, John R. Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of New York City, later known as the City University of New York (CUNY).
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. [4]
CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961, [11] and awarded its first two PhD to Daniel Robinson and Barbara Stern in 1965. . Robinson, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, received his PhD in psychology, [12] while Stern, late of Rutgers University, received her PhD in English liter
Krugman in 2008. Among the Graduate Center's faculty are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Lakatos Award, the National Medals of Humanities and Science, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Lakatos Award, and the Presidential ...
Robert Alfano is an Italian-American experimental physicist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (1982).
The College of Staten Island is the product of a merger in 1976 of Staten Island Community College (SICC), founded in 1956, and Richmond College, founded in 1965. Richmond College had been threatened with closure because of New York City's financial crisis, while SICC, because of its status as a community college, received state support. The ...
The Grove School of Engineering (GSoE) is the engineering school of the City College of New York (CCNY), a public university system in New York City and part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. It is one of the five schools of City College and CUNY's primary school of engineering.