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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 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 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]
Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
Non-degree continuing education is also offered, and serves approximately 5,000 students each year. City Tech is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The college's academics are organized into three schools: School of Technology and Design; School of Professional Studies; School of Arts and Sciences
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).
In 2013, CUNY SPS opened its principal campus in midtown Manhattan, at the former site of the Gimbels department store. [2] In the twenty years since its founding, CUNY SPS became CUNY’s first and leading campus to offer fully online degree programs at both the bachelor's and master's level. The School's programs have also been ranked among ...
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