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The CUNY Academic Commons is an online, academic social network for community members [1] of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections among the 24 [2] individual colleges that make up the university system, [3] the site, founded in 2009, has quickly grown as a hub for the CUNY community, serving in the process to strengthen ...
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). CUNY, established by New York state legislation in 1961 and signed into law by governor Nelson Rockefeller, was an amalgamation of existing institutions and a new graduate school.
CUNY's history dates back to the formation of the Free Academy in 1847 by Townsend Harris. [9] 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]
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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).
The following is a list of public and private institutions of higher education currently operating in the state of New York. See defunct colleges and universities in New York state for institutions that once existed but have since closed.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City and is independent of the SUNY system. It is the largest urban university in the United States, with 11 senior colleges, an honors college, 7 community colleges, a doctorate-granting graduate school, a journalism school, a law school, the CUNY School of ...
Jewish students at the City University of New York recalled horrifying acts on antisemitism Monday — as the school’s chancellor was grilled over his handling of on-campus hate.