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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]
S. Willis Rudy, College of the City of New York 1847–1947, 1949. James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, 1994. Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City ...
Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989; Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative intellectual, professor at New York University; Diana Lachatanere 1969 - archivist; David Landes 1942 – historian, professor at Harvard University; Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991
The system was governed by the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, created in 1926, and later renamed the board of trustees of the CUNY in 1979. The institutions merged into CUNY included the Free Academy (later City College of New York), the Female Normal and High School (later Hunter College), Brooklyn College, and Queens College.
The City University of New York (CUNY) system is the public university system of New York City.CUNY consists of 11 senior colleges, 7 community colleges, 1 honors college and 7 postgraduate institutions.
A flyer for the Dec. 1991 hip-hip charity game organized by rappers Sean "Diddy" Combs and Heavy D at City College of New York. Nine young people were killed in a crush at the event. A state judge ...
Arthur Kornberg, who graduated from the City College of New York, a senior college of CUNY, in 1937, was the first CUNY laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959. [7] Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle , both of whom graduated from the City College in 1937 with Kornberg, jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ...
The High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College (often abbreviated to High School for Math, Science and Engineering, HSMSE, or HSMSE @ CCNY) is one of the nine specialized high schools in New York City, United States. Ranked as the #1 high school in New York, it caters to highly gifted students residing in New York City. [2]