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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 ...
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]
The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the Graduate School of Journalism's creation in May 2004. Proposed by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, the school was to focus on teaching reporting skills and news values at a time when other journalism schools were emphasizing education in academic disciplines such as political science and statistics.
Lehman College is a public college in New York City.Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, it became an independent college in 1967.The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist.
Hostos is the first institution of higher education on the mainland to be named after a Puerto Rican, Eugenio María de Hostos, an educator, writer, and patriot. [2] A large proportion (approximately 60 percent) of the student population is Hispanic, thus many of the courses at Hostos are offered in Spanish, and the college also provides extensive English and ESL instruction to students.
In 1973, enrollment at Queens reached an all-time high of 31,413 students. By 1976 new concerns overtook the college as New York City faced a crippling financial crisis. CUNY's policy of free tuition was revoked; the overall CUNY budget was cut by $135 million; and CUNY Chancellor Robert Kibbee demanded that Queens College slash its budget by ...
In November 2015, the CUNY Trustees approved the consolidation of the school into the unified CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. In October 2022, the Governor of New York Kathy Hochul and Mayor of New York City Eric Adams announced the development of a future site for the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.
CUNY SPS campus at 119 W. 31st Street, NYC. In June of 2003, Neil Kleiman, then-director of the Center for an Urban Future, addressed the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York detailing the need for creating the CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS).