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City University of New York

The City University of New York (abbr. CUNY; /ˈkjuːni/, KYOO-nee) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and seven professional institutions. While its constituent colleges date back as far as 1847, CUNY was established in 1961. The university enrolls more than 275,000 students, and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty-four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni.[9]

The City University of New York
MottoLatin: Eruditio populi liberi spes gentium
Motto in English
The education of free people is the hope of Mankind[1]
TypePublic university system
Established1961; 62 years ago (1961)[2]
Budget$3.6 billion[3]
ChancellorFélix V. Matos Rodríguez[4]
Academic staff
19,568[5]
Administrative staff
33,099[6]
Students275,000[7]
Location
Campus25 campuses[8]
Websitewww.cuny.edu

History

Founding

In 1960, John R. Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of the City of New York, later renamed CUNY, for a salary of $25,000 ($229,000 in current dollar terms).[10][11][12] CUNY was created in 1961,[13] by New York State legislation, signed into law by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The legislation integrated existing institutions and a new graduate school into a coordinated system of higher education for the city, under the control of the "Board of Higher Education of the City of New York", which had been created by New York State legislation in 1926. By 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the "Board of Trustees of the CUNY".[14]

The institutions that were merged to create CUNY were:[14]

  • The Free Academy – Founded in 1847 by Townsend Harris, it 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." The Free Academy later became the City College of New York.
  • The Female Normal and High School – Founded in 1870, and later renamed the Normal College. It would be renamed again in 1914 to Hunter College. During the early 20th century, Hunter College expanded into the Bronx, with what became Herbert Lehman College.[14]
  • Brooklyn College – Founded in 1930.
  • Queens College – Founded in 1937.

Accessible education

CUNY has served a diverse student body, especially those excluded from or unable to afford private universities. Its four-year colleges offered a high quality, tuition-free education to the poor, the working class and the immigrants of New York City who met the grade requirements for matriculated status. During the post-World War I era, when some Ivy League universities, such as Yale University, discriminated against Jews, many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY.[15] The City College of New York developed a reputation of being "the Harvard of the proletariat."[16]

As New York City's population—and public college enrollment—grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs. During the Great Depression, with funding for the public colleges severely constrained, limits were imposed on the size of the colleges' free Day Session, and tuition was imposed upon students deemed "competent" but not academically qualified for the day program. Most of these "limited matriculation" students enrolled in the Evening Session, and paid tuition.[17] Additionally, as the population of New York grew, CUNY was not able to accommodate the demand for higher education. Higher and higher requirements for admission were imposed; in 1965, a student seeking admission to CUNY needed an average of 92, or A−.[18] This helped to ensure that the student population of CUNY remained largely white and middle-class.[18]

Demand in the United States for higher education rapidly grew after World War II, and during the mid-1940s a movement began to create community colleges to provide accessible education and training. In New York City, however, the community-college movement was constrained by many factors including "financial problems, narrow perceptions of responsibility, organizational weaknesses, adverse political factors, and other competing priorities."[19]

Community colleges would have drawn from the same city coffers that were funding the senior colleges, and city higher education officials were of the view that the state should finance them. It was not until 1955, under a shared-funding arrangement with New York State, that New York City established its first community college, on Staten Island. Unlike the day college students attending the city's public baccalaureate colleges for free, the community college students had to pay tuition fees under the state-city funding formula. Community college students paid tuition fees for approximately 10 years.[19]

Over time, tuition fees for limited-matriculated students became an important source of system revenues. In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36,000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24,000 paid tuition fees of up to $300 a year ($2,900 in current dollar terms).[20] Undergraduate tuition and other student fees in 1957 comprised 17 percent of the colleges' $46.8 million in revenues, about $7.74 million ($74,680,000 in current dollar terms).[21]

Three community colleges had been established by early 1961, when New York City's public colleges were codified by the state as a single university with a chancellor at the helm and an infusion of state funds. But the city's slowness in creating the community colleges as demand for college seats was intensifying and had resulted in mounting frustration, particularly on the part of minorities, that college opportunities were not available to them.

In 1964, as New York City's Board of Higher Education moved to take full responsibility for the community colleges, city officials extended the senior colleges' free tuition policy to them, a change that was included by Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in his budget plans and took effect with the 1964–65 academic year.[22]

Calls for greater access to public higher education from the black and Puerto Rican communities in New York, especially in Brooklyn, led to the founding of "Community College Number 7," later Medgar Evers College, in 1966–1967.[18] In 1969, a group of black and Puerto Rican students occupied City College and demanded the racial integration of CUNY, which at the time had an overwhelmingly white student body.[19]

Student protests

Students at some campuses became increasingly frustrated with the university's and Board of Higher Education's handling of university administration. At Baruch College in 1967, over a thousand students protested the plan to make the college an upper-division school limited to junior, senior, and graduate students.[23] At Brooklyn College in 1968, students attempted a sit-in to demand the admission of more black and Puerto Rican students and additional black studies curriculum.[24] Students at Hunter College also demanded a Black studies program.[25] Members of the SEEK program, which provided academic support for underprepared and underprivileged students, staged a building takeover at Queens College in 1969 to protest the decisions of the program's director, who would later be replaced by a black professor.[26][27] Puerto Rican students at Bronx Community College filed a report with the New York State Division of Human Rights in 1970, contending that the intellectual level of the college was inferior and discriminatory.[28] Hunter College was crippled for several days by a protest of 2,000 students who had a list of demands focusing on more student representation in college administration.[29] Across CUNY, students boycotted their campuses in 1970 to protest a rise in student fees and other issues, including the proposed (and later implemented) open admissions plan.[30]

Like many college campuses in 1970, CUNY faced a number of protests and demonstrations after the Kent State massacre and Cambodian Campaign. The Administrative Council of the City University of New York sent U.S. president Richard Nixon a telegram in 1970 stating, "No nation can long endure the alienation of the best of its young people."[31] Some colleges, including John Jay College of Criminal Justice, historically the "college for cops," held teach-ins in addition to student and faculty protests.[32]

Open admissions

Under pressure from community activists and CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker, the Board of Higher Education (BHE) approved an Open Admissions plan in 1966, but it was not scheduled to be fully implemented until 1975.[18] However, in 1969, students and faculty across CUNY participated in rallies, student strikes, and class boycotts demanding an end to CUNY's restrictive admissions policies. CUNY administrators and Mayor John Lindsay expressed support for these demands, and the BHE voted to implement the plan immediately in the fall of 1970.[18]

The doors to CUNY were opened wide to all those demanding entrance, assuring all high school graduates entrance to the university without having to fulfill traditional requirements such as exams or grades. This policy was known as open admissions and nearly doubled the number of students enrolling in the CUNY system to 35,000 (compared to 20,000 the year before). With greater numbers came more diversity: Black and Hispanic student enrollment increased threefold.[33] Remedial education, to supplement the training of under-prepared students, became a significant part of CUNY's offerings.[34]

Additionally, ethnic and Black Studies programs and centers were instituted on many CUNY campuses, contributing to the growth of similar programs nationwide.[18]

However, retention of students in CUNY during this period was low, with two-thirds of students enrolled in the early 1970s leaving within four years without graduating.[18] Robert Kibbee was chancellor of the City University of New York, the third-largest university in the United States, from 1971 to 1982.[35]

Financial crisis of 1976

In fall 1976, during New York City's fiscal crisis, the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.[36] Tuition, which had been in place in the State University of New York system since 1963, was instituted at all CUNY colleges.[37][38]

Meanwhile, CUNY students were added to the state's need-based Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), which had been created to help private colleges.[39] Full-time students who met the income eligibility criteria were permitted to receive TAP, ensuring for the first time that financial hardship would deprive no CUNY student of a college education.[39] Within a few years, the federal government would create its own need-based program, known as Pell Grants, providing the neediest students with a tuition-free college education. Joseph S. Murphy was Chancellor of the City University of New York from 1982 to 1990, when he resigned.[40] CUNY at the time was the third-largest university in the United States, with over 180,000 students.[41]

By 2011, nearly six of ten full-time undergraduates qualified for a tuition-free education at CUNY due in large measure to state, federal and CUNY financial aid programs.[42] CUNY's enrollment dipped after tuition was re-established, and there were further enrollment declines through the 1980s and into the 1990s.[43]

Financial crisis of 1995

In 1995, CUNY suffered another fiscal crisis when Governor George Pataki proposed a drastic cut in state financing.[44] Faculty cancelled classes and students staged protests. By May, CUNY adopted deep cuts to college budgets and class offerings.[45] By June, to save money spent on remedial programs, CUNY adopted a stricter admissions policy for its senior colleges: students deemed unprepared for college would not be admitted, this a departure from the 1970 Open Admissions program.[46] That year's final state budget cut funding by $102 million, which CUNY absorbed by increasing tuition by $750 and offering a retirement incentive plan for faculty.

In 1999, a task force appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani issued a report that described CUNY as "an institution adrift" and called for an improved, more cohesive university structure and management, as well as more consistent academic standards. Following the report, Matthew Goldstein, a mathematician and City College graduate who had led CUNY's Baruch College and briefly, Adelphi University, was appointed chancellor. CUNY ended its policy of open admissions to its four-year colleges, raised its admissions standards at its most selective four-year colleges (Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter and Queens), and required new enrollees who needed remediation, to begin their studies at a CUNY open-admissions community college.[47]

2010 onwards

CUNY's enrollment of degree-credit students reached 220,727 in 2005 and 262,321 in 2010 as the university broadened its academic offerings.[48] The university added more than 2,000 full-time faculty positions, opened new schools and programs, and expanded the university's fundraising efforts to help pay for them.[47] Fundraising increased from $35 million in 2000 to more than $200 million in 2012.[49]

As of Autumn 2013, all CUNY undergraduates are required to take an administration-dictated common core of courses which have been claimed to meet specific "learning outcomes" or standards. Since the courses are accepted university-wide, the administration claims it will be easier for students to transfer course credits between CUNY colleges. It also reduced the number of core courses some CUNY colleges had required, to a level below national norms, particularly in the sciences.[50][51] The program is the target of several lawsuits by students and faculty, and was the subject of a "no confidence" vote by the faculty, who rejected it by an overwhelming 92% margin.[52]

Chancellor Goldstein retired on July 1, 2013, and was replaced on June 1, 2014, by James Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska, and a graduate of the University of Nebraska and New York University School of Law.[53] Milliken retired at the end of the 2018 academic year and moved on to become the chancellor for the University of Texas system.[54][55]

In 2018, CUNY opened its 25th campus, the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, named after former president Joseph S. Murphy and combining some forms and functions of the Murphy Institute that were housed at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.[56]

On February 13, 2019, the Board of Trustees voted to appoint Queens College president Felix V. Matos Rodriguez as the chancellor of the City University of New York.[57] Matos became both the first Latino and minority educator to head the university. He assumed the post May 1.[58]

Enrollment and demographics

CUNY is the fourth-largest university system in the United States by enrollment, behind the California State University system, the State University of New York (SUNY) system, and the University of California system. More than 271,000-degree-credit students, continuing, and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all five New York City boroughs.[59]

The university has one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States, with students hailing from around the world, but mostly from New York City. The black, white and Hispanic undergraduate populations each comprise more than a quarter of the student body, and Asian undergraduates make up 18 percent. Fifty-eight percent are female, and 28 percent are 25 or older.[60] In the 2017–2018 award year, 144,380 CUNY students received the Federal Pell Grant.[61]

CUNY Citizenship Now!

Founded in 1997 by immigration lawyer Allan Wernick, CUNY Citizenship Now! is an immigration assistance organization that provides free and confidential immigration law services to help individuals and families on their path to U.S. citizenship.[62][63] In 2021, CUNY launched a College Immigrant Ambassador Program in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.[64][65]

Academics

Component institutions

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Location of CUNY campuses within New York City.
  Black: Senior Colleges;   Red: Graduate and Professional Schools;   Yellow: Community Colleges.
CUNY component institutions
Est. Type Name
1847 Senior College City College
1870 Senior College Hunter College
1919 Senior College Baruch College
1930 Senior College Brooklyn College
1937 Senior College Queens College
1946 Senior College New York City College of Technology
1964 Senior College John Jay College of Criminal Justice
1966 Senior College York College
1968 Senior College Lehman College
1970 Senior College Medgar Evers College
1976 Senior College College of Staten Island
2001 Honors College William E. Macaulay Honors College
1957 Community College Bronx Community College
1958 Community College Queensborough Community College
1963 Community College Borough of Manhattan Community College
1963 Community College Kingsborough Community College
1968 Community College LaGuardia Community College
1970 Community College Hostos Community College
2011 Community College Guttman Community College
1961 Graduate / professional CUNY Graduate Center
1973 Graduate / professional CUNY School of Medicine
1983 Graduate / professional CUNY School of Law
2006 Graduate / professional CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
2006 Graduate / professional CUNY School of Professional Studies
2008 Graduate / professional CUNY School of Public Health
2018 Graduate / professional CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Management structure

 
Seal of the CUNY Board of Trustees

The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City. Members of the Board of Education, chaired by the president of the board, served as ex officio trustees. For the next four decades, the board members continued to serve as ex officio trustees of the College of the City of New York and the city's other municipal college, the Normal College of the City of New York.

In 1900, the New York State Legislature created separate boards of trustees for the College of the City of New York and the Normal College, which became Hunter College in 1914. In 1926, the legislature established the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, which assumed supervision of both municipal colleges.

In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: the City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College. In 1979, the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education became the City University of New York Board of Trustees.

Today, the City University is governed by the board of trustees composed of 17 members, ten of whom are appointed by the governor of New York "with the advice and consent of the senate," and five by the mayor of New York City "with the advice and consent of the senate." The final two trustees are ex officio members. One is the chair of the university's student senate, and the other is non-voting and is the chair of the university's faculty senate. Both the mayoral and gubernatorial appointments to the CUNY Board are required to include at least one resident of each of New York City's five boroughs. Trustees serve seven-year terms, which are renewable for another seven years. The chancellor is elected by the Board of Trustees, and is the "chief educational and administrative officer" of the City University.

The administrative offices are in Midtown Manhattan.[67]

Faculty

CUNY employs 6,700 full-time faculty members and over 10,000 adjunct faculty members.[68][69] Faculty and staff are represented by the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), a labor union and chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.[70]

Notable faculty

Public Safety Department

 
Patch of the CUNY Public Safety Department

CUNY has a unified public safety department, the City University of New York Public Safety Department, with branches at each of the 26 CUNY campuses. The New York City Police Department is the primary policing and investigation agency within the New York City as per the NYC Charter, which includes all CUNY campuses and facilities.

The Public Safety Department came under heavy criticism from student groups, after several students protesting tuition increases tried to occupy the lobby of the Baruch College. The occupiers were forcibly removed from the area and several were arrested on November 21, 2011.[77]

City University Television (CUNY TV)

CUNY also has a broadcast TV service, CUNY TV (channel 75 on Spectrum, digital HD broadcast channel 25.3), which airs telecourses, classic and foreign films, magazine shows, and panel discussions in foreign languages.

City University Film Festival (CUNYFF)

The City University Film Festival is CUNY's official film festival. The festival was founded in 2009.

Notable alumni

CUNY graduates include 13 Nobel laureates, 2 Fields Medalists, 2 U.S. Secretaries of State, a Supreme Court Justice, several New York City mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, scientists, artists, and Olympians.[60][78]

CUNY notable alumni
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Name Grad. College Notable for
Kenneth Arrow 1940 City economist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Robert Aumann 1950 City mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Albert Axelrod City Olympic foil fencer
Herman Badillo 1951 City civil rights activist and first Puerto Rican elected to the U.S. Congress
Daniel Bukantz City Olympic foil fencer
Abram Cohen City Olympic foil, épée, and sabre fencer
Arlene Davila 1996 City author and Anthropology and American Studies professor at New York University
Rubén Díaz Jr. 2005 Lehman Bronx Borough President
Rubén Díaz Sr. 1976 Lehman NYC Council Member, Pastor
Jeffrey Dinowitz 1975 Lehman NYS Assembly Member
Jesse Douglas 1916 City mathematician and winner of one of the first two Fields Medals
Eliot Engel 1969 Lehman Member of the US House of Representatives, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Abraham Foxman City national director, Anti-Defamation League
Felix Frankfurter 1902 City U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Harold Goldsmith 1952 City Olympic foil and épée fencer
Andy Grove 1960 City Chairman and CEO, Intel Corporation
Herbert A. Hauptman 1937 City mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Letitia James 1982 Lehman NYS Attorney General
Jane Katz 1963 City Olympic swimmer
Henry Kissinger City U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor
Leonard Kleinrock 1957 City computer scientist, Internet pioneer
Guillermo Linares 1975 City New York City Council member, first Dominican-American City Council member and Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
Nathaniel Lubell 1936 City Olympic foil, saber, and épée fencer
Samuel Lubell City pollster, journalist, and National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist
Lisa Nakamura 1993 1996 City Director and Professor of the Asian American Studies Program at the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Charles Neider City Author, Scholar
Barnett Newman 1927 City abstract expressionist artist
John O'Keefe City 2014 Nobel laureate in Medicine
Colin Powell 1958 City Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State
Mario Puzo City novelist, Oscar-winning screenwriter for Best Adapted Screenplay (1972, 1974).
Faith Ringgold 1955 City feminist, writer and artist
Saul Rogovin City
BMCC
Professional baseball player
A. M. Rosenthal 1949 City executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers; Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation's government and society
Rochelle Saidel City author, founder of the Remember the Women Institute
Jonas Salk 1934 City developed the first polio vaccine
Daniel Schorr 1939 City Emmy award winning broadcast journalist for CBS-TV and National Public Radio
Elliott Fitch Shepard 1855 City lawyer, banker, and a founder of the New York State Bar Association
James Strauch City Olympic épée fencer
Bernard Weinraub City journalist and playwright
Henry Wittenberg City Olympic champion wrestler
Egemen Bağış Baruch Turkish politician, government minister
Abraham Beame 1928 Baruch born Abraham Birnbaum; mayor of New York City
Robin Byrd Baruch host of public access program The Robin Byrd Show (dropped out)[79]
Barbara A. Cornblatt 1977 Baruch professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine at Hofstra University School of Medicine
Fernando Ferrer Baruch New York City mayoral candidate in 2001 and 2005
Sidney Harman 1939 Baruch founder and executive chairman of Harman Kardon
Marcia A. Karrow Baruch member of New Jersey General Assembly
James Lam 1983 Baruch author, risk management consultant
Ralph Lauren Baruch born Ralph Lifshitz; chairman and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren (dropped out)
Dolly Lenz Baruch New York City real estate agent
Dennis Levine Baruch prominent player in the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s
Jennifer Lopez Baruch actress, singer, dancer (dropped out)
Craig A. Stanley Baruch member of New Jersey General Assembly since 1996.[80]
Tarkan Baruch Turkish language singer
Bella Abzug 1942 Hunter born Bella Savitzky; feminist; political activist; U.S. Representative, 1971–1977
Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick 1963 Hunter first Hispanic woman named to the New York State Court of Appeals
Robert R. Davila 1965 Hunter president of Gallaudet University and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired
Ruby Dee 1945 Hunter Emmy-nominated actress and civil rights activist
Martin Garbus 1955 Hunter First amendment attorney
Florence Howe 1950 Hunter founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY
Audre Lorde 1959 Hunter African-American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and activist
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou 1991 Hunter Foreign Minister of Mauritania and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Soia Mentschikoff 1934 Hunter first woman partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president of the Association of American Law Schools
Thomas J. Murphy Jr. 1973 Hunter three-term mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994–2006
Pauli Murray 1933 Hunter first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N.O.W
Edward Thomas Brady John Jay (MA), trial attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jennings Michael Burch John Jay author of the 1984 best-selling memoir They Cage the Animals at Night
Marcos Crespo John Jay (BA), New York State Assemblyman representing district 85[81]
Edward A. Flynn John Jay Chief of the Milwaukee Police Department
Petri Hawkins-Byrd 1989 John Jay Judge Judy bailiff
Henry Lee 1972 John Jay forensic scientist and founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science
Miguel Martinez John Jay (BS), member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on July 14, 2009
Eva Norvind John Jay (MA), actor and director
Pauley Perrette John Jay actor best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCIS
Ronald Rice John Jay New Jersey State Senator
Ariel Rios John Jay undercover special agent for the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), killed in the line of duty
Imette St. Guillen John Jay criminal justice graduate student murdered in February 2006. A scholarship was created in her name
Scott Stringer John Jay Comptroller, Borough president of Manhattan, and member of the New York State Assembly
Dorothy Uhnak John Jay (BA), novelist and detective for the New York City Transit Police Department
Bill Baird 1955 Brooklyn reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League
Barbara Aronstein Black 1953 Brooklyn Dean of Columbia Law School
Barbara Levy Boxer 1962 Brooklyn anti-war activist, environmentalist, U.S. representative, 1982–1993, and U.S. senator
Mel Brooks 1956 Brooklyn born Melvin Kaminsky; Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning director, writer, and actor
Shirley Chisholm 1946 Brooklyn first African-American U.S. Congresswoman, 1968–1982. Candidate for U.S. president, 1972
Bruce Chizen 1978 Brooklyn president & CEO, Adobe Systems
Manuel F. Cohen 1933 Brooklyn Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Paul Cohen 1953 Brooklyn Fields Medal-winning mathematician
Stanley Cohen 1943 Brooklyn biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine), 1986
Robert A. Daly Brooklyn CEO of Warner Bros. and Los Angeles Dodgers
Alan M. Dershowitz 1959 Brooklyn Harvard Law School professor and author
Jerry Della Femina 1957 Brooklyn Chairman & CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners
Dan DiDio 1983 Brooklyn comic book editor and executive for DC Comics
Benjamin Eisenstadt 1954 Brooklyn creator of Sweet'N Low and founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation
Sandra Feldman 1960 Brooklyn president, American Federation of Teachers
James Franco Brooklyn Golden Globe Award-winning actor
Nikki Franke 1972 Brooklyn Olympic foil fencer
Ralph Goldstein Brooklyn Olympic épée fencer
Sterling Johnson Jr. 1963 Brooklyn Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Gata Kamsky 1999 Brooklyn chess grandmaster and five-time US chess champion
Saul Katz 1960 Brooklyn president of the New York Mets
Edward R. Korman 1963 Brooklyn Senior United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Marvin Kratter 1937 Brooklyn owner of the Boston Celtics
Don Lemon 1996 Brooklyn reporter, CNN
Leonard Lopate 1967 Brooklyn host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC
Michael Lynne 1961 Brooklyn CEO of New Line Cinema
Marjorie Magner 1969 Brooklyn Chairman of Gannett
Marty Markowitz 1970 Brooklyn New York State Senator; Brooklyn Borough President
Paul Mazursky 1951 Brooklyn film director, writer, producer; actor
Frank McCourt 1967 Brooklyn Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
Stanley Milgram 1954 Brooklyn social psychologist
Jerry Moss 1957 Brooklyn co-founder of A&M Records
Barry Munitz 1963 Brooklyn Chancellor of California State University
Gloria Naylor 1981 Brooklyn novelist; Winner National Book Award
Peter Nero 1956 Brooklyn born Bernard Nierow; pianist and pops conductor; Grammy Award winner
Harvey Pitt 1965 Brooklyn Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Rosemary S. Pooler 1959 Brooklyn United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jason K. Pulliam 1995; 1997 Brooklyn United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Barry Salzberg 1974 Brooklyn CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Bernie Sanders Brooklyn US senator representing Vermont
Steve Schirripa 1980 Brooklyn actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos
Irwin Shaw 1934 Brooklyn born Irwin Shamforoff; O. Henry Award-winning author
Timothy Shortell 1992 Brooklyn Writer, critic of religion
Joel Harvey Slomsky 1967 Brooklyn Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Jimmy Smits 1980 Brooklyn Emmy Award-winning actor; NYPD Blue and L.A. Law
Maynard Solomon 1950 Brooklyn co-founder of Vanguard Records
Lisa Staiano-Coico 1976 Brooklyn president of City College of New York
Frank Tarloff Brooklyn Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Benjamin Ward 1960 Brooklyn first black New York City Police Commissioner, 1983–1989
Iris Weinshall 1975 Brooklyn Vice Chancellor at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
Jack B. Weinstein 1943 Brooklyn Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Walter Yetnikoff 1953 Brooklyn CEO of CBS Records
Philip Zimbardo 1954 Brooklyn social psychologist
Joy Behar 1964 Queens comedian, television personality
Jerry Colonna Queens venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach
Joseph Crowley Queens member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1999–2019
Alan Hevesi Queens New York State Comptroller, New York State Assemblyman, Queens College professor
Cheryl Lehman 1975 Queens Professor of Accounting, Hofstra University
Helen Marshall Queens Queens Borough President
Donna Orender Queens WNBA president
Jerry Seinfeld 1976 Queens actor and comedian
Charles Wang Queens founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders
Carl Andrews Medgar Evers New York state senator
Yvette Clarke Medgar Evers Congresswoman, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 11th and 9th congressional districts
Richard Carmona 1973 Bronx Surgeon General of the United States
Kid Chaos 1991 Bronx British rock Bassist and Guitarist who played in incarnations of hard rock bands such as The Cult
The Kid Mero Bronx Co-host of Desus & Mero
Annabel Palma 1991 Bronx NYC Council member, 2004-2017
Cardi B BMCC Rapper
Queen Latifah BMCC Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and producer
Adam Saleh BMCC YouTuber and boxer
Mirko Savone BMCC Italian voiceover actor
Assata Shakur BMCC Former member of Black Liberation Army, 1970-1981
Gabourey Sidibe BMCC American actress
Michael K. Williams BMCC American actor
Riddick Bowe Kingsborough Professional boxer, 1989-2008
Mauriel Carty Kingsborough Anguillan sprinter
Andrew Dice Clay Kingsborough Stand-up comedian, actor, musician and producer
Pete Falcone Kingsborough Professional baseball pitcher
Jeff Koinange 1989 Kingsborough Journalist and host of Jeff Koinange Live
Phillipe Nover Kingsborough Mixed martial artist
Larry Seabrook 1972 Kingsborough NYC Council member, 2002-2012
Aesha Waks Kingsborough Actress
Khandi Alexander Queensborough Dancer, choreographer, and actress
Sandra “Pepa” Denton Queensborough Rapper and songwriter, member of Salt-N-Pepa
Cheryl “Salt” James Queensborough Rapper and songwriter, member of Salt-N-Pepa
Nayan Padrai Queensborough Screenwriter, producer and director
Joe Santagato Queensborough YouTuber, comedian and podcaster
Elly Gross 1993 LaGuardia A holocaust survivor and author of several Holocaust related books of poetry and prose
DJ JP LaGuardia The official DJ to Pop Smoke
Reby Sky LaGuardia Professional wrestler and model
Elliot Wilson LaGuardia Journalist, television producer, and magazine editor

See also

References

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  2. ^ The forerunner of today's City University of New York was founded in 1847, but the actual system was established in 1961.
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This article is about CUNY the public university of the City of New York For a list of universities in New York see Universities in New York For the state university system in New York see State University of New York For the private university see New York University For the surname see Cuny surname The City University of New York abbr CUNY ˈ k juː n i KYOO nee is the public university system of New York City It is the largest urban university system in the United States comprising 25 campuses eleven senior colleges seven community colleges and seven professional institutions While its constituent colleges date back as far as 1847 CUNY was established in 1961 The university enrolls more than 275 000 students and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni 9 The City University of New YorkMottoLatin Eruditio populi liberi spes gentiumMotto in EnglishThe education of free people is the hope of Mankind 1 TypePublic university systemEstablished1961 62 years ago 1961 2 Budget 3 6 billion 3 ChancellorFelix V Matos Rodriguez 4 Academic staff19 568 5 Administrative staff33 099 6 Students275 000 7 LocationNew York New YorkCampus25 campuses 8 Websitewww wbr cuny wbr edu Contents 1 History 1 1 Founding 1 2 Accessible education 1 3 Student protests 1 4 Open admissions 1 5 Financial crisis of 1976 1 6 Financial crisis of 1995 1 7 2010 onwards 2 Enrollment and demographics 2 1 CUNY Citizenship Now 3 Academics 4 Component institutions 5 Management structure 6 Faculty 6 1 Notable faculty 7 Public Safety Department 8 City University Television CUNY TV 9 City University Film Festival CUNYFF 10 Notable alumni 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksHistory EditFounding Edit In 1960 John R Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of the City of New York later renamed CUNY for a salary of 25 000 229 000 in current dollar terms 10 11 12 CUNY was created in 1961 13 by New York State legislation signed into law by Governor Nelson Rockefeller The legislation integrated existing institutions and a new graduate school into a coordinated system of higher education for the city under the control of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York which had been created by New York State legislation in 1926 By 1979 the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY 14 The institutions that were merged to create CUNY were 14 The Free Academy Founded in 1847 by Townsend Harris it 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 The Free Academy later became the City College of New York The Female Normal and High School Founded in 1870 and later renamed the Normal College It would be renamed again in 1914 to Hunter College During the early 20th century Hunter College expanded into the Bronx with what became Herbert Lehman College 14 Brooklyn College Founded in 1930 Queens College Founded in 1937 Accessible education Edit CUNY has served a diverse student body especially those excluded from or unable to afford private universities Its four year colleges offered a high quality tuition free education to the poor the working class and the immigrants of New York City who met the grade requirements for matriculated status During the post World War I era when some Ivy League universities such as Yale University discriminated against Jews many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY 15 The City College of New York developed a reputation of being the Harvard of the proletariat 16 As New York City s population and public college enrollment grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition also known as instructional fees for a handful of courses and programs During the Great Depression with funding for the public colleges severely constrained limits were imposed on the size of the colleges free Day Session and tuition was imposed upon students deemed competent but not academically qualified for the day program Most of these limited matriculation students enrolled in the Evening Session and paid tuition 17 Additionally as the population of New York grew CUNY was not able to accommodate the demand for higher education Higher and higher requirements for admission were imposed in 1965 a student seeking admission to CUNY needed an average of 92 or A 18 This helped to ensure that the student population of CUNY remained largely white and middle class 18 Demand in the United States for higher education rapidly grew after World War II and during the mid 1940s a movement began to create community colleges to provide accessible education and training In New York City however the community college movement was constrained by many factors including financial problems narrow perceptions of responsibility organizational weaknesses adverse political factors and other competing priorities 19 Community colleges would have drawn from the same city coffers that were funding the senior colleges and city higher education officials were of the view that the state should finance them It was not until 1955 under a shared funding arrangement with New York State that New York City established its first community college on Staten Island Unlike the day college students attending the city s public baccalaureate colleges for free the community college students had to pay tuition fees under the state city funding formula Community college students paid tuition fees for approximately 10 years 19 Over time tuition fees for limited matriculated students became an important source of system revenues In fall 1957 for example nearly 36 000 attended Hunter Brooklyn Queens and City Colleges for free but another 24 000 paid tuition fees of up to 300 a year 2 900 in current dollar terms 20 Undergraduate tuition and other student fees in 1957 comprised 17 percent of the colleges 46 8 million in revenues about 7 74 million 74 680 000 in current dollar terms 21 Three community colleges had been established by early 1961 when New York City s public colleges were codified by the state as a single university with a chancellor at the helm and an infusion of state funds But the city s slowness in creating the community colleges as demand for college seats was intensifying and had resulted in mounting frustration particularly on the part of minorities that college opportunities were not available to them In 1964 as New York City s Board of Higher Education moved to take full responsibility for the community colleges city officials extended the senior colleges free tuition policy to them a change that was included by Mayor Robert F Wagner Jr in his budget plans and took effect with the 1964 65 academic year 22 Calls for greater access to public higher education from the black and Puerto Rican communities in New York especially in Brooklyn led to the founding of Community College Number 7 later Medgar Evers College in 1966 1967 18 In 1969 a group of black and Puerto Rican students occupied City College and demanded the racial integration of CUNY which at the time had an overwhelmingly white student body 19 Student protests Edit Students at some campuses became increasingly frustrated with the university s and Board of Higher Education s handling of university administration At Baruch College in 1967 over a thousand students protested the plan to make the college an upper division school limited to junior senior and graduate students 23 At Brooklyn College in 1968 students attempted a sit in to demand the admission of more black and Puerto Rican students and additional black studies curriculum 24 Students at Hunter College also demanded a Black studies program 25 Members of the SEEK program which provided academic support for underprepared and underprivileged students staged a building takeover at Queens College in 1969 to protest the decisions of the program s director who would later be replaced by a black professor 26 27 Puerto Rican students at Bronx Community College filed a report with the New York State Division of Human Rights in 1970 contending that the intellectual level of the college was inferior and discriminatory 28 Hunter College was crippled for several days by a protest of 2 000 students who had a list of demands focusing on more student representation in college administration 29 Across CUNY students boycotted their campuses in 1970 to protest a rise in student fees and other issues including the proposed and later implemented open admissions plan 30 Like many college campuses in 1970 CUNY faced a number of protests and demonstrations after the Kent State massacre and Cambodian Campaign The Administrative Council of the City University of New York sent U S president Richard Nixon a telegram in 1970 stating No nation can long endure the alienation of the best of its young people 31 Some colleges including John Jay College of Criminal Justice historically the college for cops held teach ins in addition to student and faculty protests 32 Open admissions Edit Under pressure from community activists and CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker the Board of Higher Education BHE approved an Open Admissions plan in 1966 but it was not scheduled to be fully implemented until 1975 18 However in 1969 students and faculty across CUNY participated in rallies student strikes and class boycotts demanding an end to CUNY s restrictive admissions policies CUNY administrators and Mayor John Lindsay expressed support for these demands and the BHE voted to implement the plan immediately in the fall of 1970 18 The doors to CUNY were opened wide to all those demanding entrance assuring all high school graduates entrance to the university without having to fulfill traditional requirements such as exams or grades This policy was known as open admissions and nearly doubled the number of students enrolling in the CUNY system to 35 000 compared to 20 000 the year before With greater numbers came more diversity Black and Hispanic student enrollment increased threefold 33 Remedial education to supplement the training of under prepared students became a significant part of CUNY s offerings 34 Additionally ethnic and Black Studies programs and centers were instituted on many CUNY campuses contributing to the growth of similar programs nationwide 18 However retention of students in CUNY during this period was low with two thirds of students enrolled in the early 1970s leaving within four years without graduating 18 Robert Kibbee was chancellor of the City University of New York the third largest university in the United States from 1971 to 1982 35 Financial crisis of 1976 Edit In fall 1976 during New York City s fiscal crisis the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy and New York State which would take over the funding of CUNY s senior colleges 36 Tuition which had been in place in the State University of New York system since 1963 was instituted at all CUNY colleges 37 38 Meanwhile CUNY students were added to the state s need based Tuition Assistance Program TAP which had been created to help private colleges 39 Full time students who met the income eligibility criteria were permitted to receive TAP ensuring for the first time that financial hardship would deprive no CUNY student of a college education 39 Within a few years the federal government would create its own need based program known as Pell Grants providing the neediest students with a tuition free college education Joseph S Murphy was Chancellor of the City University of New York from 1982 to 1990 when he resigned 40 CUNY at the time was the third largest university in the United States with over 180 000 students 41 By 2011 nearly six of ten full time undergraduates qualified for a tuition free education at CUNY due in large measure to state federal and CUNY financial aid programs 42 CUNY s enrollment dipped after tuition was re established and there were further enrollment declines through the 1980s and into the 1990s 43 Financial crisis of 1995 Edit In 1995 CUNY suffered another fiscal crisis when Governor George Pataki proposed a drastic cut in state financing 44 Faculty cancelled classes and students staged protests By May CUNY adopted deep cuts to college budgets and class offerings 45 By June to save money spent on remedial programs CUNY adopted a stricter admissions policy for its senior colleges students deemed unprepared for college would not be admitted this a departure from the 1970 Open Admissions program 46 That year s final state budget cut funding by 102 million which CUNY absorbed by increasing tuition by 750 and offering a retirement incentive plan for faculty In 1999 a task force appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani issued a report that described CUNY as an institution adrift and called for an improved more cohesive university structure and management as well as more consistent academic standards Following the report Matthew Goldstein a mathematician and City College graduate who had led CUNY s Baruch College and briefly Adelphi University was appointed chancellor CUNY ended its policy of open admissions to its four year colleges raised its admissions standards at its most selective four year colleges Baruch Brooklyn City Hunter and Queens and required new enrollees who needed remediation to begin their studies at a CUNY open admissions community college 47 2010 onwards Edit CUNY s enrollment of degree credit students reached 220 727 in 2005 and 262 321 in 2010 as the university broadened its academic offerings 48 The university added more than 2 000 full time faculty positions opened new schools and programs and expanded the university s fundraising efforts to help pay for them 47 Fundraising increased from 35 million in 2000 to more than 200 million in 2012 49 As of Autumn 2013 all CUNY undergraduates are required to take an administration dictated common core of courses which have been claimed to meet specific learning outcomes or standards Since the courses are accepted university wide the administration claims it will be easier for students to transfer course credits between CUNY colleges It also reduced the number of core courses some CUNY colleges had required to a level below national norms particularly in the sciences 50 51 The program is the target of several lawsuits by students and faculty and was the subject of a no confidence vote by the faculty who rejected it by an overwhelming 92 margin 52 Chancellor Goldstein retired on July 1 2013 and was replaced on June 1 2014 by James Milliken president of the University of Nebraska and a graduate of the University of Nebraska and New York University School of Law 53 Milliken retired at the end of the 2018 academic year and moved on to become the chancellor for the University of Texas system 54 55 In 2018 CUNY opened its 25th campus the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies named after former president Joseph S Murphy and combining some forms and functions of the Murphy Institute that were housed at the CUNY School of Professional Studies 56 On February 13 2019 the Board of Trustees voted to appoint Queens College president Felix V Matos Rodriguez as the chancellor of the City University of New York 57 Matos became both the first Latino and minority educator to head the university He assumed the post May 1 58 Enrollment and demographics EditCUNY is the fourth largest university system in the United States by enrollment behind the California State University system the State University of New York SUNY system and the University of California system More than 271 000 degree credit students continuing and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all five New York City boroughs 59 The university has one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States with students hailing from around the world but mostly from New York City The black white and Hispanic undergraduate populations each comprise more than a quarter of the student body and Asian undergraduates make up 18 percent Fifty eight percent are female and 28 percent are 25 or older 60 In the 2017 2018 award year 144 380 CUNY students received the Federal Pell Grant 61 CUNY Citizenship Now Edit Founded in 1997 by immigration lawyer Allan Wernick CUNY Citizenship Now is an immigration assistance organization that provides free and confidential immigration law services to help individuals and families on their path to U S citizenship 62 63 In 2021 CUNY launched a College Immigrant Ambassador Program in partnership with the New York City Department of Education 64 65 Academics EditAcademic rankingsGlobalQS 66 701 750This section needs expansion with see articles for similar U S schools You can help by adding to it June 2020 Component institutions EditSee also List of City University of New York institutions Grad Center Law Journalism Public Health Med School BMCC Bronx Guttman Hostos Kingsborough LaGuardia Queensborough City College Hunter Brooklyn Baruch City Tech John Jay Lehman College Macaulay Medgar Evers Queens College College of Staten Island York Collegeclass notpageimage Location of CUNY campuses within New York City Black Senior Colleges Red Graduate and Professional Schools Yellow Community Colleges CUNY component institutions Est Type Name1847 Senior College City College1870 Senior College Hunter College1919 Senior College Baruch College1930 Senior College Brooklyn College1937 Senior College Queens College1946 Senior College New York City College of Technology1964 Senior College John Jay College of Criminal Justice1966 Senior College York College1968 Senior College Lehman College1970 Senior College Medgar Evers College1976 Senior College College of Staten Island2001 Honors College William E Macaulay Honors College1957 Community College Bronx Community College1958 Community College Queensborough Community College1963 Community College Borough of Manhattan Community College1963 Community College Kingsborough Community College1968 Community College LaGuardia Community College1970 Community College Hostos Community College2011 Community College Guttman Community College1961 Graduate professional CUNY Graduate Center1973 Graduate professional CUNY School of Medicine1983 Graduate professional CUNY School of Law2006 Graduate professional CUNY Graduate School of Journalism2006 Graduate professional CUNY School of Professional Studies2008 Graduate professional CUNY School of Public Health2018 Graduate professional CUNY School of Labor and Urban StudiesManagement structure Edit Seal of the CUNY Board of Trustees The forerunner of today s City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City Members of the Board of Education chaired by the president of the board served as ex officio trustees For the next four decades the board members continued to serve as ex officio trustees of the College of the City of New York and the city s other municipal college the Normal College of the City of New York In 1900 the New York State Legislature created separate boards of trustees for the College of the City of New York and the Normal College which became Hunter College in 1914 In 1926 the legislature established the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York which assumed supervision of both municipal colleges In 1961 the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time the City College of New York Hunter College Brooklyn College Queens College Staten Island Community College Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College In 1979 the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education became the City University of New York Board of Trustees Today the City University is governed by the board of trustees composed of 17 members ten of whom are appointed by the governor of New York with the advice and consent of the senate and five by the mayor of New York City with the advice and consent of the senate The final two trustees are ex officio members One is the chair of the university s student senate and the other is non voting and is the chair of the university s faculty senate Both the mayoral and gubernatorial appointments to the CUNY Board are required to include at least one resident of each of New York City s five boroughs Trustees serve seven year terms which are renewable for another seven years The chancellor is elected by the Board of Trustees and is the chief educational and administrative officer of the City University The administrative offices are in Midtown Manhattan 67 Faculty EditCUNY employs 6 700 full time faculty members and over 10 000 adjunct faculty members 68 69 Faculty and staff are represented by the Professional Staff Congress PSC a labor union and chapter of the American Federation of Teachers 70 Notable faculty Edit F Murray Abraham Hannah Arendt John Ashbery Michael Cunningham Allen Ginsberg Itzhak Perlman Mark Rothko Dr Ruth Elie Wiesel Andre Aciman writer Graduate Center Ali Jimale Ahmed poet and professor of Comparative Literature Queens College and Graduate Center 71 F Murray Abraham actor of stage and screen professor of theater winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor Brooklyn College Chantal Akerman film director City College of New York Meena Alexander poet and writer Graduate Center and Hunter College Hannah Arendt philosopher and political theorist author of The Origins of Totalitarianism 1951 and The Human Condition 1958 Brooklyn College Talal Asad anthropologist Graduate Center John Ashbery poet Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Brooklyn College William Bialek biophysicist Graduate Center Edwin G Burrows historian and writer Pulitzer Prize for History winner for co writing Gotham A History of New York City to 1898 with Mike Wallace Brooklyn College Ron Carter jazz bassist City College Joe Chambers jazz drummer City College Dee L Clayman classicist Graduate Center Margaret Clapp scholar winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography president of Wellesley College Brooklyn College Ta Nehisi Coates writer journalist and activist CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Billy Collins poet U S Poet Laureate Lehman College retired Blanche Wiesen Cook historian John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center John Corigliano composer Graduate Center Michael Cunningham writer winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and PEN Faulkner Award for The Hours Brooklyn College Roy DeCarava artist and photographer Hunter College 72 Carolyn Eisele mathematician Hunter College Nancy Fraser philosopher and political scientist Graduate Center Ruth Wilson Gilmore geographer Graduate Center Allen Ginsberg beat poet Brooklyn College Aaron Goodelman sculptor 73 Joel Glucksman Olympic saber fencer Brooklyn College Ralph Goldstein Olympic epee fencer Brooklyn College Michael Grossman economist Graduate Center Kimiko Hahn poet winner of PEN Voelcker Award for Poetry Queens College David Harvey geographer Graduate Center Jimmy Heath jazz saxophonist City College Bell Hooks educator writer and critic City College of New York 74 Karen Brooks Hopkins president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn College John Hospers first presidential candidate of the US Libertarian Party Brooklyn College Tyehimba Jess poet winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry College of Staten Island KC Johnson born 1967 Brooklyn College and Graduate Center Sheila Jordan jazz vocalist City College Michio Kaku physicist City College Jane Katz Olympian swimmer John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alfred Kazin writer and critic Hunter College and Graduate Center Saul Kripke philosopher Graduate Center Irving Kristol journalist City College Paul Krugman economist Graduate Center Peter Kwong journalist filmmaker activist Hunter College and Graduate Center Nathan H Lents scientist author and science communicator John Jay College of Criminal Justice Ben Lerner writer MacArthur Fellow Brooklyn College Audre Lorde poet and activist City College John Jay College of Criminal Justice Cate Marvin poet Guggenheim Fellowship winner College of Staten Island Abraham Maslow psychologist in the school of humanistic psychology best known for his theory of human motivation which led to a therapeutic technique known as self actualization Brooklyn College John Matteson historian and writer Pulitzer Prize winner John Jay College of Criminal Justice Maeve Kennedy McKean attorney and public health official Stanley Milgram social psychologist Graduate Center Charles W Mills philosopher Graduate Center June Nash anthropologist Graduate Center Ruth O Brien political scientist and disability studies writer Graduate Center Denise O Connor Olympic foil fencer Brooklyn College John Patitucci jazz bassist City College Itzhak Perlman violinist Brooklyn College 75 Frances Fox Piven political scientist activist and educator Graduate Center Roman Popadiuk US Ambassador to Ukraine Brooklyn College Graham Priest philosopher Graduate Center Inez Smith Reid Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Brooklyn College Adrienne Rich poet and activist City College of New York 76 David M Rosenthal philosopher Graduate Center Mark Rothko born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz influential abstract expressionist painter Brooklyn College Arthur M Schlesinger Jr historian and social critic Graduate Center Flora Rheta Schreiber journalist John Jay College of Criminal Justice Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick literary critic Graduate Center Betty Shabazz educator and activist Medgar Evers College Mark Strand United States Poet Laureate Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winning poet essayist and translator Brooklyn College Dennis Sullivan mathematician Graduate Center Harold Syrett 1913 1984 president of Brooklyn College Katherine Verdery anthropologist Graduate Center Michele Wallace women s studies and film studies City College and Graduate Center Mike Wallace historian and writer John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center Ruth Westheimer better known as Dr Ruth born Karola Ruth Siegel sex therapist media personality author radio television talk show host and Holocaust survivor Brooklyn College Elie Wiesel novelist political activist winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal City College C K Williams poet won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Brooklyn College Andrea Alu engineer and physicist Graduate Center Robert Alfano physicist discovered the supercontinuum City College Branko Milanovic economist most known for his work on income distribution and inequality a visiting presidential professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study and former lead economist in the World Bank s research department Simi Linton arts consultant author filmmaker and activist Focuses on disability in the arts disability studies and ways that disability rights and disability justice perspectives can be brought to bear on the arts Public Safety Department Edit Patch of the CUNY Public Safety Department CUNY has a unified public safety department the City University of New York Public Safety Department with branches at each of the 26 CUNY campuses The New York City Police Department is the primary policing and investigation agency within the New York City as per the NYC Charter which includes all CUNY campuses and facilities The Public Safety Department came under heavy criticism from student groups after several students protesting tuition increases tried to occupy the lobby of the Baruch College The occupiers were forcibly removed from the area and several were arrested on November 21 2011 77 City University Television CUNY TV EditFurther information CUNY TV CUNY also has a broadcast TV service CUNY TV channel 75 on Spectrum digital HD broadcast channel 25 3 which airs telecourses classic and foreign films magazine shows and panel discussions in foreign languages City University Film Festival CUNYFF EditThe City University Film Festival is CUNY s official film festival The festival was founded in 2009 Notable alumni EditSee also List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York as alumni or faculty See also sections in each college s article CUNY graduates include 13 Nobel laureates 2 Fields Medalists 2 U S Secretaries of State a Supreme Court Justice several New York City mayors members of Congress state legislators scientists artists and Olympians 60 78 CUNY notable alumniThe following table is sortable click on a column heading to re sort the table by values of that column Name Grad College Notable forKenneth Arrow 1940 City economist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsRobert Aumann 1950 City mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsAlbert Axelrod City Olympic foil fencerHerman Badillo 1951 City civil rights activist and first Puerto Rican elected to the U S CongressDaniel Bukantz City Olympic foil fencerAbram Cohen City Olympic foil epee and sabre fencerArlene Davila 1996 City author and Anthropology and American Studies professor at New York UniversityRuben Diaz Jr 2005 Lehman Bronx Borough PresidentRuben Diaz Sr 1976 Lehman NYC Council Member PastorJeffrey Dinowitz 1975 Lehman NYS Assembly MemberJesse Douglas 1916 City mathematician and winner of one of the first two Fields MedalsEliot Engel 1969 Lehman Member of the US House of Representatives Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs CommitteeAbraham Foxman City national director Anti Defamation LeagueFelix Frankfurter 1902 City U S Supreme Court JusticeHarold Goldsmith 1952 City Olympic foil and epee fencerAndy Grove 1960 City Chairman and CEO Intel CorporationHerbert A Hauptman 1937 City mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in ChemistryLetitia James 1982 Lehman NYS Attorney GeneralJane Katz 1963 City Olympic swimmerHenry Kissinger City U S Secretary of State and National Security AdvisorLeonard Kleinrock 1957 City computer scientist Internet pioneerGuillermo Linares 1975 City New York City Council member first Dominican American City Council member and Commissioner of the Mayor s Office of Immigrant AffairsNathaniel Lubell 1936 City Olympic foil saber and epee fencerSamuel Lubell City pollster journalist and National Book Award for Nonfiction finalistLisa Nakamura 1993 1996 City Director and Professor of the Asian American Studies Program at the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois Urbana ChampaignCharles Neider City Author ScholarBarnett Newman 1927 City abstract expressionist artistJohn O Keefe City 2014 Nobel laureate in MedicineColin Powell 1958 City Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of StateMario Puzo City novelist Oscar winning screenwriter for Best Adapted Screenplay 1972 1974 Faith Ringgold 1955 City feminist writer and artistSaul Rogovin City BMCC Professional baseball playerA M Rosenthal 1949 City executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers Pulitzer Prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation s government and societyRochelle Saidel City author founder of the Remember the Women InstituteJonas Salk 1934 City developed the first polio vaccineDaniel Schorr 1939 City Emmy award winning broadcast journalist for CBS TV and National Public RadioElliott Fitch Shepard 1855 City lawyer banker and a founder of the New York State Bar AssociationJames Strauch City Olympic epee fencerBernard Weinraub City journalist and playwrightHenry Wittenberg City Olympic champion wrestlerEgemen Bagis Baruch Turkish politician government ministerAbraham Beame 1928 Baruch born Abraham Birnbaum mayor of New York CityRobin Byrd Baruch host of public access program The Robin Byrd Show dropped out 79 Barbara A Cornblatt 1977 Baruch professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine at Hofstra University School of MedicineFernando Ferrer Baruch New York City mayoral candidate in 2001 and 2005Sidney Harman 1939 Baruch founder and executive chairman of Harman KardonMarcia A Karrow Baruch member of New Jersey General AssemblyJames Lam 1983 Baruch author risk management consultantRalph Lauren Baruch born Ralph Lifshitz chairman and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren dropped out Dolly Lenz Baruch New York City real estate agentDennis Levine Baruch prominent player in the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid 1980sJennifer Lopez Baruch actress singer dancer dropped out Craig A Stanley Baruch member of New Jersey General Assembly since 1996 80 Tarkan Baruch Turkish language singerBella Abzug 1942 Hunter born Bella Savitzky feminist political activist U S Representative 1971 1977Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick 1963 Hunter first Hispanic woman named to the New York State Court of AppealsRobert R Davila 1965 Hunter president of Gallaudet University and advocate for the rights of the hearing impairedRuby Dee 1945 Hunter Emmy nominated actress and civil rights activistMartin Garbus 1955 Hunter First amendment attorneyFlorence Howe 1950 Hunter founder of women s studies and founder publisher of the Feminist Press CUNYAudre Lorde 1959 Hunter African American lesbian poet essayist educator and activistMohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou 1991 Hunter Foreign Minister of Mauritania and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in GenevaSoia Mentschikoff 1934 Hunter first woman partner of a major law firm first woman elected president of the Association of American Law SchoolsThomas J Murphy Jr 1973 Hunter three term mayor of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1994 2006Pauli Murray 1933 Hunter first African American woman named an Episcopal priest human rights activist lawyer and co founder of N O WEdward Thomas Brady John Jay MA trial attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North CarolinaJennings Michael Burch John Jay author of the 1984 best selling memoir They Cage the Animals at NightMarcos Crespo John Jay BA New York State Assemblyman representing district 85 81 Edward A Flynn John Jay Chief of the Milwaukee Police DepartmentPetri Hawkins Byrd 1989 John Jay Judge Judy bailiffHenry Lee 1972 John Jay forensic scientist and founder of the Henry C Lee Institute of Forensic ScienceMiguel Martinez John Jay BS member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan s Washington Heights Inwood and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on July 14 2009Eva Norvind John Jay MA actor and directorPauley Perrette John Jay actor best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCISRonald Rice John Jay New Jersey State SenatorAriel Rios John Jay undercover special agent for the United States Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives ATF killed in the line of dutyImette St Guillen John Jay criminal justice graduate student murdered in February 2006 A scholarship was created in her nameScott Stringer John Jay Comptroller Borough president of Manhattan and member of the New York State AssemblyDorothy Uhnak John Jay BA novelist and detective for the New York City Transit Police DepartmentBill Baird 1955 Brooklyn reproductive rights activist and co director of the Pro Choice LeagueBarbara Aronstein Black 1953 Brooklyn Dean of Columbia Law SchoolBarbara Levy Boxer 1962 Brooklyn anti war activist environmentalist U S representative 1982 1993 and U S senatorMel Brooks 1956 Brooklyn born Melvin Kaminsky Academy Emmy and Tony Award winning director writer and actorShirley Chisholm 1946 Brooklyn first African American U S Congresswoman 1968 1982 Candidate for U S president 1972Bruce Chizen 1978 Brooklyn president amp CEO Adobe SystemsManuel F Cohen 1933 Brooklyn Securities and Exchange Commission ChairmanPaul Cohen 1953 Brooklyn Fields Medal winning mathematicianStanley Cohen 1943 Brooklyn biochemist and Nobel laureate Physiology or Medicine 1986Robert A Daly Brooklyn CEO of Warner Bros and Los Angeles DodgersAlan M Dershowitz 1959 Brooklyn Harvard Law School professor and authorJerry Della Femina 1957 Brooklyn Chairman amp CEO Della Femina Jeary and PartnersDan DiDio 1983 Brooklyn comic book editor and executive for DC ComicsBenjamin Eisenstadt 1954 Brooklyn creator of Sweet N Low and founder of Cumberland Packing CorporationSandra Feldman 1960 Brooklyn president American Federation of TeachersJames Franco Brooklyn Golden Globe Award winning actorNikki Franke 1972 Brooklyn Olympic foil fencerRalph Goldstein Brooklyn Olympic epee fencerSterling Johnson Jr 1963 Brooklyn Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkGata Kamsky 1999 Brooklyn chess grandmaster and five time US chess championSaul Katz 1960 Brooklyn president of the New York MetsEdward R Korman 1963 Brooklyn Senior United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkMarvin Kratter 1937 Brooklyn owner of the Boston CelticsDon Lemon 1996 Brooklyn reporter CNNLeonard Lopate 1967 Brooklyn host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show broadcast on WNYCMichael Lynne 1961 Brooklyn CEO of New Line CinemaMarjorie Magner 1969 Brooklyn Chairman of GannettMarty Markowitz 1970 Brooklyn New York State Senator Brooklyn Borough PresidentPaul Mazursky 1951 Brooklyn film director writer producer actorFrank McCourt 1967 Brooklyn Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angela s Ashes and TisStanley Milgram 1954 Brooklyn social psychologistJerry Moss 1957 Brooklyn co founder of A amp M RecordsBarry Munitz 1963 Brooklyn Chancellor of California State UniversityGloria Naylor 1981 Brooklyn novelist Winner National Book AwardPeter Nero 1956 Brooklyn born Bernard Nierow pianist and pops conductor Grammy Award winnerHarvey Pitt 1965 Brooklyn Chairman of the Securities and Exchange CommissionRosemary S Pooler 1959 Brooklyn United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitJason K Pulliam 1995 1997 Brooklyn United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of TexasBarry Salzberg 1974 Brooklyn CEO of Deloitte Touche TohmatsuBernie Sanders Brooklyn US senator representing VermontSteve Schirripa 1980 Brooklyn actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The SopranosIrwin Shaw 1934 Brooklyn born Irwin Shamforoff O Henry Award winning authorTimothy Shortell 1992 Brooklyn Writer critic of religionJoel Harvey Slomsky 1967 Brooklyn Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaJimmy Smits 1980 Brooklyn Emmy Award winning actor NYPD Blue and L A LawMaynard Solomon 1950 Brooklyn co founder of Vanguard RecordsLisa Staiano Coico 1976 Brooklyn president of City College of New YorkFrank Tarloff Brooklyn Academy Award winning screenwriterBenjamin Ward 1960 Brooklyn first black New York City Police Commissioner 1983 1989Iris Weinshall 1975 Brooklyn Vice Chancellor at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the New York City Department of TransportationJack B Weinstein 1943 Brooklyn Senior Judge United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkWalter Yetnikoff 1953 Brooklyn CEO of CBS RecordsPhilip Zimbardo 1954 Brooklyn social psychologistJoy Behar 1964 Queens comedian television personalityJerry Colonna Queens venture capitalist and entrepreneur coachJoseph Crowley Queens member of the U S House of Representatives 1999 2019Alan Hevesi Queens New York State Comptroller New York State Assemblyman Queens College professorCheryl Lehman 1975 Queens Professor of Accounting Hofstra UniversityHelen Marshall Queens Queens Borough PresidentDonna Orender Queens WNBA presidentJerry Seinfeld 1976 Queens actor and comedianCharles Wang Queens founder of Computer Associates owner of the New York IslandersCarl Andrews Medgar Evers New York state senatorYvette Clarke Medgar Evers Congresswoman member of the United States House of Representatives from New York s 11th and 9th congressional districtsRichard Carmona 1973 Bronx Surgeon General of the United StatesKid Chaos 1991 Bronx British rock Bassist and Guitarist who played in incarnations of hard rock bands such as The CultThe Kid Mero Bronx Co host of Desus amp MeroAnnabel Palma 1991 Bronx NYC Council member 2004 2017Cardi B BMCC RapperQueen Latifah BMCC Singer songwriter rapper actress and producerAdam Saleh BMCC YouTuber and boxerMirko Savone BMCC Italian voiceover actorAssata Shakur BMCC Former member of Black Liberation Army 1970 1981Gabourey Sidibe BMCC American actressMichael K Williams BMCC American actorRiddick Bowe Kingsborough Professional boxer 1989 2008Mauriel Carty Kingsborough Anguillan sprinterAndrew Dice Clay Kingsborough Stand up comedian actor musician and producerPete Falcone Kingsborough Professional baseball pitcherJeff Koinange 1989 Kingsborough Journalist and host of Jeff Koinange LivePhillipe Nover Kingsborough Mixed martial artistLarry Seabrook 1972 Kingsborough NYC Council member 2002 2012Aesha Waks Kingsborough ActressKhandi Alexander Queensborough Dancer choreographer and actressSandra Pepa Denton Queensborough Rapper and songwriter member of Salt N PepaCheryl Salt James Queensborough Rapper and songwriter member of Salt N PepaNayan Padrai Queensborough Screenwriter producer and directorJoe Santagato Queensborough YouTuber comedian and podcasterElly Gross 1993 LaGuardia A holocaust survivor and author of several Holocaust related books of poetry and proseDJ JP LaGuardia The official DJ to Pop SmokeReby Sky LaGuardia Professional wrestler and modelElliot Wilson LaGuardia Journalist 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