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The Graduate Center, CUNY (447 words) |
 | Founded in 1961, The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). |
 | Augmenting this enterprise are 28 research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. |
 | Founded in 1961, The Graduate Center’s mission is to prepare students to become scholars, experts, and leaders in the academy and in the private, nonprofit, and governmental sectors; to enhance access to doctoral education for traditionally underrepresented groups; and to advance the educational, economic, and cultural interests of the complex urban community it serves. |
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CUNY (695 words) |
 | The CUNY graduate faculty is itself a consortium system, with each faculty member based at one of four 4-year colleges or the medical school. |
 | CUNY doctoral faculty are engaged in research in such diverse areas as systematics and paleontology (from primate evolution to lifeways of Pleistocene humans); primate ecology, behavior and conservation (with active field programs in several countries); and human adaptation, osteology and forensic anthropoogy. |
 | CUNY facilities are distributed among the colleges and the Graduate Center. |