The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. It is also the oldest of City University's twenty three institutions of higher learning.^[1] City College's thirty-five acre campus along Convent Avenue from 130st Street to 141st Street^[2] is on a hill overlooking Harlem; its neo-Gothic campus was mostly designed by George Browne Post, and many of its buildings are landmarks. A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Gregory H. Williams is the 11th and current president of the City College of New York. ... Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of Vice-Chancellor at certain UK universites such as UCL, and the head of certain Oxbridge colleges (e. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “NY” redirects here. ... The city of Los Angeles is an example of urbaniation Urbanisation (or urbanization) means the removal of the rural character of a town or area, a process associated with the development of civilisation. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... Species C. canadensis C. fiber Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents native to North America and Europe. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: ), is the public university system of New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. ... Neo-gothic architecture is an American branch of the Gothic revival style that was imported from England in the 1830s. ... George Browne Post (1837 - 1913) was a U.S. architect. ... For the group sometimes known as Landmark, see Landmark Education Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature, used by explorers and others to find their way back through an area on a return trip. ...

CCNY was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States^[3] and also for many years has been considered the flagship campus of the CUNY public university system.^[4] The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym usually pronounced kyoo-nee or coo-nee), located in New York City, is the largest urban university in the United States, with more than 208,000 enrolled in degree programs and another 208,000 enrolled in adult and continuing education courses at...

History

A view of the original entrance to Shepard Hall, the main building of City College of New York, in the early 1900's, on its new campus in Hamilton Heights, from St. Nicholas Avenue looking up westward to St. Nicholas Terrace.

The City College of New York was originally founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847 by Townsend Harris. A combination prep school and college, it would provide children of immigrants and the poor access to free higher education based on academic merit alone. Image File history File links Shepard1. ... Image File history File links Shepard1. ... Townsend Harris (1804–1878) was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan. ...

It was subsequently renamed the College of the City of New York, but that name was later transferred to the complex of the municipally-owned colleges in New York City, which was the predecessor of the modern City University of New York. At that time, CCNY became officially City College of the College of the City of New York ^[5], and later adopted its current name when CUNY was formally established as the umbrella institution for New York City's municipal-college system in 1961. The name City College of New York, however, is in general use. The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: ), is the public university system of New York City. ...

In 1847, New York State Governor John Young had given permission to the Board of Education to found The Free Academy, which was ratified in a statewide referendum. Founder Townsend Harris proclaimed, John Young (June 12, 1802 - April 23, 1852) was an American politician. ... Townsend Harris (1804–1878) was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan. ...

"Open the doors to all ... Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect."

Dr. Horace Webster, first president of The Free Academy on the occasion of its formal opening, January 21, 1849, said: Horace Webster (September 21, 1794 - July 12, 1871) was an American educator. ...

"The experiment is to be tried, whether the children of the people, the children of the whole people, can be educated; and whether an institution of the highest grade, can be successfully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few."^[6]

In 1851, a curriculum was adopted which had nine main fields: Math, History, Language, Literature, Drawing, Natural Philosophy, Experimental Philosophy, Law and Political Economy.

The Academy's first graduation took place in 1853 in Niblo's Garden Theatre [4], a large theater and opera house on Broadway, near Houston Street at the corner of Broadway and Prince Street.

In 1866, the name was changed to The College of the City of New York and lavender was chosen as its color, while in the next year, the academic senate, the first student government in the nation, was formed.

Having struggled over the issue for ten years, in 1895 the New York State legislature voted to let the college build a new campus. A four-square block site was chosen, located in Manhattanville, within the area which is today enclosed by the North Campus Arches.

Education courses were offered in 1897 as a result of a city law which prohibited hiring teachers who lacked proper education. The School of Education was established in 1921.

The College newspaper, The Campus, published its first issue in 1907, and the first degree-granting evening session in the United States was started.

Separate Schools of Business and Civic Administration and of Technology (Engineering) were established in 1919. Students were also required to sign a loyalty oath.

In 1947, the college celebrated its centennial year, awarding honorary degrees to Bernard Baruch (class of 1889) and Robert F. Wagner (class of 1898). A 100 year time capsule was buried in North Campus. Image:Bernard Baruch. ... Portrait of Robert F. Wagner in the U.S. Senate Reception Room Robert Ferdinand Wagner (8 June 1877–4 May 1953) was a Democratic United States Senator from New York from 1927 until 1949. ...

In the years when top-flight private schools were restricted to the children of the Protestant Establishment, thousands of brilliant individuals (especially Jewish students) attended City College because they had no other option. CCNY's academic excellence and status as a working-class school earned it the titles "Harvard of the Proletariat" and the "poor man's Harvard." Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Establishment is a pejorative slang term to refer to the traditional and usually conservative ruling class elite and the structures of society which they control. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. ...

Even today, after three decades of controversy over its academic standards, no other public college has produced as many Nobel laureates who have studied and graduated with a degree from a particular public college.^[7] CCNY's official quote on this is "Nine Nobel laureates claim CCNY as their Alma Mater, the most from any public college in the United States". [5] [6] This should not be confused with Nobel laureates that earned the distinction at a public university as UC Berkeley boasts 19. The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ...

In its heyday of the 1930s through the 1950s, CCNY became known for its political radicalism. It was said that CCNY was the place for arguments between Trotskyites and Stalinists. Alumni who were at City College in the mid-20th century said that City College in those days made Berkeley in the 1960s look like a school of conformity. The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ... The term Radical (latin radix meaning root) was used from the late 18th century for proponents of the Radical Movement and has since been used as a label in political science for those favouring or trying to produce thoroughgoing political reforms which can include changes to the social order to... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... For architecture, see Stalinist architecture. ... An alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine) is a former student of a college, university, or school. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...

CCNY is the only team in men's college basketball history to win both the NIT and the NCAA Tournament in the same year, 1950. However, this accomplishment has been overshadowed by a point shaving scandal in which, during the course of 1951, seven CCNY basketball players were arrested for taking money in order to shave points.^[8] This led to the decline of CCNY from a national powerhouse in Division I basketball to a member of Division III and damaged the national profile of college basketball in general. College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. Game between Illinois State Redbirds & Ball State Cardinals, February 17, 2007 in an ESPN Bracketbuster contest. ... The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is a mens college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ... // Final four redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

During a 1969 campus takeover, under threat of a race riot, African American and Puerto Rican activists and their white allies demanded, among other policy changes, that City College implement an aggressive affirmative action program (Traub). At some point, campus protesters began referring to CCNY as "Harlem University." The administration of CCNY at first balked at the demands, but instead, came up with an open admissions or open-access program under which any graduate of a New York City high school might be able to matriculate either at City College or somewhere in the CUNY college system. Beginning in 1970, the program opened doors to college to many who would not otherwise have been able to attend college, but came at the cost of City College's academic standing (This view is mirrored in mass media of the day, however as a graduate from that period, who asked many long tenured faculty if in fact the curriculum had been changed, the universal opinion was that nothing had changed. The fact is that there were preparatory / remediation classes that one could take be able to matriculate, but as many did, after the first term, those who could not pass classes simply dropped out.)... and New York City's fiscal health. An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Affirmative action refers to policies intended to promote access to education or employment aimed at a historically socio-politically non-dominant group (typically, minorities or women). ... Open admissions is a type of admissions in the process of college admissions in the United States in which the only criterion for admission is a High-school diploma. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ...

(The fiscal health of the City of New York was a cheap regressive way to impose tuition, the blame for this disaster can be brought to bear with Mayor Abraham Beame and Governor Mario Cuomo, who made trade-offs to appease the Ford administration. (see Daily News headline: FORD to City: DROP DEAD) Again the fact is that tuition, which was imposed in a gradual manner (I recall paying $24 my last semester!), dealt a mortal blow to the long standing idea that education is a social right. The reason why a huge increase to bail out New York City was impossible to abruptly implement was simply because the vast majority of students came from working class families that could not afford to send their offspring to more expensive institutions. Such a policy would have caused the closure of the third largest university system in the country, and would have brought havoc upon City Hall in terms of dealing with one of the most powerful university faculty unions of the time. Competition was and is so extreme at CUNY because of the very well paid and well educated faculty, all thanks to their union. This also in fact encouraged top notch professors who would never have put up with weakening a long standing curriculum of excellence. I also recall having to take a final exam in Shepard Hall on the top floor where the roof had gone so long without repair it was actually raining in some parts of the under-heated classroom. So, the argument that the imposition of tuition was some sort of wind fall or realistically aided in saving City Hall from its economic woes does not stand.)

City College began charging tuition in 1976, and by the 1990s (Regan/Thacher era doctrine)stopped accepting and working with students who didn't meet its formal entrance requirements.

CCNY's new Frederick Douglass Debate Society defeated Harvard and Yale at the "Super Bowl" of the American Parliamentary Debate Association in 1996. In 2003, the college's Model UN Team was awarded as an Outstanding Delegation, an honor that it would repeat for four years in a row. A Model United Nations (also known as a Model UN or an MUN) is a simulation education activity focusing on civics, communications, globalization and multilateral diplomacy. ...

The U.S. Postal Service issued a postcard commemorating CCNY's 150th Anniversary, featuring Shepard Hall, on Charter Day, May 7, 1997.

In October 2005, Dr. Andrew Grove, a 1960 graduate of the Engineering School in Chemical Engineering, and co-founder of Intel Corporation, donated $26,000,000 to the Engineering School, which has since been renamed the Grove School of Engineering. It is the largest donation ever given to the City College of New York. Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born September 2, 1936 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American businessman. ... Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science (e. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...

Campus history

The Free Academy at Lexington Avenue and 23rd Street in New York City in the 1800s.

Old photo of the main City College building, Shepard Hall, looking West from St. Nicholas Avenue to Shepard Hall's main entrance on St. Nicholas Terrace

City College was originally situated in downtown Manhattan, in the Free Academy Building, which was CCNY's home from 1849 to 1907. The building was designed by James Renwick, Jr. and was located at Lexington Avenue and 23rd Street. According to some sources, it was the first Gothic Revival college building on the East Coast. [7] Image File history File links Freeacad. ... Image File history File links Freeacad. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x686, 557 KB)[edit] Summary View from the side photo of the main building in the City College, from the Library of Congress web site: http://memory. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x686, 557 KB)[edit] Summary View from the side photo of the main building in the City College, from the Library of Congress web site: http://memory. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... James Renwick, Jr. ...

CCNY then moved to its current location in the upper Manhattan village of Manhattanville in 1906, when the classical neo-Gothic campus was erected. [8] [9] [10] [11]

This new campus was designed by George Browne Post. George Browne Post (1837 - 1913) was a U.S. architect. ...

According to CCNY's published history, "The Landmark neo-Gothic buildings of the North Campus Quadrangle were designed by the noted architect George Browne Post. They are superb examples of English Perpendicular Gothic style and are among the first buildings, as an entire campus, to be built in the U.S. in this style. Groundbreaking for the Gothic Quadrangle buildings took place in 1903".

The original neo-Gothic buildings on the new upper Manhattan campus were:

• Shepard Hall, standing on its own, across the street from the campus quadrangle on Convent Avenue
• Baskerville Hall
• Compton Hall
• Harris Hall
• Wingate Hall

Shepard Hall was the largest building and the centerpiece of the campus, and modeled after a Gothic cathedral plan, and whose main entrance was designed to be on St. Nicholas Terrace.[12] It also contained a large cathedral or chapel assembly hall called "The Great Hall". [13]

Harris Hall, named in the original architectural plans as "the Sub-Freshman Building", housed City College's preparatory high school from 1906 until it moved in 1930 downtown to the School of Business. [14]

Wingate Hall, was named for George Wood Wingate (Class of 1858), an attorney and promoter of physical fitness. It served as the college's main gymnasium between 1907 and 1972. [15] [16] [17]

Baskerville Hall, for many years housed the Chemistry Department, was also known as the Chemical Building, and had one of the largest original lecture halls on the campus, Doremus lecture hall. [18]

Compton Hall was originally designed as and called The Mechanical Arts Building in the original plans.[19]

Five of these new Gothic campus buildings opened in 1906. The sixth, Goethals Hall [20], finished in 1930, was named after George Goethals the famous civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Panama Canal and who had attended CCNY as an undergraduate student. Goethals Hall housed the School of Technology (engineering) adjoining The Mechanical Arts Building, Compton Hall. George Washington Goethals George Washington Goethals [Go-tuhles] (29 June 1858 - 21 January 1928) was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal. ... Two Panamax running the Miraflores Locks The Panama Canal (Spanish: ) is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. ...

A stone grotesque on a CCNY building from 1906, holding a model of Shepard Hall.

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The North Campus Quadrangle contains four great arches on the main avenues entering and exiting the campus:

• the Hudson Gate on Amsterdam Avenue [23]
• the George Washington Gate at 138th Street and Convent Avenue
• the Alexander Hamilton Gate at the northern edge of Convent Avenue
• the Peter Stuyvesant Gate at St. Nicholas Terrace.

In the early 1900s, after the Gothic campus had been built, CCNY President John H. Finley had a dream of a stadium, later to be realized as Lewisohn Stadium, since he knew the need for adequate facilities for the college's athletic teams. New York City did not give money, but it donated two blocks south of the College, which was open park land. He also learned that businessman and philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn wanted to finance the project. They spoke about it for the first time in 1912. Lewisohn agreed to donate $75,000 for the Stadium. Finley commissioned the architect, Arnold W. Brunner, to do the project, which was built on Finley's memories of a small rock-hewn theatre in the Trastevere section of Rome, Italy.[24]

Old photo of the former Adolph Lewisohn Stadium, now the site of the North Academic Center

Lewisohn stadium was built as a 6,000-seat stadium, with thousands more seats available on the infield during concerts, and was dedicated on May 29, 1915, two years after Dr. Finley had left his post at the College and Dr. Sidney Edward Mezes had become CCNY's fourth president. The stadium's dedication was enhanced by a performance of "The Trojan Women", produced by Granville Barker and Lillian McCarthy. Image File history File links Adolph_Lewisohn_Stadium. ... Image File history File links Adolph_Lewisohn_Stadium. ... Sidney Edward Mezes (September 23, 1863 – September 10, 1931) was an American philosopher. ... The Trojan Women (in Greek, Troiades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. ...

A separate library building was not in the original plan for the 1906 campus, so in 1937, a free-standing library was built. The Bowker/Alumni Library stood at the present site of the Steinman Engineering building until 1957. [25]

The Hebrew Orphan Asylum was erected in 1884 on Amsterdam Avenue between 136th and 138th Street, and was designed by William H. Hume [26]. It was already there when City College moved to upper Manhattan. When it closed in the 1940s, the building was used by City College to house members of the U.S. Armed Forces assigned to the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). From 1946 to 1955, it was used as a dormitory, library, and classroom space for the college. It was called "Army Hall" until it was demolished in 1955 and 1956. [27] [28] [29] Tenth Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ... The Army Specialized Training Program was a military training program instituted by the U.S. Army during World War II at a number of American universities to meet wartime demands for junior officers and soldiers with technical skills. ...

In 1946, on the North Campus, CCNY purchased a former orphanage administered by the Episcopal Church and named it Klapper Hall, for Paul Klapper (Class of 1904) Professor and the Dean of School of Education and who was later the first president of Queens College/CUNY (1937-1952). Klapper Hall was red brick in Georgian style and it served until 1983 as home of the School of Education. [30]

1950's aerial view of the old South Campus of City College, bought in 1953 from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. The photo is taken from the south looking northeast.

In 1950-51, CCNY won both the NCAA and the NIT basketball championships. [31] One of the few schools to ever accomplish this feat. Following this many players were arrested in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal which brought down many schools from various institutions for taking money from gamblers. [32] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (804x654, 89 KB) Summary Old archived picture over 50 years old of the South Campus of City College of New York, originally the campus of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (804x654, 89 KB) Summary Old archived picture over 50 years old of the South Campus of City College of New York, originally the campus of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. ...

In 1953, CCNY bought the campus of the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (which, on a 1913 map, was shown as The Convent of the Sacred Heart), which added a south section to the campus. This expanded the campus to include many of the buildings in the area between 140th Street to 130th Street, from St. Nicholas Terrace in the east to Amsterdam Avenue in the west. The architectural and administrative centerpiece of the Manhattanville campus, Reid Hall (1864), is named after Whitelaw Reid owner of the New York Tribune. ... Tenth Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ...

Former buildings of the Manhattanville College campus to be used by CCNY were re-named for City College's purposes: Stieglitz Hall, Downer Hall, Wagner Hall, the prominent Finley Student Center which contained the very active Buttenweiser Lounge, Eisner Hall, Park Gym, and Mott Hall, and others.

Generally, the South Campus of CCNY, as a result of this expansion, contained the liberal arts classes and departments of the college. The North Campus, also as a result of this expansion, generally housed classes and departments for the sciences and engineering, as well as Klapper Hall (School of Education), and the Administration Building.

In 1957, as a result of this campus expansion, a new library building was erected in the middle of the campus, near 135th Street on the South Campus, and named Cohen Library, after Morris Raphael Cohen, an alumnus (Class of 1900) and celebrated professor of the college from 1912 to 1938. The library was moved some decades later to be inside the North Academic Center building on the North Campus. Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25, 1880 - January 28, 1947) was a Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. ...

Steinman Hall, which houses the School of Engineering, was erected in 1962 on the site of the Bowker Library and the Drill Hall to replace the facilities in Compton Hall and Goethals Hall, and was named for David Barnard Steinman (CCNY Class of 1906), a well known civil engineer and bridge designer. [33] David Bernard Steinman (June 11, 1886 - August 21, 1960) was an American engineer He was the designer of the Mackinac Bridge and many other notable bridges, and a published author. ...

Also, in 1963, the Administration Building was erected and put in use on the North Campus across from Wingate Hall. It houses the college administration offices, including the President's and Provost's, and the Registrar's Office. It was originally intended as a warehouse also, housing the huge number of records and transcripts of students since 1847 when the college opened. [34] [35]. In early 2007, the Administration Building was formally named The Howard E. Wille Administration Building, in honor of Howard E. Wille, class of 1955, a distinguished alumnus and philanthropist. ^[9]

In 1971, the Marshak Science Building was built and opened, the former place of the open space known as Jasper Oval and previously an open football field [36] [37]. The building was named after a past president of CCNY in the 1970s (1970-1979), Robert Marshak, who was a renowned physicist. The Marshak building houses all science and labs, and also houses and adjoins the Mahoney Gymnasium and athletic facilities including a swimming pool and tennis courts. [38] This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...

In the 1970s, the construction of the massive North Academic Center (NAC) was begun, in the place of Lewisohn Stadium and Klapper Hall (which housed the School of Education from 1946 to 1983). It was completed in 1984 and houses thousands of classrooms, cafeterias, the Cohen Library, student lounges and centers, and the like, and became the main building for holding classes on the North Campus for the liberal arts and some sciences. Designed by architect John Carl Warnecke, the building has received criticism for its lack of design, and lack of scale in comparison to the surrounding neighborhood. John Carl Warnecke is/was an architect who worked in the international style, among others. ...

At about this same time, many of the old buildings of the South Campus [39] were demolished, some which had been there since the Academy of The Sacred Heart days. The buildings remaining after this on the South Campus at this time were Cohen Library (later moved into the North Academic Center), Park Gym (now a Structural Biology Research Center [40]), Eisner Hall (built in 1941 by Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart as a library, later remodeled and housed CCNY's Art Department and named for the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education in the 1930s) [41], the Schiff House (former President's residence, now a childcare center), Mott Hall (formerly the English Department, now a New York City Department of Education primary school [42]).

Annotated 1950's aerial view of the main part of the old South Campus of City College, with many former CCNY buildings marked with their names. (Click on photo to enlarge)

Some of the buildings which were demolished at that time were Finley Hall (housed The Finley Student Center, student activities center, originally built in 1888-1890 as Manhattanville Academy's main building, and purchased in 1953 by City College) [43], Wagner Hall (housed various Liberal Arts departments and classes, originally built as a dormitory for Manhattanville Academy, and was named in honor of Robert F. Wagner Sr., member of the Class of 1898, who represented New York State for 23 years in the United States Senate) [44], Stieglitz Hall, and Downer Hall, amongst others. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (804x654, 92 KB)[edit] Summary My adaptation of an old image of the South Campus of City College. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (804x654, 92 KB)[edit] Summary My adaptation of an old image of the South Campus of City College. ...

New buildings were erected on the South Campus, including Aaron Davis Hall in 1981, and the Herman Goldman sports field in 1993. In August 2006, for the first time ever in its history, the college completed the construction of a 600-bed dormitory, called "The Towers", and opened it for use.^[10][11][12] There are plans to rename The Towers after a distinguished alumnus or donor, who has not yet been named.

Within the NAC, a student lounge space was created outside the campus bookstore, and murals celebrating the history of the campus were painted on the doors of the Undergraduate Student Government. Founded in 1869, it claims to be the oldest continuously operating student government organization in the country. Across Convent Avenue, the first floor of the Administration Building was given a postmodern renovation for use as the admissions and registrar office. A students union, student government, or student council is a student organization present at many colleges and universities, often with its own building on the campus, dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body. ... Postmodernity (also called post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is a term used by philosophers, social scientists, art critics and social critics to refer to aspects of contemporary art, culture, economics and social conditions that are the result of the unique features of late 20th century and early 21st century...

The former Cohen Library is to be used as the new home for the School of Architecture, with the renovation headed by architect Rafael Viñoly. Near the 133rd Street gate, a new science building is under construction in order to relieve pressure from Marshak Hall, which had a beam collapse in 2005. Part of this project is the elimination of the Herman Goldman sports field, a controversial move which will dramatically alter the South Campus. Rafael Viñoly, a world-famous architect, was born in 1944 in Uruguay. ...

The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission made the North Campus Quadrangle buildings and the College Gates official landmarks, both in 1981. The buildings in the Quadrangle were put on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1984. In the summer of 2006, the historic gates on Convent Avenue were restored.

The campus is served by the 137th Street-City College and 145th Street subway stations. Both are connected to the campus by shuttle buses.

College seal and medal logo

The design of the three-faced college seal took its roots in the 19th century when Professor Charles Anthon was inspired by views of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces connect the past and the future. He broadened this image of Janus in three faces to show the student, and consequently, knowledge, developing from childhood through youth into maturity. It was redesigned again in 1947 by Professor Albert D'Andrea for the college's Centennial Medal. Roman bust of Janus, Vatican. ...

In 2003, the college decided to create a logo distinct from its seal, with the stylized text "the City College of New York." [45]

Rankings

City College was recently ranked in a study [46] by Shanghai Jiao Tong University as 88-118 nationally and 201-300 internationally. It should be noted however that the study focuses heavily on institutions with strong hard science backgrounds, as the rating is based on a number of factors including articles published in scientific journals and Nobel laureates. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Popular culture

Film

• The Royal Tenenbaums - Shepard Hall's tower can be seen in the opening montage of this 2001 film as the young Richie Tenenbaum releases his eagle. Much of the film was shot at or near CCNY.

• Reversal of Fortune - The CCNY campus was used to depict Harvard for this 1990 movie. Many of the scenes taking place in the law school, including the office of Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and several classroom scenes, were filmed in late 1989 at the CCNY School of Architecture, located in Shepard Hall.

• The 25th Hour (2002) - Most scenes were shot in Shepard Hall, when Monty Brogan (Mr. Edward Norton character) visits (and reminisces about the past) his old high school and friend Jacob Elinsky (Mr. Philip Seymour Hoffman's character) who teaches at a fancy private high school.

Literature The Royal Tenenbaums is the 2001 dramatic comedy about three genius siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentric father leaves them in their adolescent years. ... DVD cover for Reversal of Fortune. ... The 25th Hour (ISBN 0-7867-0772-0) is the debut novel by David Benioff. ...

• Allen Ginsberg - Allen Ginsberg referenced CCNY in multiple poems.

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Presidents

1. Horace Webster, 1847-1869
2. General Alexander S. Webb, 1869-1902
3. John H. Finley, 1903-1913
4. Sidney Edward Mezes, 1914-1927
5. Frederick Robinson, 1927-1938
6. Harry N. Wright, 1941-1952
7. Buell G. Gallagher, 1953-1970
8. Robert Marshak, 1970-1979
9. Bernard W. Harleston, 1981-1992
10. Yolanda T. Moses, 1993-1999
11. Gregory H. Williams, 2001-

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Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• Julius Axelrod 1933 - 1970 Nobel laureate in Medicine
• Kenneth Arrow 1940 - 1972 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Robert J. Aumann 1950 - 2005 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Herbert Hauptman 1937 - 1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Robert Hofstadter 1935 - 1961 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Jerome Karle 1937 - 1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Arthur Kornberg 1937 - 1959 Nobel laureate in Medicine
• Leon M. Lederman 1943 - 1988 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Arno Penzias 1954 - 1978 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Julian Schwinger - transferred to Columbia University - 1965 Nobel laureate in Physics

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Politics, government, and sociology

• Herman Badillo 1951 Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees
• Daniel Bell - sociologist, professor at Harvard University
• Bernard M. Baruch 1889 - Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents
• Abraham D. Beame 1928 - mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
• Stephen Bronner - political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
• Upendra J. Chivukula - first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly
• Henry Cohen 1943 - Director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; Founding Dean the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at the The New School
• Felix Frankfurter 1902 - justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• George Friedman - founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analyst
• Nathan Glazer - neoconservative political pundit
• Sidney Hook - 1923 - writer and philosopher
• Irving Howe - coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
• Ed Koch 1945 - mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989
• Irving Kristol 1940 - neoconservative pundit
• Abraham Foxman - National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
• Robert T. Johnson 1972 - Bronx District Attorney
• Melvin J. Lasky 1938 - anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991
• Guillermo Linares 1975 - the first Dominican-American New York City Council Member
• Colin L. Powell 1961- United States Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General, National Security Advisor
• Alexander Rosenberg - Lakatos Award-winning philosopher at Duke University
• Julius Rosenberg - infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
• Robert F. Wagner Sr. - United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949
• Michelle Wallace 1975 - a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
• Stephen Samuel Wise 1891- Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist.

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The arts

• Stanley Kubrick 1946 - Film Director.
• Maurice Ashley 1993 - the first black International Chess Grandmaster.
• Paddy Chayevsky - famed playwright and screenwriter, wrote Marty, Hospital and Altered States
• Ira Gershwin 1918 - American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
• Marv Goldberg 1964 - Music historian in the field of rhythm & blues
• Hazelle Goodman 1986 - Stage, screen and TV actress
• Sterling Morrison 1970 - Musician, co-founder of "The Velvet Underground"
• Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
• Ben Shahn - artist
• Luis Guzmán - actor
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 - American lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow)
• Judd Hirsch 1960 - Actor
• David Margulies - Actor
• Jackie Mason - Comedian and Actor
• Zero Mostel 1935 - Actor
• Edward G. Robinson 1914 - Actor
• Frank J. Sciame 1974- Architect
• Richard Schiff 1983 - Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing
• Alfred Stieglitz 1884- photographer
• Eli Wallach 1938 (MA) - actor
• William Gati 1981, 1982, 1984 (BS, BArch, MArch) - Architect and educator
• Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) - Screenwriter
• Cornel Wilde 1935 - Actor
• Ron Carter - Jazz musician

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Literature and journalism

• Ernesto Quiñonez 1996 (BA, MA) national bestselling author of "Bodega Dreams" and other titles.
• Alan Abelson 1942 - columnist, former editor, Barron's
• Joe Cioffi 1982 - meteorologist, currently doing weather for WPIX-TV in New York
• Morris Raphael Cohen - philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar
• Oscar Hijuelos 1975 - won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
• A.M. Rosenthal 1949 - former executive editor of The New York Times.
• Mario Puzo - best-selling novelist, screenwriter The Godfather
• Walter Mosley 1991 (MA) - best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards.
• Paul Levinson - author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code (winner, Locus Award, 1999)
• Michael Oreskes 1975 - executive editor of The International Herald Tribune
• Henry Roth - novelist
• Upton Sinclair 1897 (BA) - author (The Jungle {1906})
• Dan Daniel 1910 - dean of American sportswriters
• Gary Weiss 1975 - Investigative journalist, author
• Jack Kroll 1937 - culture editor, Newsweek
• Stephen Shepard 1961 - editor in chief, Business Week
• Robert Scheer
• Daniel Schorr - veteran newscaster and commentator for CBS, CNN, and NPR
• Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) - author (won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award)
• A.H. Raskin - former labor editor, The New York Times.
• Anatole Shub - editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters.
• Robert Sobel - 1951 (BSS), 1952 (MA) - best-selling author of business histories.
• Clyde Haberman 1966 - New York Times reporter and columnist

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Science and technology

• Solomon Asch - psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments
• Julius Blank - engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
• Charles DeLisi 1963 (BA) - scientist, "Father of the Human Genome Project"
• Adin Falkoff - engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
• George Washington Goethals 1887 - civil engineer, supervised construction and the opening of the Panama Canal
• Dan Goldin - served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA.
• Herman Hollerith - early computer pioneer, invented Key punch
• Robert E. Kahn - Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004
• Gary A. Klein 1964 - research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making
• Leonard Kleinrock 1957 - Internet pioneer
• Solomon Kullback - Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
• Michael A. Liguori 1979 - listed among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors by New York Magazine
• Albert Medwin 1949 BSEE - engineer and inventor, developed CMOS integrated circuit technology
• Lewis Mumford - historian of technology
• Charles Lane Poor - noted astronomer
• Howard Rosenblum 1950 BSEE - NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)
• Mario Runco, Jr. 1974 - astronaut.
• Jonas Salk 1934 - inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
• Philip H. Sechzer 1934 - anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Abraham Sinkov - Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
• David B. Steinman 1906 - engineer; bridge designer (Class 1906)
• Leonard Susskind 1962 - physicist, string theory
• Michio Kaku - Theoretical Physicist and co-founder of string field theory

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Business

• Robert Catell 1958 - CEO of KeySpan.
• Andrew Grove 1960 - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997, who donated $26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006.
• Stanley H. Kaplan 1939 - founded Kaplan Educational Services.
• Jack Rudin 1941 - real estate developer.
• Jonathan Better 1949 - real estate investor.
• Linda Kaplan Thaler 1972, the CEO of the fastest growing ad agency in New York, brought us the Aflac Duck.

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Sports

• Red Holzman 1942 - legendary basketball coach for the New York Knicks
• Harold Goldsmith 1952 - a foil and epee fencer, won the 1952 NCAA foil championship, competed in three Olympiads for the US, won 2 Pan American Games gold medals and 2 silver medals
• Henry Wittenberg - Olympic wrestler, won gold medal at 1948 Olympics and silver medal in 1952
• Ed Warner - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [47]
• Ed Roman - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [48]
• Floyd Layne - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [49]
• Al Roth - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [50]

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Fictional

• Lennie Briscoe (unknown) - character from the TV show Law & Order
• Brian Flanagan (unknown) - character from the 1988 film Cocktail
• Gordon Gekko (unknown) - character from the 1987 film Wall Street
• Toby Ziegler (unknown) - character from the TV show The West Wing
• Nancy (unknown) - character from the 1971 film Bananas

Notes

1. ^ CUNY's list of its 23 institutions
2. ^ CCNY campus map which shows the lower section extending to 130th St. where the new Towers dormitory is, and up north to 141st St. where Steinman Hall ends and CCNY Alumni House stands.
3. ^ "... the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first free public institution of higher education in the nation.", Baruch College history website. [1]
4. ^ Alfred S. Posamentier, City College: Past and Future, Education Update, Oct. 2002; Sandi E. Cooper, Remediation's end: Can New York educate the children of the "whole people"?, Academe, Jul./Aug. 1998. Note that Prof. Posamentier is dean of CCNY's School of Education, and Prof. Cooper teaches at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center.
5. ^ Subway College, in Time magazine, October 28, 1946
6. ^ Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Report of the Commission on the Future of CUNY: Part I Remediation and Access: To Educate the "Children of the Whole People", 1999. [2]
7. ^ see article Nobel Prize laureates by university affiliation
8. ^ ESPN.com article about the point shaving scandal
9. ^ "Administration Building Named for Howard E. Wille, ‘55", 138@Convent, CCNY newsletter, Volume 2, n.1, February 1, 2007, Office of Communications of The City College of New York.
10. ^ CCNY Towers website
11. ^ "Going to College, and Living There, Too", by Manny Fernandez, New York Times, August 26, 2006, New York Region Section [3]
12. ^ Photos of the residence hall at the City College of NY

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References

• 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, 1847-1997, 2000.
• Sydney C. Van Nort, The City College of New York, Arcadia Press, February 2007. ISBN 0738549304.

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