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Hostos is the first institution of higher education on the mainland to be named after a Puerto Rican, Eugenio María de Hostos, an educator, writer, and patriot. [2] A large proportion (approximately 60 percent) of the student population is Hispanic, thus many of the courses at Hostos are offered in Spanish, and the college also provides extensive English and ESL instruction to students.
His success at Hostos led to Matos Rodríguez's appointment as president of Queens College, one of CUNY's 11 senior colleges, in 2014. At Queens, he was credited with advancing CUNY's mission of providing access to quality education for students who come from backgrounds traditionally not well served by institutions of higher education.
Lehman College is a public college in New York City.Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, it became an independent college in 1967.The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist.
CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961, [12] and awarded its first two PhD to Daniel Robinson and Barbara Stern in 1965. . Robinson, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, received his PhD in psychology, [13] while Stern, late of Rutgers University, received her PhD in English liter
Across CUNY, student enrollment ballooned. At John Jay, undergraduates numbered 2,600 in 1969; 4,400 in 1970; 6,700 in 1972; and 8,600 in 1973. The size of the faculty grew by over 200% between 1970 and 1972. [8] Moreover, the policy brought many more "civilian" (non-law enforcement) students to the college.
Bay Mills Community College (BMCC) is a public tribal land-grant community college in Brimley, Michigan. It is chartered by the federally recognized Bay Mills Indian Community of Michigan with a total enrollment of approximately 500 on-campus and online students. [ 1 ]
Bank Street College of Education is a private school and graduate school in New York City. It consists of a graduate-only teacher training college [4] and an independent nursery-through-8th-grade school. In 2020 the graduate school had about 65 full-time teaching staff and approximately 850 students, of which 87% were female. [4]
York College is a public senior college in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States.It is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Founded in 1966, York was the first senior college founded under the newly formed CUNY system, which united several previously independent public colleges into a single public university system in 1961.