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CUNY's history dates back to the formation of the Free Academy in 1847 by Townsend Harris. [9] The school was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the … city and county of New York". [10]
It is the newest of the City University of New York's (CUNY) community colleges and was founded on September 11, 2011. It opened on August 20, 2012 as New Community College . In April 2013 the college was renamed following a $15 million endowment from the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation.
City Tech was founded in 1946 as The New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences.The urgent mission at the time was to provide training to GIs returning from the Second World War and to provide New York with the technically proficient workforce it would need to thrive in the emerging post-war economy.
Johnson attended Groton School, Massachusetts.He received his B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) from Harvard University, and his M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989). ). Johnson taught at Arizona State University and Williams College and served as visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and at Tel Aviv University (2007–08), as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanit
Herman Badillo 1951 – former Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees, an architect of the University's academic rebirth; Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier; adviser to American Presidents for 40 years, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy; Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
Nancy K. Miller [1] (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist.Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and trauma.
Vapnyar spent the first 19 years of her life in Moscow, where she earned a degree in Russian Language and Literature.Her mother was a professor of math education. In 1998, pregnant, she moved to the United States and later settled on Staten Island with her husband.
In 2015, Mount Sinai announced partnerships with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as National Jewish Health, the nation's leading institutes for pediatric and pulmonary care respectively, leading to the creation of the Mount Sinai Children’s Heart Center [25] and the Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute.