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Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City.It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates undergraduate and postgraduate programs through the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the Marxe School of Public and ...
The BCC campus originally housed New York University's undergraduate college and engineering school – which was absorbed by Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1973 but is once again part of NYU – and was created at a time when a number of prominent local universities had made the move to upper Manhattan and the Bronx in order to build ...
In 1976, City University Board of Trustees threatened to shut down the college during a time of fiscal crisis for CUNY and New York City as a whole. Throughout the campaign to "save John Jay," the faculty and administration united to advocate the sentiment voiced by President Lynch in a memo: "John Jay can contribute to the city as a unique ...
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.
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.
Matos Rodríguez was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.His mother, Marta, was a high school Spanish teacher and his father, Félix, was an engineer. He grew up with two brothers, grandparents and great-grandparents and graduated from Colegio San Ignacio in San Juan. [3]
Silberman patrons have remote access to the Hunter Libraries electronic collections which include 250,000 full-text eBooks, 100,000 eJournals, and over 300 electronic databases. SWUPHL is a pick-up/drop-off site for the CUNY intra-library loan system (CLICS) that facilitates the sharing of books between all the CUNY libraries.
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.