City College of New York

City College of New York

City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or on a day like "City") is a senior college of the City University of New York, New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty institutions of higher education. City College campus is on a hill overlooking Harlem; its neo-Gothic campus was mostly designed by George B. Post, and many of its buildings are landmarks.

City College was originally located in downtown Manhattan, then moved to its current location in upper Manhattan, the village of Manhattan Ville in 1906, where the classic neo-Gothic campus was raised. In 1953, bought the campus in Manhattan Ville College of the Sacred Heart (which on a 1913 map was shown as The Convent of the Sacred Heart), which adds a point south of campus. It thereby assumed its current layout of the 140: e Street to 130: e Street, from St. Nicholas Terrace, west of Amsterdam Avenue.
CCNY is widely considered to be the flagship municipal College of New York City.

City College of New York - History

City College was originally founded by the Free Academy of New York City in 1847 by Townsend Harris to provide children from poor and immigrants' access to higher education. It was later named College of the City of New York, but this name was later transferred to the complex of the municipally-owned colleges in New York City, which was the forerunner of the modern City University of New York. At that time, CCNY became officially City College of the College of New York City, and later adopted its current name when CUNY was formally established as an umbrella institution for New York City's municipal schools in 1961. The name City College of New York, but in common usage.

In the years when top-flight private schools were limited to children of the Protestant Establishment, thousands of brilliant people attended City College because they had no other choice. CCNY's academic excellence and status as a working-class school earned it the title "Harvard of the proletariat."

Even today, after three decades of relative mediocrity, no other public college has produced so many Nobel laureates who have studied and graduated with a bachelor's degree from a public school ¹. CCNY's official bid for this is "Nine Nobel laureates requirements CCNY as their Alma Mater, the majority from any public college in the USA".

In its heyday in the 1930s through the 1950s, CCNY became known for his political radicalism. It was said that CCNY was the place for debates between Trotskyites and Stalinists. Alumni who were at City College in the mid 20 century, said that City College in those days, as Berkeley in the 1960s to resemble a school of the line.

In the late 1960s, black and Puerto Rican activists and their white allies demanded that City College implement an aggressive affirmative action program. The administration of CCNY balked at the idea, but instead a few years later came up with an open admissions or Open Access Program, which provides that any graduate of a NYC high school could matriculate either City College or elsewhere in the CUNY college system. The program opened its doors to college for many who otherwise would not have been able to attend college, but came at the expense of City College academic reputation and the New York City's fiscal health.

City College began charging instruction in the 1970s and left open admissions in the 1990s.

In October 2005, won the Dr. Andrew Grove, a 1960 graduate in Engineering School of Chemical Engineering and co-founder of Intel Corporation, $ 26,000,000 for the Engineering School. It is the largest donation ever given to the City College of New York.

The technical school has been renamed to the coarse School of Engineering.
City College of New York - Notable Alumni
City College of New York - Nobel Laureates
Julius Axelrod 1933 - 1970 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Kenneth Arrow 1940 - 1972 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
Robert J. Aumann 1950 - 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics
City College of New York - Rhodes Scholars
James T. Molloy 1939
Lev A. Sviridov 2005
City College of New York - Fulbright Scholars
Vera Grant, 1995
City College of New York - Truman Scholars
Charles Claudio Simpkins 2005
City College of New York - Government, Politics and Sociology
Herman Badillo 1951, former congressman and chairman of CUNY's board, was an architect of the university's academic renaissance.
Daniel Bell - sociologist, professor at Harvard University
Bernard M. Baruch - Wall Street financier and adviser to U.S. presidents in 40 years, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.
Abraham D. Beam 1928 - Mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977
Stephen Bronner - political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
Felix Frankfurter in 1902 - Justice in the U.S. Supreme Court, January 30, 1939-August 28, 1962.
George Friedman - the founder of Stratfor, a writer, professor of political science, security and defense analyst
Nathan Glazer - neoconservative political pundit
Irving Howe - invented the term "New York Jewish intellectuals"
1945 Ed Koch - mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989
Irving Kristol - neoconservative pundits
Robert T. Johnson, 1972 - Bronx District Attorney.
Guillermo Linares 1975 - the first Dominican-American New York City Council member.
Colin L. Powell - former U.S. Secretary from 2001 to 2005
Julius Rosenberg - convicted spy infamous during the Cold War
Robert F. Wagner Sr. - U.S. Senator from New York, from 1927 to 1949
Michelle Wallace, 1975 - a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
City College of New York - The Arts
Maurice Ashley 1993 - the first African-American International chess player.
Paddy Chayevsky - famous playwright for stage and screen, wrote Marty and Altered States
Ira Gershwin 1918 - American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother George Gershwin
Marv Goldberg - Music historian of rhythm & blues
Krissy Goodman 1986 - Stage, screen and television actress, was the first African-American who has a leading role in a Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry.
Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 - American songwriter (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, etc.)
Oscar Hijuelos 1975 - won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
Judd Hirsch 1960 - American actor
1991 MA Walter Mosley, best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins has received Edgar and Golden Dagger Award.
Michael Oreskes 1975 - Executive Editor of The International Herald Tribune
Edward G. Robinson 1914 - actor
Tomorrow Rosenthal 1949, former Executive Editor of The New York Times.
Richard Schiff 1983 - Emmy-winning actor and a star on The West Wing.
Eli Wallach in 1938 (MA) - actor
Upton Sinclair in 1897 (BA) - Author (The Jungle (1906))
Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) - Author (The Natural (1952))
City College of New York - Science and Technology
Solomon Asch - psychologist, known for Asch conformity experiments
Julius Blank - an engineer, a member of the traitorous eight, who founded Silicon Valley
Adin Falkoff - engineering, computer science, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
George Washington Goethals 1887 - a civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and opening of the Panama Canal
Dan Goldin - served as the 9th and longest-established staff administrator of NASA.
Robert E. Kahn - Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP / IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004.
Leonard Kleinrock 1957 - Internet pioneer
Solomon Kullback - Mathematician, NSA cryptology pioneer
Michael A. Liguori 1979 - among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors in 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 Engineering, developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)
Mario Runco, Jr. 1974 - astronaut.
1934 Jonas Salk - inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
Abraham Sinkov - Mathematician, NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
David B. Steinman 1906 - engineer, bridge designer (Class 1906)
Leonard Susskind 1962 - physicist, string theory
City College of New York - Business
Robert catel 1958 - CEO of KeySpan.
Andy Grove 1960 - 4th employee of Intel, and ultimately its president, CEO and chairman, and TIME Magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
Stanley H. Kaplan 1939 - founded Kaplan Educational Services.
Jack Rudin 1941 - developer.
Frank J. Sciame 1974 - architect and developer
Linda Kaplan Thaler 1972, the CEO of the fastest growing advertising agency in New York, brought us the AFLAC Duck.
City College of New York - Sports
Red Holzman 1948 - Legendary basketball coach for the New York Knicks.