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7 unusual facts about City University of New York


College of the City of New York

It was also from 1866 to 1929 the official name of the first college in the public university system of New York City, later named (and still called) the City College of New York, and now officially the City College of the City University of New York.

Errol Hill

He was a teaching fellow at the, 1958-66; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (1965-67), and then an associate professor of drama at Richmond College of the City University of New York, 1967-68.

Kenneth Libo

In 1974, he received his PhD in English literature from the City University of New York.

Roby Young

He coached the Queen's College men's soccer team from 1986–1989 and the women's football (soccer) team at Queens College from 1999-2008.

Ronald Solomon

Solomon studied at as an undergraduate at Queens College and received a PhD in 1971 at Yale University under Walter Feit with a thesis entitled Finite Groups with Sylow 2-Subgroups of the Type of the Alternating Group on Twelve Letters.

Suzette Forgues Halasz

She later taught for many years on the music faculty of Queens College, City University of New York and privately out of her home in Port Washington, New York.

Wojciech Stuchlik

Stuchlik started playing tennis in his native Poland from a young age, but eventually moved to the US, where he studied the sport at Queen's College.


Ann Kirschner

A veteran of five start-ups, she launched NFL.COM for the National Football League and was the former co-founder of Columbia University's interactive knowledge network, Fathom.com She is now the University Dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York.

Arthur Nersesian

In 2005, Nersesian received the Anahid Literary Prize for Armenian Literature for his novel Unlubricated. Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary magazine, The Portable Lower East Side, and was an English teacher at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, in the South Bronx.

Ben Goertzel

Before entering the software industry, he served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, including the University of Nevada, City University of New York, the University of Waikato, and the University of Western Australia.

Carmen E. Arroyo

Arroyo took classes in English and attended Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, of the City University of New York (CUNY) where in 1978 she earned her Associate of Arts degree.

Conor Brady

Brady is also Visiting Professor, John Jay College, City University of New York; Senior Teaching Fellow, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin, and Chairman, The British-Irish Association and Committee Member.

David Hurst Thomas

David Hurst Thomas is the Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and the City University of New York.

Ernst J. Grube

Grube held a simultaneous teaching appointment as Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art at Columbia University, In 1968 he was appointed Professor of Islamic and Far Eastern art at Hunter College in the City University of New York,

Jack Rosen

The rest of his childhood took place in The Bronx neighborhood of New York City, where he later attended Columbus High School and later graduated from City University of New York with a degree in mathematics.

Jamie P. Chandler

After studying at Plymouth North High School he graduated with honors from Harvard University, and pursued doctoral studies in political science at City University of New York Graduate School and University Center.

Jan Westerhoff

He was previously a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the City University of New York, a Seminar Associate at Columbia University, a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and a Junior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

John J.A. Jannone

John J.A. Jannone (born in Towanda, Pennsylvania) is a musician, installation artist, videographer, and founder of the graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, which he directed from 2003-2008.

Kathleen Collins

She joined the faculty of City College at the City University of New York and became a professor of film history and screenwriting, where cinematographer Ronald Gray encouraged her to go ahead with a screenplay she had adapted from a Henry Roth short story.

Mordechai Rotenberg

Rotenberg has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, the Jewish Theological Seminary, City University of New York and Yeshiva University.

Noel DaCosta

He studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence, Italy under a Fulbright Fellowship, and shortly thereafter took positions teaching at Hampton University and the City University of New York.

Pamela Talkin

She earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Spanish from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College.

Patricia Lynne Duffy

She has taught English at New York University, the City University of New York, and the UN Language Programme and has written articles for numerous publications including New York Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle (All the Colors of the Rainbow), the Boston Globe, and the Village Voice.

Psychohistory

Four universities have offered a course in Psychohistory at the undergraduate level and have published course details: Boston University, Binghamton University, City University of New York and Wesleyan University.

Robert Lima

After active duty in the United States Army Reserve, he worked in New York City in publishing and film, as well as in broadcasting for Voice of America before starting his teaching career at Hunter College of the City University of New York (1962–1965).

The Literary London Society

The current editor of the The Literary London Journal is Susan Alice Fischer from Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.

Thomas Mermall

He went on to become a full professor of Spanish Literature at Brooklyn College and formed part of the doctoral program of the City University of New York.

Warren Rovetch

With EES and then with his firm Campus Facilities Associates, Rovetch did management and planning studies for the University of Chicago, City University of New York, Ohio Board of Regents, Rutgers, California State University, Iowa State University, and other institutions.

Wellington Chen

Originally appointed by Governor George Pataki as a board member of the City University of New York, Chen also engaged in discussions by CUNY leaders on their immigrant pasts on CUNY's A Nation of Immigrants Curriculum with notable speakers as Cuba Eduardi Marti, Jamaica Marcia Keizs and Hugo Morales.

He has been a member of Community Board 7Q for over 13 years, and currently sits on a dozen other boards, including the City University of New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Queens Economic Development Corporation, and Asian American/Asian Research Institute.

Winston Dang

Dang did his undergraduate education at Taipei Medical University and then moved to the United States to pursue further education, successively earning an M.A. from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, and a M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.


see also

Bo Lawergren

Bo Lawergren is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Hunter College, The City University of New York.

Jasna Popovic

In 2006, Popovic received the Passantino Award for Special Achievements from City University of New York and the following year she performed at Steinway Hall and Lefrack Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Kolarac Hall in Belgrade.

Leanne

Leanne Rivlin, an originator of the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York during the late 1960s

Mayuri Kango

She later moved to New York with her husband and got an MBA in marketing and finance from City University of New York-Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business.

Middle College Program

It opened in 1974 as an alternative high school under the joint auspices of the New York City Board of Education and LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York.