University of the Town of New York

The Université of the Town of New York ( City University off New York - CUNY ) is a public Université located in the town of New York. It is the largest urban university of the the United States, and its: 220000 students are distributed in the 11 senior colleges , the 6 community colleges , the graduate school , the school of Journalisme, the Law school (school of Droit) and the Sophie Davis School off Biomedical Education (medical school).

The City University off New York is moreover the third larger university of the the United States in term of the number of students, behind the State University off New York (: 413000 students) and the California State University (: 414000 students). It also should be noted that CUNY and the State University off New York , although both public and managed by the State of New York are completely independent.

History

The history of City University off New York goes up with 1847, i.e. at the time of the creation of the Free Academy ( free meaning free) with New York. Its vocation was then to promote teaching, by offering free courses to the pupils of other universities of the state. The Free Academy became then the City College , first organization of future CUNY . From, several nouveux senior colleges was created, like four hybrid schools, and six community colleges . In 1971, the City University off New York was founded, as a regrouping of all these schools lately create.

In the past, the university accommodated especially pupils who did not have the means of joining the private universities (Columbia, Fordham). Thus, until in 1975, the school offered a free teaching of quality to the poorest people, with the working classes, like with the immigrants. But in 1975, the tax crisis brought to a tax on this teaching, which lost its exemption from payment and became less accessible to the popular classes. After the First World War, CUNY accommodated many Jews (student and professors) victims of discriminations of the schools of the Ivy League of which Columbia forms part. CUNY, thanks to the big number of Nobel Prize which it had graduate was thus named the Harvard of the proletariat.

The CUNY preserves always today its image of diversity, accommodating students of 145 different countries.

Colleges

Senior colleges

(1847) City College
(1870) Hunter College
(1919) Baruch College (under the name of City College' S School off Business and Civic Administration , famous in 1953 in homage to Bernard Mr. Baruch)
(1930) Brooklyn College
(1937) Queens College
(1946) New York City College off Technology
(1955) College off Staten Island
(1964) John Jay College off Criminal Justice
(1966) York College
(1968) Lehman College
(1970) Medgar Evers College

Community colleges

(1957) Bronx Community College
(1958) Queensborough Community College
(1963) Borough off Manhattan Community College
(1963) Kingsborough Community College
(1968) LaGuardia Community College
(1970) Hostos Community College

Graduate and professional schools

(1961) CUNY Graduate Center
(1973) Sophie Davis School off Biomedical Education
(1983) CUNY Law School
(2006) CUNY Graduate School off Journalism

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