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The college campus grew as buildings were constructed and enrollment increased. But changes beyond growth were in store for Queens College: in 1970, CUNY adopted the controversial policy of Open Admissions, which guaranteed a place at CUNY for any high school graduate in New York, regardless of traditional criteria like grades or test scores.
Queensborough Community College (QCC) is a public community college in New York City.One of seven community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, Queensborough enrolls more than 12,000 attending students [3] and more than 775 instructional faculty.
Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college, both established in 1926.
The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (also known as CUNY SLU) is a public undergraduate, graduate, and professional school in New York City associated with the City University of New York system.
Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.
Pace University is a private university with three campuses in New York: Pace University in New York City, Pace University in Pleasantville, and Pace Law in White Plains.It was established in 1906 as a business school by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace. [5] Pace enrolls about 13,000 students as of fall 2021 in bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs.
The CUNY Academic Commons is an online, academic social network for community members [1] of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections among the 24 [2] individual colleges that make up the university system, [3] the site, founded in 2009, has quickly grown as a hub for the CUNY community, serving in the process to strengthen ...
The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the Graduate School of Journalism's creation in May 2004. Proposed by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, the school was to focus on teaching reporting skills and news values at a time when other journalism schools were emphasizing education in academic disciplines such as political science and statistics.