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The City University of New York is formed, uniting seven colleges–eventually to be joined by a dozen more. City College’s esteemed business school becomes its own college, named for Bernard Baruch.
- Origins and Formative Years
History. Origins and Formative Years. 1847. The Free Academy...
- The New Century
The task force calls CUNY “an institution adrift” that...
- The Postwar Expansion
A committee of the city’s Board of Higher Education proposes...
- CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
The story of the City University of New York’s Graduate...
- Origins and Formative Years
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In 1960, John R. Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of New York City, later known as the City University of New York (CUNY).
NameGrad.CollegeNotable For1940Cityeconomist and joint winner of the Nobel ...1950Citymathematician and winner of the Nobel ...1951Citycivil rights activist and first Puerto ...1996Cityauthor and Anthropology and American ...5 days ago · The City University of New York, system of higher education institutions in New York, New York, U.S. It was created in 1961 to combine New York City’s municipally supported colleges (now numbering 21, including the CUNY Baccalaureate Program).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This collection contains primary documents that trace the shift in New York State’s public policy that would ultimately lead to the 1961 consolidation of New York City’s handful of municipal colleges into one coordinated system: The City University of New York (CUNY).
In the early 1960s the state Board of Higher Education’s (BHE) had created two new community colleges in Manhattan and Brooklyn (Kingsborough) and acquired a third from the state (New York City Community College, in Brooklyn, which later became NYC College of Technology).