City University of New York

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is the only... liberal arts college with a criminal justice and forensic focus in the United States. The college offers programs in Forensic Science and Forensic Psychology. It has about 14,000 full-time equivalent students, including traditional, pre-career undergraduate students and those pursuing master’s degrees in several disciplines. John Jay College of Criminal Justice was founded in 1964 and was originally called the College of Police Science . Classes were held at the Police Academy on East 20th Street. Eventually, the school was expanded to incorporate many liberal arts disciplines and was renamed John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It moved to its current location in the former Charles B. J. Snyder-designed De Witt Clinton High School in 1988. After Clinton moved to the Bronx the building became Haaren High School. The building is now Haaren Hall on the campus. The school's namesake, John Jay, was the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court and one of the founding fathers of the United States.
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Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent organizations of the City University of New York, located on... Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized nationally for its diversity and reputation for academic excellence. Hunter comprises six schools: The School of Arts and Sciences, The School of Education, The Roosevelt Public Policy Institute, The School of Health Sciences, The School of Nursing, and The School of Social Work. Hunter College has its origins in the 19th-century movement for normal school training which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School , organized in New York City in 1870. Founded by Irish immigrant Thomas Hunter, who was president of the school during the first 37 years, it was originally a women's college for training teachers.
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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Established in 1930 by the New... York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New York . With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The 26-acre campus is known for its great beauty, and is often regarded as "the poor man's Harvard" because of its low tuition and reputation for academic excellence . The 2003 edition of The Best 345 Colleges, published by The Princeton Review, ranked Brooklyn College #1 for Most Beautiful Campus and in the Top Ten for Best Academic Value, Diversity, and Location. The College ranked in the top 2 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review’s 2006 guidebook, America’s Best Value Colleges.
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CUNY School of Law is a law school in Flushing, Queens, New York City, United States, founded in 1983. In 1981, CUNY hired Charles Halpern to be its... founding Dean. This law school was established as a public interest law school. The curriculum integrates clinical teaching methods with traditional areas of legal study. In Spring of 1982, Dean Halpern hired Howard Lesnick as a Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Lesnick believed that CUNY law students needed to understand that the law only has significance in relation to the underlying human problems that it addresses. The slogan of the law school is: “Law in the Service of Human Needs.” Twenty-five years later, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching praised CUNY for being one of the best law schools in the country in preparing students for practice through instruction in legal doctrine, critical theory, lawyering skills, and professional ethics. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
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New York City College of Technology , nicknamed City Tech, is the largest four-year public college of technology in the northeastern United States,... and a constituent college of the City University of New York. It is one of four CUNY senior colleges to grant both associate and bachelor degrees along with The College of Staten Island, Medgar Evers College, and John Jay College. City Tech is the legacy of the 1971 merger of New York City Community College and Voorhees Technical Institute. The college is located within the MetroTech BID in Downtown Brooklyn. It has an enrollment of over 15,000 students in 62 technical and professional programs including several engineering technology fields as well as architecture, construction, nursing, hospitality management, entertainment technology, dental hygiene, vision care technology, technology teacher training and paralegal training, including specialized certification programs, two-year technical programs, and four-year baccalaureate programs. Non-degree continuing education is also offered, and serves over 15,000 students each year. City Tech is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. U.S.
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LaGuardia Community College is a two-year community college located in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City in the New York City borough of... Queens, and is a component of the City University of New York. LaGuardia is named after former Congressman and New York mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. The college offers associate degrees in the arts, sciences, and applied sciences, as well as continuing education programs. LaGuardia Community College was founded on January 22, 1968 by a resolution of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, a New York State agency which was the precursor to the Board of Trustees of CUNY. The new college, originally designated "Community College Number Nine", was to be comprehensive in terms of its variety of program offering and its community service mission... The college will be oriented to the needs and interests of the community in which it is located, providing cultural activities, special services, continuing education and skills training opportunities for community residents of all ages. The college's first president was Dr.
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Not to be confused with Queens College, City University of New York Queensborough Community College , is one of six community colleges within the... City University of New York system. It is located in the neighborhood of Bayside, Queens County, New York City, New York. The total enrollments are 15,000+ with 43% men and 57% women. It was originally started in 1958 a part of the State University of New York system but was transferred to CUNY in 1965. Its aim is to prepare students to attend senior colleges, mainly in the CUNY system. After two years of study one can receive an associate's degree. It offers Certificate programs and degree programs such as Associate in Arts , Associate in Science , Associate in Applied Science , as well as providing continuing education programs. Queensborough is regionally accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Queensborough’s 34-acre campus in Bayside, Queens consists of ten major buildings, which are used for instruction and extracurricular activities. Among them are a Holocaust Resource Center, an astronomy observatory, and an art museum.
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The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College is the music school of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York . It is located on the... 26-acre Brooklyn College campus in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City. The Conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in instrumental and vocal performance, jazz, conducting, composition, music education, music technology, and musicology. Students study with a faculty of distinguished performers, musicologists, theorists, and composers, in addition to a roster of notable guest artists and lecturers. The conservatory is home to the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music and the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music. Many members of the faculty also teach at The Juilliard School or the Manhattan School of Music.
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