City College of New York

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The City College of New York was founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847 by wealthy businessman and president of the Board of Education Townsend Harris.Traub, James. City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College. Addison-Wesley, 1984. A combination prep school, high school / secondary school and college, it would provide children of immigrants and the poor access to free higher education based on academic merit alone. It was one of the early public high schools in the United States following earlier similar institutions being founded in Boston (1829),

Philadelphia (1838), and Baltimore (1839).

The Free Academy was the first of what would become a system of municipally-supported colleges – the second, Hunter College, was founded as a women's institution in 1870; and the third, Brooklyn College, was established as a coeducational institution in 1930.

In 1847, New York State Governor John Young had given permission to the state Board of Education to found the Free Academy, which was ratified in a statewide referendum. Founder Townsend Harris proclaimed, "Open the doors to all… Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect."

Horace Webster (1794–1871), a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the first president of the Free Academy. At the Free Academy's formal opening on January 21, 1849, Webster said:

The experiment is to be tried, whether the children of the people, the children of the whole people, can be educated; and whether an institution of the highest grade, can be successfully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Report of the Commission on the Future of CUNY: Part I Remediation and Access: To Educate the "Children of the Whole People", 1999. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050319214749/http://www.abcny.org/Publications/reports/show_html.php?rid=47]

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In 1847, a curriculum was adopted that had nine main fields: mathematics, history, language, literature, drawing, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, law, and political economy. The academy's first graduation took place in 1853 in Niblo's Garden Theatre.[http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast4.htm#Niblo's "Niblo's Garden"] – Demolished Theatres, musicals101.com

Even in its early years, the Free Academy had a framework of tolerance that extended beyond the admission of students from every social stratum. In 1854, Columbia University denied distinguished chemist and scientist Oliver Wolcott Gibbs a faculty position because of his Unitarian religious beliefs. Gibbs had been a professor at the Free Academy since 1848.Cf. Bender, pp. 271–273 He later went on to an appointment at Harvard College.Cf. Bender, p. 273, footnotes.{{cite web | title = The Wolcott Gibbs Affair at Columbia, 1854 | url = http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/TimelineGibbsAffair.html | access-date = 2008-03-06 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080829152221/http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/TimelineGibbsAffair.html | archive-date = August 29, 2008 | df = mdy-all }}

In 1849 the prep school Townsend Harris Hall Prep School opened on campus, launched as a one-year preparatory school for CCNY.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/nyregion/the-new-townsend-harris-high-keeps-old-goals.html|title=THE NEW TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH KEEPS OLD GOALS|first=Samuel|last=Weiss |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 10, 1985}} In the early 1900s, as more Jewish students were enrolling, President John H. Finley liberalized students' obligations by rescinding mandatory chapel attendance.Cf. Bender, pp. 291–292

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In 1866, the Free Academy, a men's institution, was renamed the College of the City of New York. In 1929, the College of the City of New York became the City College of New York.Rudy, Willis, The College of the City of New York: A History 1847–1947, City College Press 1949. Also issued as a thesis by Columbia University. Reprinted in 1977 by the Arno Press.Minutes, Trustees, Board of Higher Education, 1929, p. 194[https://web.archive.org/web/20070524003658/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,804043,00.html Subway College], in Time magazine, October 28, 1946. Finally, the institution became known as the City College of the City University of New York when the CUNY name was formally established as the umbrella institution for New York City's municipal-college system in 1961. The names City College of New York and City College, however, remain in general use.

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With the name change in 1866, lavender was chosen as the college's color. In 1867, the academic senate, the first student government in the nation, was formed. Having struggled over the issue for ten years, in 1895, the New York State Legislature voted to let the City College build a new campus. A four-square block site was chosen, located at West Harlem's Manhattanville, within the area which was enclosed by the North Campus Arches; the college, however, quickly expanded north of the Arches.

Like President Webster, the second president of the newly renamed City College was a West Point graduate. The second president, General Alexander S. Webb (1835-1911), assumed office in 1869, serving for almost the next three decades. One of the Union Army's heroes at Gettysburg, General Webb was the commander of the Philadelphia Brigade. In 1891, while still president of the City College, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at Gettysburg. A full-length statue of Webb, in full military uniform, stands in his honor at the heart of the campus.The statue is on the east side of Convent Avenue near both Shepherd Hall and the Administration Building.

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The college's curriculum under Webster and Webb combined classical training in Latin and Greek with more practical subjects like chemistry, physics, and engineering. General Webb was succeeded by John Huston Finley (1863–1940), as third president in 1903. Finley relaxed some of the West Point-like discipline that characterized the college, including compulsory religious chapel attendance.

Phi Sigma Kappa placed its then-sixth chapter on the campus in 1896; alumni provided scholarships to new students entering the CCNY system for generations.{{Citation | last = Rand | first = Frank Prentice | author2 = Ralph Watts |author3=James E. Sefton | title = All The Phi Sigs – A History | publisher = Grand Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa | year = 1993}} Delta Sigma Phi, founded at CCNY in 1899, claimed to be the first national organization of its type to accept members without regard to religion, race, color or creed. Previously, fraternities at CCNY had excluded Jews.{{Cite book |last=Howe |first=Irving |title=World of our fathers |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |year=1976 |location=New York |pages=281}} The chapter flourished at the college until 1932 when it closed as a result of the Great Depression. The founding of Zeta Beta Tau at City College in 1898 was Richard Gottheil's initiative to establish a Jewish fraternity with Zionist ideals. It is now defunct.{{cite web|title=Zeta Beta Tau Homepage|url=http://www.zbt.org/|publisher=ZBT|access-date=February 8, 2012}}

Education courses were first offered in 1897 in response to a city law that prohibited the hiring of teachers who lacked a proper academic background. The School of Education was established in 1921. The college newspaper, The Campus, published its first issue in 1907, and the first degree-granting evening session in the United States was started.

In the years when top-flight private schools were restricted to the children of the Protestant establishment, thousands of brilliant individuals (including Jewish students) attended City College because they had no other option. CCNY's academic excellence and status as a working-class school earned it the titles "Harvard of the Proletariat", the "poor man's Harvard",{{Cite news |last=Babcock |first=Charles R. |date=1981-11-09 |title=Once 'Poor Man's Harvard,' Now Lab for Education Strategy |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/09/once-poor-mans-harvard-now-lab-for-education-strategy/feed4874-c624-458b-a334-b9ba3fd06a62/ |access-date=2023-09-22 |issn=0190-8286}} and "Harvard-on-the-Hudson."{{cite web | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2041_v40/ai_16036295 | title=Review of City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College by James Traub | author= Robert Sobel | publisher=Electronic News |date=November 21, 1994 | access-date=2007-12-12}} Irving Howe claims that when the Morris Cohen, the later philosopher, was a student at CCNY at the turn of the century, the faculty was "not very glittering" and the school was considered "at once grubby and exalted."

Separate Schools of Business and Civic Administration and of Technology (Engineering) were established in 1919. Students were also required to sign a loyalty oath. In 1947, the college celebrated its centennial year, awarding honorary degrees to Bernard Baruch (class of 1889) and Robert F. Wagner (class of 1898). A 100-year time capsule was buried in North Campus.

Until 1929, City College had been an all-male institution. In 1930, CCNY admitted women for the first time, but only to graduate programs. In 1951, the entire institution became coeducational.

Even today,{{when|date=March 2011}} no other public college has produced as many Nobel laureates who have studied and graduated with a degree from a particular public college (all graduated between 1935 and 1963).see article Nobel Prize laureates by university affiliation{{Circular reference|date=April 2024}}{{Update inline|date=March 2016}} CCNY's official quote on this is "Nine Nobel laureates claim CCNY as their Alma Mater, the most from any public college in the United States."{{Update inline|date=March 2016}}[http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/presskit/ "CCNY – An Experiment in Democracy Going Strong Over 160 Years Later"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051224054553/http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/presskit/ |date=December 24, 2005 }} – CCNY website press information[http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/presskit/nobel/index.cfm "Nine graduates of City College have won the Nobel Prize"], CCNY website press information{{Update inline|date=March 2016}} This should not be confused with Nobel laureates who teach at a public university; UC Berkeley boasts 19.{{Update inline|date=March 2016}} Many City College Alumni also served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Second World War (1939/41–1945). A total of 310 CCNY alumni were killed in the War. Prior to World War II, a large number of City College alumni—relative to alumni of other U.S. colleges—volunteered to serve on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Thirteen CCNY alumni were killed in Spain.Memorial plaques providing the numbers and honoring those who gave their lives can be found in the second floor rotunda of the NAC building on the CCNY campus.

In its heyday of the 1930s through the 1950s, CCNY became known for its political radicalism. It was said that the old CCNY cafeteria in the basement of Shepard Hall, particularly in alcove 1, was the only place in the world where a fair debate between Trotskyists and Stalinists could take place.Joseph Dorman, director. Arguing the World [https://www.pbs.org/arguing/ "Arguing the World"] – PBS documentary, 1997.[https://www.pbs.org/arguing/about_essays_1.html "Finding My Way to the Alcoves"] – Joseph Dorman, film director of "Arguing the World." Being part of a political debate that began in the morning in alcove 1, Irving Howe reported that after some time had passed he would leave his place among the arguing students in order to attend class. When he returned to the cafeteria late in the day, he would find that the same debate had continued but with an entirely different cast of students.

The municipality of New York was considerably more conformist than CCNY students and faculty. The Philosophy Department, at the end of the 1939/40 academic year, invited the British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell to become a professor at CCNY. Members of the Roman Catholic Church protested Russell's appointment. A woman named Jean Kay filed suit against the state Board of Higher Education to block Russell's appointment on the grounds that his views on marriage and sex would adversely affect her daughter's virtue, although her daughter was not a CCNY student. Russell wrote "a typical American witch-hunt was instituted against me."Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: The Middle Years: 1914–1944. Bantam, 1969, p. 320. Kay won the suit, but the board declined to appeal after considering the political pressure exerted.Thom Weidlich. Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell. Prometheus Books, 2000.

Russell took revenge in the preface of the first edition of his book An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, which was published by the Unwin Brothers in the United Kingdom (the preface was not included in the U.S. editions). In a long précis that detailed Russell's accomplishments including medals awarded by Columbia University and the Royal Society and faculty appointments at Oxford, Cambridge, UCLA, Harvard, the Sorbonne, Peking (the name used in that era), the LSE, Chicago, and so forth, Russell added, "Judicially pronounced unworthy to be Professor of Philosophy at the College of the City of New York."

In 1945, the Knickerbocker Case was set off when William E. Knickerbocker, chairman of the romance languages department, was accused of antisemitism by four faculty members. They claimed that "for at least seven years they have been subjected to continual harassment and what looks very much like discrimination" by Knickerbocker.Morris Freedman, "The Knickerbocker Case", Commentary, August 1945. Four years later, Knickerbocker was again accused of antisemitism, this time for denying honors to high-achieving Jewish students.{{cite news |first = Alexander |last = Feinberg |title = City College Students Clash with Police in 'Bias' Strike |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1949/04/12/archives/city-college-students-clash-with-police-in-bias-strike-students.html |newspaper = The New York Times |date = April 12, 1949 |pages = 1, 36 }} About the same time, William C. Davis of the economics department was accused by students of maintaining a racially segregated dormitory at Army Hall.{{cite news |title = William C. Davis, Educator, Is Dead |newspaper = The New York Times |date = August 16, 1948 |page = 33 }} Davis was the dormitory's administrator. CCNY students, many of whom were World War II veterans, launched a massive strike in 1949 in protest against Knickerbocker and Davis.{{cite news |first = Walter E. |last = Goodman |title = C.C.N.Y. Alumni Recall 1949 Strike |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/16/nyregion/ccny-alumni-recall-1949-strike.html |newspaper = The New York Times |date = April 16, 1984 |page = B10 }} The New York Times called the event "the first general strike at a municipal institution of higher learning."

As student radicalism increased in the late 1960s, with the Civil Rights Movement and anti-Vietnam War feelings increased, culminating at CCNY during a 1969 protest takeover of the South campus,Reitano, Joanne R., [https://books.google.com/books?id=60bQLzwGVjsC "The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present"], CRC Press, 2006. {{ISBN|0-415-97849-1}}. Cf. page 176. under threat of a riot, African American and Puerto Rican activists and their white allies demanded, among other policy changes, that the City College implement an aggressive affirmative action program to increase minority enrollment and provide academic support. At some point, campus protesters began referring to CCNY as "Harlem University." The administration of the City University at first balked at the demands, but instead, came up with an open admissions or open-access program under which any graduate of a New York City high school would be able to matriculate either at City College or another college in the CUNY system. Beginning in 1970, the program opened doors to college to many who would not otherwise have been able to attend college. The increased enrollment of students, regardless of college preparedness, however, affected City College's and the university's academic reputation and strained New York City's financial resources.{{cite journal |last = Gross |first = Theodore L. |date = February 4, 1978 |title = How to Kill a College |journal = Saturday Review }} A 2023 documentary film directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss, The Five Demands, provides historical coverage and interviews with students who led the 1969 protests.{{Cite news |last=Shaffer |first=Claire |date=2023-07-13 |title='The Five Demands' Review: Occupying a College for Racial Justice |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/movies/the-five-demands-review.html |access-date=2023-11-16 |issn=0362-4331}}

City College began charging tuition in 1976. By 1999, CUNY's board of trustees voted to eliminate remedial classes at CUNY's senior colleges, thereby eliminating a central pillar of the policy of open admissions and effectively ending it.{{cite web |url = http://cunyhistory.tripod.com/thehistoryofcitycollege19691999/id1.html |title = 1969 Open Admission Strike |website = Cunyhistory.tripod.com |date = 1969-02-13 |access-date = 2014-08-22 }} Students who could not meet the academic entrance requirements for CUNY's senior colleges had to enroll in the system's community colleges, where they could prepare for an eventual transfer to one of the 4-year institutions. Since this decision, all CUNY senior colleges, especially CCNY, have begun to rise in prestige nationally, as shown by school rankings and incoming freshman GPA and SAT scores. The end of open admissions led to a change in CUNY's student demographics, with the number of Black and Hispanic students decreasing and the number of White Caucasian and Asian students increasing.{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/at-cunys-top-colleges-black-and-hispanic-freshmen-enrollments-drop.html?pagewanted=all |title = At Cuny, Stricter Admissions Bring Ethnic Switch |newspaper = The New York Times |date = May 23, 2012 |access-date = 2015-07-15 |last1 = Pérez-Peña |first1 = Richard }}

As a result of the 1989 student protests and building takeovers in response to tuition increases, a community action center was opened on the campus, called the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center, located in the NAC building. The center was named after CUNY alumni Assata Shakur{{NoteTag|Shakur escaped the New Jersey Clinton Correctional Facility for Women while serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/joanne-chesimard-first-woman-named-to-most-wanted-terrorists-list|title=Joanne Chesimard First Woman Named to Most Wanted Terrorists List|website=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}}} and Guillermo Morales,{{NoteTag|Morales, convicted in 1979 for possession of explosives and transporting them across state lines, escaped from the Bellevue Hospital prison ward.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/fbigov_homepage_new|title=Welcome to FBI.gov|website=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}}} both of whom self-exiled in Cuba.{{cite web |url = http://defendmorales-shakur.org/biographies/ |title = Biographies | Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center |website = Defendmorales-shakur.org |access-date = 2015-07-15 |url-status=usurped |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141017012104/http://defendmorales-shakur.org/biographies/ |archive-date = 2014-10-17 |df=mdy-all }} Students and neighborhood residents who used the center for community organizing against issues of racism, police brutality, and the privatization and militarization of CUNY faced opposition from the City College administration for years.Wise, Daniel, [http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202447703512&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1 "First Amendment Violation Claim Proceeds Against College Over Removed Plaque"], New York Law Journal, April 8, 2010 After a long controversy, in October 2013, City College eventually shut down the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center, citing a need for space to expand its career center; this closure provoked student demonstrations.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/nyregion/protests-as-city-college-closes-a-student-center.html |title=Protests as City College Closes a Student Center |date=October 21, 2013 |first=Ariel |last=Kaminer |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2024}}

CCNY's new Frederick Douglass Debate Society defeated

Harvard and Yale at the "Super Bowl" of the American Parliamentary Debate Association in 1996. In 2003, the institution's Model UN Team was awarded as an Outstanding Delegation at the National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference, an honor that it would repeat four years in a row.

The U.S. Postal Service issued a postcard commemorating CCNY's 150th anniversary, featuring Shepard Hall, on Charter Day, May 7, 1997.{{cite news |agency = Associated Press |date=1997-05-16 |title = Postcard honors City College of N.Y.'s 150th birthday |url = https://www.deseret.com/1997/5/16/19312646/postcard-honors-city-college-of-n-y-s-150th-birthday |access-date = 2021-11-16 |website = Deseret News |language = en-US }}

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The City University of New York began recruiting students for the University Scholars program in the fall 2000, and admitted the first cohort of undergraduate scholars in the fall 2001. CCNY was one of five CUNY campuses, on which the program was initiated. The newly admitted students became undergraduates in the newly formed Honors Program. Students attending the CCNY Honors College are awarded free tuition, a cultural passport that admits them to New York City cultural institutions for free or at sharply reduced prices, a notebook computer, and an academic expense account that they can apply to such activities as study abroad. These undergraduates are required to attend a number of specially developed honors courses. In 2001 CUNY initiated the CUNY Honors College, renamed Macaulay Honors College in 2007.[http://macaulay.cuny.edu/about/history.php "History: Macaulay Honors College"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613044118/http://macaulay.cuny.edu/about/history.php |date=June 13, 2010 }}, CUNY website

In October 2005, Andrew Grove, a 1960 graduate of the Engineering School in Chemical Engineering, and co-founder of Intel Corporation, donated $26 million to the Engineering School, which has since been renamed the Grove School of Engineering.{{cite web|url=http://www-me.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/GSOE/video/|title=Grove School of Engineering Video|access-date=December 7, 2016|archive-date=March 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312123534/http://www-me.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/GSOE/video/|url-status=dead}} It is the largest donation ever given to the City College of New York.

In August 2008, the authority to grant doctorates in engineering was transferred from the CUNY Graduate Center to City College Grove School of Engineering.[https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/engineering/phd-about Grove School of Engineering: About the Ph.D. Program]

In 2009, the School of Architecture moved into the former Y Building,[http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/architecture/index.cfm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201225641/http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/architecture/index.cfm|date=December 1, 2008}} which was gutted and completely remodeled under the design direction of architect Rafael Viñoly. Also in 2009, the school was renamed the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in honor of the $25 million gift the Spitzers gave to the school.Hughes, C. J. (April 22, 2009). City College's Architecture School Snares $25 Million Gift. Architectural Record. [http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/090422citycollege.asp]

On July 1, 2018, the authority to grant doctorates in clinical psychology was transferred from the CUNY Graduate Center to City College.[https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Psychology/Training-Areas/Clinical-Psychology-@-City-College.aspx Clinical Psychology@City College]

In May 2023, CCNY officials announced that the institution will open an immigrant center to assist undocumented students.{{cite web | url=https://citylimits.org/2023/05/19/after-years-long-push-city-college-to-open-center-for-immigrant-students/ | title=After Years-Long Push, City College to Open Center for Immigrant Students | date=May 19, 2023 }}

The City College campus was the site of the "CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in April 2024, and was host to numerous student demonstrators from across the CUNY system for nearly a week before it was raided by campus police and the NYPD.{{cite news |last1=Alfred |first1=Tsehai |last2=Venkat |first2=Surina |last3=Keys |first3=Chimene |title=NYPD arrests at least 173 protesters inside and outside City College, sweeps encampment |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/05/01/nypd-arrests-at-least-173-protesters-inside-and-outside-city-college-sweeps-encampment/ |access-date=4 May 2024 |date=May 1, 2024}}

1. Horace Webster, 1847–1869
2. Alexander S. Webb, 1869–1902
3. John Huston Finley, 1903–1913
4. Sidney Edward Mezes, 1914–1927
5. Frederick B. Robinson, 1927–1938
6. * Nelson P. Mead (acting), 1938–1941{{cite news|title=Dr. Nelson Mead Is Dead at 89; President of C.C.N.Y. in 1930's; Acting Chief Eased Tension After Widespread Unrest Forced Out Predecessor|work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/36bqa9s|date=September 27, 1967}}
7. Harry N. Wright, 1941–1952
8. Buell G. Gallagher, 1953–1961, 1962–1969
9. * Harry N. Rivlin (acting), 1961–1962
10. * Joseph J. Copeland (interim), 1969–1970
11. Robert Marshak, 1970–1979
12. * Alice Chandler (interim), 1979–1980
13. * Arthur Tiedemann (interim), 1980–1981
14. Bernard W. Harleston, 1981–1992
15. * Augusta Souza Kappner (interim), 1992–1993
16. Yolanda T. Moses, 1993–1999
17. * Stanford A. Roman Jr. (interim), 1999–2000{{cite web|title=Board Names CUNY Interim Chancellor as President of Brooklyn College, Designates Three Acting Presidents, Announces New Searches|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/1999/08/27/board-names-cuny-interim-chancellor-as-president-of-brooklyn-college-designates-three-acting-presidents-announces-new-searches/|website=www1.cuny.edu|publisher=City University of New York|date=August 27, 1999|access-date=July 10, 2016|archive-date=September 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922183843/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/1999/08/27/board-names-cuny-interim-chancellor-as-president-of-brooklyn-college-designates-three-acting-presidents-announces-new-searches/|url-status=dead}}
18. Gregory H. Williams, 2001–2009
19. *Robert "Buzz" Paaswell (interim), 2009–2010[http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/chancellor/2009/09/29/cuny-board-appoints-dr-robert-e-paaswell-interim-president-of-ccny/ "CUNY Board Appoints Dr. Robert E. Paaswell Interim President of CCNY"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329064524/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/chancellor/2009/09/29/cuny-board-appoints-dr-robert-e-paaswell-interim-president-of-ccny/ |date=March 29, 2012 }}, News from the Chancellor, September 29, 2009
20. Lisa S. Coico, 2010–2016
21. * Vincent G. Boudreau (interim), 2016–2017
22. Vincent G. Boudreau, 2017–Present{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/vincent-boudreau|title=Vincent Boudreau |website=The City College of New York|date=November 6, 2015 |access-date=2020-01-21}}

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CCNY's Collegiate Gothic campus in Manhattanville was erected in 1906, replacing a downtown campus built in 1849.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/Fletcher'sNYCpage.jpg "Early CCNY picture"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502033142/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/Fletcher%27sNYCpage.jpg |date=May 2, 2006 }}, CCNY in Souvenirs, 1900–1947, CCNY Libraries[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard3.jpg "Early CCNY picture postcard"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502040529/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard3.jpg |date=May 2, 2006 }}, CCNY in Souvenirs, 1900–1947, CCNY Libraries[https://web.archive.org/web/20060218224053/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/ccny-convent-old.jpg "General View of The College of the City of New York (c.1906)"] (archived 2006)[https://web.archive.org/web/20060218224056/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/Graphics/panoramic.jpg "Panoramic View of The College of The City of New York" (c.1906)"] (archived 2006) This new campus was designed by George Browne Post. According to CCNY's published history, "The Landmark neo-Gothic buildings [...] are superb examples of English Perpendicular Gothic style and are among the first buildings, as an entire campus, to be built in the U.S. in this style. Groundbreaking for the Gothic Quadrangle buildings took place in 1903." There were five original neo-Gothic buildings on the upper Manhattan campus, which opened between 1906 and 1908: Shepard Hall, Baskerville Hall, Compton Hall, Harris Hall, and Wingate Hall.{{cite book | last=Morrone | first=Francis | title=Architectural Guidebook to New York City | publisher=Gibbs Smith, Publisher | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-4236-1116-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnM7nPb43DoC&pg=PA343 | page=343}}

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Shepard Hall, the largest building and the centerpiece of the campus, was modeled after a Gothic cathedral plan with its main entrance on St. Nicholas Terrace.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard16.jpg "Early CCNY picture postcard: Shepard Hall"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502040624/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard16.jpg |date=May 2, 2006 }}, CCNY in Souvenirs, 1900–1947, CCNY Libraries It has a large chapel assembly hall called the Great Hall, which has a mural painted by Edwin Blashfield called "The Graduate"[http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/img/CCNY_GreatHallInt.jpg "Great Hall CCNY"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703114242/http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/img/CCNY_GreatHallInt.jpg |date=July 3, 2007 }}, NYC Chapter of the American Guild of Organists websiteWeiner, Mina Rieur, (editor), Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist, New York : W.W. Norton, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-393-73281-8}}[http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/New-Book-on-Edwin-Blashfield-Features-CCNY-Mural.cfm "New Book on Edwin Blashfield features CCNY Mural"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918152131/http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/New-Book-on-Edwin-Blashfield-Features-CCNY-Mural.cfm |date=September 18, 2011 }}, Press Release, City College of New York, Thursday, September 17, 2009 and another mural in the Lincoln Hallway called "The Great Teachers" painted by Abraham Bogdanove in 1930. The building was named after Edward M. Shepard.{{cite web |url=https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/fpcm/quicklinks/TheCityCollegeofNewYork.pdf |title=The City College of New York : North Campus |publisher=Cuny.edu |access-date=2015-07-15 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200254/https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/fpcm/quicklinks/TheCityCollegeofNewYork.pdf |url-status=dead }} One of Ernest Skinner's earliest organs was installed in the Great Hall in the early 1900s.{{Cite journal |last=Skinner |first=Ernest |date=January 1, 1956 |title=Ernest M. Skinner will be 90 Years Old |url=https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/195601TheDiapason.pdf |journal=The Diapason |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=1–2 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025183738/https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/195601TheDiapason.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Baskerville Hall for many years housed the Chemistry Department, was also known as the Chemical Building, and had one of the largest original lecture halls on the campus, Doremus lecture hall.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080414140919/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/BASKERVILLE.GIF "Old Postcard: College of the City of New York: Chemical Building (Baskerville Hall)"] (archived 2008) It currently houses HSMSE, The High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering.

Compton Hall was originally designed as the Mechanical Arts Building.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard15.jpg "Old Postcard: College of the City of New York: Mechanical Arts Building (Compton Goethals Hall)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502040617/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard15.jpg |date=May 2, 2006 }} (archived 2008)

Harris Hall, named in the original architectural plans as the Sub-Freshman Building, housed City College's preparatory high school, Townsend Harris High School, from 1906 until it moved in 1930 downtown to the School of Business.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080406022517/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/harris-hall.jpg "Old Photograph of Townsend Harris Hall"] (archived 2008)

Wingate Hall was named for George Wood Wingate (Class of 1858), an attorney and promoter of physical fitness. It served as the college's main gymnasium between 1907 and 1972.{{cite web|url=http://www.liberty-stone.com/Images/wingate.jpg|title=Modern View of Wingate Hall entrance|publisher=Liberty-stone.com|format=JPG|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218103505/http://www.liberty-stone.com/Images/wingate.jpg|archive-date=2005-12-18|url-status=dead|access-date=2015-07-15}}[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aboutus/campus/campuspictssmall/wingatehall.jpg "Modern Photograph of Wingate Hall"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705221939/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aboutus/campus/campuspictssmall/wingatehall.jpg|date=July 5, 2006}} – CCNY website{{cite web|url=http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/shep-wingate.jpg|date=April 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414140919/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/shep-wingate.jpg|title=Postcard|archive-date=April 14, 2008|url-status=dead}}

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The sixth campus, Goethals Hall,[http://www.lhparch.com/project.aspx?cat=5&id=19 "Compton Goethals Hall Remodeling Project"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713203230/http://www.lhparch.com/project.aspx?cat=5&id=19 |date=July 13, 2011 }}, Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects website was completed in 1930. The new building was named for George Washington Goethals, the CCNY civil engineering alumnus who, as mentioned above in the section on the history of the college, went on to become the chief engineer of the Panama Canal. Goethals Hall housed the School of Technology (engineering) and adjoins the Mechanical Arts Building, Compton Hall.

The six neo-Gothic buildings are connected by a tunnel, which closed to public use in 1969.{{cite web | last = Kadinsky | first = Sergey | date = November 23, 2005 | url = http://www.ccnycampus.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=9b9979b7-7a1b-4fdd-9723-b4ee1361718b | title= The Hidden Architecture of CCNY | work = CCNY Campus Newspaper | access-date = November 23, 2005 }} Six hundred grotesques on the original buildings represent the practical and the fine arts.[http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/cuny_matters/april_06/images/architectural_janus_top.jpg "Image of a stone grotesque on a CCNY building from 1906, holding a model of Shepard Hall"], CUNY Matters magazine, Spring 2006Rosenfeld, Neill S., [http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/cuny_matters/archives/2006/cm_legislative_lowres.pdf Architectural JANUS: CUNY Preserves the Past, Builds for the Future"], CUNY Matters magazine, Spring 2006, pp.7–11

The North Campus Quadrangle contains four great arches on the main avenues entering and exiting the campus:

• Hudson Gate on Amsterdam Avenue{{cite web|url=http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/138-gates-amsterdam-people.jpg|title=Postcard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414140919/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/138-gates-amsterdam-people.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 14, 2008|date=April 14, 2008}}
• George Washington Gate at 138th Street and Convent Avenue
• Alexander Hamilton Gate at the northern edge of Convent Avenue
• Peter Stuyvesant Gate at St. Nicholas Terrace (only the southern base remaining).

The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission made the North Campus Quadrangle buildings and the College Gates official landmarks in 1981. The buildings in the Quadrangle were put on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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Steinman Hall, which houses the School of Engineering, was erected in 1962 on the north end of the campus, on the site of the Bowker Library and the Drill Hall to replace the facilities in Compton Hall and Goethals Hall, and was named for David Barnard Steinman (CCNY Class of 1906), a well known civil engineer and bridge designer.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080906115713/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/modelbuild.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: Architectural model of David B. Steinman Hall by Lorimar and Rose"], CCNY Libraries exhibitions website, and Archives, City College of New York

The Administration Building was erected in 1963 on the North Campus across from Wingate Hall. It houses the institution's administration offices, including the President's, Provost's and the Registrar's offices. It was originally intended as a warehouse to store the huge number of records and transcripts of students since 1847.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aboutus/campus/campuspictssmall/adminwithsondra.jpg "Administration Building CCNY"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712181339/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aboutus/campus/campuspictssmall/adminwithsondra.jpg |date=July 12, 2006 }}, CCNY website[https://web.archive.org/web/20100612133900/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/dsc6.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: The Administration Building which was constructed on the northern portion of Jasper Oval"], CCNY Libraries exhibitions website The first floor of the Administration Building was given a postmodern renovation in 2004. In early 2007, the Administration Building was formally named the Howard E. Wille Administration Building, in honor of Howard E. Wille, class of 1955, a distinguished alumnus and philanthropist."Administration Building Named for Howard E. Wille, ‘55", 138@Convent, CCNY newsletter, Volume 2, n.1, February 1, 2007, Office of Communications of The City College of New York.

The Marshak Science Building was completed in 1971 on the site of the former Jasper Oval, an open space previously used as a football field.{{cite web|url=http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/ccny-athletic-old.jpg|title=Postcard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414140919/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/public_safety/ccny-athletic-old.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 14, 2008|date=April 14, 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/images/street.gif|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216082530/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/images/street.gif|title=Postcard|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2008|date=February 16, 2008}} The building was named after Robert Marshak, renowned physicist and president of CCNY (1970–1979). The Marshak building houses all science labs and adjoins the Mahoney Gymnasium and its athletic facilities.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aboutus/campus/campuspictssmall/sciencebuildingfrombpark2.jpg "Marshak Science Building CCNY"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705222143/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aboutus/campus/campuspictssmall/sciencebuildingfrombpark2.jpg |date=July 5, 2006 }} – CCNY website

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In the 1970s, construction of the massive North Academic Center (NAC) was initiated. It was completed in 1984, and replaced Lewisohn Stadium and Klapper Hall. The NAC was designed by John Carl Warnecke. A student lounge space has murals celebrating the history of the campus on the doors of the undergraduate Student Government.{{cite web |url=http://www.mazeartist.com/usgmurals.htm |title=CCNY USG Murals |publisher=Mazeartist.com |access-date=2015-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908065900/http://www.mazeartist.com/usgmurals.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

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In 1953, CCNY bought the campus of the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (which, on a 1913 map, was shown as The Convent of the Sacred Heart), which added a south section to the campus. This expanded the campus to include many of the buildings in the area between 140th Street to 130th Street, from St. Nicholas Terrace in the east to Amsterdam Avenue in the west.

As a result of this expansion, the South Campus of CCNY housed mainly liberal arts classes and departments. The North Campus was mainly dedicated to sciences and engineering and the school of education.

In 1957, a new library building was erected in the middle of the campus, near 135th Street on the South Campus, and named Cohen Library, after Morris Raphael Cohen, an alumnus and philosopher. It was later renamed the 'Y' building, then gutted.

In the 1970s, many of the old buildings of the South Campus[http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/airview.html "Aerial view of the South Campus, or Manhattanville Campus, taken prior to 1952"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612085655/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/airview.html |date=June 12, 2010 }} were demolished, some that had been used by the Academy of the Sacred Heart. The buildings remaining on the South Campus at this time were the Cohen Library (later moved into the North Academic Center), Park Gym (now the Structural Biology Research Center (NYSBC){{cite web|url=http://www.nysbc.org/|title=Structural Biology Research Center website|access-date=October 9, 2014}}), Eisner Hall (built in 1941 by Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart as a library, later remodeled and housed CCNY's Art Department),[http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/southcampus1.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: Mark Eisner Hall"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612140747/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/southcampus1.html |date=June 12, 2010 }}, CCNY Libraries Exhibitions website the Schiff House (former President's residence, now a child care center), and Mott Hall (formerly the English Department, now a New York City Department of Education primary school{{cite web|url=http://www.motthall.org/|title=Mott Hall School website|access-date=October 9, 2014}}).

Some of the buildings that were demolished at that time were Finley Hall (housed The Finley Student Center, student activities center, originally built in 1888–1890 as Manhattanville Academy's main building, and purchased in 1953 by City College),[http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/johnhfinley.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: John H. Finley Hall"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414141219/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/johnhfinley.html |date=April 14, 2008 }}, CCNY Libraries Exhibitions website Wagner Hall, (which housed various social science and liberal arts departments and classes, originally built as a dormitory for Manhattanville Academy, and was named in honor of Robert F. Wagner Sr., member of the Class of 1898, who represented New York State for 23 years in the United States Senate),[https://web.archive.org/web/20100612091646/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/wagnerhall.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: Wagner Hall"], CCNY Libraries Exhibitions website Stieglitz Hall, and Downer Hall, among others.

Several new buildings were erected on the South Campus, including Aaron Davis Hall in 1981 and the Herman Goldman sports field in 1993. In August 2006, the institution completed the construction of a 600-bed dormitory, called "The Towers."{{cite web|url=http://www.ccnytowers.com/|title=CCNY Towers website|access-date=October 9, 2014|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106062154/http://ccnytowers.com/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |first=Manny |last=Fernandez |title=Going to College, and Living There, Too|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/nyregion/26dorm.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 26, 2006}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rkchin.com/ccnytowers/index.html|title=Photos of the residence hall at the City College of NY|access-date=October 9, 2014}}

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The building that formerly housed Cohen Library, the "Y" building, became the new home for the School of Architecture, with the renovation headed by architect Rafael Viñoly.{{Cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Fred A. |date=2023-03-03 |title=Rafael Viñoly, Global Architect of Landmark Buildings, Dies at 78 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/arts/design/rafael-vinoly-dead.html |access-date=2023-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}} Near the 133rd Street gate, the Herman Goldman sports field was shuttered in 2006 in favor of two new scientific education and research facilities: a four-story structure for students and a six-story building for faculty/graduate research.{{Cite news |last=Smerd |first=Jeremy |date=2006-07-02 |title=An Academic Boomtown Brings an Athletic Field's Demise |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/nyregion/thecity/an-academic-boomtown-brings-an-athletic-fields-demise.html |access-date=2023-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}

In 2007, two new buildings had been proposed for the South Campus site by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY). One was a four-story Science Building, to serve as an adjunct to the Marshak Science Building on the North Campus, and the other was a six-story Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC).{{cite web|url=http://asrc.cuny.edu/ |title=ASRC News |publisher=Asrc.cuny.edu |access-date=2014-08-22}}[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120916062341/http://www.dasny.org/dasny/envaffs/scoping_meetings/FINAL_Legal_Notice.pdf "Dormitory Authority of the State of New York: The City College of New York Science Building and The City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center: Phases I and II Project"], 2007.

[https://archive.today/20130414132030/http://www.dasny.org/dasny/envaffs/impact_statements/CCNYSciBldgProj/ "Draft Environmental Impact Statement for The City College of New York Science Building and The City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center Project, Borough of Manhattan, New York County, New York (December 21, 2007)"], The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, December 21, 2007.[http://gtn-h.net/IGWCO2010/images/CAMPUS_MAP_L_Fall_09.jpg "Fall 2009 CCNY Campus Map with proposed additions"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140812/http://gtn-h.net/IGWCO2010/images/CAMPUS_MAP_L_Fall_09.jpg |date=July 23, 2011 }}, [http://gtn-h.net/IGWCO2010/index.html Integrated Global Water Cycle Observations (IGWCO) Workshop and Meeting, Feb 23–26, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140856/http://gtn-h.net/IGWCO2010/index.html |date=July 23, 2011 }} at CCNY. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, the ASRC—serving visiting scientists and the whole CUNY system—and the Center for Discovery and Innovation occupy the Herman Goldman sports field's site. The buildings are linked by a tunnel. In total, these two buildings have {{convert|400,000|sqft}} of laboratories, offices, an auditorium, and meeting rooms.Gonchar, Joanne "[http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/Building_Types_Study/universities/2015/1511-Cuny-ASRC-Kohn-Pedersen-Fox-Associates.asp?bts=CU CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and City College Center for Discovery and Innovation]" Architectural Record November 2015

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City College's original campus, the Free Academy Building, existed from 1849 to 1907. The building was designed by James Renwick Jr. and was located at Lexington Avenue and 23rd Street in Gramercy Park. According to some sources, it was the first Gothic Revival college building on the East Coast.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100612090826/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/freeacademy.html "Free Academy Building (1849–1927)"], The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past, CCNY Libraries Renwick's building was demolished in 1928, and replaced in 1930 with a 16-story structure that is part of the present-day Baruch College campus.

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In the early 1900s, after most of the Neo-Gothic campus had been built, CCNY President John H. Finley wanted the college to have a stadium to replace the existing inadequate facilities. New York City did not provide the money needed to build a stadium, but donated two city blocks south of the campus which were open park land. In 1912, businessman and philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn donated $75,000 for the stadium's construction and Finley commissioned architect Arnold W. Brunner to design Lewisohn Stadium.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/images/full/CCNYpostcard12.jpg "Old Postcard: (Lewisohn) Stadium of the City College of New York"], CCNY Libraries exhibitions website

Lewisohn Stadium was built as a 6,000-seat stadium, with thousands more seats available on the infield during concerts, and was dedicated on May 29, 1915, two years after Finley had left his post at the college. College graduation services were held in Lewisohn for many years, with the last graduation held in 1973 shortly before it was demolished.

A separate library building originally planned in 1912 for the campus was never built. Ground was broken on March 25, 1927, for a free-standing library to be built on St. Nicholas Terrace, between St. Nicholas and 141st Streets. Only one-fifth of the original library plan was constructed at a cost of $850,000, far above the $150,000 alumni had collected to establish a library at the original Amsterdam Avenue and 140th Street site. The Bowker/Alumni Library stood at the present site of the Steinman Engineering building until 1957.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080906115454/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/bowker.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: The Bowker/Alumni Library (1929–1957)"], CCNY Libraries exhibitions website

The Hebrew Orphan Asylum was erected in 1884 on Amsterdam Avenue between 136th and 138th Streets, and was designed by William H. Hume.[http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitectsH&category=Resources "Biography of William H. Hume"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128201016/http://sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitectsH&category=Resources|date=November 28, 2010}}, Society of Architectural Historians biographies website It was already there when City College moved to upper Manhattan. When it closed in the 1940s, the building was used by City College to house members of the U.S. Armed Forces assigned to the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). From 1946 to 1955, it was used as a dormitory, library, and classroom space for the college. It was called "Army Hall" until it was demolished in 1955 and 1956.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080906113409/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/armyhall.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: Army Hall (1883–1956)"], CCNY Libraries exhibitions website{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/31/realestate/an-orphan-asylum-and-a-fifth-avenue-farmhouse.html|title=An Orphan Asylum and a Fifth Avenue 'Farmhouse'|last=Gray|first=Christopher|date=August 31, 1997|work=The New York Times}}

In 1946, CCNY purchased a former Episcopal orphanage on 135th Street and Convent Avenue (North campus), and renamed it Klapper Hall, after Paul Klapper (Class of 1904) Professor and the Dean of School of Education and who was later the first president of Queens College/CUNY (1937–1952). Klapper Hall was red brick in Georgian style and served until 1983 as home of the School of Education.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080906113446/http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/lostworld/klapperhall.html "The Lost World of CCNY: Architectural Gems of Our Past: Paul Klapper Hall (1905–1983)"], CCNY Libraries exhibitions website

The institution is located between West 130th and West 141st Streets in Manhattan, along Convent Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace, between Amsterdam and St. Nicholas Avenues. The campus is served by the following transportation:

• New York City Subway: the 137th Street–City College subway station at Broadway, served by the {{NYCS trains|Broadway-Seventh north local}}; the 145th Street station at Saint Nicholas Avenue, served by the {{NYCS trains|Eighth center}}; and the 135th Street station at Saint Nicholas Avenue, served by the {{NYCS trains|Eighth center local day}}. The south end of the station is closer to CCNY and is served by the institution's bus service on weekdays.{{NYCS const|map}}
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The City College of New York is organized into five schools, plus the Macaulay Honors College. The five schools of the City College of New York are The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The School of Education, The Grove School of Engineering, and The CUNY School of Medicine. In addition to the five schools, there's the Division of Humanities and Arts, the Division of Science, and the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center of for Worker Education. The institution offers the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science in education (B.S. Ed.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degrees at the undergraduate level, and the Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science in education (M.S.Ed.), Master of Engineering (M.E.), Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.), Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.), Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.), Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees at the graduate level.

For the fall 2016 entering class of freshman, the average SAT score was 1260/1600 and the average high school GPA was 90/100%.{{Cite web|url=https://detrick.armymwr.com/application/files/2714/9339/8126/Admission-Profile-Freshmen.pdf|title=CUNY Admission Profile: Freshman Fall 2016}}

For the 2023–2024 academic year, the City College of New York achieved earned the following national rankings:

• ARWU: 118 - 144 {{Cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023 |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=www.shanghairanking.com}}
• Forbes: 167 {{Cite web |title=CUNY, The City College of New York |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/cuny-the-city-college-of-new-york/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=Forbes |language=en}}
• THE/WSJ: 212 {{Cite web |date=2021-09-20 |title=Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2022 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/united-states/2022 |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Times Higher Education |language=en}}
• US News & World: 105{{Cite web |date=September 18, 2022 |title=US News and World Report Best Colleges: National Universities |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/cuny-city-college-2688}}
• Washington Monthly: 185 {{Cite web |title=2023 National University Rankings |url=http://washingtonmonthly.com/2023-college-guide/national-1/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=Washington Monthly |language=en-US}}
• QS: 185 {{Cite web |title=UniversityRankings.ch |url=https://www.universityrankings.ch/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=UniversityRankings.ch |language=en}}

The City College of New York has had a long and distinguished history in physics. Three of its alumni went on to become Nobel laureates in physics: Robert Hofstadter in 1961,{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/hofstadter-bio.html |title=Robert Hofstadter – Biographical |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=1990-11-17 |access-date=2014-08-22}} Arno Penzias in 1978,{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/penzias-autobio.html |title=Arno Penzias – Biographical |publisher=Nobelprize.org |access-date=2014-08-22}} and Leon Lederman in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 |publisher=Nobelprize.org |access-date=2014-08-22}} Albert Einstein gave the first of his series of United States lectures at the City College of New York in 1921.{{cite web |url=http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/Jay-Mwamba-April-05-2005.cfm |title=News |publisher=.ccny.cuny.edu |date=2013-11-06 |access-date=2014-08-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626180140/http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/Jay-Mwamba-April-05-2005.cfm |archive-date=June 26, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} Other distinguished alumni and past faculty in the field are Mark Zemansky, Clarence Zener, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Myriam Sarachik and Leonard Susskind. Current faculty include Robert Alfano{{cite web|url=http://forum.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/people/science-division-directory/p001 |title=Robert Alfano – Science Division Forum |publisher=Forum.sci.ccny.cuny.edu |access-date=2014-08-22}} and Michio Kaku.{{cite web|url=http://forum.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/people/science-division-directory/p004 |title=Michio Kaku – Science Division Forum|publisher=Forum.sci.ccny.cuny.edu |access-date=2014-08-22}}

CCNY hosts a research center focusing on nanotechnology, structural biology, photonics, neuroscience and environmental sciences.{{cite web|title=CUNY – Advanced Science Research Center|url=http://asrc.cuny.edu/asrc/about.html|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=10 July 2013|archive-date=June 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605133710/http://asrc.cuny.edu/asrc/about.html|url-status=dead}}

Part of CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is the nation's only university-based research center devoted to "the history of the Dominican Republic and people of Dominican descent in the United States and across the wider Dominican diaspora."{{cite web|url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi|title=CUNY Dominican Studies Institute|first=Website|last=Admin|date=July 6, 2015|access-date=December 7, 2016}}

Conducts cutting edge research on renewable energy.

The design of the three-faced college seal refers to Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces connect the past and the future. The seal was redesigned for the college's Centennial Medal in 1947 by Albert P. d'Andrea (class of 1918).[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/townsend_harris/awards/a_d.htm Townsend Harris Medal Winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130011649/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/townsend_harris/awards/a_d.htm |date=January 30, 2011 }}, CCNY website. Cf. Albert P. D'Andrea entry.[http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/harris/harris_tablet_pop.html "Albert P. D'Andrea: sculpted relief portrait of Townsend Harris"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719182507/http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/exhibitions/harris/harris_tablet_pop.html |date=July 19, 2011 }}, CCNY Exhibitions website. D'Andrea later was a professor of art at CCNY.

In 2003, administrators at the institution decided to create a logo distinct from its seal, with the stylized text "the City College of New York."{{cite web|url=http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/images/CCNY_logo_4.gif|title=CCNY new 2003 logo|access-date=July 4, 2006|archive-date=July 7, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060707233135/http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/images/CCNY_logo_4.gif|url-status=dead}}

Olympic gold medalist Henry Wittenberg was co-captain of the CCNY wrestling team in 1939 during his undergraduate studies. After participating in two Olympics, he then taught wrestling at CCNY. In 1977, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.{{Cite book |title=New York sports: glamour and grit in the Empire City |date=2018 |publisher=The University of Arkansas Press |isbn=978-1-61075-635-8 |editor-last=Norwood |editor-first=Stephen H. |series=Sport, culture & society |location=Fayetteville |pages=269}}

CCNY is the only team in men's college basketball history to win both the National Invitation Tournament and the NCAA Tournament in the same year (1950). However, this accomplishment was overshadowed by the CCNY point shaving scandal in which seven CCNY basketball players were arrested in 1951 for taking money from gamblers to affect the outcome of games.

From 1934 until 1941, future NFL Hall of Famer Benny Friedman was the football coach at City College.{{cite news|title=Ben Friedman Signs To Coach City College|newspaper=Plainfield, N.J., Courier News|date=February 5, 1934|page=16}}

In 1938, future four-time Olympian Daniel Bukantz was the intercollegiate foil champion.{{Cite web |url=http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/073108/sptFencingBukantz.html |title=Fencing legend Daniel Bukantz dies | New Jersey Jewish News |access-date=May 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307154149/http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/073108/sptFencingBukantz.html |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} Future Olympian James Strauch fenced for CCNY, graduating in 1942. In 1948, future Olympian Abram Cohen was a member of the NCAA Champion CCNY team.{{cite web|url=http://usfencinghalloffame.com/wp/cohen-abram/|title=Cohen, Abram – US Fencing Hall of Fame|website=usfencinghalloffame.com}} That same year future five-time Olympian Albert Axelrod was U.S. Intercollegiate Fencing Association and NCAA Champion in foil.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AlbertAxelrod.htm |title=Albert Axelrod |access-date=March 31, 2014| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071010054638/http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AlbertAxelrod.htm| archive-date= 10 October 2007 | url-status= live}} Harold Goldsmith, a future three-time Olympian, won the 1952 NCAA foil championship while at CCNY.{{cite web |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncaafencing.shtml |title=NCAA Fencing Champions |access-date=2011-01-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020223000910/http://hickoksports.com/history/ncaafencing.shtml |archive-date=2002-02-23 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.alumniassociationccny.org/alumnirelation/affiliates/aluv2.html |title=alumniassociationccny.org |access-date=February 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402013107/http://www.alumniassociationccny.org/alumnirelation/affiliates/aluv2.html |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

The City College of New York and its resident art collection were founded in 1847. The collection contains roughly one thousand eight hundred works of art ranging from the historical to the contemporary. A portion of the collection was obtained through donations and Percent for Art.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dclapercentforart/about/about.page|title=About - Percent for Art|website=www1.nyc.gov|access-date=2020-04-12}}

The collection includes works by Edwin Howland Blashfield, Walter Pach, Charles Alston, Raphael Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Stephen Parrish, Paul Adolphe Rajon, Mariano Fortuny, Marilyn Bridges, Lucien Clergue, Elliott Erwitt, Andreas Feininger, Harold Feinstein, Larry Fink, Sally Gall, Ralph Gibson, Jerome Liebling, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Dorothy Norman and Gilles Peress.{{Cite web|url=https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/archives|title=LibGuides: Archives & Special Collections: About|last=Library|first=Reference City College|website=library.ccny.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-12}} Works from the collection include several Keith Haring prints and Edward Curtis's The North American Indian.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

There is currently no art museum at City College; thus, much of the collection is not on view. Undergraduate students interact with the collection through classes. There are, however, three locations where student-created or curated artwork can be seen on campus: Compton-Goethals Gallery,{{Cite web |title=Facilities – CCNY Art Department |url=https://art.ccny.cuny.edu/main/facilities/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |language=en-US}} the Cohen Library Archives Gallery,{{Cite web |last=Library |first=Reference City College |title=LibGuides: Archives & Special Collections: About |url=https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/archives/about |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=library.ccny.cuny.edu |language=en}} and Windows on Amsterdam.{{Cite web |last=York |first=The City College of New |date=2019-08-06 |title=Community Affairs |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/gca/community-affairs |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=The City College of New York |language=en-us}} The Library Archives Gallery shows artwork from around the world, as well as from the CCNY community, and typically curates an annual Women Make Art exhibition.{{Cite web |last=svannort |date=2022-04-04 |title=CCNY Women Make Art 2022 Exhibit |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/ccny-women-make-art-2022-exhibit |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=The City College of New York |language=en-us}}

• Weidlich, Thom. (2000). Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. The book covers Russell's failed appointment to the City College faculty.
• The 2023 documentary The Five Demands provides archival footage and interviews with students who led the 1969 protests at City College.
• The central character in Woody Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode" is a lovesick City College humanities professor.{{cite web|url=http://www.woodyallen.art.pl/eng/kugelmass_episode.php|title=The Kugelmass Episode - Side Effects :: Woody Allen|website=www.woodyallen.art.pl|access-date=December 12, 2017|archive-date=March 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310123429/http://www.woodyallen.art.pl/eng/kugelmass_episode.php|url-status=dead}}
• Clay, one of the principal characters in Rumaan Alam's 2020 novel Leave the World Behind is a professor at City College{{cite journal |last1=Peschel |first1=Joseph |title=Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind |journal=The Brooklyn Rail |date=2020 |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2020/11/books/Rumaan-Alams-Leave-the-World-Behindhttps://brooklynrail.org/2020/11/books/Rumaan-Alams-Leave-the-World-BehindV}}
• Joseph Dorman, director. (1997). Arguing the World. First a feature documentary film shown at the Film Forum in New York City, later on PBS.
• Matthew Goodman. (2019). The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball. New York, Ballantine.
• James Traub. (1994). City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

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• Bederson, Benjamin, [http://bederson.org/bensr/Physical%20Tourist.pdf "The Physical Tourist: Physics and New York City"], Phys. perspect. 5 (2003) 87–121 Birkha¨ user Verlag, Basel, 2003. Cf. p. 103–107 &c. regarding CCNY Physics.
• Bender, Thomas. New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time. New York: Knopf, 1987. {{ISBN|0-394-55026-9}}
• Goodman, Matthew. The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Howe, Irving, 1976. World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the life They Found and Made. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. See Chapter 7, "The Way They Lived Then."
• Howe, Irving. A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. {{ISBN|0-15-157138-4}}. Cf. Chapter 3, "City College and Beyond", pp. 61–89
• Pearson, Paul David. The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997.
• Roff, Sandra S., et al. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mzMqUAoAvhYC From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997], 2000.
• Rudy, Willis. College of the City of New York 1847–1947. The City College Press, 1949. Reprinted in 1977 by the Arno Press.
• Traub, James. City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, Addison-Wesley: 1994.
• Van Nort, Sydney C. The City College of New York. Arcadia Press, February 2007. {{ISBN|0-7385-4930-4}}.
• Weidlich, Thom (2000). Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. The book tells the story of Russell's appointment to the City College faculty and the appointment's cancellation.

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