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 | image          = City University of New York seal.svg
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 | name           = The City University of New York
 | motto          = {{langx|la|Eruditio populi liberi spes gentium}}
 | mottoeng       = The education of free people is the hope of Mankind<ref name=facts>{{cite web |url=http://www2.cuny.edu/about/trustees/history/ |title=History of the Board |publisher=City University of New York |access-date=March 19, 2018 }}</ref>
 | budget         = $3.6&nbsp;billion<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/budget-and-finance/ |title=University Budget Office Budget & Finance – CUNY |website=Cuny.edu |access-date=June 9, 2020 }}</ref>
 | established    = {{start date and age|1961}}<ref>The forerunner of today's City University of New York was founded in 1847, but the actual system was established in 1961.</ref>
 | type           = [[Public university|Public]] [[university system]]
 | chancellor     = [[Félix V. Matos Rodríguez]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/CUNY-Appoints-Its-First-Minority-Chancellor_New-York-508336732.html|title=CUNY Appoints Its First Minority Chancellor|website=NBC New York|language=en|access-date=May 1, 2019}}</ref>
 | provost        = [[Wendy Hensel]]
 | city           = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
 | students       = 243,000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cuny.edu/about/|title=About – The City University of New York|website=2.cuny.edu|access-date=September 15, 2023}}</ref>
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The '''City University of New York''' ('''CUNY''', pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|juː|n|i}}, {{respell|KYOO|nee}}) is the [[Public university|public]] [[university system]] of [[Education in New York City|New York City]]. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 [[campus]]es: eleven [[Upper division college|senior colleges]], seven [[community college]]s, and seven professional institutions.  The university enrolls more than 275,000 students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Appointment of Interim President |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=46717 |access-date=November 1, 2018 |website=gc.cuny.edu}}</ref>

The oldest constituent college of CUNY, [[City College of New York]], was originally founded in 1847 and became the first free public institution of higher learning in the United States.<ref>"... the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first free public institution of higher education in the nation.", Baruch College history website. [http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/about/glance.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060725035256/http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/about/glance.html|date=July 25, 2006}}</ref> 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). CUNY, established by [[New York state]] legislation in 1961 and signed into law by governor [[Nelson Rockefeller]], was an amalgamation of existing institutions and a new [[Postgraduate education|graduate school]].

The system was governed by the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, created in 1926, and later renamed the Board of Trustees of CUNY in 1979. The institutions merged into CUNY included the Free Academy (later [[City College of New York]]), the Female Normal and High School (later [[Hunter College]]), [[Brooklyn College]], and [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queens College]]. CUNY has historically provided accessible education, especially to those excluded or unable to afford [[Private university|private universities]]. The first [[community college]] in New York City was established in 1955 with shared funding between the state and the city, but unlike the senior colleges, community college students had to pay tuition.

The integration of CUNY's colleges into a single university system took place in 1961, under a chancellor and with state funding. The [[CUNY Graduate Center|Graduate Center]], serving as the principal [[doctorate]]-granting institution, was also established that year. In 1964, Mayor [[Robert F. Wagner Jr.]] extended the senior colleges' free tuition policy to community colleges. The 1960s saw student protests demanding more [[racial diversity]] and academic representation in CUNY, leading to the establishment of [[Medgar Evers College]] and the implementation of the [[Open admissions|Open Admissions]] policy in 1970. This policy dramatically increased student diversity but also introduced challenges like low [[University student retention|retention rates]]. The [[New York 1970s fiscal crisis|1976 fiscal crisis]] ended the [[Free education|free tuition]] policy, leading to the introduction of tuition fees for all CUNY colleges.

==History==

===Founding===
In 1960, [[John R. Everett]] became the first [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]] of the [[Municipal college|Municipal College]] System of the City of New York, later renamed CUNY, for a salary of $25,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|25000|1960|r=-3}}}} in current dollar terms).<ref name="auto">{{cite web|first=Alex|last=Seitz-Wald|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851|title=High-ranking Democrat ousted in stunning primary loss to newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|work=[[NBC News]]|date=June 26, 2018|access-date=September 20, 2018}}</ref><ref name="encyclopediavirginia.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Everett_John_R_1918-1992#start_entry|title=Everett, John R. (1918–1992)|website=encyclopediavirginia.org}}</ref><ref name="aut">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/22/obituaries/john-everett-cuny-chancellor-and-new-school-head-dies-at-73.html|title=John Everett, CUNY Chancellor And New School Head, Dies at 73|first=James|last=Barron|date=January 22, 1992|work=The New York Times}}</ref> CUNY was created in 1961,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amendment to New York State Education Law (1961) {{*}} CUNY Digital History Archive |url=https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/6902 |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=cdha.cuny.edu}}</ref> by [[New York State]] legislation, signed into law by Governor [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. The legislation integrated existing institutions and a new graduate school into a coordinated system of higher education for the city, under the control of the "Board of Higher Education of the City of New York", which had been created by New York State legislation in 1926. By 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the "Board of Trustees of the CUNY".<ref name=fitzp />

The institutions that were merged to create CUNY were:<ref name=fitzp />

* The Free Academy – Founded in 1847 by [[Townsend Harris]], it was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the city and county of New York." The Free Academy later became the [[City College of New York]].
* The Female Normal and High School – Founded in 1870, and later renamed [[Normal school|the Normal College]]. It would be renamed again in 1914 to [[Hunter College]]. During the early 20th century, Hunter College expanded into the Bronx, with what became [[Lehman College|Herbert Lehman College]].<ref name=fitzp>Fitzpatrick, John. [http://www.answers.com/topic/city-university-of-new-york "City University of New York"] ''U.S. History Encyclopedia''</ref>
* [[Brooklyn College]] – Founded in 1930.
* [[Queens College]] – Founded in 1937.

===Accessible education===
CUNY has served a diverse student body, especially those excluded from or unable to afford private universities. Its four-year colleges offered a high-quality, [[Free education|tuition-free education]] to the poor, the [[working class]], and the [[Demographics of New York City|immigrants of New York City]] who met the grade requirements for matriculated status. During the post-[[World War I]] era, when some [[Ivy League]] universities, such as [[Yale University|Yale]] and [[Columbia University|Columbia]], discriminated against Jews, many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY.<ref>{{cite book|last=Oren|first=Dan A.|title=Joining the Club: A History of Jews at Yale|url=https://archive.org/details/joiningclubhist00oren|url-access=registration|year=1985|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300033304}}</ref> The City College of New York developed a reputation of being "the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] of the proletariat."<ref>{{cite book |last=Fullinwider |first=Robert K. |title=Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions |author2=[[Judith Lichtenberg]] |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1992-09-25 |title=Opinion {{!}} CUNY Was Known as 'Proletarian Harvard' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/25/opinion/l-cuny-was-known-as-proletarian-harvard-991892.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Weiss |first=Gary |date=November 21, 1994 |title=Hard Times for the Harvard of the Masses |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1994-11-20/hard-times-for-the-harvard-of-the-masses |work=Bloomberg}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Egginton |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zeWDwAAQBAJ&dq=the+%22Harvard+of+the+proletariat%22&pg=PA9 |title=The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses |date=2018-08-28 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-63557-133-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Levine |first=David O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TmjxDwAAQBAJ&dq=the+%22Harvard+of+the+proletariat%22&pg=PA85 |title=The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940 |date=2019-06-30 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-4415-0 |language=en}}</ref> 

As New York City's population and public college enrollment grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs. During the [[Great Depression]], with funding for public colleges severely constrained, limits were imposed on the size of the colleges' free Day Sessions, and tuition was imposed upon students deemed "competent" but not academically qualified for the day program. Most of these "limited matriculation" students enrolled in the Evening Sessions, and paid tuition.<ref>{{cite book|last=Neumann|first=Florence Margaret|title=Access to Free Public Higher Education in New York City: 1847–1961|year=1984|publisher=PhD Dissertation, Graduate Faculty in Sociology, The City University of New York}}</ref> Additionally, as the population of New York grew, CUNY was not able to accommodate the demand for higher education. Higher and higher requirements for admission were imposed; in 1965, a student seeking admission to CUNY needed an average grade of 92 or A−.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Brier|first=Stephen|date=May 3, 2017|title=Why the History of CUNY Matters: Using the CUNY Digital History Archive to Teach CUNY's Past|url=http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/download/357/273|journal=Radical Teacher|language=en|volume=108|issue=1|pages=28–35|doi=10.5195/rt.2017.357|issn=1941-0832|doi-access=free}}</ref> This helped to ensure that the student population of CUNY remained largely white and middle-class.<ref name=":0" />

Demand in the United States for higher education rapidly grew after [[World War II]], and during the mid-1940s a movement began to create [[community college]]s to provide accessible education and training. In New York City, however, the community college movement was constrained by many factors including "financial problems, narrow perceptions of responsibility, organizational weaknesses, adverse political factors, and other competing priorities."<ref name="Gordon 1975"/>

Community colleges would have drawn from the same city coffers that were funding the senior colleges, and city higher education officials were of the view that the state should finance them. It was not until 1955, under a shared-funding arrangement with New York State, that New York City established its first community college, on [[Staten Island]]. Unlike the day college students attending the city's public baccalaureate colleges for free, community college students had to pay tuition fees under the state-city funding formula. Community college students paid tuition fees for approximately 10 years.<ref name="Gordon 1975"/>

Over time, tuition fees for limited-matriculated students became an important source of system revenues. In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36,000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24,000 paid tuition fees of up to $300 a year (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|300|1957|r=-2}}}} in current dollar terms).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm|title=CPI Inflation Calculator|website=www.bls.gov|accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref> Undergraduate tuition and other student fees in 1957 comprised 17 percent of the colleges' $46.8 million in revenues, about $7.74 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|7740000|1957|r=-4}}}} in current dollar terms).<ref>{{citation |last=Board of Higher Education of the City of New York|title=Report of the Chairman|year=1959|issue=1957–1959|pages=86–87}}</ref>

Three community colleges had been established by early 1961 when New York City's public colleges were codified by the state as a single university with a chancellor at the helm and an infusion of state funds. But the city's slowness in creating the community colleges as demand for college seats was intensifying and had resulted in mounting frustration, particularly on the part of minorities, that college opportunities were not available to them.

In 1964, as New York City's Board of Higher Education moved to take full responsibility for the community colleges, city officials extended the senior colleges' free tuition policy to them, a change that was included by Mayor [[Robert F. Wagner Jr.]] in his budget plans and took effect with the 1964–65 academic year.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Board of Higher Education of the City of New York|title=Board of Higher Education Minutes of Proceedings|date= April 20, 1964}}</ref>

Calls for greater access to public higher education from the [[African Americans in New York City|black]] and [[Puerto Ricans in New York City|Puerto Rican]] communities in New York, especially in Brooklyn, led to the founding of "Community College Number 7," later Medgar Evers College, in 1966–1967.<ref name=":0" /> In 1969, a group of black and Puerto Rican students occupied City College and demanded the [[racial integration]] of CUNY, which at the time had an overwhelmingly [[white people|white]] student body.<ref name="Gordon 1975">{{cite book|last=Gordon|first=Sheila|title=The Transformation of the City University of New York, 1945–1970|year=1975|publisher=PhD Dissertation, Columbia University|location=New York}}</ref>

===Student protests===
There is a long tradition of student activism at CUNY. Eastern European Jewish refugees made City College a "hotbed of antifascism" in the early 20th century.<ref>Reed, C.T. (2023). ''New York Liberation School.'' Common Notions.</ref> On April 13, 1934, City and Hunter Colleges were sites of a National Student Strike Against War, organized by the [[Student League for Industrial Democracy (1946–1959)|Student League for Industrial Democracy]] and the [[National Student League]]. At City College, approximately 600 students gathered at the flagpole on campus to protest the war, as well as demand the reinstatement of twenty-one students<ref>CCNY Student League for Industrial Democracy, CCNY National Student League. (1934). ''21 Students Expelled - Strike Robbie Out!'' [Documents]. The City College Libraries, New York, New York. <nowiki>https://jstor.org/stable/community.9285626</nowiki></ref> who had been expelled for refusing to answer Dean Morton Gottschall's questions regarding their actions in a prior protest against a visiting delegation of soldiers from fascist Italy on October 9.<ref>13 ARE REINSTATED AT CITY COLLEGE. (October 30, 1934). ''New York Times.'' https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/10/30/118006499.html?pageNumber=21</ref> At Hunter College, the students demonstrated against then-president Dr. Eugene A. Colligan for his refusal to cooperate with the nationwide anti-war strike "and especially his attempt to call a halt to an anti-war convention at Hunter College on mere technicalities."<ref>NATION"S STUDENTS 'STRIKE' FOR HOUR IN PROTEST ON WAR. (April 14, 1934). ''New York Times, Vol. LXXXIII.'' https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/04/14/95481794.html?pageNumber=1</ref> On November 20, 1934, nearly 1,500 gathered at the CCNY Quad to protest the expulsion, culminating in the burning of a two-headed effigy of CCNY President Robinson and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.<ref>Unknown, "Rally on CCNY Quad, November, 20, 1934," ''CUNY Digital History Archive'', accessed April 23, 2025, <nowiki>https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/4032</nowiki>.</ref> After the rally, more than 2,000 City College students voted to reinstate the twenty-one students, this time advocating "a 'legal method' of struggle...as opposed to the holding of unauthorized demonstrations."<ref>2,000 AT RALLY ASK CITY COLLEGE TRUCE (November 23, 1934). ''New York Times.'' https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/11/23/94581705.html?pageNumber=21</ref>

Students at some campuses became increasingly frustrated with the university's and Board of Higher Education's handling of university administration. At [[Baruch College]] in 1967, over a thousand students protested the plan to make the college an upper-division school limited to junior, senior, and graduate students.<ref>{{cite news|title=1,000 C.C.N.Y. Students Protest Division Plan for Baruch School|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 31, 1967}}</ref> At [[Brooklyn College]] in 1968, students attempted a sit-in to demand the admission of more black and Puerto Rican students and additional black studies curriculum.<ref>{{cite news|last=Farber|first=M.A.|title=Brooklyn vs. Columbia: Failure of the Sit-In at One School Laid To Type of Student, Location and Policy|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 24, 1968}}</ref> Students at [[Hunter College]] also demanded a [[Africana studies|Black studies]] program.<ref>{{cite news|title=Negro Students Press Demands: Ask Stony Brook and Hunter for Black-Studies Program|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 8, 1969}}</ref> Members of the SEEK program, which provided academic support for underprepared and underprivileged students, staged a building takeover at [[Queens College]] in 1969 to protest the decisions of the program's director, who would later be replaced by a black professor.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lissner|first=Will|title=City U. Examines College Dispute: Advisory Unit Weighs SEEK Protests at Queens|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 11, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Negro Chosen Head of SEEK Program at Queens College|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 4, 1969}}</ref> [[Puerto Ricans in the United States|Puerto Rican]] students at [[Bronx Community College]] filed a report with the [[New York State Division of Human Rights]] in 1970, contending that the intellectual level of the college was inferior and discriminatory.<ref>{{cite news|title=Students Protest College Teaching|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 25, 1970|page=36}}</ref> Hunter College was crippled for several days by a protest of 2,000 students who had a list of demands focusing on more student representation in college administration.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fried|first=Joseph P.|title=Disruption at Hunter Is Ended After 200 Policemen Are Called|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1970|page=20}}</ref> Across CUNY, students boycotted their campuses in 1970 to protest a rise in student fees and other issues, including the proposed (and later implemented) open admissions plan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fosburgh|first=Lacey|title=City U. Boycotted by Students Protesting Proposed Fee Rise|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 30, 1970|page=36}}</ref>

Like many college campuses in 1970, CUNY faced a number of [[Student Strike of 1970|protests and demonstrations]] after the [[Kent State shootings|Kent State massacre]] and [[Cambodian Campaign]]. The Administrative Council of the City University of New York sent U.S. president [[Richard Nixon]] a telegram in 1970 stating, "No nation can long endure the alienation of the best of its young people."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lelyveld|first=Joseph|title=Protests on Cambodia and Kent State Are Joined by Many Local Schools|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/06/archives/protests-on-cambodia-and-kent-state-are-joined-by-many-local.html|access-date=May 23, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 6, 1970}}</ref> Some colleges, including [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]], historically the "college for cops," held teach-ins in addition to student and faculty protests.<ref>{{cite news|last=Montgomery|first=Paul L.|title=John Jay College Gets Protests Too: Activity Unusual at School Attended by Policemen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/10/archives/john-jay-college-gets-protests-too-activity-unusual-at-school.html|access-date=May 23, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 10, 1970}}</ref>

In April 2024, CUNY students joined [[List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024|other campuses across the United States]] in protests against the Israel–Hamas war.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Land |first=Olivia |date=April 25, 2024 |title=Anti-Israel protesters who set up 'intifada' tent camp at state-funded NYC college seen pushing school security in dramatic video |url=https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-set-up-city-college-encampment/ |access-date=April 29, 2024 |work=New York Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bullaro |first=Grace Russo |date=April 26, 2024 |title=Student Protests Spread to CUNY Where Many Identify with the Marginalized Gazans |url=https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2024/04/26/student-protests-spread-to-cuny-where-many-identify-with-the-marginalized-gazans/ |access-date=April 29, 2024 |work=VNY}}</ref> The student protestors demanded that CUNY divest from companies with ties to Israel and that CUNY officials cancel any upcoming trips to Israel and protect students involved in the demonstrations.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kriegstein |first=Brittany |date=April 25, 2024 |title=City College students form 3rd major campus encampment to demand divestment from Israel |url=https://gothamist.com/news/city-college-students-form-3rd-major-campus-encampment-to-demand-divestment-from-israel |access-date=April 29, 2024 |work=Gothamist}}</ref>

===Open admissions===
Under pressure from community activists and CUNY Chancellor [[Albert H. Bowker|Albert Bowker]], the Board of Higher Education (BHE) approved an [[open admissions]] plan in 1966, but it was not scheduled to be fully implemented until 1975.<ref name=":0" /> In 1969, students and faculty across CUNY participated in rallies, student strikes, and class boycotts demanding an end to CUNY's restrictive admissions policies. CUNY administrators and Mayor [[John Lindsay]] expressed support for these demands, and the BHE voted to implement the plan immediately in the fall of 1970.<ref name=":0" />

All high school graduates were guaranteed entrance to the university without having to fulfill traditional requirements such as exams or grades. The policy nearly doubled the number of students enrolled in the CUNY system to 35,000 (compared to 20,000 the year before). Black and Hispanic student enrollment increased threefold.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Robert K. |last=Fullinwider |journal=Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly |title=Open Admissions and Remedial Education at CUNY |url=http://journals.gmu.edu/PPPQ/article/download/310/238 |issue=1 |volume=19 |year=1999}}</ref> [[Remedial education]], to supplement the training of under-prepared students, became a significant part of CUNY's offerings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Suri|first=Duitch|title=Open Admissions and Remediation: A Case Study of Policymaking by the City University of New York Board|year=2010|publisher=PhD Dissertation, The City University of New York|location=New York}}</ref> Additionally, ethnic and Black Studies programs and centers were instituted on many CUNY campuses, contributing to the growth of similar programs nationwide.<ref name=":0" />

Retention of students in CUNY during this period was low; two-thirds of students enrolled in the early 1970s left within four years without graduating.<ref name=":0" />

===Financial crisis of 1976===
In fall 1976, during [[New York City fiscal crisis of 1975|New York City's fiscal crisis]], the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.<ref>{{cite journal|title=When Tuition at CUNY Was Free, Sort of, CUNY Matters|journal=CUNY Matters|date=October 2011|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/|access-date=December 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115105813/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/|archive-date=January 15, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Tuition, which had been in place in the State University of New York system since 1963, was instituted at all CUNY colleges.<ref>{{cite news|last=Applebome|first=Peter|title=The Accidental Giant of Higher Education|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/25suny-t.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/25suny-t.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|access-date=July 17, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 23, 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=When CUNY Was Free, Sort Of|journal=CUNY Matters|date=October 2011|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/|access-date=December 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115105813/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/|archive-date=January 15, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Meanwhile, CUNY students were added to the state's need-based Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), which had been created to help private colleges.<ref name="www1.cuny.edu">{{cite journal|title=When Tuition at CUNY Was Free, Sort of|journal=CUNY Matters|date=October 2011|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/|access-date=December 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115105813/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/|archive-date=January 15, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Full-time students who met the income eligibility criteria were permitted to receive TAP, ensuring for the first time that financial hardship would deprive no CUNY student of a college education.<ref name="www1.cuny.edu"/> Within a few years, the federal government would create its own need-based program, known as [[Pell Grant]]s, providing the neediest students with a tuition-free college education. [[Joseph S. Murphy]] was Chancellor of the City University of New York from 1982 to 1990, when he resigned.<ref name="auto8x">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNeCymykIIC&q=%22joseph+s.+murphy%22+cuny&pg=PA227|title=In Memoriam: Joseph S. Murphy|work=Radical History Review: Volume 71, Liberalism and the Left|first=Rhr|last=Collective|date=February 13, 1999|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9780521644709|via=Google Books}}</ref> CUNY at the time was the third-largest university in the United States, with over 180,000 students.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-01-mn-131-story.html|title=Reynolds May Go From Cal State to Top Job at CUNY|date=June 1, 1990|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

By 2011, nearly six of ten full-time undergraduates qualified for a tuition-free education at CUNY due in large measure to state, federal and CUNY financial aid programs.<ref>{{cite web|last=The City University of New York|title=CUNY Value|url=http://cuny.edu/about/resources/value.html|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=July 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705143433/http://www.cuny.edu/about/resources/value.html|archive-date=July 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> CUNY's enrollment dipped after tuition was re-established, and there were further enrollment declines through the 1980s and into the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=2022-11-23|language=en|newspaper=Empire Center|title=New York public school enrollment: back to early 1990s, and still falling|url=https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/new-york-public-school-enrollment-back-to-early-1990s-and-still-falling/}}</ref>

===Financial crisis of 1995===
In 1995, CUNY suffered another fiscal crisis when Governor [[George Pataki]] proposed a drastic cut in state financing.<ref>{{cite news|last=Honan|first=William|title=CUNY Professors, Fearing Worst, Rush Out Their Resumes: With a financial emergency declared, many on the CUNY faculties could go|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/28/nyregion/cuny-professors-fearing-worst-rush-out-their-resumes.html|access-date=April 17, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 28, 1995}}</ref> Faculty cancelled classes and students staged protests. By May, CUNY adopted deep cuts to college budgets and class offerings.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|title=CUNY Campuses Prepare to Reduce Faculty and Classes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/14/nyregion/cuny-campuses-prepare-to-reduce-faculty-and-classes.html|access-date=April 17, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 14, 1995}}</ref> By June, to save money spent on remedial programs, CUNY adopted a stricter admissions policy for its senior colleges: students deemed unprepared for college would not be admitted, this a departure from the 1970 [[#Open_admissions|Open Admissions]] program.<ref>{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Charisse|title=CUNY Adopts Stricter Policy on Admissions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/27/nyregion/cuny-adopts-stricter-policy-on-admissions.html|access-date=April 17, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 27, 1995}}</ref> That year's final state budget cut funding by $102&nbsp;million, which CUNY absorbed by increasing tuition by $750 and offering a retirement incentive plan for faculty.

In 1999, a task force appointed by Mayor [[Rudolph Giuliani]] issued a report that described CUNY as "an institution adrift" and called for an improved, more cohesive university structure and management, as well as more consistent academic standards. Following the report, [[Matthew Goldstein]], a mathematician and City College graduate who had led CUNY's Baruch College and briefly, [[Adelphi University]], was appointed chancellor. CUNY ended its policy of open admissions to its four-year colleges, raised its admissions standards at its most selective four-year colleges (Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter and Queens), and required new enrollees who needed remediation to begin their studies at a CUNY open-admissions community college.<ref name="Kaminer">{{cite news|last=Kaminer|first=Ariel|title=Longtime CUNY Chancellor to Step Down After Pushing Higher Standards|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/education/matthew-goldstein-announces-resignation-as-cuny-chancellor.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/education/matthew-goldstein-announces-resignation-as-cuny-chancellor.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|access-date=July 8, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 13, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===2010 onward===
CUNY's enrollment of degree-credit students reached 220,727 in 2005 and 262,321 in 2010 as the university broadened its academic offerings.<ref>{{cite web|title=CUNY Value|url=http://cuny.edu/about/resources/value.html|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=July 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705143433/http://www.cuny.edu/about/resources/value.html|archive-date=July 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The university added more than 2,000 full-time faculty positions, opened new schools and programs, and expanded the university's fundraising efforts to help pay for them.<ref name="Kaminer"/> Fundraising increased from $35&nbsp;million in 2000 to more than $200&nbsp;million in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=CUNY Mater Plan 2012 – 2016|url=http://www.cuny.edu/about/masterplan.html|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=July 8, 2013|pages=11–12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727122751/http://cuny.edu/about/masterplan.html|archive-date=July 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

By autumn 2013, all CUNY undergraduates were required to take an administration-dictated common core of courses that have been claimed to meet specific "learning outcomes" or standards. Since the courses are accepted university-wide, the administration claims it will be easier for students to transfer course credits between CUNY colleges. It also reduced the number of core courses some CUNY colleges had required, to a level below national norms, particularly in the sciences.<ref>{{cite web|title=CUNY Pathways initiative|url=http://www.cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/pathways.html|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=July 10, 2013|archive-date=July 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723070435/http://www.cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/pathways.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pathways Open, New Choices|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2013/03/06/pathways-open-new-choices/|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=July 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516013225/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2013/03/06/pathways-open-new-choices/|archive-date=May 16, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The program is the target of several lawsuits by students and faculty, and was the subject of a "no confidence" vote by the faculty, who rejected it by an overwhelming 92% margin.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pathways No Confidence|url=http://psc-cuny.org/latest-news/92-vote-no-confidence-pathways-cunys-new-curriculum|publisher=Professional Staff Congress-CUNY|access-date=September 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105114509/http://www.psc-cuny.org/latest-news/92-vote-no-confidence-pathways-cunys-new-curriculum|archive-date=November 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Chancellor Goldstein retired on July 1, 2013, and was replaced on June 1, 2014, by [[James Milliken (academic administrator)|James Milliken]], president of the [[University of Nebraska]], and a graduate of the University of Nebraska and [[New York University School of Law]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nationally Prominent Higher Education Leader James B. Milliken Appointed Chancellor of The City University of New York|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2014/01/15/nationally-prominent-higher-education-leader-james-b-milliken-appointed-chancellor-of-the-city-university-of-new-york/|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=May 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103457/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2014/01/15/nationally-prominent-higher-education-leader-james-b-milliken-appointed-chancellor-of-the-city-university-of-new-york/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Milliken retired at the end of the 2018 academic year and moved on to become the chancellor for the University of Texas system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2018/02/07/cuny-trustees-launch-search-for-new-chancellor/|title=CUNY TRUSTEES LAUNCH SEARCH FOR NEW CHANCELLOR – CUNY Newswire|website=1.cuny.edu|access-date=September 22, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utsystem.edu/chancellor/biography|title=James B. Milliken Biography|publisher=University of Texas System|language=en|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref>

In 2018, CUNY opened its 25th campus, the [[CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies]], named after former president [[Joseph S. Murphy]] and combining some forms and functions of the [[Murphy Institute (CUNY)|Murphy Institute]] that were housed at the [[CUNY School of Professional Studies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slu.cuny.edu/about/|title=– AboutCUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies|accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref>

On February 13, 2019, the board of trustees voted to appoint Queens College president [[Felix V. Matos Rodriguez]] as the chancellor of the City University of New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://politi.co/2SRrk75|title=CUNY appoints first Latino, and minority, chancellor|first=Madina|last=Touré|website=Politico PRO|access-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref> Matos became both the first Latino and minority educator to head the university. He assumed the post May 1.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2019/02/13/queens-college-president-felix-v-matos-rodriguez-to-be-named-chancellor-of-city-university-of-new-york/|title=Queens College President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez To Be Named Chancellor Of City University Of New York – CUNY Newswire|language=en|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>

==Enrollment and demographics==
CUNY is the fourth-largest university system in the United States by enrollment, behind the [[California State University]], [[State University of New York]] (SUNY), and [[University of California]] systems. More than 271,000-degree-credit students, continuing, and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all five New York City boroughs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Total Enrollment by Undergraduate and Graduate Level |url=https://www.cuny.edu/irdatabook/rpts2_AY_current/ENRL_0001_UGGR_FTPT.rpt.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429080145/http://www.cuny.edu/irdatabook/rpts2_AY_current/ENRL_0001_UGGR_FTPT.rpt.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-29 |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2020}}</ref>

The university has one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States, with students hailing from around the world, although most students live in New York City. The black, white and Hispanic undergraduate populations each comprise more than a quarter of the student body, and Asian undergraduates make up 18 percent. Fifty-eight percent are female, and 28 percent are 25 or older.<ref name="The City University of New York">{{cite web|title=Investing in Our Future, The City University of New York's Master Plan 2012–2016|url=http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/masterplan.pdf|publisher=The City University of New York|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423043408/http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/masterplan.pdf|archive-date=April 23, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 2017–2018 award year, 144,380 CUNY students received the Federal Pell Grant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/data/pell-institution.html|title=Distribution of Federal Pell Grant Program Funds by Institution and Award Year|date=February 2, 2020|website=www2.ed.gov|language=en|access-date=April 29, 2020}}</ref>

=== CUNY Citizenship Now! ===
Founded in 1997 by immigration lawyer Allan Wernick, CUNY Citizenship Now! is an immigration assistance organization that provides free and confidential immigration law services to help individuals and families on their path to U.S. citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=25 years of new Americans: Citizenship Now! at CUNY is going strong |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-immigration-citizenship-now-congress-cuny-statute-of-liberty-bureaucracy-20220430-o4k3gsgazjd6fga2giqp2jekv4-story.html |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=New York Daily News|date=April 30, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Desk |first=City |date=2022-05-09 |title=CUNY expands support for immigrant students |url=https://cccnews.info/2022/05/09/cuny-expands-support-for-immigrant-students/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Campus News |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2021, CUNY launched a College Immigrant Ambassador Program in partnership with the [[New York City Department of Education]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-09 |title=CUNY and NYC DOE Launching College Immigrant Ambassador Program |url=https://cunyba.cuny.edu/news/nyc-doe-immigrant-ambassador-program/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=CUNY BA |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Giving Back with the NYCDOE/CUNY Immigrant Ambassador Program |url=https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/cunyverse/2022/06/14/giving-back-with-the-cuny-immigrant-ambassador-program/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=CUNYverse |language=en}}</ref>

==Academics==
{{Infobox US university ranking
| QS_W = 701-750
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{{expand section|1=(see articles for similar U.S. schools)|date=June 2020}}

==Component institutions==
{{See also|List of City University of New York institutions}}
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CUNY component institutions
! scope="col" | Est.
! scope="col" | Type
! style="text-align: left;" scope="col" | Name
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1847 || Senior College || [[City College of New York|City College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1870 || Senior College || [[Hunter College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1919 || Senior College || [[Baruch College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1930 || Senior College || [[Brooklyn College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1937 || Senior College || [[Queens College, New York|Queens College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1946 || Senior College || [[New York City College of Technology]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1964 || Senior College || [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1966 || Senior College || [[York College, City University of New York|York College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1968 || Senior College || [[Lehman College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1970 || Senior College || [[Medgar Evers College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1976 || Senior College || [[College of Staten Island]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 2001 || Honors College || [[William E. Macaulay Honors College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1957 || Community College || [[Bronx Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1958 || Community College || [[Queensborough Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1963 || Community College || [[Borough of Manhattan Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1963 || Community College || [[Kingsborough Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1968 || Community College || [[LaGuardia Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1970 || Community College || [[Hostos Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 2011 || Community College || [[Guttman Community College]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1961 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY Graduate Center]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1973 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY School of Medicine]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 1983 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY School of Law]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 2006 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY Graduate School of Journalism]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 2006 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY School of Professional Studies]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 2008 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY School of Public Health]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| 2018 || Graduate / professional || [[CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies]]
|}

==Management structure==
{{close paraphrasing|article|source=https://www.cuny.edu/about/trustees/history/|free=no|date=August 2024}}
[[File:Cuny-trustee-seal.jpg|framed|right|Seal of the CUNY Board of Trustees]]
The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City. Members of the Board of Education, chaired by the president of the board, served as ''ex officio'' trustees. For the next four decades, the board members continued to serve as ''ex officio'' trustees of the College of the City of New York and the city's other municipal college, the Normal College of the City of New York.

In 1900, the New York State Legislature created separate boards of trustees for the College of the City of New York and the Normal College, which became Hunter College in 1914. In 1926, the legislature established the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, which assumed supervision of both municipal colleges.

In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: the City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College. In 1979, the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education became the City University of New York board of trustees.

Today, the City University is governed by the board of trustees composed of 17 members, ten of whom are appointed by the [[governor of New York]] "with the advice and consent of the senate," and five by the [[mayor of New York City]] "with the advice and consent of the senate." The final two trustees are ''ex officio'' members. One is the chair of the university's student senate, and the other is non-voting and is the chair of the university's faculty senate. Both the mayoral and gubernatorial appointments to the CUNY Board are required to include at least one resident of each of New York City's five boroughs. Trustees serve seven-year terms, which are renewable for another seven years. The chancellor is elected by the board of trustees, and is the "chief educational and administrative officer" of the City University.

The administrative offices are in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref>"[http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices.html Administrative Offices] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807090225/http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices.html |date=August 7, 2016 }}." City University of New York. Retrieved May 4, 2010.</ref>

==Faculty==
CUNY employs 6,700 full-time faculty members and over 10,000 adjunct faculty members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.cuny.edu/about/alumni-students-faculty/|title=Alumni, Students & Faculty – The City University of New York|website=2.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=October 14, 2017|archive-date=October 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015044958/http://www2.cuny.edu/about/alumni-students-faculty/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/06/cuny-adjuncts-ask-not-be-called-professors-course-syllabuses-highlight-working|title=CUNY adjuncts ask not to be called professors in course syllabuses to highlight working conditions|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref> Faculty and staff are represented by the [[Professional Staff Congress]] (PSC), a labor union and chapter of the [[American Federation of Teachers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.psc-cuny.org/about-us|title=About Us {{!}} PSC CUNY|website=Psc-cuny.org|date=September 23, 2015|language=en|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref>

===Notable faculty===
[[File:F Murray.Abraham cropped.jpg|thumb|180px|[[F. Murray Abraham]]]]
[[File:Hannah Arendt 1975 (cropped).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Hannah Arendt]]]]
[[File:Ashbery-2010-09-12.jpg|thumb|180px|[[John Ashbery]]]]
[[File:Michael Cunningham JB by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Michael Cunningham]]]]
[[File:Allen Ginsberg 1979 - cropped.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Allen Ginsberg]]]]
[[File:ItzhakPerlmanWhitehouse2.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Itzhak Perlman]]]]
[[File:Consuelo Kanaga, Mark Rothko, Yorktown Heights, ca. 1949.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Mark Rothko]]]]
[[File:Ruth Westheimer (10877).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Dr. Ruth]]]]
[[File:ELIE WIESEL (5112581267).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Elie Wiesel]]]]
* [[André Aciman]], writer, Graduate Center
*[[Ali Jimale Ahmed]], poet and professor of Comparative Literature, Queens College and Graduate Center<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DAH/ComparativeLiterature/Pages/AliJimaleAhmed.aspx|title=Queens College, City University of New York|website=qc.cuny.edu|access-date=July 18, 2019}}</ref>
*[[F. Murray Abraham]], actor of stage and screen; professor of theater, winner of the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]], Brooklyn College
* [[Chantal Akerman]], film director, City College of New York
* [[Meena Alexander]], poet and writer, Graduate Center and Hunter College
*[[Hannah Arendt]], philosopher and political theorist; author of ''[[The Origins of Totalitarianism]]'' (1951) and ''[[The Human Condition (Arendt book)|The Human Condition]]'' (1958), Brooklyn College
* [[Talal Asad]], anthropologist, Graduate Center
*[[John Ashbery]], poet, [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] winner, Brooklyn College
* [[William Bialek]], biophysicist, Graduate Center
* [[Edwin G. Burrows]], historian and writer, [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] winner for co-writing ''[[Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898]]'' with [[Mike Wallace (historian)|Mike Wallace]], Brooklyn College
* [[Ron Carter]], jazz bassist, City College
* [[Joe Chambers]], jazz drummer, City College
*[[Dee L. Clayman]], classicist, Graduate Center
*[[Margaret Clapp]], scholar, winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]], president of [[Wellesley College]], Brooklyn College
* [[Ta-Nehisi Coates]], writer, journalist, and activist, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
* [[Billy Collins]], poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Lehman College (retired)
* [[Blanche Wiesen Cook]], historian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center
* [[John Corigliano]], composer, Graduate Center
* [[Michael Cunningham]], writer, winner of [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] and PEN/Faulkner Award for ''[[The Hours (novel)|The Hours]]'', Brooklyn College
* [[Roy DeCarava]], artist and photographer, Hunter College<ref name="cuny2010">{{cite web |last1=City University of New York |title=Roy DeCarava, Artistic Chronicler of Harlem Life – Winter 2010 – CUNY |url=http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/salute-to-scholars/november09/roy-decarava.html |website=Cuny.edu |access-date=July 26, 2018 |language=en |date=Winter 2010 |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820013932/http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/salute-to-scholars/november09/roy-decarava.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Carolyn Eisele]], mathematician, Hunter College
* [[Nancy Fraser]], philosopher and political scientist, Graduate Center
* [[Ruth Wilson Gilmore]], geographer, Graduate Center
* [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Beat Generation|beat]] poet, Brooklyn College
* [[Aaron Goodelman]], sculptor<ref>{{cite web |author=SAAM |title=Aaron J. Goodelman |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/aaron-j-goodelman-1865 |publisher=[[Smithsonian American Art Museum]] |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>
* [[Joel Glucksman]], Olympic saber fencer, Brooklyn College
* [[Ralph Goldstein]], Olympic épée fencer, Brooklyn College
* [[Michael Grossman (economist)|Michael Grossman]], economist, Graduate Center
* [[Kimiko Hahn]], poet, winner of PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, Queens College
* [[David Harvey (geographer)|David Harvey]], geographer, Graduate Center
* [[Jimmy Heath]], jazz saxophonist, City College
* [[bell hooks|bell hooks]], educator, writer and critic, City College of New York<ref name="gale">"bell hooks." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Gale Literary Sources. Retrieved June 12, 2018.</ref>
*[[Karen Brooks Hopkins]], president of the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]], Brooklyn College
*[[John Hospers]], first presidential candidate of the [[US Libertarian Party]], Brooklyn College
* [[Tyehimba Jess]], poet, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, College of Staten Island
* [[KC Johnson]] born (1967), Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
* [[Sheila Jordan]], jazz vocalist, City College
* [[Michio Kaku]], physicist, City College
* [[Jane Katz]], Olympian swimmer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
* [[Alfred Kazin]], writer and critic, Hunter College and Graduate Center
* [[Saul Kripke]], philosopher, Graduate Center
* [[Irving Kristol]], journalist, City College
* [[Paul Krugman]], economist, Graduate Center
* [[Peter Kwong (academic)|Peter Kwong]], journalist, filmmaker, activist, Hunter College and Graduate Center
* [[Nathan H. Lents]], scientist, author, and science communicator, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
* [[Ben Lerner]], writer, MacArthur Fellow, Brooklyn College
* [[Audre Lorde]], poet and activist, City College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
* [[Cate Marvin]], poet, Guggenheim Fellowship winner, College of Staten Island
*[[Abraham Maslow]], psychologist in the school of [[humanistic psychology]], best known for his theory of human motivation, which led to a therapeutic technique known as [[self-actualization]], Brooklyn College
* [[John Matteson]], historian and writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
* [[Maeve Kennedy McKean]], attorney and public health official
* [[Stanley Milgram]], social psychologist, Graduate Center
* [[Charles W. Mills]], philosopher, Graduate Center
* [[June Nash]], anthropologist, Graduate Center
* [[Ruth O'Brien (political scientist)|Ruth O'Brien]], political scientist and disability studies writer, Graduate Center
*[[Denise O'Connor]], Olympic foil fencer, Brooklyn College
*[[John Patitucci]], jazz bassist, City College
* [[Itzhak Perlman]], violinist, Brooklyn College<ref>{{cite web |title=On His 70th Birthday, Appraising Itzhak Perlman's Influence {{!}} WQXR {{!}} New York's Classical Music Radio Station |date=August 31, 2015 |url=https://www.wqxr.org/story/on-his-70th-birthday-appraising-itzhak-perlmans-influence/ |publisher=WQXR |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Frances Fox Piven]], political scientist, activist, and educator, Graduate Center
*[[Roman Popadiuk]], US Ambassador to Ukraine, Brooklyn College
* [[Graham Priest]], philosopher, Graduate Center
*[[Inez Smith Reid]], [[Senior Status|Senior Judge]] of the [[District of Columbia Court of Appeals]], Brooklyn College
* [[Adrienne Rich]], poet and activist, City College of New York<ref>{{cite web |title=Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974 (Part I & II) |url=https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/lost-and-found/publications/adrienne-rich-teaching-at-cuny-1968-1974-part-i-ii |website=The Center for the Humanities |access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref>
* [[David M. Rosenthal (philosopher)|David M. Rosenthal]], philosopher, Graduate Center
*[[Mark Rothko]] (born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz), influential [[abstract expressionist]] painter, Brooklyn College
* [[Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]], historian and social critic, Graduate Center
* [[Flora Rheta Schreiber]], journalist, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
* [[Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick]], literary critic, Graduate Center
* [[Betty Shabazz]], educator and activist, Medgar Evers College
*[[Mark Strand]], [[United States Poet Laureate]], [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]-winning poet, essayist, and translator, Brooklyn College
* [[Dennis Sullivan]], mathematician, Graduate Center
* [[Harold Syrett]] (1913–1984), president of [[Brooklyn College]]
* [[Katherine Verdery]], anthropologist, Graduate Center 
* [[Michele Wallace]], women's studies and film studies, City College and Graduate Center
* [[Mike Wallace (historian)|Mike Wallace]], historian and writer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center
*[[Ruth Westheimer]] (better known as Dr. Ruth; born Karola Ruth Siegel), [[sex therapist]], media personality, author, radio, television talk show host, and [[Holocaust survivor]], Brooklyn College
* [[Elie Wiesel]], novelist, political activist, winner of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], and [[Congressional Gold Medal]], City College
*[[C. K. Williams]], poet, won [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]], Brooklyn College
* [[Andrea Alu]], engineer and physicist, Graduate Center
*[[Robert Alfano]], physicist, discovered the [[supercontinuum]], City College
* [[Branko Milanović]], economist most known for his work on [[income distribution]] and [[income inequality|inequality]]; a visiting presidential professor at the [[Graduate Center, CUNY|Graduate Center]] of the City University of New York, an affiliated senior scholar at the [[Luxembourg Income Study]] and former lead economist in the [[World Bank]]'s research department.
* [[Simi Linton]], arts consultant, author, filmmaker, and activist. Focuses on [[disability in the arts]], [[disability studies]], and ways that [[Disability rights movement|disability rights]] and [[disability justice]] perspectives can be brought to bear on the arts.

==Public Safety Department==
[[File:City University of New York Public Safety Dept. patch.svg|thumb|upright|Patch of the CUNY Public Safety Department]]
CUNY has a unified [[public safety department]], the City University of New York Public Safety Department, with branches at each of the 26 CUNY campuses.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/publicsafety/campus-public-safety-directory/ | title=Campus Public Safety Directory }}</ref> The [[New York City Police Department]] is the primary policing and investigation agency within the New York City as per the [[New York City Charter|NYC Charter]], which includes all CUNY campuses and facilities.

The Public Safety Department came under heavy criticism from student groups, after several students protesting tuition increases tried to occupy the lobby of the Baruch College. The occupiers were forcibly removed from the area and several were arrested on November 21, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|first1= Alice |last1= Speri | first2 = Anna M. | last2= Phillips| url= http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/arrests-in-tuition-protest-at-baruch-college/ | title = CUNY Students Protesting Tuition Increase Clash With Police | newspaper= The New York Times |date= November 21, 2011 }}</ref>

=== Antisemitism at CUNY ===
In recent years, there have been a number of antisemitic incidents on CUNY campuses, including:

* In March 2014, Brooklyn College settled the Title VI complaint that the Zionist Organization of America ("ZOA") had filed against its antisemitic discrimination.<ref name="media.aclj.org">[http://media.aclj.org/pdf/1-ACLJ-City-University-of-New-York-Title-VI-Complaint-_Redacted.pdf Complaint] aclj.org</ref>
* In 2017, a CUNY admin was recorded saying that there were too many Jews on campus.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nypost.com/2017/02/27/cuny-admin-allegedly-said-there-were-too-many-jews-on-his-staff/ | title=CUNY admin allegedly said there were 'too many Jews' on his staff | date=February 27, 2017 }}</ref>
* In 2020, a CUNY student was arrested for spray-painting antisemitic graffiti on a campus building. {{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
* In 2021, a survey found that nearly one in four CUNY students had experienced antisemitism on campus. The survey also found that Jewish students were more likely to report feeling unsafe on campus than students of other faiths.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/jewish-students-professors-allege-antisemitism-on-cuny-campuses/ | title=Jewish students, professors allege antisemitism on CUNY campuses - CBS New York | website=[[CBS News]] | date=July 21, 2022 }}</ref>
* In May 2021, a student at John Jay posted a picture of Adolf Hitler on Instagram with a message saying "We need another Hitler today." A group of Jewish students met with Karol Mason, the President of the college, who refused to condemn the action publicly.<ref name="media.aclj.org" />
* The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cited CUNY in 2021 for failing to protect a Jewish professor after the PSC discriminated against him and subjected him to a hostile work environment on the basis of his Jewish faith.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/11/19/jewish-cuny-professor-found-discriminated-against-after-faculty-group-intentionally-held-meetings-on-shabbat/|title=Jewish CUNY Professor Found Discriminated Against After Faculty Group Intentionally Held Meetings on Shabbat - Algemeiner.com|first=The|last=Algemeiner|date=November 19, 2021|website=www.algemeiner.com|accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref>

CUNY has taken steps to address antisemitism on its campuses. In 2020, the university created a task force to combat antisemitism. The task force has developed a number of initiatives, including training for faculty and staff on how to identify and address antisemitism.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2023/06/26/cuny-fights-hatred-with-programming-funded-by-campus-climate-support-grants/ | title=CUNY Fights Hatred with Programming Funded by Campus Climate Support Grants }}</ref>

In June 2024, the United States Department of Education concluded that CUNY has failed to protect Jewish students from discrimination following the [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|October 7 attacks]]. CUNY's Hunter College also faced scrutiny for incidents dating back to 2021. In response, Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez stated that CUNY is dedicated to maintaining a discrimination-free and hate-free environment, and that new measures will ensure consistent and transparent investigation and resolution of complaints.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Hajdenberg |first=Jackie |date=2024-06-18 |title=U of Michigan, CUNY agree to make changes following federal antisemitism investigations |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/u-of-michigan-cuny-agree-to-make-changes-following-federal-antisemitism-investigations/ |work=Times of Israel}}</ref>

==City University Television (CUNY TV)==
{{Further|CUNY TV}}
CUNY also has a broadcast TV service, [[CUNY TV]] (channel 75 on [[Spectrum (cable service)|Spectrum]], digital HD broadcast channel 25.3), which airs [[distance learning|telecourses]], classic and foreign films, magazine shows, and panel discussions in foreign languages.

==City University Film Festival (CUNYFF)==
The [[City University Film Festival]] is CUNY's official film festival. The festival was founded in 2009.<ref>{{cite web | title=Student-Led CUNY Film Festival Continues to Lead the Way for Elevating Queer History and Visibility | website=GLAAD | date=2024-04-29 | url=https://glaad.org/student-led-cuny-film-festival-continues-to-lead-the-way-for-elevating-queer-history-and-visibility/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601133427/https://glaad.org/student-led-cuny-film-festival-continues-to-lead-the-way-for-elevating-queer-history-and-visibility/ | archive-date=2024-06-01 | url-status=live | access-date=2024-10-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=CUNY Film Festival | website=Macaulay Honors College | date=2020-05-16 | url=https://macaulay.cuny.edu/calendar-of-events/cuny-film-festival/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723022955/https://macaulay.cuny.edu/calendar-of-events/cuny-film-festival/ | archive-date=2024-07-23 | url-status=live | access-date=2024-10-07}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
{{See also|List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York as alumni or faculty}}
{{Hatnote|See also sections in each college's article}}

CUNY graduates include [[List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York|13 Nobel laureates]], 2 Fields Medalists, 2 U.S. Secretaries of State, a Supreme Court Justice, several New York City mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, scientists, artists, and Olympians.<ref name="The City University of New York"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/letfreedomring/alumni.php |title=Examples of DISTINGUISHED CUNY ALUMNI'S COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM |work=Let Freedom Ring |publisher=The City University of New York |access-date=October 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217112549/http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/letfreedomring/alumni.php |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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! style="text-align: left;" scope="col" | Name
! style="text-align: left;" scope="col" | Grad.
! style="text-align: left;" scope="col" | College
! style="text-align: left;" scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notable for
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Arrow, Kenneth" |[[Kenneth Arrow]] || 1940 || City || economist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Aumann, Robert" |[[Robert Aumann]] || 1950 || City || mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Axelord, Albert" |[[Albert Axelrod]] || || City || Olympic foil fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Badillo, Herman" | [[Herman Badillo]] || 1951 || City || civil rights activist and first Puerto Rican elected to the U.S. Congress
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Bukantz, Daniel" |[[Daniel Bukantz]] || || City || Olympic foil fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Cohen, Abram" |[[Abram Cohen]] || || City || Olympic foil, épée, and sabre fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Davila, Arlene" | [[Arlene Davila]] || 1996 || City || author and Anthropology and American Studies professor at [[New York University]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Diaz Jr., Ruben" | [[Rubén Díaz Jr.]] || 2005 || Lehman || [[Bronx Borough President]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Diaz Sr., Ruben" | [[Rubén Díaz Sr.]] || 1976 || Lehman || [[NYC Council]] Member, Pastor
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Dinowitz, Jeffrey" | [[Jeffrey Dinowitz]] || 1975 || Lehman || [[NYS Assembly]] Member
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Douglas, Jesse" | [[Jesse Douglas]] || 1916 || City || mathematician and winner of one of the first two [[Fields Medal]]s
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Engel, Eliot L" | [[Eliot Engel]] || 1969 || Lehman || Member of the [[US House of Representatives]], Chairman of the [[House Foreign Affairs Committee]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Foxman, Abraham" | [[Abraham Foxman]] || || City || national director, [[Anti-Defamation League]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Frankfurter, Felix" | [[Felix Frankfurter]] || 1902 || City || U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|-
|[[Denise Galloway]]
|1975
|City
|Cancer researcher and medical academic
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Goldsmith, Harold" | [[Harold Goldsmith]] || 1952 || City || Olympic foil and épée fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Grove, Andy" | [[Andy Grove]] || 1960 || City || Chairman and CEO, [[Intel Corporation]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Hauptman, Herbert A." | [[Herbert A. Hauptman]] || 1937 || City || mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="James, Letitia 'Tish'" | [[Letitia James]] || 1982 || Lehman || NYS Attorney General
|-
|[[Barbara Joans]]
|1974
|
|anthropologist who researched [[Motorcycling|biker]] culture
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Katz, Jane" | [[Jane Katz]] || 1963 || City || Olympic swimmer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Kissinger, Henry" | [[Henry Kissinger]] ||  || City || U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Kleinrock, Leonard" | [[Leonard Kleinrock]] || 1957 || City || computer scientist, Internet pioneer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Linares, Guillermo" | [[Guillermo Linares]] || 1975 || City || New York City Council member, first Dominican-American City Council member and Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lubell, Nathaniel" | [[Nathaniel Lubell]] || 1936 || City || Olympic foil, saber, and épée fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lubell, Samuel" | [[Samuel Lubell]] || || City || pollster, journalist, and [[National Book Award for Nonfiction]] finalist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Nakamura, Lisa" | [[Lisa Nakamura]] || 1993 1996 || City || Director and Professor of the Asian American Studies Program at the Institute of Communication Research at the [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Neider, Charles" | [[Charles Neider]] || || City || Author, Scholar
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Newman, Barnett" | [[Barnett Newman]] || 1927 || City || abstract expressionist artist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="O'Keefe, John" | [[John O'Keefe (neuroscientist)|John O'Keefe]] || || City || 2014 Nobel laureate in Medicine
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Powell, Colin" | [[Colin Powell]] || 1958 || City || [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|Chairman]] of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]] and [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Puzo, Mario" | [[Mario Puzo]] || || City || novelist, [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winning screenwriter for Best Adapted Screenplay (1972, 1974).
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Ringgold, Faith" | [[Faith Ringgold]] || 1955 || City || feminist, writer and artist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Rogovin, Saul" | [[Saul Rogovin]] || || City<br /> BMCC || Professional baseball player
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Rosenthal, A.M." | [[A. M. Rosenthal]] || 1949 || City || executive editor of ''[[The New York Times]]'' who championed the publication of the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]''; [[Pulitzer Prize]]–winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation's government and society
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Saidel, Rochelle" | [[Rochelle Saidel]] || || City || author, founder of the [[Remember the Women|Remember the Women Institute]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Salk, Jonas" | [[Jonas Salk]] || 1934 || City || developed the first [[polio vaccine]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Schorr, Daniel" | [[Daniel Schorr]] || 1939 || City || [[Emmy award]] winning broadcast journalist for [[CBS-TV]] and [[National Public Radio]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Shepard, Elliot Fitch" | [[Elliott Fitch Shepard]] || 1855 || City || lawyer, banker, and a founder of the [[New York State Bar Association]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Strauch, James" | [[James Strauch]] ||  || City || Olympic épée fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Weinraub, Bernard" | [[Bernard Weinraub]] || || City || journalist and playwright
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Wittenberg, Henry" | [[Henry Wittenberg]] || || City || Olympic champion wrestler
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Bağış, Egemen" | [[Egemen Bağış]] || || Baruch || Turkish politician, government minister
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Beame, Abraham" | [[Abraham Beame]] || 1928 || Baruch || born Abraham Birnbaum; mayor of New York City
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Byrd, Robin" | [[Robin Byrd]] || || Baruch ||host of public access program ''The Robin Byrd Show'' (dropped out)<ref>Morris, Bob. [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/23/style/cable-s-first-lady-of-explicit.html "Cable's First Lady Of Explicit"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 23, 1996. Retrieved December 3, 2007. "At 17, Ms. Byrd got her graduate equivalency diploma and then pursued advertising design at Baruch College but dropped out in her senior year.</ref>
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Cornblatt, Barbara A." | [[Barbara A. Cornblatt]] || 1977 || Baruch ||professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine at [[Hofstra University School of Medicine]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Ferrer, Fernando" | [[Fernando Ferrer]] || || Baruch ||New York City mayoral candidate in 2001 and 2005
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Harman, Sidney" | [[Sidney Harman]] || 1939 || Baruch ||founder and executive chairman of [[Harman Kardon]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Karrow, Marcia A." | [[Marcia A. Karrow]] || || Baruch ||member of [[New Jersey General Assembly]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lam, James" | [[James Lam]] || 1983 || Baruch || author, risk management consultant
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lauren, Ralph" | [[Ralph Lauren]] || || Baruch ||born Ralph Lifshitz; chairman and CEO of [[Polo Ralph Lauren]] (dropped out)
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lenz, Dolly" | [[Dolly Lenz]] || || Baruch ||New York City real estate agent
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Levine, Dennis" | [[Dennis Levine]] || || Baruch ||prominent player in the Wall Street [[insider trading]] scandals of the mid-1980s
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lopez, Jennifer" | [[Jennifer Lopez]] || || Baruch ||actress, singer, dancer (dropped out)
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Stanley, Craig A." |[[Craig A. Stanley]] || || Baruch ||member of [[New Jersey General Assembly]] since 1996.<ref name=NJLEG>[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/Stanley.asp Assemblyman Stanley's Legislative Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051027062652/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/stanley.asp |date=October 27, 2005 }}. Retrieved August 27, 2007.</ref>
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Tarkan" | [[Tarkan (singer)|Tarkan]] || || Baruch ||Turkish language singer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Abzug, Bella" | [[Bella Abzug]] || 1942 || Hunter || born Bella Savitzky; feminist; political activist; U.S. Representative, 1971–1977
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Ciparick, Carmen Beauchamp" | [[Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick]] || 1963 || Hunter || first Hispanic woman named to the [[New York State Court of Appeals]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Davila, Robert R." | [[Robert R. Davila]] || 1965 || Hunter || president of [[Gallaudet University]] and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Dee, Ruby" | [[Ruby Dee]] || 1945 || Hunter || Emmy-nominated actress and civil rights activist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Garbus, Martin" | [[Martin Garbus]] || 1955 || Hunter || [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First amendment]] attorney
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Howe, Florence" | [[Florence Howe]] || 1950 || Hunter || founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lorde, Audre" | [[Audre Lorde]] || 1959 || Hunter || African-American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and activist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Mohamedou, Mohamed Mahoud Ould" | [[Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou]] || 1991 || Hunter || Foreign Minister of [[Mauritania]] and professor of international history at the [[Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies]] in Geneva
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Mentschikoff, Soia" | [[Soia Mentschikoff]] || 1934 || Hunter || first woman partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president of the [[Association of American Law Schools]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Murphy Jr., Thomas J." | [[Thomas J. Murphy Jr.]] || 1973 || Hunter ||three-term mayor of [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, 1994–2006
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Murray, Puali" | [[Pauli Murray]] || 1933 || Hunter || first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N.O.W
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Brady, Edward Thomas" | [[Edward Thomas Brady]] || || John Jay || (MA), trial attorney and Associate Justice of the [[North Carolina Supreme Court|Supreme Court of North Carolina]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Burch, Jennings Michael" | [[Jennings Michael Burch]] || || John Jay || author of the 1984 best-selling memoir ''They Cage the Animals at Night''
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Crespo, Marcos" | [[Marcos Crespo]] || || John Jay || (BA), [[New York State Assembly]]man representing district 85<ref>{{cite web|title=New York State Assemblymember Marcos A. Crespo|url=http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Marcos-A-Crespo/|publisher=New York State Assembly|access-date=February 11, 2013|archive-date=February 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205185107/http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Marcos-A-Crespo/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Flynn, Edward A." | [[Edward A. Flynn]] || || John Jay || Chief of the [[Milwaukee Police Department]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Hawkins-Byrd, Petri" | [[Petri Hawkins-Byrd]] || 1989 || John Jay || ''[[Judge Judy]]'' bailiff
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lee, Henry" | [[Henry Lee (forensic scientist)|Henry Lee]] || 1972 || John Jay || forensic scientist and founder of the [[University of New Haven#Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science|Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Martinez, Miguel" | [[Miguel Martinez (politician)|Miguel Martinez]] || || John Jay ||(BS), member of the [[New York City Council]] representing the 10th District in upper [[Manhattan]]'s [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]], [[Inwood, Manhattan|Inwood]], and [[Marble Hill, Manhattan|Marble Hill]] areas until his resignation on July 14, 2009
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Norvind, Eva" | [[Eva Norvind]] || || John Jay ||(MA), actor and director
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Perrette, Pauley" | [[Pauley Perrette]] || || John Jay || actor best known for her role as Abby Scuito on [[NCIS (TV show)|NCIS]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Rice, Ronald" | [[Ronald L. Rice|Ronald Rice]] || || John Jay || [[New Jersey]] State [[New Jersey Senate|Senator]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Rios, Ariel" | [[Ariel Rios]] || || John Jay || undercover special agent for the United States [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF), killed in the line of duty
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="St. Guillen, Imette" | [[Murder of Imette St. Guillen|Imette St. Guillen]] || || John Jay || criminal justice graduate student murdered in February 2006. A scholarship was created in her name
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Stringer, Scott" | [[Scott Stringer]] || || John Jay || [[New York City Comptroller|Comptroller]], [[Borough president]] of [[Manhattan]], and member of the [[New York State Assembly]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Uhnak, Dorothy" | [[Dorothy Uhnak]] || || John Jay ||(BA), novelist and detective for the [[New York City Transit Police|New York City Transit Police Department]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Baird, Bill" | [[Bill Baird (activist)|Bill Baird]] || 1955 || Brooklyn || reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Black, Barbara Aronstein" | [[Barbara Aronstein Black]] || 1953 || Brooklyn || Dean of [[Columbia Law School]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Boxer, Barbara Levy" | [[Barbara Levy Boxer]] || 1962 || Brooklyn || anti-war activist, environmentalist, U.S. representative, 1982–1993, and U.S. senator
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Brooks, Mel" | [[Mel Brooks]] || 1956 || Brooklyn ||  born Melvin Kaminsky; Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning director, writer, and actor 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Chisholm, Shirley" | [[Shirley Chisholm]] || 1946 || Brooklyn || first African-American U.S. Congresswoman, 1968–1982. Candidate for U.S. president, 1972
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Chizen, Bruce" | [[Bruce Chizen]] || 1978 || Brooklyn || president & CEO, [[Adobe Systems]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Cohen, Manuel F." | [[Manuel F. Cohen]] || 1933 || Brooklyn || [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] Chairman
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Cohen, Paul" | [[Paul Cohen]] || 1953 || Brooklyn || [[Fields Medal]]-winning mathematician
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Cohen, Stanley" | [[Stanley Cohen (doctor)|Stanley Cohen]] || 1943 || Brooklyn || biochemist and [[Nobel laureate]] ([[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]]), 1986
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Daly, Robert A." | [[Robert A. Daly]] || || Brooklyn || CEO of [[Warner Bros.]] and [[Los Angeles Dodgers]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Dershowitz, Alan M." | [[Alan M. Dershowitz]] || 1959 || Brooklyn || [[Harvard Law School]] professor and author
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Della Femina, Jerry" | [[Jerry Della Femina]] || 1957 || Brooklyn || Chairman & CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="DiDio, Dan" | [[Dan DiDio]] || 1983 || Brooklyn || comic book editor and executive for [[DC Comics]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Eisenstadt, Benjamin" | [[Benjamin Eisenstadt]] || 1954 || Brooklyn || creator of [[Sweet'N Low]] and founder of [[Cumberland Packing Corporation]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Feldman, Sandra" | [[Sandra Feldman]] || 1960 || Brooklyn || president, [[American Federation of Teachers]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Franco, James" | [[James Franco]] ||  || Brooklyn || [[Golden Globe Award]]-winning actor
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Franke, Nikki" | [[Nikki Franke]] || 1972 || Brooklyn || Olympic foil fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Goldstein, Ralph" | [[Ralph Goldstein]] ||  || Brooklyn || Olympic épée fencer
|- style="vertical-align: top;" 
| data-sort-value="Johnson Jr., Sterling" | [[Sterling Johnson Jr.]] || 1963 || Brooklyn || [[United States federal judge|Senior United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Kamsky, Gata" | [[Gata Kamsky]] || 1999 || Brooklyn || [[Grandmaster (chess)|chess grandmaster]] and five-time US chess champion
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Katz, Saul" | [[Saul Katz]] || 1960 || Brooklyn ||  president of the [[New York Mets]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Korman, Edward R." | [[Edward R. Korman]] || 1963 || Brooklyn || [[United States federal judge|Senior United States District Judge]] on the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Kratter, Marvin" | [[Marvin Kratter]] || 1937 || Brooklyn || owner of the [[Boston Celtics]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lemon, Don" | [[Don Lemon]] || 1996 || Brooklyn || reporter, [[CNN]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lopate, Leonard" | [[Leonard Lopate]] || 1967 || Brooklyn || host of the [[Public broadcasting|public radio]] talk show ''[[Leonard Lopate#The Leonard Lopate Show|The Leonard Lopate Show]]'', broadcast on [[WNYC]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lynne, Michael" | [[Michael Lynne]] || 1961 || Brooklyn || CEO of [[New Line Cinema]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Magner, Marjorie" | [[Marjorie Magner]] || 1969 || Brooklyn || Chairman of [[Gannett]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Markowitz, Marty" | [[Marty Markowitz]] || 1970 || Brooklyn ||  [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]]; [[Brooklyn]] [[Borough President]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Mazursky, Paul" | [[Paul Mazursky]] || 1951 || Brooklyn || film director, writer, producer; actor
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="McCourt, Frank" | [[Frank McCourt]] || 1967 || Brooklyn || [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author of ''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' and ''[['Tis]]''
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Milgram, Stanley" | [[Stanley Milgram]] || 1954 || Brooklyn || social psychologist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Moss, Jerry" | [[Jerry Moss]] || 1957 || Brooklyn || co-founder of [[A&M Records]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Munitz, Barry" | [[Barry Munitz]] || 1963 || Brooklyn || Chancellor of [[California State University]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Naylor, Gloria" | [[Gloria Naylor]] || 1981 || Brooklyn || novelist; Winner [[National Book Award]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Nero, Peter" | [[Peter Nero]] || 1956 || Brooklyn || born Bernard Nierow; pianist and pops conductor; [[Grammy Award]] winner
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Pitt, Harvey" | [[Harvey Pitt]] || 1965 || Brooklyn || Chairman of the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Pooler, Rosemary S." | [[Rosemary S. Pooler]] || 1959 || Brooklyn || [[United States federal judge|United States circuit judge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Pulliam, Jason K." | [[Jason K. Pulliam]] || 1995; 1997 || Brooklyn || [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Texas]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Salzberg, Barry" | [[Barry Salzberg]] ||1974 || Brooklyn || CEO of [[Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Sanders, Bernie" | [[Bernie Sanders]] || || Brooklyn || US senator representing Vermont
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Schirripa, Steve" | [[Steve Schirripa]] || 1980 || Brooklyn || actor known for his role as [[Bobby Baccalieri]] on the [[HBO]] TV series ''[[The Sopranos]]''
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Shaw, Irwin" | [[Irwin Shaw]] || 1934 || Brooklyn || born Irwin Shamforoff; [[O. Henry Award]]-winning author
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Shortell, Timothy" | [[Timothy Shortell]] || 1992 || Brooklyn || Writer, critic of religion
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Slomsky, Joel Harvey" | [[Joel Harvey Slomsky]] || 1967 || Brooklyn || [[Senior Status|Senior]] [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Smits, Jimmy" | [[Jimmy Smits]] || 1980 || Brooklyn || [[Emmy Award]]-winning actor; ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' and ''[[L.A. Law]]''
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Solomon, Maynard" | [[Maynard Solomon]] || 1950 || Brooklyn || co-founder of [[Vanguard Records]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Solomon, Maynard" | [[Lisa Staiano-Coico]] || 1976 || Brooklyn || president of [[City College of New York]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;" 
| data-sort-value="Tarloff, Frank" | [[Frank Tarloff]] || || Brooklyn || Academy Award-winning screenwriter
|- style="vertical-align: top;" 
| data-sort-value="Ward, Benjamin" | [[Benjamin Ward]] || 1960 || Brooklyn || first black [[New York City Police Commissioner]], 1983–1989
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Weinshall, Iris" | [[Iris Weinshall]] || 1975 || Brooklyn || [[Chancellor (education)|Vice Chancellor]] at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the [[New York City Department of Transportation]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Weinstein, Jack B." | [[Jack B. Weinstein]] || 1943 || Brooklyn || Senior Judge, [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Yetnikoff, Walter" | [[Walter Yetnikoff]] || 1953 || Brooklyn || CEO of [[CBS Records International|CBS Records]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Zimbardo, Philip" | [[Philip Zimbardo]] || 1954 || Brooklyn || social psychologist 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Behar, Joy" | [[Joy Behar]]|| 1964 || Queens || comedian, television personality
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Colonna, Jerry" | [[Jerry Colonna (financier)|Jerry Colonna]]|| || Queens || venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Crowley, Joseph" | [[Joseph Crowley]]|| || Queens || member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], 1999–2019
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Hevesi, Alan" | [[Alan Hevesi]]|| || Queens || [[New York State Comptroller]], New York State Assemblyman, Queens College professor
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Lehman, Cheryl" | [[Cheryl Lehman]]|| 1975 || Queens || Professor of Accounting, [[Hofstra University]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Marshall, Helen" | [[Helen M. Marshall|Helen Marshall]]|| || Queens || [[Queens]] [[Borough President]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Orender, Donna" | [[Donna Orender]]|| || Queens || [[WNBA]] president
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Seinfeld, Jerry" | [[Jerry Seinfeld]]|| 1976 || Queens || actor and comedian
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Wang, Charles" | [[Charles Wang]]|| || Queens || founder of [[Computer Associates]], owner of the [[New York Islanders]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Andrews, Carl" | [[Carl Andrews (politician)|Carl Andrews]] || || Medgar Evers || New York state senator
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Clarke, Yvette" | [[Yvette Clarke]] || || Medgar Evers || Congresswoman, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's [[New York's 11th congressional district|11th]] and [[New York's 9th congressional district|9th congressional district]]s
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Carmona, Richard" | [[Richard Carmona]] || 1973 || Bronx || [[Surgeon General of the United States]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Kid Chaos" | [[Kid Chaos]] || 1991 || Bronx || British rock Bassist and Guitarist who played in incarnations of hard rock bands such as The Cult
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Kid Mero, The" | [[The Kid Mero]] || || Bronx || Co-host of [[Desus & Mero (2019 TV series)|Desus & Mero]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Palma, Annabel" | [[Annabel Palma]] || 1991 || Bronx || [[NYC Council]] member, 2004–2017
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Cardi B" | [[Cardi B]] || || BMCC || Rapper 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Latifah, Queen" | [[Queen Latifah]] ||  || BMCC || Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and producer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Saleh, Adam" | [[Adam Saleh]] || || BMCC || YouTuber and boxer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Savone, Mirko" | [[Mirko Savone]] ||  || BMCC || Italian voiceover actor
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Shakur, Assata" | [[Assata Shakur]] ||  || BMCC || Former member of [[Black Liberation Army]], 1970–1981
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Sidibe,Gabourey" | [[Gabourey Sidibe]] ||  || BMCC || American actress
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Williams, Michael K." | [[Michael K. Williams]] ||  || BMCC || American actor
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Bowe, Riddick" | [[Riddick Bowe]] ||  || Kingsborough || Professional boxer, 1989–2008
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Carty, Mauriel" | [[Mauriel Carty]] ||  || Kingsborough || Anguillan sprinter
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Clay, Andrew Dice" | [[Andrew Dice Clay]] || || Kingsborough || Stand-up comedian, actor, musician and producer
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Falcone, Pete" | [[Pete Falcone]] ||  || Kingsborough || Professional baseball pitcher
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Koinange, Jeff" | [[Jeff Koinange]] ||1989 || Kingsborough || Journalist and host of Jeff Koinange Live
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Nover, Phillipe" | [[Phillipe Nover]] ||  || Kingsborough || Mixed martial artist
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Seabrook, Larry" | [[Larry Seabrook]] || 1972 || Kingsborough || [[NYC Council]] member, 2002–2012
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Waks, Aesha" | [[Aesha Waks]] ||  || Kingsborough || Actress
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Alexander, Khandi " | [[Khandi Alexander]] ||  || Queensborough || Dancer, choreographer, and actress
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Denton, Sandra" | [[Pepa (rapper)|Sandra "Pepa" Denton]] ||  || Queensborough || Rapper and songwriter, member of [[Salt-N-Pepa]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="James, Cheryl" | [[Salt (rapper)|Cheryl "Salt" James]] ||  || Queensborough || Rapper and songwriter, member of [[Salt-N-Pepa]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Padrai, Nayan " | [[Nayan Padrai]] ||  || Queensborough || Screenwriter, producer and director
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Santagato, Joe" | [[Joe Santagato]] ||  || Queensborough || YouTuber, comedian and podcaster
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Gross, Elly " | [[Elly Gross]] ||1993 || LaGuardia || A holocaust survivor and author of several Holocaust related books of poetry and prose
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="JP, DJ " | [[DJ JP]] || || LaGuardia || The official DJ to Pop Smoke
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Sky, Reby " | [[Reby Sky]] || || LaGuardia || Professional wrestler and model
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| data-sort-value="Wilson, Elliot " | [[Elliot Wilson]] || || LaGuardia || Journalist, television producer, and magazine editor
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|New York City}}
* [[City University of New York Athletic Conference]]
* [[CUNY Academic Commons]]
* [[Education in New York City]]
* [[Guide Association]]
* [[State University of New York]] (SUNY) system. 
* [[The William E. Macaualay Honors College]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==

* Dunham, E. Alden. ''Colleges of the Forgotten Americans. A Profile of State Colleges and Regional Universities'' (McGraw Hill, 1969).
* Freedman, Morris. "CCNY Days." ''The American Scholar'' (1980) 49#2 pp.&nbsp;193–207. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41210610 online]
* Gettleman, Marvin E. "John H. Finley at CCNY—1903–1913." ''History of Education Quarterly'' 10.4 (1970): 423–439; on his presidency. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/abs/john-h-finley-at-ccny19031913/201C25A49F3F0D779EEF9F616B2B0468 online]
* Gumport, Patricia J., and Michael N. Bastedo. "Academic stratification and endemic conflict: Remedial education policy at CUNY." ''Review of Higher Education'' 24.4 (2001): 333–349. [http://web.stanford.edu/group/siher/documents/pdfs/CUNYremediation.pdf online]
* Nelson, Adam R. "Higher Education and Human Capital and in the 'New York Bay Area': Historical Lessons from the City University of New York (CUNY)." in ''Higher education, innovation and entrepreneurship from comparative perspectives'' (Springer Nature Singapore, 2022) pp.&nbsp;17–58. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-8870-6_2 online]
* Rudy, S. Willis. ''The College of the City of New York: A History, 1847–1947'' (The City College Press, 1949), 
* Van Nort, Sydney C. ''The City College of New York'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=B8raTT3G-YgC&dq=%22city+college%22&pg=PA6 online].

==External links==
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* {{Official website}}
* [https://data.ny.gov/browse?Dataset-Information_Agency=City+University+of+New+York&sortBy=relevance City University of New York] in Open NY (data.ny.gov)
* {{Cite Collier's|wstitle=New York, College of the City of|short=x}} <!-- Wikipedia applies this name to an early version of NYU, but CCNY is the topic here -->
* {{Cite NIE|wstitle=New York, College of the City of|short=x}}

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