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Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
Pages in category "Brooklyn College faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 400 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Luise Haessler (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 20 September 1866 - New York City, 8 July 1955) was the first Chairman of the German department at Brooklyn College. Upon her retirement, the Luise Haessler Scholarship was founded by her colleagues to recognize, each year, a graduating student who had done outstanding work in German. [1] [2]
In 1973, she became associate provost and assistant vice president of Brooklyn College, CUNY. At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman at the college. [3] She remained at Brooklyn College until 1978 when she joined the Political Science department at the CUNY Graduate Center and directed the Howard Samuels State Management and Policy Center.
Ethyle Renee Wolfe (March 4, 1919 – May 6, 2010) was an American classics professor who taught at Brooklyn College.During her many years at the college, she developed the Humanities Institute (now named after her) and was awarded the Charles Frankel Prize in 1990.
Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 [1] – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College.He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998), and author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
Anderson became the 10th President of Brooklyn College in August 2016. [33] In her first year as president, Anderson invited Bernie Sanders by writing him a letter and telling him to “come home.” [ 34 ]
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