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Website. www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and as of 2019 enrolls over 17,000 undergraduate and over 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre (14 ha) campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn.
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 the 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.
Joel H. Silbey (B.A. 1955), historian and President White Professor of History at Cornell University; Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States; Clarence Taylor (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of History at Baruch College and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America
Stuyvesant High School (/ ˈ s t aɪ v ə s ən t / STY-və-sənt) [9] is a co-ed, public, college-preparatory, specialized high school in Manhattan, New York City, United States.The school, commonly referred to among its students, faculty and alumni as "Stuy" (/ s t aɪ / STY), [9] [10] [11] specializes in developing talent in math, science and technology.
Brooklyn College alumnus Barry Feirstein donated $5 million to development, and the school is named in his honor. [3] [7] The school is the first public graduate film school in New York City. [a] [b] The school accepted its first cohort for the 2015-2016 academic year and was officially opened by Mayor Bill de Blasio in October 2015. [8]
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She served as acting chair of the Classics department at Brooklyn College in spring 2010, and as assistant acting provost for CUNY's Graduate Center from 1995 to 2013. [1] As of 2020, Smith continues to teach Latin , ancient Greek literature , and classical reception courses at Brooklyn College, [ 7 ] where she has worked for over 40 years.
Atypical for American high schools, Brooklyn Tech uses a system of college-style majors. The curriculum consists of two years of general studies with a technical and engineering emphasis, followed by two years of a student-chosen major. The curriculum remained largely unchanged until the end of Dr. Colston's 20-year term as principal in 1942.