The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States,comprising 25 campuses:eleven senior colleges,seven community colleges,and seven professional institutions. 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 graduate school.
Afrocentrism is a worldview that is centered on the history of people of African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions. It seeks to counter what it sees as mistakes and ideas perpetuated by the racist philosophical underpinnings of Western academic disciplines as they developed during and since Europe's Early Renaissance as justifying rationales for the enslavement of other peoples,in order to enable more accurate accounts of not only African but all people's contributions to world history. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a pan-African point of view for the study of culture,philosophy,and history.
Eileen Jackson Southern was an American musicologist,researcher,author,and teacher. Southern's research focused on black American musical styles,musicians,and composers;she also published on early music.
Benno Charles Schmidt Jr. was an American academic and education executive. From 1986 to 1992,he was 20th president of Yale University. Prior,Schmidt was Dean of the Columbia Law School,Harlan Fiske Stone,professor of constitutional law,and chairman of Edison Schools. He lastly served as the chairman of Avenues:The World School,a for-profit,private K-12 school,and as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2003 to 2016.
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born scholar of Africana Studies. From 1973 to 2007 he worked at Wellesley College in Wellesley,Massachusetts,and over the course of his career published more than ten books and a range of scholarly articles.
Robert Sonkin (1910–1980) was an American scholar of speech,language,and music.
John Henrik Clarke was an African-American historian,professor,prominent Afrocentrist,and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
Fires in the Mirror:Crown Heights,Brooklyn and Other Identities (1992) is a one-person play by Anna Deavere Smith,an African-American playwright,author,actress,and professor. It explores the Crown Heights riot and its aftermath through the viewpoints of African-American and Jewish people,mostly based in New York City,who were connected directly and indirectly to the riot.
Larry B. Seabrook is a former New York City Councilman from District 12 in New York City which covers the Co-op City,Williamsbridge,Wakefield,Edenwald,Baychester,and Eastchester sections of the Northeast Bronx,from 2002 until 2012. A Democrat from Co-op City in the Bronx,he has held several elected offices:With his election to the city council in 2001,Seabrook became the first African-American politician to hold office in three separate legislative branches of government,both on municipal and statewide levels.
The City College of the City University of New York is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847,City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. It is the oldest of CUNY's 25 institutions of higher learning and is considered its flagship institution.
Keith Gilyard is a writer and American professor of English and African American Studies. He has passionately embraced African American expressive culture over the course of his career as a poet,scholar,and educator. Beyond his own literary output,he has pursued –and in some instances merged - two main lines of humanistic inquiry:literary studies,with its concern for beauty and significant form,and rhetorical studies,with its emphasis on the effect of trope and argument in culture. Moreover,his interests branch out into popular culture,civic discourse,and educational praxis. A critical perspective concerning these areas is,in his view,integral to the development of discerning and productive publics both on and beyond campuses and therefore crucial to the optimal practice of democracy.
Gregory Howard Williams is a scholar,attorney,law school professor,author,and formerly the 27th President of the University of Cincinnati and the 11th President of the City College of New York (2001–2009).
Lisa Staiano-Coico or Lisa S. Coico is an American academic. Coico was the twelfth president of City College of New York,from August 2010 until October 2016.
Ephraim Isaac is an Ethiopian scholar of ancient Ethiopian Semitic languages and of African and Ethiopian civilizations. He is the director of the Institute of Semitic Studies based in Princeton,NJ. and the chair of the board of the Ethiopian Peace and Development Center.
Sheldon Weinbaum: is an American biomedical engineer and biofluid mechanician. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is a member of all three U.S. national academies and also the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002 when he was elected to NAM he became the sixth living individual to be a member of all three National Academies and the first to achieve this distinction since 1992. He was the founding director (1994–1999) of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering,a regional research consortium involving the BME program at The City College and eight of the premier health care institutions in New York City. He has been a lifelong advocate for women and minorities in science and engineering. He was the lead plaintiff and organizer of a class-action lawsuit charging New York State officials with racially discriminatory funding of its two university systems,CUNY and SUNY,the first CUNY faculty recipient of the Public Service Award of the Fund for the City of New York,and the Inaugural Recipient of the “Diversity Award”of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2009). He was the inaugural chair of the Selection Committee that chooses the annual Sloan Awardees for the outstanding math and science teachers in the New York City public high schools and served in this position from 2009 to 2019. In 2022 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Biomedical Engineerings from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. In 2023 he received the National Medal of Science from President Biden.
Harold Milton Jacobs was a Jewish and civic leader who headed a number of American Jewish organizations and institutions,and also played a significant role in New York City educational affairs.
Yolanda Theresa Moses is an anthropologist and college administrator who served as the 10th president of City College of New York (1993–1999) and president of the American Association for Higher Education (2000–2003).
Allen B. Ballard has been a writer of both fiction and non-fiction books,a government professor at the City College of New York (1961-1986) and then a history professor at the University at Albany,SUNY,where he is now Professor Emeritus and A Collins Fellow.
