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. While its constituent colleges date as far back as 1847,CUNY was established in 1961. The university enrolls more than 275,000 students and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty-four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni.
Afrocentrism is a worldview that centered on the history of people of African descent or a biased 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.
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 enrolls over 17,000 undergraduate and over 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus as of 2019.
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.
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.
Lewisohn Stadium was an amphitheater and athletic facility built on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY). It opened in 1915 and was demolished in 1973.
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 college.
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).
Marc Lamont Hill is an American academic,author,activist,and television personality. He is a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
African Americans and Jewish Americans have interacted throughout much of the history of the United States. This relationship has included widely publicized cooperation and conflict,and—since the 1970s—it has been an area of significant academic research. Cooperation during the Civil Rights Movement was strategic and significant,culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lisa Staiano-Coico or Lisa S. Coico is an American politician and 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 disrtinction 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.
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).
Clarence Taylor is professor emeritus of History at Baruch College in New York City and author of books on racism,religion,and civil rights in 20th-century America.
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.
