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The Graduate Center is located in the former B. Altman building at 365 Fifth Avenue.
The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
File:CUNY graduate center logo.gif
TypePublic
Established1961
PresidentChase F. Robinson
ProvostLouise Lennihan (Interim Provost)
Academic staff
140 core, 1,600 consortial
Location
New York City
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New York
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United States
CampusUrban
Websitewww.gc.cuny.edu

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is a public American research college based in New York City. The Graduate Center is the principal doctoral-granting institution of the CUNY system. The school is situated in a nine-story landmark building at 365 Fifth Avenue at the corner of 34th Street in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, across the corner from the Empire State Building. The Graduate Center has 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes. A core faculty of approximately 140 is supplemented by over 1,600 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.

Graduate Center faculty includes recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Science, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Fellowship, the Schock Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Wolf Prize, Grammy Awards, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to academics, the Graduate Center extends its intellectual and cultural resources to the general public, offering access to a wide range of events, including lectures, symposia, performances, and workshops.

History

Main article: City University of New York § History

CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961,[1] and awarded its first two Ph.D.s to Daniel Robinson and Barbara Stern in 1965. Robinson, currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, received his Ph.D. in psychology,[2] while Stern, late of Rutgers University, received her Ph.D. in English literature.[3]

In 1969, the Division of Graduate Studies formally became the Graduate School and University Center.[4] Mathematician Mina S. Rees served as the institution's first president from 1969 until her retirement in 1972.[5] Rees was succeeded as president of the Graduate Center by environmental psychologist Harold M. Proshansky, who served until his death in 1990.[6] Political scientist Frances Degen Horowitz was appointed president in September, 1991.[7] In 2005, Horowitz was succeeded by the school's provost, Professor of English Literature William P. Kelly.[8]

During Kelly's tenure at the Graduate Center the University has seen significant growth in revenue, funding opportunities for students, increased Distinguished Faculty and a general resurgence.[9] This is in accordance with three primary goals articulated in the Graduate Center’s strategic plan.[10] The first of these involves enhancing student support. In 2013, 83 dissertation-year fellowships were awarded at a total cost of $1.65 million. The Graduate Center is also developing new programs to advance research prior to the dissertation phase, including archival work. The fiscal stability of the university has enabled the chancellery to increase, on an incremental basis, the value of these fellowships. The packages extended for 2013-14 year increase stipends and reduce teaching requirements. In 2001, the Graduate Center provided 14 million dollars in student support; in Fall 2013 that number will be 51 million.[10]

On April 23, 2013, the CUNY Board of Trustees announced that president Kelly would serve as interim chancellor for the City University of New York beginning July 1 with the retirement of Chancellor Matthew Goldstein.[11] GC Provost Chase F. Robinson was appointed to serve as interim president of the Graduate Center.[12]

Academics

Faculty members regularly receive prestigious honors and awards. Some recent examples include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Science, the Schock Prize, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Awards, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Many departments are recognized internationally for their level of scholarship.

Courses in the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics, and courses in the sciences requiring no laboratory work convene at the Graduate Center. Due to the consortial nature of doctoral study at the Graduate Center, courses requiring laboratory work, courses for the clinical doctorates, and courses in business, criminal justice, engineering, and social welfare convene on CUNY college campuses.

The CUNY Graduate Center pioneered the CUNY Academic Commons in 2009 to much praise.[13] The CUNY Academic Commons is an online, academic social network for faculty, staff, and graduate students of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections among the 24 individual colleges that make up the university system, the site, founded in 2009, has quickly grown as a hub for the CUNY community, serving in the process to strengthen a growing group of digital scholars, teachers, and open-source projects at the university. The project has received awards and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,[14] the Sloan Consortium [15] and was the winner of the 2013 Digital Humanities Award.[16] It continues to be in the forefront of scholarly social media.

Also affiliated with the institution are four University Center programs: CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies through which undergraduates can earn individualized bachelor's degrees by completing courses at any of the CUNY colleges; the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the associated Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies; the recently established CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers a master's degree in journalism; and Macaulay's Honor College.

Research

Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC)

Through the CUNY Graduate Center's Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) program it does globally recognized research in seven core areas of study:[17]

  1. Immigration - Research on the cultural, social and political impact of migration. A special focus is given to the role of immigration in New York City as well as studies on the experience of immigration in other nations.
  2. Inequality - How to mobilize communities towards various alternatives to address the various and growing inequalities in society.
  3. Transnational Non-state Actors: inter- and nongovernmental organizations, corporations and media.
  4. Urban Studies: How public, businesses and nonprofit organizations play a role in the challenges faced by large cities around the world.
  5. Digital Initiatives: Research on digital resources and projects as well as the digital humanities and data mining.
  6. Humanities: Interdisciplinary research by writers, opinion makers and scholars.
  7. Human Ecodynamics: An interdisciplinary exploration of present and past international interactions between nature and humans.

Initiatives and committees

The CUNY Graduate Center does additional work through its initiatives and committees:[18]

Centers and institutes

With over 30 research institutes and centers the CUNY Graduate Center produces work on a range of social, cultural, scientific and civic issues.[19]

B. Altman Building CUNY Graduate Center 34th Street entrance

Faculty

Notable faculty members include geographer David Harvey, mathematician Dennis Sullivan, and philosopher Saul Kripke.

Ervand Abrahamian is a historian of Middle Eastern, particularly Iranian history. He has published many books ranging from the Iranian Revolution to the 1953 Coup d'etat. Talal Asad is an anthropologistat the CUNY Graduate Center where he has made significant theoretical contributions to post-colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies.[20]

Marc Edelman is an anthropologist focusing on agrarian issues and social movements in Latin America.[21] He is currently heading a $249,965 project funded by the National Science Foundation entitled Peasants' Rights and the United Nations System.[22]

John Corigliano is a composer of classical music and teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center.[23] He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra and was also an Oscar winner for the score of The Red Violin in 1998.[24]

Mina Rees Library

The Mina Rees Library, named after former Graduate Center president Mina S. Rees, supports the research, teaching, and learning activities of the Graduate Center by connecting its community with print materials, electronic resources, research assistance and instruction, and expertise about the complexities of scholarly communication. Situated on three floors of the Graduate Center, the library is a hub for discovery, delivery, and digitization, as well as a place for solitary study. The library offers many services, including research consultations, a 24/7 online chat service with reference librarians, and workshops and webinars on using research tools.

The library also serves as a gateway to the collections of other CUNY libraries, the New York Public Library (NYPL), and libraries worldwide. It participates in a CUNY-wide book delivery system and offers an interlibrary loan service to bring materials from outside CUNY to Graduate Center scholars. The main branch of NYPL is just a few blocks up Fifth Avenue, and NYPL’s Science, Industry, and Business Library is just around the corner. Graduate Center students and faculty are NYPL’s primary academic constituents, with borrowing privileges from NYPL research collections. NYPL’s participation in the Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI) extends borrowing privileges for CUNY Graduate Center students to NYU and Columbia libraries as well.

The Mina Rees Library is a key participant in the Graduate Center’s digital initiatives. It supports the digital scholarship of students and faculty, and promotes the understanding, creation, and use of open access literature.[25]

Student life

Students at the CUNY Graduate Center have the option of living in Graduate housing, located in East Harlem. The eight story building includes a gym, laundry facilities, lounge and rooftop terrace with views of the Midtown skyline.[26] The Graduate housing was opened in the Fall of 2011 in conjunction with the construction of the Hunter College School of Social Work.[27]

There are over forty doctoral student organizations ranging from the Middle Eastern Studies Organization and Africana Studies Group to the Prison Studies Group and the Immigration Working Group.[28] These chartered organizations host conferences, publish online magazines, and create social events aimed at fostering a community for CUNY Graduate Center students.

Cultural Center

The CUNY Graduate Center houses three performance spaces and two art galleries.[29] The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium, named for the institution's second president, is located on the concourse level and contains 389 seats.[30] The Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, located on the first floor, seats 180.[31] The Martin E. Segal Theatre, also located on the first floor, seats 70.[32] The Amie and Tony James Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, located on the first floor with windows on Fifth Avenue, features the work of current artists,[33] as does the Foundation Gallery, also on the first floor.

References

  1. ^ About the Graduate Center
  2. ^ "Prof Dan Robinson". University of Oxford > Faculty of Philosophy > Members > Senior Research Fellows > Robinson Dan. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  3. ^ Holbrook, M. B. (1 March 2009). "In memoriam -- Barbara B. Stern (Co-Editor of Marketing Theory, 2000--2008)". Marketing Theory. pp. 5–7. doi:10.1177/1470593108104217. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ^ "Memorial Articles - Mina Spiegel Rees (1902-1997)" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society. August 1998. pp. 866–873. Retrieved 17 May 2013. {{cite web}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)
  5. ^ Riddle, Larry. "Mina Rees (August 2, 1902 - October 25, 1997)". Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  6. ^ Narvaez, Alfonso A. (14 December 1990). "Harold M. Proshansky Dies at 70; Head of CUNY's Graduate School". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  7. ^ "Pres. Frances Degen Horowitz". CUNY TV » City University Television. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  8. ^ "President William P. Kelly". Trustees>>Borough Hearings>>Manhattan. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  9. ^ "Update from President Kelly". Program in Philosophy Graduate Center, CUNY Commons. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  10. ^ a b "Strategic Plan: 2012–2016" (PDF). CUNY Graduate Center Strategic Plan for 2012–2016. November 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  11. ^ "Graduate Center President William P. Kelly Appointed as CUNY Interim Chancellor Beginning July 1". The City University of New York. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  12. ^ "Provost Robinson to Lead GC as Interim President". The Graduate Center City University of New York. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  13. ^ "Commons Buzz". Academic Commons News. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  14. ^ Gold, Matthew K. (22 November 2011). "The CUNY Academic Commons Announces The Commons in a Box Project". Academic Commons News. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  15. ^ Janet C. Moore; Eileen Pacheco (9 July 2012). "Sloan-C Honors Effective Practices in Online and Blended Education". Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  16. ^ http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/results/
  17. ^ CUNY Graduate Center: Advanced Research Collaborative. Webpage. Accessed: 25 July 2013 http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Academics-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative
  18. ^ Initiatives & Committees CUNY Graduate Center http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Academics-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/Initiatives-Committees Retrieved: 25 July 2013
  19. ^ CUNY Graduate Center. Centers & Institutions. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Academics-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/Centers-Institutes Retrieved: 30 July 2013
  20. ^ Talal Asad Bio: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Anthropology/fac_asad.html
  21. ^ Marc Edelman Bio: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Anthropology/fac_edelman.html
  22. ^ National Science Foundation Award Listing: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1024017
  23. ^ CUNY Graduate Center Music Faculty Page http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Music-(Ph-D-D-M-A)/Directory-of-GC-Music-Faculty
  24. ^ New York Times Article http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/26/movies/decades-in-the-making-john-corigliano-s-dylan-thomas-gets-its-premiere.html?src=pm
  25. ^ "GC Library Open Access Statement". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  26. ^ "Housing FAQs". Prospective & Current Students > Student Life > Housing. CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  27. ^ "Housing". Prospective & Current Students > Student Life > Housing. CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  28. ^ "List of Chartered Organizations". The CUNY Doctoral Students' Council. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  29. ^ "Event Planning". About the GC > Resources & Services > Facilities Services & Campus Planning. CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  30. ^ "Proshansky Auditorium". About the GC > Building Venues & Particulars. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  31. ^ "Elebash Recital Hall". About the GC > Building Venues & Particulars. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  32. ^ "Segal Theatre". About the GC > Building Venues & Particulars. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  33. ^ "James Gallery". About the GC > Building Venues & Particulars. Retrieved 17 May 2013.

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