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Under his leadership, Baruch College established degree programs with universities globally, ranked as a top college for social mobility, and achieved the best graduation rate within the CUNY system. [12] Baruch College was the scene of student protests in 2011 as a result of tuition hikes. [13] This resulted in arrests. [13]
At Baruch College in 1967, over a thousand students protested the plan to make the college an upper-division school limited to junior, senior, and graduate students. [27] At Brooklyn College in 1968, students attempted a sit-in to demand the admission of more black and Puerto Rican students and additional black studies curriculum. [ 28 ]
The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences (commonly known as Weissman) is the arts and sciences school of Baruch College.Named after George Weissman, former president of Philip Morris, and his wife Mildred, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences is one of the three schools that comprise Baruch College and offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in various disciplines.
Professor at Baruch College, Cornell University, and Hofstra University [21] David Hamilton Golland: 2000 Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history at Monmouth University [22] Alvin Gouldner: 1941 BBA
The School of Public and International Affairs was later named after Austin W. Marxe who donated $30 million to the college in 2016. Austin W. Marxe was a 1965 graduate of Baruch College and an investment banker. It was the largest donation to Baruch College and the second largest in the history of City University of New York. [2] [3] [4]
Szu-yung David Wu is a Taiwanese-American educator who is the President of Baruch College of the City University of New York since 2020. [1] He is the first Asian-American appointed to this position [2] at a CUNY college. [3] Previously he held the position of Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University. [4] [5]
CUNY's Baruch College officials planned to ban Jewish students from holding a public campus celebration of Rosh Hashanah over safety concerns — and only reversed course after facing pressure and ...
The current College of Staten Island, the largest CUNY school by land area, is the result of a merger between Richmond College (upper-division college founded in 1965) and Staten Island Community College (lower-division college founded in 1955). [13] Lehman College was formerly a branch campus of Hunter College that was known as Hunter-in-the ...