The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is a public American research college based in New York City, and is the principal doctoral-granting institution of the City University of New York (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 1,700 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.
Graduate Center faculty include recipients of the Nobel Prize, 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.
Across the institution's PhD programs, 18% of applicants were offered admission to The Graduate Center in Fall 2016. The latest edition of US News and World Report Best Graduate School Ranking ranked The Graduate Center PhD program in English 22nd, its Sociology PhD program 28th, and its History doctoral program 30th best in the nation. The Graduate Center PhD program in Mathematics was ranked 39th. In the 2016 edition of QS World University Rankings, the Graduate Center's doctoral program in Philosophy was ranked 44th globally.
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.
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History
CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961, 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, while Stern, late of Rutgers University, received her Ph.D. in English literature.
In 1969, the Division of Graduate Studies formally became the Graduate School and University Center. Mathematician Mina S. Rees served as the institution's first president from 1969 until her retirement in 1972. Rees was succeeded as president of the Graduate Center by environmental psychologist Harold M. Proshansky, who served until his death in 1990. Political scientist Frances Degen Horowitz was appointed president in September, 1991. In 2005, Horowitz was succeeded by the school's provost, Professor of English Literature William P. Kelly.
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. This is in accordance with three primary goals articulated in the Graduate Center's strategic plan. 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, and, in Fall 2013, 51 million in student support.
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. GC Provost Chase F. Robinson, a historian, was appointed to serve as interim president of the Graduate Center in 2013, and then became president in July 2014. Joy Connolly became Provost of the Graduate Center in August 2016.
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. 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, the Sloan Consortium and was the winner of the 2013 Digital Humanities Award. 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 CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers a master's degree in journalism; and Macaulay Honors College.
Research
Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC)
The CUNY Graduate Center's Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) program conducts research in seven core areas of study:
- Inequality - Research on the structural foundations of increasing inequality across our society and ways to mobilize communities around various alternatives.
- Immigration - Interdisciplinary research on the social, cultural, and political impacts of international migration, with special attention on the role of immigration in New York City and comparative studies on how immigration and ethnic diversity are experienced in different nations.
- Multilingualism - Interdisciplinary research on complex social, cultural, and policy issues raised by multilingualism.
- Digital Initiatives: Research in a broad range of digital projects and digital resources, including data mining and the digital humanities.
- Urban Studies: Critical issues facing large cities around the world and the role played therein by public, nonprofit, and business organizations.
Initiatives and committees
The CUNY Graduate Center does additional work through its initiatives and committees:
- Futures Initiative
- Graduate Center Digital Initiatives
- Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences (ITS)
- Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative
- The Committee for the Study of Religion
- The Committee on Globalization and Social Change
- The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies
- Endangered Language Initiative
- Intellectual Publics
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.
- American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
- Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation
- Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE)
- Center for Human Environments
- Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
- Center for Place, Culture and Politics
- Center for the Humanities
- Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work
- Center for the Study of Women and Society
- Center for Urban Education Policy
- Center for Urban Research
- Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
- CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
- CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD)
- European Union Studies Center
- Gotham Center for New York City History
- Henri Peyre French Institute
- Howard Samuels Center
- Human Ecodynamics Research Center
- Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context
- Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas & the Caribbean (IRADAC)
- Latin/Greek Institute
- Leon Levy Center for Biography
- Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC)
- Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
- Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS)
- Saul Kripke Center
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
- Teaching and Learning Center
- The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center
Luxembourg Income Study
The Luxembourg Income Study is a non-profit micro-data archive and research institute. The center is located in Luxembourg with a satellite in New York City at the CUNY Graduate center. It serves the global community of researchers, educators and policy makers. It houses the Luxembourg Income Study Database, which is the largest available database of micro-data collected from multiple countries and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database, which is the only cross-national wealth database in existence.
Faculty
Notable faculty members include:
- Comparatist André Aciman
- Sociologist Stanley Aronowitz
- Anthropologist Talal Asad
- Historian David Harvey
- Biophysicist William Bialek
- Art Historian Claire Bishop
- Composer John Corigliano
- Geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Geographer David Harvey
- Art Historian David Joselit
- Physicist Michio Kaku
- Poet Wayne Koestenbaum
- Philosopher Saul Kripke
- Economist Paul Krugman
- Literary Critic Eric Lott
- Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram
- Literary Critic Robert Reid-Pharr
- Philosopher David M. Rosenthal
- Mathematician Dennis Sullivan
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. Among its special collections is the Activist Women's Voices collection, an oral history project focused on unheralded New York City community-based women activists.
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. The Graduate housing was opened in the Fall of 2011 in conjunction with the construction of the Hunter College School of Social Work.
The Doctoral Students' Council is the sole policy-making body representing students in doctoral and master's programs at the Graduate Center.
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. These chartered organizations host conferences, publish online magazines, and create social events aimed at fostering a community for CUNY Graduate Center students.
Doctoral students at the Graduate Center also produces a newspaper funded by the DSC and run by a committee of editors from the various doctoral programs. The paper, entitled The GC Advocate, comes out six times per academic year and is free of charge for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Cultural Center
The CUNY Graduate Center houses three performance spaces and two art galleries. The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium, named for the institution's second president, is located on the concourse level and contains 389 seats. The Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, located on the first floor, seats 180. The Martin E. Segal Theatre, also located on the first floor, seats 70. The Amie and Tony James Art Gallery, located on the first floor with windows on Fifth Avenue, features the work of current artists, as does the Foundation Gallery, also on the first floor.
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