Hunter College

Hunter College of The City University of New York
Motto:	Mihi cura futuri (Latin) ("Mine is the care of the future")
Established	1870
Type:	Public
President:	Jennifer Raab
Faculty:	673
Undergraduates:	15,718
Postgraduates:	5,126
Location	New York, New York,  United States
Campus:	Urban
Mascot:	Hawk
Website:	hunter.cuny.edu

See also: Hunter College High School

Hunter College of the City University of New York (more commonly known as Hunter College) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Apart from being the largest of the CUNY colleges, Hunter is one of the oldest public colleges in the United States. It is also one of the country's most diverse schools; Hunter has students hailing from 150 countries and speaking nearly 100 languages. Of Hunter’s 20,000 students, more than half belong to ethnic minority groups.^[1] Originally known as the Normal College, Hunter was founded in 1870 by Irish immigrant and social reformer Thomas Hunter as a teacher-training school for young women.^[2] Today, Hunter is a coeducational liberal arts and sciences college that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 100 fields.^[3] The college is organized into four schools: The School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of the Health Professions, and the School of Social Work.^[4] With a fundamental aim of helping students develop their rational, critical, and creative skills, Hunter is noted for its general excellence across fields. The 2008 edition of "America's Best Colleges," published by U.S. News & World Report, reflects Hunter’s overall achievement—the college placed 12th among public universities in the north in the "Best Universities-Master's" category, and among the 574 public and private institutions in this category, Hunter is in the first tier with a rank of 51.^[5] Additionally, in peer assessment reviews, Hunter has held the leading spot among CUNY’s senior colleges for the past three years.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Founding 1.2 Expansion 1.3 The CUNY Era 2 Campus 2.1 Main Campus 2.2 Other Campuses 2.3 Other Facilities 2.4 Libraries 3 Current Issues 3.1 Academic Freedom 3.2 Manhattan/Hunter College Science High School 3.3 Curriculum 3.4 Sexual Harassment 3.5 Julia Richman Education Complex 4 Student media 5 Notable alumni 5.1 Art 5.2 Entertainment and sports 5.3 Government, politics, and social issues 5.4 Literature 5.5 Science and technology 6 Notable faculty 7 In fiction 8 Trivia 9 References 10 External links

History

Founding

Hunter College has its origins in the nineteenth-century movement for normal school training which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School (later renamed the Normal College of the City of New York), organized in New York City in 1870. Founded by Irish immigrant Thomas Hunter, who was president of the school during the first 37 years, it was originally a women's college for training teachers. The school, which was housed in an armory and saddle store at Broadway and East Fourth Street in Manhattan, was open to all qualified women, irrespective of race, religion or ethnic background, which was incongruent to the prevailing admission practices of other schools during this era. Created by the New York State Legislature, Hunter was deemed the only approved institution for those seeking to teach in New York City during this time. The school incorporated an elementary and high school for gifted children, where students practiced teaching. In 1887, a kindergarten was established as well. (Today, the elementary school and the high school still exist at a different location, and are now called the Hunter College Campus Schools.)

During Thomas Hunter's tenure as president of the school, Hunter became known for its impartiality regarding race, religion, ethnicity, financial or political favoritism; its pursuit of higher education for women; its high entry requirements; and its rigorous academics. The college's student population quickly expanded, and the college subsequently moved uptown, into a new Gothic structure, now known as Thomas Hunter Hall, on Lexington Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets. In 1888 the school was incorporated as a college under the statutes of New York State, with the power to confer the degree of A.B. This led to the separation of the school into two "camps": the "Normals," who pursued a four-year course of study to become licensed teachers, and the "Academics," who sought non-teaching professions and the Bachelor of Arts degree. After 1902 when the "Normal" course of study was abolished, the "Academic" course became standard across the student body.

Expansion

In 1914 the Normal College became Hunter College in honor of its first president. At the same time, the college was experiencing a period of great expansion as increasing student enrollments necessitated more space. The college reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any municipally financed college in the United States. In 1930, Hunter's Brooklyn campus merged with City College's Brooklyn campus, and the two were spun off to form Brooklyn College. The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the Second World War, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the United States Navy who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES and SPARS.^[6] When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile.^[7] In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated a town house at 47-49 East 65th Street in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the future President and First Lady. Today it is known as Roosevelt House and is undergoing renovation to become an academic center.

The CUNY Era

Hunter became the women's college of the municipal system, and in the 1950s, when City College became coeducational, Hunter started admitting men to its Bronx campus. In 1964, the Manhattan campus began admitting men also. The Bronx campus subsequently became Lehman College in 1968. In 1968-1969, Black and Puerto Rican students struggled to get a department that would teach about their history and experience. These and supportive students and faculty expressed this demand through building take-overs, rallies, etc. In Spring 1969, Hunter College established Black and Puerto Rican Studies (now called Africana/Puerto Rican and Latino Studies). An "open admissions" policy initiated in 1970 by the City University of New York opened the school's doors to historically underrepresented groups by guaranteeing a college education to any and all who graduated from NYC high schools. Many African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Puerto Ricans, and students from the developing world made their presence felt at Hunter, and even after the end of "open admissions" still comprise a large part of the school's student body. As a result of the this increase in enrollment, Hunter opened new buildings on Lexington Avenue during the early 1980s. In further advancing Puerto Rican studies, Hunter became home to the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños ("Center for Puerto Rican Studies" or simply "Centro") in 1982. Today, Hunter College is a comprehensive teaching and research institution. Of the more than 20,000 students enrolled at Hunter, nearly 5,000 are enrolled in a graduate program, the most popular of which are education and social work. Although less than 28% of students are the first in their families to attend college, the college maintains its tradition of concern for women's education, with nearly three out of four students being female. In 2006, Hunter became home to the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, which will run training programs for young women to build their leadership, public speaking, business and advocacy skills. Princeton Review named the college as one of America's "Best Value" Colleges in its 2007 guide. In recent years, the college has integrated its undergraduate and graduate programs to successfully make advanced programs in fields such as (Psychology and Biology) - "Ph.D Program", (Education) - "Master's Program", (Mathematics) - "Master's Program", -"Ph.D Program"(Biology & Chemistry) - "Biochemistry", (Accounting) - "Master's Program" along with the highly competitive (Economics) - "Master's Program" to which only a select few students may enter based on excellent scholarship and performance, and less than half will earn a Master's Degree by maintaining a nearly perfect academic record and performing thesis research. Although far from the polar regions, Hunter is a member institution of the University of the Arctic, a network of schools providing education accessible to northern students.^[8]

Campus

Main Campus

Hunter College is anchored by its main campus at East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, a modern complex of three towers — the East, West, and North Buildings — and Thomas Hunter Hall, all of which are interconnected by skywalks. The college's official street address is 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065. (Formerly bearing the ZIP code of 10021, the code changed on July 1, 2007 in accordance with the United States Postal Service's plan to split the 10021 ZIP code.)^[9]It claims a Park Avenue address by virtue of the North Building, which stretches from 68th to 69th Streets along Park Avenue. The main campus is situated within walking distance of Central Park, as well as many of New York’s most prestigious cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the [[Asia Society Museum, and the Frick Collection. Additionally, it has its own No. 6 subway line stop at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Adjacent to the main subway exit, in front of the West Building, sits an iconic Hunter sculpture: “Tao” created by late Hunter professor and respected artist Tony Smith. The main campus is home to the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, as well as CUNY doctoral studies. It features numerous facilities that serve not only Hunter, but the surrounding community, and is particularly well-known as a center for the arts. The Assembly Hall, which seats more than 2,000, is a major performance site; the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, a 675-seat proscenium theatre, has over 100,000 visitors annually and hosts over 200 performances each season; the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall is a fully equipped concert space with 148 seats; the Frederick Loewe Theatre, a 50 x 54-foot black box performance space is the site of most department performances; and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery hosts professionally organized art exhibits. ^[10] Students have access to specialized learning facilities at the main campus, including the Dolciani Mathematics Learning Center, the Leona and Marcy Chanin Language Center, and the Physical Sciences Learning Center. A respected research institution, Hunter has numerous research laboratories in the natural and biomedical sciences. These labs accommodate post-docs, PhD students from the CUNY Graduate School, and undergraduate researchers. ^[11] College sports and recreational programs are served by the Hunter Sportsplex, located below the West Building. ^[12]The Sportsplex, a major athletics center in the metropolitan area, is built entirely underground and is the deepest building in New York City. It features numerous competition and practice facilities, including multiple gymnasiums, racquetball courts, a weight room, locker areas, a training room, Hall of Fame, showcases, classrooms, and offices.^[13]

Other Campuses

Hunter has two satellite campuses: The School of Social Work, located on East 79th street, which is dedicated to studies leading to the master of social work degree; and the Brookdale Campus, located on East 25th Street and 1st Avenue, which houses Hunter's School of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, the Brookdale Center on Aging, the Health Professions Library and several research centers and computer labs.^[14] Additionally, it is the site of the Hunter dormitory, which is home to over 600 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a limited number of nurses employed at Bellevue Hospital. Prior to the opening of City College's new "Towers," the Brookdale complex was the City University's only dormitory facility.

Other Facilities

Hunter College owns and operates property outside of its main campuses, including the MFA Building, Roosevelt House, and the Hunter College Campus Schools. The MFA Building, located on West 41st Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, is a 12,000 square-foot space that is the site of most BFA and MFA exhibitions.^[15] Roosevelt House, currently under renovation, is the Roosevelt’s historic family home on East 65th Street, which Hunter aims to establish as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. The institute will be an internationally prominent establishment honoring the public policy commitments of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and is scheduled to open in early 2008.^[16] The Hunter Campus Schools—Hunter College High School and Hunter College Elementary School—are publicly funded schools for the intellectually gifted. Located at East 94th Street, the Campus Schools are among the nation’s oldest and largest elementary and secondary schools of their kind.^[17]

Libraries

Hunter library collections are housed in the Jacqueline Grennan Wexler Library (the main library) and the Art Slide Library at East 68th Street, the Health Professions Library at the Brookdale Campus, and the Social Work Library at East 79th Street. Together, these libraries hold over 760,000 volumes, more than 2,100 current print periodical subscriptions and approximately 10,000 in electronic format, 1,168,000 microforms, 13,000 videos and music CDs, 250,000 art slides, and 40,000+ digital images. The CUNY+ online catalog of university-wide holdings and remote online databases are accessible at all Hunter libraries. ^[18] Under the guidance of the Presidential Task Force on the Library, created in the fall of 2006, the Wexler Library has undergone several improvements in the areas of facilities, holdings, and services. The library now features wireless capability, a redesigned student lounge and circulation desk, improved lighting, and expanded electronic resources. Additionally, the college has extended library hours, hired more library staff, and instituted a laptop loan program for students. More improvements are planned for the future, as part of an initiative to fully modernize the library.^[19]

Current Issues

Academic Freedom

In recent years, but particularly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, conservative students and faculty nationwide have rallied around David Horowitz and his arguments that colleges by and large impose a liberal agenda. As a result, colleges have come under pressure to adopt codes of academic freedom to ensure that professors do not impose their own beliefs on to students who may disagree with them politically. Conversely, many professors have expressed concern that college administrators are retaliating against faculty members who dissent either on administrative or political issues. At Hunter, the College Senate (consisting of student government, faculty, and administrators) established a committee in 2004 to investigate issues of academic freedom.^[20] The committee found that no faculty member was "pressured to make changes in the content or form of their classroom teaching." However, the committee did report allegations that departmental administrators imposed certain policies without a basis in student need and without consultation with faculty. The committee further reported on allegations that administrators unduly influenced faculty hiring and tenure decisions, bypassing formal governance procedures. Finally, the committee found that a "perception of a climate of fear" has dissuaded some faculty from engaging in discussions about college policy. Additionally, PSC-CUNY, the faculty labor union, was charged by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 2005 to conduct a survey of academic freedom among faculty in furtherance of the findings of the College Senate committee.^[21] The survey was conducted in 2006 and found that "only 22 percent of the respondents were satisfied in the faculty's role in shared governance," and only "44 percent ... agreed that the campus climate supports their personal freedom of expression." The survey also found that "23 percent of the respondents, and 30 percent of the full-time tenured faculty, said they had been subject to reprisals from the president or senior administrators." Finally, the survey found that "the faculty and staff have not had influence on major institutional issues in recent years," due to the failure of administrators to properly integrate faculty input. Some professors have expressed concerns as to the accuracy of the PSC/AAUP survey, claiming that its questions were biased and it was developed without a transparent process.^[22]

Manhattan/Hunter College Science High School

As a partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the Manhattan/Hunter College Science High School was opened in 2003 on the campus of the former Martin Luther King, Jr. High School on the Upper West Side. Unlike Hunter's campus schools, Hunter Science does not require an entrance exam for admission.^[23]

Curriculum

In 2006, students of Hunter College petitioned for changes in the curriculum, namely in the Political Science Department. According to an independent study^[24], Political Science Majors at the college received an average GPA of 3.47 (Compared to 3.62 with other major Universities in New York), yet were assigned almost double the reading materials and writing assignments, which when compared to other schools, were found to be of difficulty beyond that required or expected of an undergraduate student. The students have expressed that they find this matter "unfair", since it may jeopardize their acceptance to either Graduate Schools or Law Schools by reflecting a lower GPA. Similar concerns have been expressed by science majors at the college, namely Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry majors. However, those departments claim that "there is a price to pay in maintaining the level of education needed to ensure success after one's undergraduate degree, the rewards do not lie in a student's grades today, but in his or her success tomorrow"^[25]. Students have in fact shown higher scores on exams such as the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) and the DAT (Dental Admission Test) when compared to other CUNY schools^[26]. However, the Economics Department has been most successful in promoting a highly rigorous curriculum with high academic standards, all without any noteworthy negative feedback from students. The Accounting & Economics undergraduate degree programs have actively hired a collection of highly-talented faculty members to go along with the two demanding programs. Both faculty members and students note that a perfect (4.0) academic record with either an Accounting or Economics major might not be realistic due to the difficulty and demanding standards of the department, but the payoff is well-noted when graduates enter the workforce or move on to graduate schools. Although the Accounting degree does not allow for a second major or minors, students of both majors commonly minor in Mathematics & Statistics for a successful transition into Business School or a Graduate Finance program, while those interested in Law School or Public Policy commonly select to minor in Philosophy and/or Political Science.

Sexual Harassment

In 2005, and then again in 2006, Hunter College had closed access to the 17th floor bathrooms due to a series of harassment incidents that several young girls had claimed, "were just waiting to happen on an empty floor like the 17th"^[27]. However, after these incidents had taken place, the college administration ordered for the 17th floor bathrooms to be put out of order, and for students to use safer restroom facilities that are slightly more populated to ensure security and to prevent these incidents from occurring ever again.

Julia Richman Education Complex

The college is currently raising funds to purchase the Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC), a public high school building, with plans to raze it and build a science building on the site. JREC's location at East 67th Street at Second Avenue, near Hunter's main 68th Street campus, makes the site attractive for the college's expansion. College president Jennifer Raab and opponents of the expansion have traded opinion articles in local newspapers throughout 2006.^[28] In 2007, the college launched a website promoting the new science building.^[29] According to the site, Hunter's science departments at the Brookdale campus will essentially trade locations with the schools of the Julia Richman complex.^[30] It is a controversial plan which the educators of the Julia Richman Complex have denounced. Community members and local elected officials, including city councilmember Jessica Lappin and State Senator Liz Krueger, have formally voiced their opposition to the plan^[31], saying that "a preference by one CUNY school for expansion convenient to its existing campus is simply not a sufficient rationale" to "uproot six outstanding public schools."^[32].

A college-affiliated shuttle bus service connects the 68th Street, health sciences, and social work campuses. In addition, the college owns Roosevelt House, which will be used as a public policy academic center, located at 47-49 East 65th Street. The Department of Art also runs a campus at 450 West 41st Street, near Times Square, which houses the college's Masters of Fine Arts program.

Student media

Hunter College has a campus radio station, WHCS, which broadcasts at 590AM.^[33] The Envoy is the main campus newspaper, published bi-weekly during the academic year. Other publications include The Olivetree Review (literature and art), the WORD^[34] (news), the Wistarion (yearbook), SABOR (Spanish language), Revista De La Academia (Spanish language), The Islamic Times, The Shield (African-American interest), Political Paradigm (political science), Psych News (psychology), Hakol (Jewish interest), and Spoof (humor).^[35] Also featured at CUNY Hunter College are a series of cat-like stickers apparently being called "Kitten Mitten" by the students. These strange art creations have been spotted around Hunter's Main Campus and are increasing in numbers although the source is not currently known.

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Hunter College people

Art

• Jules de Balincourt - artist
• Ryan Humphrey - competitor on Bravo's first season of Top Design. Eliminated in episode 5. Received an MFA in 1999.[2]
• Terrance Lindall - artist
• Robert Morris - artist/sculptor
• Enoc Perez - artist

Entertainment and sports

• Martina Arroyo - opera singer
• Ellen Barkin - actress
• Edward Burns - actor
• Bobby Darin - musician
• Ruby Dee - actress
• Vin Diesel - actor
• Judy Reyes - actress
• Hugh Downs - television host
• Nikolai Fraiture - musician and bass player for The Strokes
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia - Tony Award-winning actor
• Richard Jeni - comedian
• Natasha Leggero - actress/comedian
• Jill Matthews - boxer and musician [3]
• Julianne Nicholson - actor on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, did not graduate
• Antonia Pantoja - Puerto Rican community leader, founder of Boricua College
• Rhea Perlman - actress
• Ron Rothstein - basketball coach
• Robert Smigel - comedic writer/actor
• Jean Stapleton - actress
• Trevor "Troi" Torain - radio personality (Star of Star & Buc Wild), did not graduate
• Nick Valensi - musician and guitarist for The Strokes
• Stephen Amsinger - The Sopranos
• J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner - Forensic Psychologist/Television Personality

Government, politics, and social issues

• Bella Abzug - Congresswoman and women's rights advocate
• Charles Barron - New York City Council member
• Keiko Bonk - activist, artist, politician, and highest-ranking elected Green Party member in the United States
• Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick - New York State Court of Appeals Judge
• Roger Manno - Maryland politician
• Soia Mentschikoff - attorney and law professor who worked on the Uniform Commercial Code
• Larry Seidlin - Broward County, Florida Judge, presided over Anna Nicole Smith's estate
• Donna Shalala - United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton, 10th President of Hunter College (1980-1988)
• John Timoney - Chief of Police of Miami, Florida
• Glen T. Martin - Radford University philosophy professor, Counterpunch contributor, and President of International Philosophers for Peace

Literature

• Maurice Berger - cultural critic
• Colin Channer - writer, musician, co-founder of Calabash International Literary Festival Trust
• Martin Greif - writer, publisher, former Managing Editor of Time-Life Books
• Ada Louise Huxtable - writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic
• Lauren Lawrence - writer, dream interpreter
• Audre Lorde - poet
• Sylvia Field Porter - economist/journalist, former Financial Editor of the New York Post
• Sonia Sanchez - poet
• Ned Vizzini - writer

Science and technology

• Susan Bershad - Well-known dermatologist [4]
• Gertrude Elion - Nobel Laureate in medicine
• Erich Jarvis - neurobiologist, Duke University Medical Center researcher[5]
• Rosalyn Yalow - Nobel Laureate in medicine
• Mildred Dresselhaus - National Medal of Science recipient, Institute Professor at MIT
• Arlie Petters - astrophysicist

Notable faculty

• Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand's intellectual heir and founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, taught philosophy at Hunter College for approximately ten years.
• Blake Schwarzenbach, singer/guitarist of Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil, currently teaches creative writing classes at Hunter.
• Tony Smith (sculptor)
• Stuart Meltzer, 40-year professor of English and French at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.

In fiction

• In the movie The Fisher King the character portrayed by Robin Williams was a History professor at Hunter prior to the tragic event he experienced
• A scene for the 2004 film The Interpreter was filmed at the Brookdale Campus.^[36]
• The comic A Couple of Guys features a character, Hector Velasquez, who is a fictional student of Hunter College.

Trivia

• The motto of Hunter College is "mihi cura futuri," meaning "the care of the future is mine." This was taken from book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
• Three female Hunter College students are known to have posed for Playboy magazine.^[37]
• The black sculpture in front of the West Building is called Tau, by Tony Smith, who taught at the college from 1962-1980.
• Jill Matthews was featured in Shadow Boxers, a documentary about Professional Female Boxing. Matthews has a degree in nutrition from Hunter College.
• Along the 68th Street façade of the North Building, a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is carved into the wall: "We are of different opinions at different hours but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of the truth."

References

External links

• Hunter College
• From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847-1997, by Sandra S. Roff, et al.

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