Lehman College
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College
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s of the City University of New York
City University of New York
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, USA. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx
The Bronx
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campus of Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, the school became an independent college within the City University in 1968. The college is named after Herbert Lehman, a former New York
New York
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governor, United States
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senator, and philanthropist. It is a public, comprehensive, coeducational liberal arts college with more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations.
History
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 NavyUnited States Navy
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who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES
WAVES
The WAVES were a World War II-era division of the U.S. Navy that consisted entirely of women. The name of this group is an acronym for "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" ; the word "emergency" implied that the acceptance of women was due to the unusual circumstances of the war and...
and SPARS
SPARS
SPARS was the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve, created 23 November 1942 with the signing of Public Law 773 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The name is a contraction of the Coast Guard motto: Semper Paratus and its English translation Always Ready...
. The last of its graduates Sgt. Miriam Cohen died in 2009, bringing an end to the era. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/11/22/2009-11-22_the_bugles_call_miriam_cohen_nations_oldest_woman_marine_is_laid_to_rest.html http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/sec4.htm When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations
United Nations
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, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile. Lehman College's founding president was Leonard Lief
Leonard Lief
Leonard Lief was founding president of Lehman College, a Bronx institution that is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. Lief was the college's president from 1968 to 1990, solidifying it as a college with a liberal arts focus on a tree-lined campus...
and he was succeeded by Ricardo R. Fernández.
Campus
Located near the Jerome Park ReservoirJerome Park Reservoir
The Jerome Park Reservoir is located in Jerome Park, a neighborhood in the North Bronx, New York City. It was built in 1906 to serve the Croton Aqueduct as part of the New York City water supply system....
at 250 Bedford Park
Bedford Park, Bronx
Bedford Park is a residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx between the New York Botanical Garden and Lehman College. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: Mosholu Parkway to the north, Webster Avenue to the east, East 198th Street to the south, and Jerome Avenue...
Boulevard West (250 West 200th Street).
Lehman has a 37-acre (15 hectare) campus with a combination of Collegiate Gothic
Gothic Revival architecture
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and modern architecture
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.
The campus was the main national training ground for women in the military during World War II
World War II
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. For a decade before the entry of the United States in the Second World War, only women students attended, taking their first two years of study at the Bronx campus and then transferring to Hunter’s Manhattan campus to complete their undergraduate work.
It was also the interim headquarters for the newly formed United Nations
United Nations
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for six months in 1946. From March to August 1946, the first American meetings of the Security Council were held in the Gymnasium Building where intercollegiate basketball, archery, swimming, and other sports have been played. During festivities marking the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in 1986, the Southern New York State Division of the United Nations Association presented the College with a commemorative plaque, now displayed outside the Gymnasium Building. The College participated in the United Nations’ 50th anniversary activities in 1995-96.
In the mid-1990s, a new postmodern-style gymnasium was opened, the Apex,designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly, standing in contrast to the Gothic revival buildings that define the campus.
The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is a professional theater.
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/lehman/enews/2006_09_18/pdf/pac_schedule.pdf.
Students
Students at Lehman College are from multiple ethnic and racial identities, multiple language backgrounds, various social classes, and diverse sexual orientations with many international students.Enrollment (Fall 2005) Lehman College:
Undergraduates: 5,119 full time + 3,323 part time;
Graduate Students: 120 full time + 2,053 part time
Programs
Lehman College offers a variety of selective and distinguished undergraduate and graduate programs in the Schools of Arts & Humanities, Education, Natural and Social Sciences, and Continuing Education.Macaulay Honors College at Lehman
The highly selective Macaulay Honors College at Lehman provides a full tuition scholarship, $3000 yearly stipend, Apple laptop computer, as well as an opportunities fund of $7,500 that can be used for various activities such as study abroad, reimbursements for internships or research, and service learning. Students in the honors college are required to take 4 seminars relating to New York City, maintain a 3.5 average and to graduate within four years. They also must take four Lehman Scholars Program Seminars, or "LSP"s. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/lehman/honorscollege/ http://www.macaulay.cuny.eduLehman Scholars Program
The Lehman Scholars Program (L.S.P.) is designed for capable and highly motivated students who have the desire and ability to pursue a somewhat more independent liberal arts course of study. The program offers the advantages of a small, intimate college, including special courses, seminars, and individual counseling.The Lehman Scholars Program offers several special features, first being that students are exempt from all Degree Requirements. They must, however, pass the CUNY Skills Assessment Tests to be admitted to the program and meet all course prerequisites and requirements for their major field.
The Lehman Scholars Program has its own requirements, which students must fulfill: a one-semester honors course in English composition and stylistics; two years of a foreign language at the college level or its equivalent; four honors seminars from any of four different academic areas: Fine and Performing Arts, Humanities, Natural Science, and Social Science; and a senior honors essay.
Students who enter the program with more than 30 credits may be considered for exemption from one seminar after consultation with the Program Director, Professor Gary Schwartz.
Mentors: Each student entering the program will be assigned to a faculty mentor in his or her field of interest. The mentor will advise the student in the areas of program planning and academic and career goals.
Application Procedure: Students who have earned 60 or fewer college credits may apply for either September, June, or January admission. They will be notified about their acceptance in time for the following semester's registration.http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/lehman/programs/undergrad-bulletin/1635.htm
College Now
The College Now program allows selected high school students to take college courses. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/provost/enrollmentmgmt/collegenow/index.htmlFreshman Year Initiative
The Freshman Year Initiative is a program involving "blocks" of classes, similar to many high schools, which allows for new and first year students to get to know each other and become familiar with the college environment.All first-year students participate in the program, which promotes an interdisciplinary curriculum, faculty collaboration, and peer support. All students take mathematics and writing courses as well as a Freshman Seminar when they arrive to prepare them for the rest of their college courses.
Faculty
There are 337 full-time faculty. The average class size is 19 http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/about/about.html. Prominent professors include:- Jason Behrstock, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sloan FellowshipSloan FellowshipThe Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This is distinct from the Sloan Fellows in business....
winner - Eugene Chudnovsky, Distinguished Professor of Physics http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/departments/faculty/chudnovsky.html
- Billy CollinsBilly CollinsBilly Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, Professor of English, United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 - John CoriglianoJohn CoriglianoJohn Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...
, Professor of Music, Academy Award winner - Serge A. Del Grosso, Noted playwright and OBIE award winner. Author of "That Island; A Drama in two acts" (University of Toronto Press 1972)
- Eric Delson, Professor of Anthropology http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/whatisnew/faculty/scholars.html
- Martin DubermanMartin DubermanMartin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School...
, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus - Maxwell L. Gordon, Musician and Composer, famous works include "3 Sugars" and "$11.83".
- Nancy Griffeth, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Linda KeenLinda KeenLinda Jo Goldway Keen is a mathematician and Professor of Mathematics and Computer science at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York where she has worked since 1965. As a high school student she attended the Bronx High School of Science...
, Professor of Mathematics, Noether Lecturer http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/Keen93.htmlhttp://math.gc.cuny.edu/homepages/KeenResearch.pdf - Adam Koranyi, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science http://math.gc.cuny.edu/homepages/Koranyi.html
- Irene S. Leung, Professor of Geology and Geography http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/whatisnew/faculty/scholars.html
- Victor PanVictor PanVictor Ya. Pan is a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist. He earned his Ph.D. at Moscow University then continued at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. During that time, he published a number of significant papers and became known informally as "polynomial Pan" for his pioneering...
, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/ - Rosalie PurvisRosalie PurvisRosalie Purvis is a Dutch-American theatre director and choreographer. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College, followed by a Master of Arts degree from Brooklyn College. During the late 1990s, she gained a considerable following in the Netherlands...
, Avant Garde Theater Director http://www.rosaliepurvis.com - Joseph W. Rachlin, Professor of Biological Sciences, Director of LaMER, Fellow of the Linnean Society http://www.lehman.edu/faculty/jrachlin/Rachlin.html
- Katherine St. JohnKatherine St. JohnKatherine St. John is an Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Computer Science and at Lehman College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is a faculty member at the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology...
, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/whatisnew/faculty/scholars.html - Eleanore T. Wurtzel, Professor of Biology, AAAS Fellow http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2006.shtmlhttp://a32.lehman.cuny.edu/webwurtzel/wurtzelhomepage/wurtzel.html
- Suzanne Yates, Associate Professor of Psychology http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/whatisnew/faculty/scholars.html
- Mardi Valgemae, Professor of English http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/english/fac_valgemae.html
Programs and accreditation
The following programs are listed as having courses http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/programs/departments.html. Many programs are offered in the evening. Actual course offerings on a given semester can be found at Lehman College's website.- Accounting, undergrad and masters
- African and African American Studies, undergrad
- American Studies, undergrad
- Ancient & Medieval Civilizations
- Anthropology, undergrad
- Art History, undergrad and masters
- Art, undergrad and masters
- Astronomy, undergrad and masters
- Biology, undergrad and masters, affiliation with the New York Botanical GardenNew York Botanical Garden- See also :* Education in New York City* List of botanical gardens in the United States* List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City- External links :* official website** blog*...
- Bilingual Special Education, masters
- Business Administration, undergrad and masters
- Chemistry, undergrad and masters
- Chinese, undergrad
- Classical Culture, undergrad
- Computer Graphics and Imaging, undergrad
- Computer Information Systems, undergrad
- Comparative Literature, undergrad
- Computer Science, undergrad and masters
- Counselor Education/School Counseling, masters
- Creative & Professional Writing, undergrad
- Dietetics, Foods, and Nutrition, undergrad and masters
- Dance, undergrad
- Early Childhood/Childhood Education, undergrad and masters
- Economics, undergrad
- Educational Leadership, Building Leader and District Leader, masters
- English, undergrad and masters
- French, Languages & Literature
- Global Studies
- Human Geography, undergrad and masters
- Geology, undergrad and masters
- Physical Geography, undergrad and masters
- Arabic Languages & Literature
- German Languages & Literature
- Gaelic Irish Languages & Literature
- Greek Languages & Literature
- Health Services & Promotion
- Hebrew Languages & Literature
- History of Modern Europe
- History
- History of Asian, Latin America, Russia
- Health Education
- Health Services Administration
- Health Services
- Individualized Baccalaureate Program, Adult Degree Program
- Italian-American Studies
- Italian
- Japanese
- Japanese Culture
- Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- Linguistics
- Literacy Studies, masters
- Mathematics, undergrad and masters
- Multilingual Journalism
- Mass Communication
- Middle and High School Education, undergrad and masters
- Music Education
- Journalism, Communication & Theater
- Music History
- Musical Performance
- Music Theory
- Nursing
- Nursing/Support Courses, undergrad and masters
- Physics, undergrad and masters
- Political Science, undergrad and masters
- Puerto Rican Studies
- Psychology
- Recreation Education, undergrad and masters
- Russian
- Sociology, undergrad and masters
- Spanish, Languages & Literature, undergrad and masters
- Speech Pathology, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, undergrad and masters
- Special Education, (Childhood, Adolescent, bilingual) masters
- Swahili
- Social Work, Undergrad and Masters
- Theater
- Women's Studies
- World Classics
- Yiddish Language & Literature
Lehman College is a public college within the public university: City University of New York
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
. It is accredited by
Board of Regents, University of the State of New York; Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools; Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education; Association of University Programs in Health Administration; American Chemical Society; Professional State Accreditation in Teaching; the National League for Nursing; American Speech Language Hearing Association; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education; Council on the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs; and the Council on Social Work Education.
http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/about/about.html
Athletics
NCAA, CUNY Athletic Conference, ECAC, Hudson Valley Men's/Women's Athletic Conferences, Knickerbocker Athletic Conference, Metropolitan Collegiate Swimming Conference, Metropolitan Intercollegiate Men's Volleyball Conference, and the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Conference. All sports are NCAA Division III.Famous students
- Michael BaconMichael BaconMichael Bacon may refer to:*Michael Bacon , musician/composer who is part of the musical group The Bacon Brothers*Michael Bacon , video game artist/producer/developer...
- Eliot Engel
- Whoopi GoldbergWhoopi GoldbergWhoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...
- Ron PerlmanRon PerlmanRonald N. "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for having played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast , a Deathstroke figure known as Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, Clarence "Clay" Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, the comic book character...
- Christopher "Kid" Reid
- José Enrique Serrano
- Bob StewartBob StewartBob Stewart may refer to:*Bob Stewart , television producer*Bob Stewart , tuba player*Bob Stewart , ice hockey player...