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City University of New York

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

New York City's system of universities:

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1847

Official Website:
http://www.cuny.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kathy Acker
Author
18-Apr-1947 1-Dec-1997 Blood and Guts in High School
Sheldon Adelson
Business
1-Aug-1933   Las Vegas billionaire
Arthur F. Anton
Business
c. 1957   CEO of Swagelok Company
Toni Cade Bambara
Novelist
25-Mar-1939 9-Dec-1995 Gorilla, My Love
Lipman Bers
Mathematician
22-May-1914 29-Oct-1993 Riemann surfaces
William L. Chenevich
Business
c. 1944   Vice Chairman of Technology, US Bancorp
Yvette Clarke
Politician
21-Nov-1964   Congresswoman, New York 11th
Joseph Crowley
Politician
16-Mar-1962   Congressman, New York 7th
Robert D. Daleo
Business
c. 1950   CFO of Thomson Reuters
Donald Devine
Government
c. 1937   Director, Office of Personnel Management, 1981-85
Albert Ellis
Psychologist
27-Sep-1913 24-Jul-2007 Rational emotive behavior therapy
Eliot Engel
Politician
18-Feb-1947   Congressman, New York 17th
Evelyn Follit
Business
c. 1948   CIO of Radio Shack, 1999-2005
Matthew Goldstein
Educator
c. 1941   Chancellor of CUNY
Oscar Hijuelos
Novelist
24-Aug-1951 12-Oct-2013 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Robert Hofstadter
Physicist
5-Feb-1915 17-Nov-1990 Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
Marjorie Knoller
Criminal
c. 1946   Presa Canario enthusiast
Jim Moran
Politician
16-May-1945   Congressman, Virginia 8th
Albert A. Nofi
Historian
6-Jan-1944   To Train the Fleet for War
Stephen C. Patrick
Business
c. 1950   CFO of Colgate-Palmolive
Michael I. Roth
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Interpublic Group
Candida Royalle
Pornstar
15-Oct-1950 7-Sep-2015 Femmes De Sade
Frank Serpico
Activist
14-Apr-1936   The most dangerous man alive - An honest cop
Carl Spielvogel
Business
27-Dec-1928   Advertising executive, Bates Worldwide
Elan Steinberg
Activist
2-Jun-1952 6-Apr-2012 World Jewish Congress
Shibley Telhami
Scholar
c. 1952   Middle East scholar
Samuel J. Tilden
Politician
9-Feb-1814 4-Aug-1886 Lost the stolen 1876 US election
Gina Trapani
Blogger
19-Sep-1975   Lifehacker

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Donald Barthelme
Author
7-Apr-1931 23-Jul-1989 Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Joyce F. Brown
Educator
c. 1946   Fashion Institute of Technology
Rhonda Copelon
Attorney
15-Sep-1944   Law Professor at CUNY
Alice Denham
Author
21-Jan-1927 27-Jan-2016 Sleeping with the Bad Boys
Niles Eldredge
Paleontologist
25-Aug-1943   Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium
Joshua B. Freeman
Historian
1949   In Transit
William H. Gerdts
Art Historian
18-Jan-1929   Art Across America
Édouard Glissant
Poet
21-Sep-1928 3-Feb-2011 L'Intention Poétique
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Historian
8-Aug-1922   Victorian Minds
David Ignatow
Poet
7-Feb-1914 17-Nov-1997 Rescue the Dead
Jeff Jarvis
Blogger
12-Sep-1954   Founder of Entertainment Weekly
Stanley Kauffmann
Critic
24-Apr-1916 9-Oct-2013 Film critic for The New Republic
Eric Lott
Scholar
20-May-1959   Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy
Harry M. Markowitz
Economist
24-Aug-1927   Portfolio theory
Louis Menand
Critic
21-Jan-1952   The Metaphysical Club
Stanley Milgram
Psychologist
15-Aug-1933 20-Dec-1984 Milgram Experiment
Michael L. Mussa
Economist
15-Apr-1944   Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88
David Nasaw
Historian
18-Jul-1945   Schooled to Order
Gail K. Naughton
Biologist
c. 1955   Advanced Tissue Sciences
Herbert S. Parmet
Historian
28-Sep-1929   Eisenhower and the American Crusades
Frances Fox Piven
Activist
10-Oct-1932   Regulating The Poor
Daniel R. Raichel
Scientist
1935 22-Dec-2006 Acoustics expert
Bertrand Russell
Mathematician
18-May-1872 2-Feb-1970 Mathematician, atheist, and social critic
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt
Anna J. Schwartz
Economist
11-Nov-1915 21-Jun-2012 A Monetary History of the United States
Lewis C. Solmon
Economist
17-Jul-1942 17-Dec-2007 Education reformer
Carol van Voorst
Diplomat
c. 1951   US Ambassador to Iceland, 2006-09
Elie Wiesel
Activist
30-Sep-1928 2-Jul-2016 Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Albert H. Bowker
Educator
8-Sep-1919 20-Jan-2008 Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80
Ira H. Fuchs
Administrator
?   Founder of BITNET
Matthew Goldstein
Educator
c. 1941   Chancellor of CUNY
Christoph M. Kimmich
Educator
16-Jan-1939   President, Brooklyn College
Paul LeClerc
Administrator
28-May-1941   CEO of New York Public Library
W. Ann Reynolds
Educator
3-Nov-1937   Chancellor of CUNY, 1990-97
Sy Sternberg
Business
24-Jun-1943   CEO of New York Life


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