EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

New York City's system of universities:

• Brooklyn College
• Lehman College
• Queens College New York
• Bernard Baruch College
• City College of New York
• Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Queensborough Community College
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1847

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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