Lehman College

Lehman College
Plaza and Music Building
Established September 1967
President Ricardo R. Fernández
Undergraduates 10,326
Postgraduates 2,072
Location Bronx, New York, U.S.
Campus Urban
Colors Royal blue, kelly green, and white
Mascot Lightning Bug
Website lehman.edu

Coordinates: 40°52′21″N 73°53′38″W / 40.87250°N 73.89389°W

Lehman College is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York, United States. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist. It is a public, comprehensive, coeducational liberal arts college with more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations.

History

Hunter College in the Bronx was built during the 1930s. 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.[1] One of the first of its graduates, Sgt. Miriam Cohen, died in 2009. On Feb. 13, 1943, Miriam graduated in the first class of WWII women Marines. At 35, she was one of the oldest women to ever join the Marines.[2][3] 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.[4] Lehman College's founding president was Leonard Lief and he was succeeded by Ricardo R. Fernández.

Campus

Map of Lehman College Campus

Located near the Jerome Park Reservoir at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West (250 West 200th Street).

Lehman has a 37 acre (15 hectare) campus with a combination of Collegiate Gothic and modern architecture. The school's architects were Kerr Rainsford, John A. Thompson, and Gerald A. Holmes; they had earlier designed the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on New York's Upper East Side.[5]

The campus was the main national training ground for women in the military during World War II. 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 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.

Lehman College houses a state-of-the-art multimedia center in Carman Hall, comprising an acoustically designed recording studio, audio and video production control rooms, editing suites, student newsroom, media conversion room, graphics room, and "technology-enhanced" classrooms. BronxNet public access channel is also headquartered in Carman Hall, where many programs are produced including Bronx Talk and Open.[6]

In 2012, Lehman dedicated its new $70 million Science Hall, a four-story building equipped with high-tech classrooms and laboratories, as well as a rooftop teaching and research greenhouse. In 2013, Science Hall was awarded a LEED platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, the first CUNY building to earn the top green building rating.[7] The structural engineers for this project was Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA).

The Lehman College Center for the Performing Arts is a professional theater which seats 2,310. The campus is also home to the Lehman College Art Gallery.[8]

The Apex, Lehman College's post-modern style athletic and fitness facility, opened in 1994. Designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly, the Apex stands in contrast to the original Gothic revival buildings that define the campus.

Old Gymnasium

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 2012) Lehman College: Undergraduates: 9,663 Graduate Students: 2,289 Total: 11,952 students

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. Lehman College is preparing to launch the School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing in 2014.

Macaulay Honors College at Lehman

The highly selective Macaulay Honors College at Lehman provides a full tuition scholarship, Apple laptop computer, and 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 grade point average, and graduate within four years. They also must take four Lehman Scholars Program Seminars, or "LSP"s.[9][10]

Lehman 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.[11]

College Now

The College Now program allows selected high school students to take college courses.[12]

Freshman 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 nearly 400 full-time faculty. Prominent faculty include:

Programs and accreditation

The following programs are listed as having courses.[25] Many programs are offered in the evening. Actual course offerings on a given semester can be found at Lehman College's website.

Lehman College is a public college within the public university: City University of New York. 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.[26]

Athletics

Lehman College teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Lightning Bugs are a member of the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, swimming & diving, track &field, tennis and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball.

In 2012–13, the Lightning Bugs won CUNYAC Championships in men's swimming and diving and women's outdoor track and field. The school produced two All-Americans in women's outdoor track: Tobi Alli (100 m) and Jasmine Springer (Triple Jump).[27]

Conference Affiliations

Famous students

References

  1. ↑ "Free A Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II (Early Training: Holyoke and Hunter)". Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Nation's oldest female Marine is laid to rest after passing away on Veteran's Day". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  3. ↑ "Free A Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II (Early Training: Holyoke and Hunter)". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  4. ↑ History of Lehman College
  5. ↑ Norval White, Elliot Willensky, Fran Leadon (2010). AIA Guide to New York City. Oxford University Press. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Lehman College - Multimedia Center". Lehman.edu. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  7. ↑ "Science Hall: First CUNY Building to Achieve Top Green Building Rating". Wp.lehman.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  8. ↑ "Lehman College - Arts, Arts at Lehman, Center for the Performing Arts, Art Gallery, Music Department, Lehman Stages". Lehman.edu. 2013-07-22. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  9. ↑ http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/lehman/honorscollege/
  10. ↑ "macaulay.cuny.edu". macaulay.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  11. ↑ "Lehman College - Lehman College: Undergraduate Bulletin". Lehman.edu. 2013-08-05. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ "Lehman College - Department of Physics and Astronomy: Eugene M. Chudnovsky". Lehman.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  14. ↑ "Lehman College - Department of Anthropology - Faculty Eric Delson". Lehman.edu. 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  15. ↑ "Profiles of Women in Mathematics: Linda G. Keen". Awm-math.org. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  16. ↑ "The Graduate Center, CUNY - Mathematics". Math.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  17. ↑ "The Graduate Center, CUNY - Mathematics". Math.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2
  19. ↑ "Victor Y. Pan - Lehman College CUNY". Comet.lehman.cuny.edu. 2000-09-01. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  20. ↑ "rosaliepurvis.com". rosaliepurvis.com. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  21. ↑ "Dr. Joseph W. Rachlin". Lehman.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  22. ↑ "AAAS - 2006 Fellows". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  23. ↑ http://a32.lehman.cuny.edu/webwurtzel/wurtzelhomepage/wurtzel.html
  24. ↑ http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/english/fac_valgemae.html
  25. ↑ http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/programs/departments.html
  26. ↑ http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/about/about.html
  27. ↑ "Lehman College Athletics - Springer and Alli Earn All-America Honors from USTFCCCA". Lehmanathletics.com. Retrieved 2014-03-08.

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