CUNY's history dates back to the formation of the Free Academy in 1847 by Townsend Harris.

By the end of the 1960s, admission to CUNY's flagship City College had become highly competitive.

Remedial education, to supplement the training of under-prepared students, became a significant part of CUNY's offerings.

In fall 1976, however, amid the turmoil of New York City's dire fiscal crisis, the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.

CUNY's enrollment dipped after tuition was re-established.

Critics had cautioned that the policy change could lead to a drop in enrollment of minority students at CUNY's four-year institutions.

CUNY's Law School grants Juris Doctor ( J. D.

CUNY has its own police force whose duties are to protect and serve all students and faculty members, and enforce all state and city laws at all of CUNY's universities.

CUFF is CUNY's official film festival.

* " Celebrating CUNY's Genius Philosopher " by Gary Shapiro, The New York Sun, January 27, 2006.

* Celebrating CUNY's Genius Philosopher, by Gary Shapiro, January 27, 2006, in The New York Sun.

* William E. Macaulay Honors College – this collaborative endeavor of CUNY's senior colleges occupies the 92nd St Y's former Makor / Steinhardt Building on West 67th Street, east of Columbus Avenue, the latter having relocated to Tribeca.

A core faculty of approximately 150 Graduate Center appointments is supplemented by over 1, 800 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.

He taught philosophy at CUNY's Hunter College from 1972 to 1979 and at other New York City schools as well as at the University of Texas, Austin for a semester in 2002.

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Task Force on CUNY was led by Schmidt, and in 1999 Schmidt authored a report that provided CUNY's present and successful blueprint.

He was a visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics, as well as a Soros Senior Justice Fellow.

Today, with an enrollment of more than 7, 780 students, York serves as one of CUNY's leading liberal arts colleges, granting bachelor's degrees in more than 40 fields, including those in the Heath Professions, Nursing ( BS ) and a combined BS / MS degree in Occupational Therapy, among others.

He graduated from CUNY's Baruch College, obtaining an MBA from the same school in 1976.

He conceived and implemented CUNY's first capital fundraising campaign which raised over $ 1. 4 billion and recently announced a new phase aimed at raising a total of $ 3 billion in philanthropic contributions.

He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University, and received CUNY's presidential excellence award for distinguished scholarship in 2002.

They also want money, prestige, and security.

`` We also do a number of things to build up the prestige of the engineer as a ' professional ' and also to give public recognition to individual technical competence.

During his time in Vienna, Salieri acquired great prestige as a composer and conductor, particularly of opera, but also of chamber and sacred music.

With BME specifically, the ranking of a university's hospital and medical school can also be a significant factor in the perceived prestige of its BME department / program.

Octavian's prestige and, more importantly, the loyalty of his legions, had been initially boosted by Julius Caesar's legacy of 44 BC, by which the then nineteen-year-old Octavian had been officially adopted as the only son of the great Roman general and also established as the sole legitimate heir of his enormous wealth.

This type of door is also often seen as a mark of prestige and glamour for a building and it not unusual for neighbouring buildings to install their own revolving doors when a rival building gets one.

David Holbrook, who has written three books about Thomas, stated in 1962, " the strangest feature of Dylan Thomas's notoriety-not that he is bogus, but that attitudes to poetry attached themselves to him which not only threaten the prestige, effectiveness and accessability to English poetry, but also destroyed his true voice and, at last, him.

Graph theory is also widely used in sociology as a way, for example, to measure actors ' prestige or to explore diffusion mechanisms, notably through the use of social network analysis software.

The series included the new prestige Statesman brand, which also had a longer wheelbase, replacing the Brougham.

There is also a strong probability that for most or all of the period the temple at Bethel in Benjamin replaced that at Jerusalem, boosting the prestige of Bethel's priests ( the Aaronites ) against those of Jerusalem ( the Zadokites ), now in exile in Babylon.

The " g " is also notable ; unless it starts a sentence, it is pronounced, like the ng in " sing ," in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects.

There is also the theory that adding to the price of a luxury product increases its exchange-value by mere prestige.

This act of contrition, partly in emulation of Theodosius I, had the effect of greatly reducing his prestige as a Frankish ruler, for he also recited a list of minor offences about which no secular ruler of the time would have taken any notice.

It was also an opportunity to establish the skill and prestige of the pro game.

They have a " professional association, cognitive base, institutionalized training, licensing, work autonomy, colleague control ... ( and ) code of ethics ," to which Larson then also adds, " high standards of professional and intellectual excellence ," ( Larson, p. 221 ) that " professions are occupations with special power and prestige ," ( Larson, p. x ) and that they comprise " an exclusive elite group ," ( Larson, p. 20 ) in all societies.

Shamanic knowledge usually enjoys great power and prestige in the community, but it may also be regarded suspiciously or fearfully as potentially harmful to others.

She also befriended clergy from the continent, which added to the prestige of both herself and her husband as a Christian king.

Academic research is also considered to be an important feature and popular way to gauge the prestige of business schools.

Khrushchev's downfall from an internal coup d ' état in 1964 also contributed to Mao's fears of political vulnerability, particularly because of his dwindling prestige amongst his colleagues following the Great Leap Forward.

Bonaparte also insisted that the courts judging civil and criminal cases should be the same, if only to give them more prestige.

He also believed that the show had the same effect on the prestige in the television industry of producing shows for children.

The enhanced status of cooking also made the kitchen a prestige object for showing off one's wealth or cooking professionalism.

While garnering more substantial roles and prestige, he also gained a reputation as a ladies man, dating numerous women, some many years older, including Cher and Ellen Barkin.