Guttman Community College
President Larry Johnson, Jr. | | |
| Provost | Nicola Blake | |
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| Students | 995 (as of Fall 2016)[1] | |
| Location | , , United States 40°45′10″N 73°59′03″W / 40.7529°N 73.9841°W | |
| Campus | Urban | |
| Website | www | |
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Stella and Charles Guttman Community College is a
public community college in New York City. It is the newest of the City University of New York's (CUNY) community colleges
and was founded on September 11, 2011. It opened on August 20, 2012 as New Community College. In April 2013 the college was renamed following a $15 million endowment from the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation.
Guttman offers
Certificate of High School Equivalency
.
History
Guttman was the first community college established by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Michael Bloomberg's Center for Economic Opportunity.[2][3] Described by The New York Times as "a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges," Guttman College's academic structure and curriculum were designed from scratch in an effort to improve students' chances of completing their associate degrees and transferring to four-year colleges for further study.[4]
In 2010, the first faculty members were appointed, and Scott E. Evenbeck, professor of psychology and dean of University College at
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was named the founding President, taking up his post in January 2011.[5] The college was officially established on September 11, 2011 and opened with its first intake of students in August 2012. The college had, and continues to have, an open admissions policy, provided students have a high school diploma or a Certificate of High School Equivalency. However, unlike any of the other schools within CUNY, applicants are not considered until they have attended a lengthy information session and one-on-one interviews with counselors. Of its initial 4,000 applicants, 504 went through the information session and interviews. Of those, approximately 300 decided to enroll in the founding class.[4][6]
The college opened under the name "New Community College". In April 2013—after the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation gifted a $25 million endowment, one of the largest ever donations to a public two-year college—the CUNY Board of Trustees passed a resolution renaming the college "Stella and Charles Guttman Community College".[7]
References
Notes
- ^ a b Guttman Community College. Fast Facts. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ Iasevoli, Brenda (27 October 2010). "A New CUNY Community College Is Opening in 2012". The Village Voice. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ "Dr. Scott E. Evenbeck Named Founding President Of The City University of New York's New Community College" (Press release). City University of New York. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ "Stella and Charles Guttman Community College: A Timeline". Guttman Community College. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
Further reading
- Alexandra Weinbaum, Camille Rodríguez, Nan Bauer-Maglin (February 2013). Rethinking Community College for the 21st Century. Case study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the New Community College at CUNY.
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