Brooklyn College
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| Motto | Nil sine magno labore ("Nothing without great effort") |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1930 |
| Endowment | $77 million |
| President | Michelle Anderson |
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Administrative staff
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519 full-time, 444 part-time |
| Students | 16,463 (2014) |
| Undergraduates | 13,276 (2014) |
| Postgraduates | 3,187 (2014) |
| Location |
Brooklyn, New York, United States 40°37′52″N 73°57′9″W / 40.63111°N 73.95250°WCoordinates: 40°37′52″N 73°57′9″W / 40.63111°N 73.95250°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – CUNYAC (South) |
| Sports | 14 varsity teams |
| Nickname | Bulldogs |
| Mascot | Bulldog |
| Affiliations |
CUNY AASCU |
| Website | www.brooklyn.cuny.edu |
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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
Brooklyn College's origin began in 1910 with the establishment of an extension division of the City College for Teachers. The school then began offering evening classes for first-year male college students in 1917. In 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College – at that time a women's college – and the City College of New York – a men's college – both of which had established been in 1926. With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City.
The college's 26-acre (110,000 m2) campus is known for its beauty, and is often regarded as "the poor man's Harvard" because of its low tuition and reputation for respectable academics. U S News & World Report has ranked the school tied for number 83 as a Regional college (North region).The school was ranked in the top ten for value, diversity, and location by Princeton Review in 2003 and in the top fifty for value in 2009.
In 1932, the architect Randolph Evans drafted a plan for the college's campus on a large plot of land his employer owned in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. He sketched out a Georgian-style campus facing a central quadrangle, and anchored by a library building with a tall tower. Evans presented the sketches to the president of the college at the time, Dr. William A. Boylan. Boylan was pleased with the plans, and the lot of land was purchased for $1.6 million. Construction of the new campus began in 1935, with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by then Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Brooklyn Borough President Raymond Ingersoll. In 1936, then-President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt went to Brooklyn College to lay the cornerstone of the Brooklyn College Gymnasium. President Boylan, Borough President Ingersoll, and President Roosevelt all had buildings on Brooklyn College's campus named after them. The campus located in Midwood became the only Brooklyn College campus after the school's Downtown Brooklyn campus was shut down during the 1975 budget emergency.
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