Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Brooklyn College
of The City University of New York

Motto	Latin: Nil sine magno labore
Motto in English	Nothing without great effort
Type	Public
Established	1930
Academic affiliations	ACE AAC&U CUNY
Endowment	$84.42 million
Budget	$122,292,702 (2018)
President	Michelle Anderson
Provost	Roberta S. Matthews
Administrative staff	519 full-time, 444 part-time
Students	17,803 (2017)
Undergraduates	14,689 (2017)
Postgraduates	3,114 (2017)
Location	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States 40°37′52″N 73°57′9″W / 40.63111°N 73.95250°W / 40.63111; -73.95250Coordinates: 40°37′52″N 73°57′9″W / 40.63111°N 73.95250°W / 40.63111; -73.95250
Campus	Urban, 35 acres (0.14 sq km2)
Colors	Maroon, Gold, and Warm Grey
Athletics	NCAA Division III – CUNYAC (South)
Nickname	Bulldogs
Sports	14 varsity teams
Mascot	Buster the Bulldog
Website	www.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Brooklyn College is a senior university of the City University of New York, located on the border of the Midwood and Flatbush neighborhoods 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 been established in 1926. With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City.

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, the 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.