New York City College of Technology
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1946 (as New York State Institute for Applied Arts and Sciences) |
| Endowment | $12 million |
| President | Russell K. Hotzler |
| Provost | Bonne August |
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Academic staff
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425 Full Time, 1,049 Part-Time |
| Students | 17,000+ |
| Location |
Downtown Brooklyn, New York, USA (MetroTech Center & DUMBO) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue & Gold |
| Athletics | Yellow Jackets |
| Website | http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/ |
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Former names
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The New York Trade School (1881–1961), The Technical Schools of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1880) |
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| Type | Private |
| Active | 1881–1971 (acq. by New York City Community College of City University) |
| Location | New York City, New York, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
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Former names
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The New York State Institute for Applied Arts & Sciences (1946–1953) |
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| Type | Public |
| Active | 1946–1964 (Joined City University System) |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
Coordinates: 40°41′45″N 73°59′17″W / 40.695778°N 73.987974°W
Founded in 1946, the New York City College of Technology (known colloquially as City Tech) is the City University of New York’s college of technology.
City Tech has an enrollment of more than 17,000 students in 66 baccalaureate, associate, and specialized certificate programs including several engineering technology fields as well as architecture, construction, nursing, hospitality management, entertainment technology, dental hygiene, vision care technology, technology teacher training and paralegal training. Non-degree continuing education is also offered, and serves approximately 14,000 students each year. City Tech is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
City Tech was founded in 1946 as The New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences. The urgent mission at the time was to provide training to GIs returning from the Second World War and to provide New York with the technically proficient workforce it would need to thrive in the emerging post-war economy. No one in 1946 could have predicted the transformation the College has experienced. From its beginnings as an Institute—to being chartered as a community college—and subsequently transitioning to senior college status during the 1980s—it has grown from serving 246 students in 1946, to a population today of more than 30,000 degree and non-degree seeking students.
• 1881 - The Technical Schools of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is renamed the New York Trade School to more precisely reflect its curriculum (after the art education program is moved to a separate school).
• 1892 - Financier J. Pierpont Morgan sizably endows the New York Trade School. Over the next 60 years it gains a reputation as the nation’s leading trade school for American young men and the model upon which other trade schools are founded.
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