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New York, City University of

New York, City University of (CUNY), at New York City; created in 1961 by combining the city's 17 municipal colleges. It includes Bernard M. Baruch College (1919; specializes in business studies), Brooklyn College (1930), City College (1847; the oldest member college), the College of Staten Island (1976; an amalgamation of Staten Island Community College and Richmond College), Hunter College (1870), John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1964), Herbert H. Lehman College (1931; until 1968 the Bronx campus of Hunter College), Medgar Evers College (1968), New York City Technical College (1946), Queens College (1937), York College (1966), several community colleges, and the Graduate School and University Center. Its combined libraries hold over 6 million volumes. The law school is at Queens College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine is affiliated. The university is city and state supported. From its founding until the New York City fiscal crisis peaked in 1976, students paid no tuition. In 1970, CUNY began an open enrollment program that includes counseling, tutoring, and04/96 financial aid. With more than 180,000 students, it is one of the largest university systems in the country.

Bibliography

See J. Traub, City on a Hill (1997).

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She holds a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College. She most recently served as business development director for a private company and also has years of nonprofit experience.

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She holds a degree in corporate communications from Baruch College and spent much of her youth playing viola and violin professionally, including performances at Carnegie Hall and the White House.

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A Professor of Music at Baruch College, Saloman was well-known for her research interests including nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic connections between European and American music criticism and reception history of works by Beethoven, Berlioz, Gluck,and Le Sueur; the history of opera and music criticism; nineteenth-century genre theories; and European-American connections in musical aesthetics, social history, and concert life.

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NEW YORK, Apr 26, 2010 (TUR) -- "Fuga", an electro-baroque opera in one-act by Turkish musician Burak Ozdemir was staged at New York's Baruch College on Sunday.