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The David Aronow Foundation (DAF) is continuing its partnership with The City College of New York by gifting an additional $20,000 to go towards the David Aronow Fellowship. The fellowship is named after the Class of 1913 alumnus, David Aronow, and it provides a $4000 stipend to students with unpaid internships. DAF previously gifted CCNY $75,000 in 2023. Aronow was the youngest, and only, member of his immigrant family to have the chance to get a free college education at City College. His four siblings had to work to keep their families afloat, and once he graduated and was professionally

While the FIFA World Cup attracts a global audience of up to five billion people--or six of every 10 people on the planet--what may be less known is the prevalence of The City College of New York’s connection to this quadrennial tournament. CCNY students reported ancestral representation on 22 of the 32 national teams in the 2026 knockout round, the College’s Office of Institutional Research found. The country with the most student representation is, unsurprisingly, the United States, with 54 percent of enrolled undergraduate and graduate students self-reporting the USA as the country of

Dr. Stephen O'Brien, a noted materials scientist who heads the O'Brien Research Group, is the new Martin and Michele Cohen Dean of Science at The City College of New York. His appointment follows a nation-wide search. A Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry, he had served as Interim Dean since July 2025. O’Brien joined CCNY as an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry (now Chemistry & Biochemistry) in 2009. He was department chair from 2020 to 2025, becoming the Louis J. Curtman Chair in 2023. He stepped down from the chairmanship last summer to become the Interim Dean of

The City College of New York Philosophy Professor Nickolas Pappas has been selected as the Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for the 2026-27 academic year. This endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to CCNY by alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq. ‘64. The gift supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division for one academic year. Emerging from a competitive selection process, Pappas will receive $10,000 to support his research and creative activity for the current academic year. The 10th faculty member to hold this professorship

The City College of New York and the Foundation for City College attained a significant achievement by reaching half of the $1 billion goal of its “The Campaign for City College: Doing Remarkable Things Together” campaign. The 10-year campaign, announced by President Vincent Boudreau in May 2022, coincided with the 175th anniversary of the College’s founding as the Free Academy in 1847, and aimed to triple its then-existing endowment by 2032. The milestone was achieved on May 1, which coincided with this year’s Day of Giving and Homecoming Weekend. “Expanding and stabilizing the college’s

The City College of New York-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) received a historic collection of almost 500 historical items, including maps of the island of Hispaniola and its environs, some dating back as far as the 16th century, at a ceremony at the CUNY DSI Library in CCNY’s North Academic Center. This gift, the Joseph A. Gonzalez and Ralph E. Magnus Collection of Antique Maps of Hispaniola and the West Indies, took the two donors almost three decades to amass. The items in the collection include: a map of the island of Santo Domingo published in 1858 by order of the

U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings and consumer advice, ranks The City College of New York a Best Global University in its 12th annual rankings of the top institutions worldwide published today. The award indicates excellence in research and a stellar academic reputation. Out of more than 2,250 elite universities in 100-plus countries that U.S. News evaluated, CCNY’s overall rank is #897 (tied). Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and England’s University of Oxford – in that order – are the four top ranked

Ambling through The City College of New York campus, one is bound to encounter hundreds of seemingly abandoned grotesque sculptures strewn throughout the grounds. A team led by Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture students Jennifer Gao and Anastasia Protsak set out to draw attention to that aspect of CCNY’s neglected architectural history with “Trilogy” + “Gallery Wall,” their projects in this year’s Artefactory Lab course co-taught by Associate Professor Christian Volkmann, the project’s manager, and Adjunct Professor Steve Preston. The course, inaugurated last year, educates and

Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, president of The City College of New York, was the keynote speaker at the Perrotis College commencement ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece. CCNY’s 13th president, who’s been recognized as a Power Players in Education by PoliticsNY & amNY, emphasized the transformative power of education and the importance of global collaboration. Boudreau’s presence at Ioannis Moschaklaidis Square on the campus of the American Farm School, added significant international prestige to the event. His address was described as “inspiring and thought-provoking.” Reflecting on the shared

The City College of New York ranks in the top 2.2% out of 21,291 universities worldwide, according to the 2026 edition of the outcome-based Global 2000 list published by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) today. CCNY has been consistently ranked in the top 2% for more than a decade. CCNY is #452 among the 21,291 degree-granting institutions of higher education analyzed by CWUR; #114 in the United States and #131 regionally (USA and Canada). Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, in that order, occupy the first three places on the