CUNY Graduate Center

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CUNY Graduate Center's building.

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (known more commonly as the CUNY Graduate Center or the GC) is the sole doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York. (While other CUNY schools may house doctoral degree programs, the degrees are granted through the GC.) It is housed in the former B. Altman and Company department store on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Apart from those pursuing degrees in six master's programs and the CUNY Baccalaureate Program housed at the GC, all of the nearly 4,000 students at the GC are doctoral students in one of over 30 programs. The facility also houses the production studios and offices of CUNY TV, the University's 24/7 educational cable channel.

The GC sponsors numerous continuing education programs, all open to the public, including regular lectures from world-renowned scholars, politicians and artists.

The only consortium of its kind in the nation, the school draws its faculty of more than 1,600 members mainly from the CUNY senior colleges and cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City, and approximately 125 appointed at The Graduate Center. Among the faculty are leading researchers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and engineering.

Faculty members regularly receive prestigious honors and awards. Some recent examples include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Science, the Schock Prize, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Awards, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

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The CUNY Graduate Center is served by the Mina Rees Library, named after mathematician and educator Mina Rees. Situated on the second floor of the Graduate Center's mid-town Manhattan facility, formerly the B. Altman and Company department store, the library has a print collection of approximately 275,000 volumes, and over 1500 print serials subscriptions. The Library is also connected to the CUNY+ catalog system which allows borrowers to request items from other CUNY libraries, providing access to over 7.5 million volumes.