Queens College, City University of New York
| Queens College, City University of New York | |
|---|---|
| motto | Discimus ut serviamus |
| founding | 1937 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | New York City , USA |
| president | James Muyskens |
| Students | 19,500 |
| Professors | 637 |
| Website | www.qc.cuny.edu |
The Queens College (also Queens College called) is a public university in the New York district of Queens . It is part of the City University of New York and was founded in 1937 as a humanities college. Around 19,500 students are currently studying here.
Faculties
Queens College's faculties are called divisions :
- Arts and Humanities
- Mathematics and the Natural Sciences
- Education
- Social sciences
Personalities
Lecturers
- Richard Alewyn , Germanist
- Elliott Carter , composer
- Luigi Dallapiccola , composer
- Bogdan Denitch , sociologist
- Michael Harrington , Political Science
- Carl Gustav Hempel , philosopher
- Yevgeny Alexandrovich Evtushenko , Russian poet and writer
- John Norman , writer
- George Perle , composer and music theorist
- Liliana Porter , artist
Graduates
- Barbara Bach - actress, wife of Ringo Starr
- Joseph Crowley - Politician (House of Representatives)
- Fran Drescher - actress, producer
- Jon Favreau - actor (without degree)
- Andrew Goodman - civil rights activist
- Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
- Ron Jeremy - porn actor
- Richard Kline - actor, television director
- Carole King - songwriter
- Nellie McKay - literary scholar
- Stanley Milgram - psychologist
- Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer
- Marc Olden - thriller writer
- Donna Orender - President of the Women's National Basketball Association
- Nicholas Rescher - philosopher
- Ray Romano - actor, comedian
- Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
- Paul Simon - Musician ( Simon and Garfunkel )
Web links
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Coordinates: 40 ° 44 '8.9 " N , 73 ° 49' 2.3" W.