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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.
Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College (then a women's college) and the City College of New York (then a men's college). With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The campus is known for its great beauty.
The College ranked in the top 10 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review’s 2006 guidebook, America’s Best Value Colleges.
932, an architect named Randolph Evans drafted a plan for the college's campus on a large plot of land his employer owned in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.
Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College (then a women's college) and the City College of New York (then a men's college). With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The campus is known for its great beauty.
The College ranked in the top 10 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review’s 2006 guidebook, America’s Best Value Colleges.
Campus history
In 1932, an architect named Randolph Evans drafted a plan for the college's campus on a large plot of land his employer owned in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. He sketched out a Georgian-style campus facing a central quadrangle, and anchored by a library building with a tall tower. Evans presented the sketches to the President of the college at the time, Dr. William A. Boylan. Boylan was pleased with the plans, and the lot of land was purchased for $1.6 million. Construction of the new campus began in 1935, with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by then Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Brooklyn Borough President Raymond Ingersoll. In 1936, then-President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt went to Brooklyn College to lay the cornerstone of the Brooklyn College Gymnasium. President Boylan, Borough President Ingersoll, and President Roosevelt all had buildings on Brooklyn College's campus named after them. The campus located in Midwood became the only Brooklyn College campus after the school's Downtown Brooklyn campus was shut down during the 1975 budget emergency.
Modern campus history
Brooklyn College's campus today still looks much as it did when it was originally constructed, but with extensions of Ingersoll Hall and Roosevelt Hall. The campus also serves as home to the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts complex and its four theaters, including the George Gershwin. The most recent construction to take place on the campus was the demolition of the Plaza Building, due to its inefficient use of space, poor ventilation, and significant maintenance cost. To replace the Plaza Building, the college is currently constructing a new West Quad. To keep with the academic style of the campus, the new grounds will contain a newly landscaped quadrangle with grassy areas and trees. Also, new façades will be constructed on the Roosevelt and James Hall buildings where they once connected with the Plaza Building. In addition to these changes, a new building will be built that will house classroom space, offices, and the Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science. The building will also contain new gymnasiums, and a swimming pool. This follows a major library renovation that saw the library moved to a temporary home while construction took place.
Ninety percent of the Brooklyn College faculty hold the highest degree in their field. Among them are Fulbright and Guggenheim fellows, an American Book Award winner, a National Book Award finalist, an Obie Award-winning playwright, 3 Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and award-winning scientists and musicians.
The College ranks 19th nationally in the number of its undergraduates who have gone on to receive Ph.D. degrees.
Divisions
Brooklyn College is made up of three academic divisions:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- School of General Studies
- Division of Graduate Studies
Also, the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College offers undergraduate and graduate work in performance, musicology, composition, and music education.
Undergraduate curriculum
Beginning in 1981, the college instituted a group of classes that all undergraduates were required to take, called "Core Studies." The classes were: Classical Origins of Western Culture; Introduction to Art; Introduction to Music; People, Power, and Politics; The Shaping of the Modern World; Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning and Computer Programming; Landmarks of Literature; Chemistry; Physics; Biology; Geology; Studies in African, Asian, and Latin American Cultures; and Knowledge, Existence and Values.
In 2006, the Core Curriculum was revamped, and the 13 required courses were replaced with 15 courses in 3 disciplines, from which students were required to take 11.
Division of Graduate Studies
About
The Division of Graduate Studies draws on this record of achievement. For almost 70 years, the division has enabled qualified students of diverse backgrounds to acquire an advanced education of superior quality at a comparatively modest tuition. Today students from almost every state and more than 30 countries are working toward their master's or doctoral degrees at Brooklyn College. The Division of Graduate Studies offers more than 60 master's degree and advanced certificate programs in the arts, education, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and professional studies. Each year hundreds of graduate students embark on professional careers with the assistance of the Center for Career Development and Internships. Fostering a strong sense of community are the Graduate Student Organization, a number of student clubs, a graduate student newsletter, a series of graduate student lectures, and lively social events.
Today, under the administraion of its eighth president, Dr. Christoph M. Kimmich, Brooklyn College is building on traditions that have given it a place among the nation's most respected institutions of higher education.
Mission
Brooklyn College is a comprehensive, state-supported institution of higher learning in the borough of Brooklyn, a culturally and ethnically diverse community of two-and-one-half million people. As one of the 11 senior colleges of the City University of New York, it shares the mission of the university, whose commitment is to access and excellence.
The College seeks to extend its educational mission to graduate students through advanced programs offered by the Division of Graduate Studies. The academic goals of the division build on the College's tradition of academic excellence in the liberal arts and in teacher education programs. The division offers studies in specialized areas to serve the growing number of adults who seek to continue their intellectual pursuits and broaden their professional goals. In addition, in order to meet the changing needs of society, Brooklyn College continually develops new degree and advanced certificate programs as well as new concentrations of courses in existing programs. The College participates in a range of doctoral programs offered by the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, including campus-based programs in the sciences.
B.A.-M.D. program
The Brooklyn College B.A.-M.D. program is an 8-year program affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The Program follows a rigorous selection process, with a maximum of 15 students selected every year. Each student selected to the program receives a Brooklyn College Presidential Scholarship. B.A.-M.D. students must engage in community service for three years, beginning in their lower sophomore semester. During one summer of their undergraduate studies, students are required to volunteer in a clinical setting where they are involved in direct patient care. B.A.-M.D. students are encouraged to major in the humanities or social sciences. A student who majors in a science must choose a minor in the humanities or social sciences. All students meet the pre-med science requirements by taking cell and molecular biology, botany, physiology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and general physics. B.A.-M.D. students must maintain at Brooklyn College an overall grade point average of 3.5, and a pre-med science GPA of 3.5.
The Scholars Program
The Scholars Program was established in 1960 with support from the Ford Foundation. It was the first honors program in the City University of New York, and one of the earliest at any American college or university. The program received national recognition, became a model for honors programs elsewhere, and was the foundation of the Brooklyn College Honors Academy, which now includes nine federated programs. Students in the program are distinguished by their strong writing ability. Applicants must score at least 680 on their SAT II Writing, and maintain a GPA over 3.50. Graduates of the Scholars Program enter such fields as medicine, law, speech therapy, public health, television, film producing and directing, and biochemistry. They are admitted to Ph.D.programs at such universities as Princeton, Pennsylvania, Yale, Berkeley, and New York University. Many are elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and have received awards, including Brooklyn College’s Tow Travel Fellowship and Furman Travel Fellowship for undergraduate international study and research, and the nationally competitive Beinecke Fellowship and Mellon Humanities Fellowship for graduate study. Limited to 15-20 new students per year, the Program offers a community much like a small residential college.
Coordinated Engineering Program
The Coordinated Honors Engineering Program offers a course of study equivalent to the first two years at any engineering school. Students who maintain the required academic level are guaranteed transfer to one of the three coordinating schools—Polytechnic University, City College of New York School of Engineering, and the College of Staten Island Engineering Science Program—to complete their bachelor’s degree in engineering. Coordinating Engineering students have also transferred to SUNY Stony Brook, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Cooper Union, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students admitted as incoming First-Year receive a Brooklyn College Foundation Presidential Scholarship that provides full tuition for their two years of full-time undergraduate study in the Coordinated Engineering Program. As members of the Honors Academy, Engineering Honors students take advantage of individual advising, faculty consultation, and early registration. In the Commons they find study facilities, computer access, academic, scholarship, internship, and career opportunities, and, above all, intellectual stimulation among other talented students like themselves. Students applying to the Engineering Honors Program will also be considered for the Scholars Program.
Notable alumni
In a National Research Council study of baccalaureate origins of Ph.D. recipients between 1920 and 1995, Brooklyn College ranked 19th in the nation.
Academia
- Walter Adams (B.A. 1942), American economist and President of Michigan State University
- Joyce Sparer Adler (B.A. 1935), American critic, playwright, teacher and Melville scholar
- Jerome H. Barkow (B.A. 1964), Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University who has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology
- Barbara Aronstein Black (B.A. 1953), former Dean, Columbia University School of Law
- Joseph Berger (B.A. 1949), an American theoretical sociologist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
- Leo Bogart (B.A 1941), American sociologist, media and marketing expert
- Eva Brann (B.A. 1950), the longest-serving tutor (1957-present) at St. John's College, Annapolis and a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal
- Jules Davids (B.A. 1942), Professor of Diplomatic History at Georgetown University who aided John F. Kennedy in writing Profiles in Courage
- Alan M. Dershowitz (B.A. 1959), Harvard Law School professor and author
- Dorothy Dinnerstein (B.A. 1943), feminist academic and activist
- Melvyn Dubofsky (B.A. 1955), professor of history and sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and a well-known labor historian
- Sandra Feldman (B.A 1960), President, American Federation of Teachers
- John A. Garraty (B.A. 1941), American historian, biographer, and president of the Society of American Historians
- Eugene Genovese (B.A. 1953) noted historian of the American South and American slavery
- David L. Goodstein (B.S. 1960), U.S. physicist, educator, and Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology
- Allan Gotthelf (B.A. 1963), a professor of philophy at the University of Pittsburgh and specialist in Objectivism and Aristotle
- Oscar Handlin (B.A. 1934), Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, author
- Milton Heumann (B.A. 1968), Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
- Raul Hilberg (B.A. 1948), Austrian-born American political scientist and historian, author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961)
- Gertrude Himmelfarb (B.A. 1942), American historian and conservative cultural critic
- Zoia Horn (B.A. 1939), first librarian ever jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom
- Donald Kagan (B.A. 1954), historian; former Dean at Yale University
- Saul Kassin (B.A. 1974), psychologist and distinguished professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York
- Israel Kirzner (B.A. 1954), economist
- Annette Kolodny (B.A. 1962), feminist literary critic and activist
- Melvin Konner (B.A. 1966), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University
- David Kranzler (B.A. 1953), historian specializing in those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
- Harvey Lichtenstein, (B.A. 1951), President & Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Sidney Mintz (B.A. 1943), anthropologist best known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean
- Barry Munitz (B.A. 1963), chancellor, California State University (1991 – 1998)
- Jay Newman (B.A. 1973), noted philosopher concerned with the philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, and the ethics of mass communication
- Stuart A. Rice (B.S. 1952), physical chemist at the University of Chicago
- Moses Rischin (B.A. 1947) is a United States Jewish historian and Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University
- Leanne Rivlin (B.A. 1952), pioneer in the field of Environmental Psychology
- Gary A. Robbins (B.S. 1970), Geologist at the University of Connecticut who has made important contributions to the field of hydrogeology.
- Julian Rotter (B.A. 1937), Psychologist, pioneered research on locus of control
- Steven Schwartz (B.A. 1967), Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
- Marjorie Shostak (B.A. 1966), an American anthropologist; specialist in the !Kung San people of the Kalahari desert in south-western Africa
- Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States
- Richard J. Smith (B.A. 1969), Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis
- Jack Weinstein (B.A. 1943), Columbia Law School professor and Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Aaron Wildavsky (B.A. 1954), an American political scientist
- Elisheva Carlebach Yoffen (B.A. 1976), an American scholar of early modern Jewish history
Business
- Charles Biderman (B.A. 1967), founder and C.E.O of TrimTabs Investment Research, Inc.
- Bruce Chizen (B.S. 1978), President & CEO, Adobe Systems
- Bernard Cornfeld (B.A. 1950), prominent businessman and international financier who sold investments in US mutual funds
- Benjamin Eisenstadt (B.A. 1954), creator of Sweet'N Low and the founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation
- Jerry Della Femina (A.A. 1957), Chairman & CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners
- George Friedman (B.A. 1956), Chairman & CEO, Parallel Communications, Inc.
- Richard LaMotta (B.A. 1969), inventor and principal promoter of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich
- Jerry Moss (B.A. 1957), co-founder of A&M Records
- Ira Rennert (B.A. 1955), an American investor and businessman
- Steve Riggio (B.A. 1974), C.E.O of Barnes & Noble, Inc.
- George H. Ross (B.A. 1951), Executive Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Trump Organization
- Agnes Varis (B.A. 1950), President and founder of Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals
- Walter Yetnikoff (B.A. 1955), former Columbia Records/Sony Music executive
Entertainment
- Sandy Baron (B.A. 1957), American comedian, stage, film, and television actor.
- Oscar Brand (B.S. 1942), folk singer, radio host, musicologist
- Dominic Chianese (B.A. 1961), American film, television and theatre actor, perhaps best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos
- Jon Cypher (B.A. 1953), American actor best known for his role as Chief of Police Fletcher Daniels in the police drama Hill Street Blues
- Alfred Drake (B.A. 1936), musical theater actor and singer
- Sylvia Fine (B.A. 1933), American lyricist and the wife of comedian Danny Kaye
- Gary William Friedman (BA 1958), American musician and composer of musical theater
- Daniel Glass (B.A. 1977), music industry producer
- Fred Hellerman (B.A. 1949), American folk singer, guitarist, producer and song writer, primarily known as one of the members of The Weavers
- Marvin Kaplan (B.A. 1947), character actor, president of Los Angeles chapter of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists 1989-95; 2003-05
- Woodie King, Jr. (M.F.A. 1999), renowned African-American director and producer of stage and screen, and founding director of the New Federal Theater
- Tuli Kupferberg (B.A. 1948), counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs
- Michael Lynne (B.A. 1961), co-founder New Line Cinema
- Steve Malzberg (B.A. 1982), conservative radio broadcaster and host of The Steve Malzberg Show on the WOR Radio Network.
- Paul Mazursky (B.A. 1951), Film Director, best known for Down and Out in Beverly Hills; producer; actor
- Neil Meron (B.A. 1976), American film producer, won an Academy Award for Chicago in 2003
- Dennis Prager (B.A. 1970), syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, author, ethicist, and public speaker
- Steve Schirripa (B.A. 1980), American actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos
- Jimmy Smits (B.A. 1980), actor, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law; won an Emmy Award in 1990
- Elliot Tiber, screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival (attended but did not graduate)
- Dirk Weiler (M.M. 2002), singer and actor
- Andrew D. Weyman (B.A. 1973), American television director and producer
- Joel Zwick (B.A. 1962), Theater and Television Producer, Family Matters, director of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Government, law, and public policy
- Barbara Boxer (B.A. 1962) United States Representative and United States Senator (D - California)
- William Boyland, Jr. (BA 1975), represents District 55 in the New York State Assembly
- Frank J. Brasco (B.A. 1955), member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967–1975
- Shirley Chisholm (B.A. 1946), first African American U.S. Congresswoman, 1968–82
- Manuel F. Cohen (B.S. 1933), Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1964–69
- William Colton (MSed 1971), represents District 47 in the New York Assembly
- Stanley Fink (B.A. 1956), member of the New York State Assembly from 1969 to 1986 and Speaker from 1979 to 1986.
- Victor Gotbaum (B.A. 1948), labor leader.
- Rhoda Jacobs (BA 1962), represents District 42 in Brooklyn in the New York State Assembly, where she serves as Assistant Speaker
- Ellen Jaffee (B.A. 1965), represents District 55 in the New York State Assembly
- Sterling Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1963), senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York
- Roberta Kalechofsky (B.A. 1952), writer, feminist and animal rights activist; founder of Jews for Animal Rights.
- Vera Katz (B.A. 1955), Mayor, Portland, Oregon, 1993–2005
- Edward R. Korman (B.A. 1963), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Ivan Lafayette (B.A. 1951), member of the New York State Assembly since 1977 and Deputy Speaker of the New York State Assembly since 2006
- Sy Landy (B.A. 1952), an American Trotskyist politician, co-founder of the League for the Revolutionary Party
- Howard L. Lasher (B.A. 1965), New York State Assemblyman and New York City Councilman; first orthodox Jewish person elected to state office in New York
- Doris Ling-Cohan (B.A. 1976), judge on the New York State Supreme Court
- Alan Maisel (Adv. Cert. 1990), New York State Assemblyman representing District 59
- Marty Markowitz (B.A. 1970), Former New York State Senator; Brooklyn Borough President (2001– present)
- Harvey R. Miller (B.A. 1954), prominent American Bankruptcy lawyer
- Mel Miller (B.A. 1961), member of the New York State Assembly from 1971 to 1991, and Speaker from 1987 to 1991
- Joan Millman (B.A. 1962) New York State Assemblywoman representing District 52
- Joseph Pennacchio (B.S. 1976), represents the 26th Legislative district in the New Jersey Senate
- N. Nick Perry (B.A. 1978), New York State Assemblyman representing District 58
- Harvey Pitt (B.A. 1965), former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Rosemary S. Pooler (B.A. 1959), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Deborah Poritz (B.A. 1958), first female Chief Justice, New Jersey State Supreme Court; first female New Jersey Attorney General, 1994–96
- Robert Rosenthal (B.A. 1938), highly-decorated World War II pilot and assistant to the U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
- Gene Russianoff (B.A. 1974), staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a New York City-based public transport advocacy group
- Edward Sagarin (B.A. 1961), sociologist who pseudonymously wrote The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach (1951), considered one of the most influential works in the history of the gay rights movement
- Frank Serpico (A.A. 1959), New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer famous for testifying against police corruption
- Norman Siegel (B.A. 1965), director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), 1985–2000
- Eleanor Sobel (B.A. 1967) State Representative in the Florida House of Representatives, 1998–2006
- Benjamin Ward (B.A. 1960), first black New York City Police Commissioner, 1983–1989
- Iris Weinshall (B.A. 1975), vice chancellor at the City University of New York and a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
- Moses M. Weinstein (B.A. 1934), American lawyer and politician
- Saul Weprin (B.A. 1948), member of the New York State Assembly from 1973 to 1994 and Speaker from 1991 to 1994
- Bruce Winick (B.A. 1965), Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami and important theorist on mental health law
Journalism
- Thom Calandra (B.A. 1979), founding editor and chief columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com
- Sylvan Fox (B.A. 1951), American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Robert Greenfield (B.A. 1967), American author, journalist and screenwriter
- Yossi Klein Halevi (B.A. 1975), prominent Israeli journalist; columnist for The New Republic
- Victor Lasky (B.A 1940), Pulitzer Prize—winning writer and syndicated newspaper columnist
- Don Lemon (B.A. 1996), reporter, CNN
- Marvin E. Newman (B.A. 1949), American artist and photographer.
- Stanley Newman (B.S. 1973), U.S. puzzle creator, editor, and publisher.
- Milt Rosenberg (B.A. 1946), host of Extension 720 on WGN Radio in Chicago, Illinois.
- Abraham Rabinovich (B.A. 1956), Israeli historian and journalist
- Harold Schonberg (B.A. 1937) was an American music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times
- Allan Sloan (B.A. 1966), financial journalist; Senior Editor-at-Large for Fortune magazine
Literature and the arts
- Sam Abrams (B.A. 1958), "The Old Pothead Poet", RIT professor, Whitman scholar
- Ann-Marie Adams (B.A. 2001), editor and publisher of The Hartford Guardian
- Mario Amaya (B.A. 1954), art critic; shot by Valerie Solanis during her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol
- Rilla Askew (M.F.A 1989), Oklahoma-based short story writer and novelist
- Paul Beatty (M.F.A. 1989), African American poet, novelist, and critic
- Betty T. Bennett (B.A. 1962), internationally known scholar on the life of Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Karen Berger (B.A. 1979), editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
- Anselm Berrigan (M.F.A. 1998), poet and teacher and artistic director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project from 2003–2007
- Himan Brown (B.A. 1934), radio pioneer; producer of radio programming including the Inner Sanctum Mysteries and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Allen Cohen (B.A. 1962) American poet, founder and editor of the San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper (1966–1968)
- Michael Corris (B.A. 1970), artist, art historian and writer on art.
- Dan DiDio (B.A. 1983), American comic book editor and executive for DC Comics
- Sante D'Orazio (B.A. 1978), fashion photographer
- Hillard Elkins (B.A. 1950), American theatre and film producer
- Stanley Ellin (B.A. 1936), Edgar Award-winning mystery author
- Robert Friend (B.A. 1934), Israeli poet and translator
- Elizabeth Gaffney (M.F.A. 1997), American novelist and staff editor of The Paris Review, 1989–2005
- Joe Glazer (B.A. 1938), folk musician often referred to as "labor's troubadour"
- Richard Grayson (B.A. 1973, M.F.A. 1976), writer, political activist and performance artist
- Roya Hakakian (B.S. 1990), a Jewish Iranian-American writer
- John Harlacher (B.A. 2000), actor, stage director, and filmmaker responsible for the horror film Urchin (2007)
- Michael Isaacson (M.A. 1970), influential composer of Jewish synagogue music and originator of the Jewish Camp Song movement
- Chester Kallman (B.A. 1941), poet, librettist, and translator; collaborator with W. H. Auden
- Ben Katchor (M.F.A 1975), cartoonist, creator of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
- Daniel Keyes (B.A. 1950), author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel "Flowers for Algernon".
- Amy King (M.F.A. 2000), American poet and editor of the literary arts journal, MiPOesias, and the POETICS list
- Binnie Kirshenbaum (M.F.A. 1984), Novelist, short story writer, Columbia University creative writing professor
- Albert Kresch (B.A. 1943), New York School painter and one of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery
- Mort Künstler (B.A. 1946), prominent painter and illustrator of the American Civil War
- Ezra Laderman (B.A. 1950), American composer of classical music
- Gabriel Laderman (B.A. 1952), painter and important exponent of the Figurative revival
- Sam Levenson (B.A. 1934), humorist, author
- Fred Lonberg-Holm (B.M. 1988), an American cello player and composer
- Leonard Lopate (B.A. 1967), host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC
- Jackson Mac Low (B.A. 1958), American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
- Frank McCourt (M.A. 1967), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
- Dennis McFarland (B.A. 1975) is an American novelist; The Music Room (1990)
- John Mahon (B.A. 1952), historian, Author of New York's Fighting 69th
- Wallace Markfield (B.A. 1947), comic novelist, film critic
- Paule Marshall (B.A. 1953), American author, novelist (Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), Praisesong for the Widow (1983))
- Emily Mitchell (M.F.A. 2005), Anglo-American novelist
- Gloria Naylor (B.A. 1981), novelist; Winner National Book Award
- Peter Nero (B.A. 1956), Grammy Award winning pianist; conductor; composer
- Harold Norse (B.A. 1938), poet & novelist
- Marco Oppedisano (B.M. 1996), American guitarist and composer of electroacoustic music
- Angelo Parra (M.F.A. 1995), American playwright
- Lincoln Peirce (M.F.A. 1987), cartoonist for the comic strip "Big Nate"
- Robert Phillips (M.A. 1982), Classical guitarist, composer, educator, and Head of Performing Arts at All Saints' Academy
- Rosalie Purvis (M.F.A. 2007), is a Dutch American theatre director and choreographer
- Naomi Ragen (B.A. 1971), an American-Israeli author, playwright and women’s rights activist
- Martha Rosler (B.A. 1965), artist active in video, photo-text, installation, and performance
- Theodore Isaac Rubin (B.A. 1946), American psychiatrist and author; wrote story for the film David and Lisa (1962)
- Sapphire (M.F.A. 1995), an American author and performance poet, author of the novel Push (1996)
- Millicent Selsam (B.A. 1932), prolific American children’s author
- Irwin Shaw (B.A. 1934), playwright, screenwriter, and short-story author and novelist (The Young Lions, Rich Man, Poor Man); winner of two O. Henry Awards
- Jan Slepian (B.A. 1971)), prominent author of books for children and Young-adult fiction
- Gilbert Sorrentino (B.A. 1957), novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor
- Laurie Spiegel (B.A. 1975), electronic-music composer, inventor
- Claire Sterling (B.A. 1940) an American author and journalist, author of The Terror Network (1981)
- David Trinidad (M.F.A. 1980), poet
- Alan Vega (B.A. 1960), vocalist for 1970s and 80s no wave duo Suicide
- Malvin Wald (B.A. 1936), American screenwriter, authored the 1948 police drama The Naked City
- Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (M.F.A 1987), New Romantic poet associated with St. Mark's Poetry Project
- John Yau (M.F.A. 1978), critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer
Religion
- J. David Bleich (B.A. 1960), an authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (B.A. 1966), American Buddhist monk, second president of the Buddhist Publication Society, 1984-2002
- Theodore Drange (B.A. 1955), philosopher of religion and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University, noted for his Argument from nonbelief
- Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (B.A. 1961), senior disciple and biographer of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
- Rabbi Yaakov Perlow (B.A. 1955), Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva, current Novominsker Rebbe
- Larry Rosenberg (B.A. 1954), American Buddhist teacher and influential proponent of anapanasati (mindful breath meditation)
- Pinchas Stolper (B.A. 1952), prominent Orthodox rabbi, writer, and spokesman
Science and technology
- Ruth Aaronson Bari (B.A. 1939), mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
- Richard Bellman (B.A. 1941), applied mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
- Seymour Benzer (B.A. 1942), American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.
- Stanley Cohen (B.A. 1943), biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1986)
- Esther M. Conwell (B.S. 1942), physicist who contributed to the development of semiconductors and lasers
- Stanley Deser (B.S. 1949) American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, especially as co-developer of ADM formalism
- Jack Drescher (B.A. 1972), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for his work on sexual orientation
- Frank Field (B.S. 1947), meteorologist and science editor
- Eli Friedman (B.S. 1953), prominent nephrologist, inventor of the first portable dialysis machine
- Herbert Friedman (B.S. 1936), pioneer in the use of sounding rockets to conduct research for Jerry Goldstein (B.S. 1993), space physicist and professor
- Martha Greenblatt (B.S. 1962), chemist at Rutgers University, received the 2003 American Chemical Society’s Garvan-Olin Medal
- Edna Grossman (B.S. 1968), American mathematician
- Frank Harary (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1945), prolific American mathematician, specializing in graph theory
- Len Herzenberg (B.S. 1952), developed the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) which revolutionized the study of cancer cells and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells, recipient of the Kyoto Prize in 2006
- David Kantor (B.A 1950, M.A. 1952), American systems psychologist
- Edith Kaplan (B.A. 1949), creator of several important neuropsychological tests, including the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and the Boston Naming Test.
- Sol Katz (B.A. 1978), geologist, computer scientist and early pioneer of Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS)
- Julian Keilson (B.S. 1947) American mathematician, best known for his work in probability theory
- Joel Lebowitz (B.A. 1952), mathematical physicist acknowledged for his contributions to statistical physics and statistical mechanics
- Nancy Lynch (B.A. 1968), mathematician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; winner of the 2007 Knuth Prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science
- Jack Minker (B.S. 1949), is a leading authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning
- Abraham Nemeth (B.S. 1940) American mathematician and inventor; developed the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation
- Stanley Osher (B.A. 1962), pioneering mathematician in applied mathematics, computational science, and scientific computing
- Fredy Peccerelli (B.S. 1996), forensic anthropologist, Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
- Gerard Salton (B.S. 1950), pioneering computer scientist in the field of information retrieval
- Nicholas Sand (B.A. 1966), clandestine chemist and early proponent of psychedelics
- Joseph D. Schulman (B.S. 1962), specialist in human genetics and infertility; founder the Genetics & IVF Institute
- Henry Spira (B.A. 1958), pioneering animal rights activist
- Dennis P. Tarnow (B.A. 1968) is an American dentist and pioneer in implant research
- Dorothy Tennov (B.A. 1950), psychologist who introduced the term limerence to describe the state of being in love
- Jay Tischfield (B.A. 1967), MacMillan Professor and the Chair of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University
- Philip Zimbardo (B.A. 1954), social psychologist and designer of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Sports
- Donald Aronow (B.A. 1950) American designer, builder and racer of the famous Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speed boat
- Fran Fraschilla (B.A. 1980), former basketball coach at Manhattan College, St. John's University and University of New Mexico; now ESPN broadcast analyst
- Marius Russo (attended, 1932-34), Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees 1939-43, 1946); All-Star in 1941
- Allie Sherman, (B.A. 1943), President, OTB; Coach of the New York Giants, 1961—68
- Gata Kamsky (B.A 1999), Chess Grandmaster and former US Champion.
Notable faculty
- F. Murray Abraham - Actor of stage and screen; professor of theater, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Eric Alterman - American liberal journalist
- Edwin G. Burrows - Historian; Pulitzer Prize winner for co-writing Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 with Mike Wallace.
- Charles Dodge - Composer, founder of the Center for Computer Music
- Paul Edwards - Professor of Philosophy, editor of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Allen Ginsberg - Beat poet; taught at Brooklyn College from 1986 until his death in 1997
- David Grubbs - musician, composer, recording artist
- Carey Harrison - Novelist/dramatist
- Amy Hempel - American short story writer, journalist, and coordinator of the MFA Fiction-Writing Program
- Agnieszka Holland - Film director best-known for Europa, Europa (1992).
- John Hope Franklin - Famous American Historian, former Chairman of the History Department
- John Hospers - First presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party; professor from 1956-66.
- KC Johnson - Professor of American history.
- Tania León - Cuban-born composer and conductor
- Abraham Maslow - Psychologist in the school of humanistic psychology, best known for his theory of human motivation which led to a therapeutic technique known as self-actualization; taught from 1937-51
- Ursula Oppens - pianist, co-founded the contemporary music ensemble Speculum Musicae, Conservatory of Music
- Itzhak Perlman - Famed Violinist, Conservatory of Music
- Albert Schatz - microbiologist, co-discoverer of streptomycin
- Mark Rothko, Philip Pearlstein, Ad Reinhardt, Elizabeth Murray, Vito Acconci, William T. Williams, Archie Rand - Artists (1950s to present)
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