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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York, is a public college in Brooklyn, new york . it has been nicknamed, more recently, “the poor man’s Harvard” Initially tuition-free, Brooklyn College the college maintained its high national ranking in numbers of doctoral alumni . Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in new york city . tuition-free, it opened in September 1930, if holding separate classes for architect Randolph Evans sketched a campus facing a central quadrangle and anchored by a library building with a tower . the land was bought for $1.6 million ($30,000,000 today) and construction allot in 1936, United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt visited and laid the gymnasium’s cornerstone . Brooklyn College ranked high nationally in number of alumni with doctorate degrees . in the tenure of its second president, Harry Gide nearly a third of refugee historians who were female would at some point work at Brooklyn College . in 1956, with John Hope Franklin joining, it became the first “white” college to hire a historian who was black . the fourth president, Harold Syrett, resigned via illness in 1969 . John Kneller, Brooklyn College’s fifth president, served from 1969 until 1979 . Brooklyn College ranked 5th in 1988 survey of thousands of college deans . it was the only public institution among the top five . the campus also serves as home to the BCBC/ Brooklyn College Presents complex . alumni Leonard and Claire Tow gifted $10 million to the college . to replace the Plaza Building, the college constructed west quad center . the new building contains classroom space, offices, gymnasiums and a swimming pool . the 2009–10 CUNYAC championship men’s basketball team now plays its home games in the west quad center . this follows a major $70 million library renovation completed in 2003 that saw the library moved to a temporary home Christoph M. Kimmich was the eighth president of Brooklyn College from 2000 to 2009 when he retired . in 2016, the college announced a new home for the Koppelman School of Business . the campus has been shown on numerous Brooklyn College has embarked on CUNY’s new general education alternative, the Pathways curriculum . the program is an 8-year program affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center . Brooklyn College offers over a hundred 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 . students who major 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 the Scholars Program is the oldest honors program in the CUNY system . it was established in 1960 and is an interdisciplinary liberal arts program . many Scholars continue their education in competitive programs at top-ranked universities the program accepts incoming freshmen in addition to matriculated sophomores and transfer students (up to 48 credits) once admitted, they receive a Brooklyn College Foundation Presidential Scholarship of up to $4,000 for every year of their undergraduate Engineering Honors students take advantage of individual advising, faculty consultation, and early registration . students applying to the engineering honors program will also be considered for the Scholars Program . the program offers a two-year M.A the school opened in the fall of 2015 . first graduating class was in Spring 2018 . the Bulldogs are a member of the city university of new york athletic conference . the athletic program was originally known as the Kingsmen . in 1994 the mascot was changed to the Bridges . the athletic director pushed for a new name to reflect the new program . 1948), Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (B.A. 1946), Securities and Exchange Commission Chairmen Manuel F. Cohen ( B.S. 1933) and Harvey Pitt (B,A. 1965), and federal judges Rosemary 1943), Sterling Johnson Jr. (B.A. 1963), Edward R. Korman (b.a. 1963) Joel Harvey Slomsky (b a. 1967), and Jason K. Pulliam (ba. 1995 Notable alumni in business include: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CEO Barry Salzberg (B.S. 1974), Adobe Inc. CEO Bruce Chizen (b.s. 1978), Boston Celtics owner Marvin Notable alumni in the sciences and academia include Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Stanley Cohen (B.A. Fields Medal-winning mathematician Paul Cohen (1953), social psychologists Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo (B.A. 1954) and Harvard Law School professor and author Alan M. Dershowitz ( Notable alumni in the arts include Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning director, writer, and actor Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; 1946) notable alumni include City College of New York president Lisa Sta 1980), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Tarloff (B.A. ), academy award-nominated filmmakers Paul Mazursky (b.a. 1952) and Oren Moverman (1992) Sopra Grammy Award winner Peter Nero (born Bernard Nierow; B.A. 1956); O. Henry Award-winning author Irwin Shaw (born irwin Shamforoff); and a number of Pulitzer Prize winners (B.A. 1951), Stanley Penn (1947), and Harold C. Schonberg (b.a. 1937), photographer Max Desfor, and historian Oscar Handlin (B a. 1934). notable alumni include Olympic fencers Ralph Goldstein and Nikki Franke (B.S. 1972), chess grandmaster and 5-time u.s. champion Gata Kamsky (b.A. 1999),