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Former names | New Community College |
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| Type | Publiccommunity college |
| Established | 2011; 14 years ago (2011) |
Parent institution | City University of New York |
| President | Larry Johnson, Jr. |
| Provost | Nicola Blake |
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| Students | 995 (as of Fall 2016)[1] |
| Location | ,, United States 40°45′10″N73°59′03″W / 40.7529°N 73.9841°W /40.7529; -73.9841 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | guttman.cuny.edu |
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Stella and Charles Guttman Community College is apubliccommunity college inNew York City. It is the newest of theCity University of New York's (CUNY)community colleges and was founded on September 11, 2011. It opened on August 20, 2012 asNew Community College. In April 2013 the college was renamed following a $15 million endowment from the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation.
Guttman offersassociate degree programs withmajors in liberal arts, sciences, business, human services, information technology (IT), and urban studies. Students are accepted with either ahigh school diploma orCertificate of High School Equivalency.
Guttman was the first community college established by theCity University of New York (CUNY) in over 40 years. The planning was begun in 2008 on the initiative of CUNY'sChancellor at the time, Matthew Goldstein. The planning phase was supported by CUNY funds, an initial allocation $8.9 million from the City of New York's annual budget, and donations from theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation andMichael Bloomberg's Center for Economic Opportunity.[2][3] Described byThe New York Times as "a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges," Guttman College's academic structure and curriculum were designed from scratch in an effort to improve students' chances of completing their associate degrees and transferring to four-year colleges for further study.[4]
In 2010, the first faculty members were appointed, and Scott E. Evenbeck, professor of psychology and dean of University College atIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was named the founding President, taking up his post in January 2011.[5] The college was officially established on September 11, 2011 and opened with its first intake of students in August 2012. The college had, and continues to have, an open admissions policy, provided students have a high school diploma or a Certificate of High School Equivalency. However, unlike any of the other schools within CUNY, applicants are not considered until they have attended a lengthy information session and one-on-one interviews with counselors. Of its initial 4,000 applicants, 504 went through the information session and interviews. Of those, approximately 300 decided to enroll in the founding class.[4][6]
The college opened under the name "New Community College". In April 2013—after the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation gifted a $25 million endowment, one of the largest ever donations to a public two-year college—the CUNY Board of Trustees passed a resolution renaming the college "Stella and Charles Guttman Community College".[7]
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