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The Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) is a public college in New York City. It is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York, an urban public university that serves the city’s five boroughs. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, Lehman became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967 and was renamed after its former leader, Herbert H. Lehman, when it moved to its current location overlooking Van Cortlandt Park in 1974. The college is named after Herbert Henry Lehman, a United States Senator from New York from 1933 to 1957 who served as Governor of New York from 1955 until his death in 1963.

Lehman offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs. It also confers Doctoral degrees through its Graduate School and PhD programs run jointly with other CUNY campuses and institutions such as Rockefeller University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Heriberto Mesa-Boquero Science Center houses most of the science departments at Lehman while additional facilities are located throughout The Bronx including off-campus sites such as those used by Engineering & Technology programs.

The school’s athletic teams compete within NCAA Division III athletics primarily as members of the Skyline Conference. In fall 2016, Lehman joined Hamilton College and Wesleyan University in becoming only the third set membership trio ever admitted into membership concurrently into both American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I men’s ice hockey league and United Collegiate Hockey Conference (UCHC).

History

Herbert H. Lehman College traces its origins back to 1931 when Hunter College moved some freshman women classes to what was then known as Thomas Jefferson High School building because overcrowding at Hunter’s 68th Street campus had become an issue.:2 This arrangement would persist for over two decades until Hunter opened a new uptown campus on Lexington Avenue near East 68th Street which alleviated crowding at their original facility enough for them to move all their operations back uptown by 1955 leaving only a small night school behind which eventually closed due largely to declining enrollments brought about by demographic changes within The Bronx during that time frame.:235 As part of this relocation process, some faculty members were reassigned to teach at Brooklyn College while others followed their respective departments upstate toHunter’s new site; these faculty included future Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel who taught Yiddish literature courses at Hunter–Jefferson between 1948 until 1950 before departing for France where he worked as a journalist covering European news stories related predominantly but not exclusively to Jewish issues for Israeli newspapers Ma’ariv and Yedioth Ahronoth respectively prior ultimately returning to teach Judaic Studies firstly at Boston University followed later by Yale University among other notable institutions during his long academic career post Holocaust survivor testimony writer/editor, film producer/director Steven Spielberg,, writer/philosopher Toni Morrison,, politician Hillary Rodham Clinton, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, musician Art Garfunkel, actors Alan Alda,, Robert De Niro,, Kelsey Grammer.