William E. Macaulay Honors College

College at the City University of New York

William E. Macaulay Honors College

Type| Public
Established| 2001, graduated first class in 2005
Dean| Dara N. Byrne
Students| 2,112
Undergraduates| 2,112
Address|

35 West 67th Street

New York City

New York

United States

40°46′26″N 73°58′49″W﻿ / ﻿40.7740°N 73.9802°W﻿ / 40.7740; -73.9802
Campus| Urban
Colours| Red   White   Gray   Black
Nickname| Macaulay, Mac
Affiliations| City University of New York
Mascot| Mountain Lion
Website| www.macaulay.cuny.edu

William E. Macaulay Honors College, commonly referred to as Macaulay Honors College or Macaulay, is the honors college of the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.[1] It was founded in 2001 as CUNY Honors College.

## Founding and history

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Macaulay was first conceived by Matthew Goldstein as an independent institution within the City University of New York. The aim of its creation was to increase educational standards and foster university-wide collaboration and excellence. Support for existing honors programs at CUNY colleges, in spite of institutional opposition, resulted in the 2001 launch of CUNY Honors College in collaboration with a number of CUNY's senior colleges. Initially, there were five college partners: Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter, and Queens Colleges. Later on, Lehman College, College of Staten Island, and John Jay College were added. Commonly known as Macaulay Honors College University Scholars Program, its first class graduated in 2005.[citation needed]

Laura Schor, Professor of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, was Macaulay Honors College's founding dean.[2] In July 2006, Ann Kirschner, a graduate of SUNY Buffalo, University of Virginia, and Princeton University, was appointed Dean of Macaulay Honors College. In September 2006, The City University of New York received a $30,000,000 gift from philanthropist and City College alumnus William E. Macaulay, the chairman and chief executive officer of First Reserve Corporation. It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and helped finance the purchase of a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that has become the permanent home of Macaulay Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.[3][4][5][6] A new governance plan, approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees in late April 2010, provided Macaulay Honors College with degree-granting authority through CUNY's Graduate Center. Beginning in Spring 2011, graduates became eligible to receive a dual degree from both their home college and Macaulay Honors College.[5] In August 2016, Chancellor James B. Milliken named Mary C. Pearl as dean of Macaulay Honors College.[7]

## Academics

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Each Macaulay student is designated a University Scholar and receives:

* A full-tuition scholarship (tuition waiver); students must meet CUNY's New York state residency requirements for in-state tuition to receive the full tuition scholarship[8]
* Dedicated, specialized advisors through the Macaulay Advising Program[9]
* A NYC cultural passport card that offers free and/or discounted admission to some cultural institutions around the city[10]

### Students

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Macaulay Honors College students have won numerous local and national awards, such as the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, the Rhodes Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholarship,[11] the Intel Science Talent Search,[12] The Barry Goldwater, the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, Bienecke Fellowship, Salk Fellowship, and the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.[13]

## Admissions

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Macaulay Honors College accepts applications from high school seniors entering the freshman class. Macaulay does not accept transfer students or applicants applying for mid-term entry. The college advises applicants to research the eight CUNY senior colleges which participate in Macaulay prior to submitting an application. Applicants to Macaulay are then considered for acceptance to the undergraduate degree program at the CUNY campus designated on their applications.[citation needed]

## Campus

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The Macaulay Honors College building at 35 West 67th Street

Located at 35 West 67th Street, Macaulay Honors College is half a block from Central Park and three blocks from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan's Upper West Side.[14]

### Building

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After the building was completed in 1904, 35 West 67th Street housed the Swiss Benevolent Society for numerous years and was known as the Swiss Home.[15] In 1999, it became known as the Steinhardt Building after undergoing extensive restoration and renovation under the direction of philanthropist Michael Steinhardt. Following the completion of the Steinhardt Building's refurbishment, the 92nd Street Y received the building as a donation in 2001 from Steinhardt. The building was placed on sale in 2006.[16]

The Gothic Revival building was purchased with the donation of the Macaulay family and underwent extensive renovations to prepare it for students and staff. Renovations are now complete and the building is in use by the students and staff of Macaulay Honors College.[3][4] Other CUNY students are welcomed as long as they present valid ID.[17]

#### Inside

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Inside the Macaulay Honors College building, there is a lecture hall, performance space, screening room, and commons. There are also multiple classrooms where students can collaborate on projects and study.[18] Student Lounge Volunteers (SLVs) organize events and are available to answer questions and support students.[citation needed]

## After Macaulay

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Some Macaulay alumni have pursued careers in major New York firms, such as BBC Worldwide Americas, Bloomberg, and Google. Macaulay graduates also have pursued graduate degrees at universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, CUNY Graduate Center, Rutgers, Caltech, Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, Duke, and Oxford.[19][20][21]

## Notable people

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### Alumni

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* Anthony Volodkin (2007) — founder of The Hype Machine[22]
* Colby Minifie (2014) — actress

### Current faculty

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* Carmen Boullosa — Mexican poet, novelist, and playwright; featured as a visiting professor teaching the course The Mouth: Spanish-Speaking Women Writers from the 1500s to the 1970s[23]
* Edwin G. Burrows — research historian, Pulitzer Prize winning-author, Distinguished Professor of History, Brooklyn College[24]
* Nathan Lents — scientist and author, director of the John Jay College Macaulay Program
* David Petraeus — visiting professor at Macaulay, teaching a course called The Coming North American Decades[25]
* Harold Varmus — Nobel-prize winning scientist, former director of National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Health, teaches the seminar Science and Society[26]
* Ted Widmer — American historian, writer, and speechwriter who has taught seminars on Walt Whitman, democracy, and The People of New York[27]

## References

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1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 16, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2009.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^ "Laura Schor — Hunter College".
3. ^ a b "William E. Macaulay, City College Graduate And Chairman and CEO of First Reserve, Donates Record $30 Million To CUNY Honors College" Archived March 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, The CUNY Newswire, Wednesday, September 13, 2006
4. ^ a b Macaulay Honors College Website
5. ^ a b "Important Information About Macaulay Honors...College!!".
6. ^ Santora, Marc (September 8, 2008). "A Brownstone as Ivory Tower, And New York City as Campus". The New York Times.
7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2016.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. ^ "Macaulay Honors College - Tuition Scholarship".
9. ^ George and Alice Murphy. "What Does College Really Cost?" NY Daily News. March 10, 2008.
10. ^ "NYC Cultural Passport | Macaulay Honors College". macaulay.cuny.edu. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
11. ^ "Elliot David and Joy Nuga Named Schwarzman Scholars".
12. ^ Melago, Carrie. "Twice Brain Power: City Student who won Intel award strikes again with 30G scholarship." NY Daily News. March 28, 2008. Archived March 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
13. ^ News Wire. "MEDIA ADVISORY: April 17 Dedication for Macaulay Honors College New Home." April 14, 2008.
14. ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran; American Institute of Architects, eds. (2010). AIA guide to New York City (5th ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 392\. ISBN 978-0-19-538385-0. OCLC 464581439.
15. ^ Gray, Christopher (September 25, 1994). "Streetscapes/The Swiss Home; With Not Enough Old Indigents to Fill It, It's for Sale". The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
16. ^ Steele, Lockhart (May 18, 2006). "Steinhardt Seeks 'Sophisticated, Sensitive' Buyer". Curbed NY. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
17. ^ "Macaulay Honors College Building". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved October 26, 2024.
18. ^ "Our Spaces – Event and Space Rentals in NYC". Retrieved October 26, 2024.
19. ^ "quick-facts" (PDF).
20. ^ "Pride of the City – CUNY Newswire". www1.cuny.edu. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
21. ^ "Macaulay Named a Top Honors College for 2018-19 | Macaulay Honors College". macaulay.cuny.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
22. ^ "Zoya Feldman '06 (Hunter) and Anthony Volodkin '07 (Hunter)". Macaulay Alumni. February 12, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
23. ^ "The Mouth: Spanish-Speaking Women Writers from the 1500s to the 1970s | Macaulay Honors College". Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
24. ^ "Edwin G". academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
25. ^ "Visiting Professor David Petraeus's Spring 2015 Course". Macaulay Now. November 11, 2014. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
26. ^ "Science and Society". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
27. ^ "Seminar 2: The People of New York (Cross-Campus)". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved August 8, 2020.

## Further reading

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* Santora, Marc (September 8, 2008). "A Brownstone Becomes an Ivory Tower, and New York City Is the Campus". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2016.

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