Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York is a

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in the South

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. It is part of the

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(CUNY) system and was created by an act of the Board of Higher Education in 1968 in response to demands from the

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/ Puerto Rican community, which was urging for the establishment of a college to serve the people of the

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. In 1970, the college admitted its first class of 623 students at the site of a former tire factory. Several years later, the college moved to a larger site nearby at 149th Street and Grand Concourse. The college also operates a location at the prow building of the Bronx Terminal Market.

Academics

Hostos is the first institution of higher education on the mainland to be named after a Puerto Rican,

Eugenio María de Hostos Eugenio María de Hostos (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as "''El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas''" ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, an ...

, an educator, writer, and patriot. A large proportion (approximately 60 percent) of the student population is Hispanic, thus many of the courses at Hostos are offered in Spanish, and the college also provides extensive English and

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instruction to students. The

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture is a performing arts and visual arts center located within Hostos Community College in the South Bronx, New York City. Hostos Center consists of a museum-grade art gallery, a 367-seat repertory theater, and ...

is a performing arts center contained within the college campus. It consists of a museum-grade art gallery, a 367-seat Repertory Theater, and a 900-seat Main Theater, presenting artists of national and international renown. It has been showcasing theater, dance and music artists for 33 years, with the mission "to be a cultural force in the Bronx and throughout the New York metropolitan area."

Departments and academic programs

The college is composed of 10 different academic departments offering 27 associate-level degrees. Hostos is notable for being the first and only CUNY campus offering a degree in Game Design. The campus also features a $1.05 million-dollar live recording studio, which is used by the media design programs. * Allied Health * Behavioral and Social Sciences * Business * Education * English * Humanities * Language & Cognition * Library * Mathematics * Natural Sciences

Student profile

Total student enrollment at Hostos in Fall 2018 was 7,340 predominantly full-time students. Around 67% of the student population is female and about 33% male, with an average student age of 25 years old.

Athletics

Hostos Community College teams participate as a member of the

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(NJCAA). The Caimans are a member of the

section of the

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(CUNYAC), who's the most recent new member since the 2002-03 season. Men's sports include basketball and soccer; while women's sports include basketball and volleyball. In 2020, Hostos Athletics announced their entry into the Esports league of the NJCAA starting with the 2020-2021 season.

Early College Program

Hostos Community College is affiliated with Hostos Lincoln Academy of Science, a

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and

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with an

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program as part of the Early College Initiative at CUNY. It serves students grades 6 to 12, along with

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services. The school is a collaboration between the

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and

. High school students at the school enter the program during the summer prior to the start their

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year and can earn up to 60 credits in order to graduate with a

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and

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. The school was originally located on campus, but was moved to a school building near Melrose, which is shared by a few other schools, due to spacing issues. Hostos Banner

Notable faculty

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– musician, conductor and composer * Humberto Ballesteros Capasso – Colombian writer *

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– novelist and translator *

Daisy Cocco De Filippis Daisy Cocco DeFilippis (born 25 February 1949) is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve a ...

– author and the eighth President of Eugenio María de Hostos Community College. Former president of

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* Mildred García – current president of the

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(AASCU) *

Isaac Goldemberg Isaac Goldemberg (born 1945) is a Peruvian-American author, founder of the Latin American Writers Institute, ''Brújula/Compass'', and "Hostos Review," and a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College. Goldemberg was born in ...

– Peruvian-American author * Andrew Huebner – novelist * Cynthia Jones – Recognized in 2014 as the New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. * Felix V. Matos Rodriguez – eighth Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY) * Michael Mbabuike – Nigerian poet and linguist *

Sol Miranda Sol Miranda is a Puerto Rican actress. She played "mole woman" Donna Maria Nuñez on '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2019). She is an adjunct assistant professor at Hostos Community College and the founder of Embark Peekskill, a nonprofit ...

– Puerto Rican actress * Juno Morrow – artist and designer *

Arthur Nersesian Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. Nersesian is of Armenian and Irish descent. He was born and raised in New York City, and graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York. His novels include ''The Fuck-u ...

– novelist, playwright and Anahid Literary Prize winner * William S. Penn – Native American writer and American Book Award for Literary Merit winner *

Graciela Rivera Graciela Rivera (17 April 1921 – 17 July 2011) was the first Puerto Rican to sing a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Early years Graciela Rivera was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was the seventh of eight children born to ev ...

– first Puerto Rican to sing a lead role at the

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* Rees Shad – Recognized in 2012 as the New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. *

Jorge Silva Puras Jorge Silva Puras (born August 23, 1966 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto-Rican public servant and government official. Early life and education Silva Puras is a 1988 graduate of Yale University where he majored in political science and econo ...

– United States

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Regional Administrator and Chief of Staff to the Governor of Puerto Rico * Debra Solomon – animator, filmmaker and creator of Disney's

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– writer and fashion model *

Edgardo Vega Yunqué Edgardo Vega Yunqué (May 20, 1936August 26, 2008) was a Puerto Rican novelist and short story writer, who also used the Americanized pen name Ed Vega. Early years Edgardo Vega Yunqué was born in Ponce, to Alberto Vega, a Baptist ministe ...

– novelist

References

External links

Official website

Official athletics website
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