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The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a

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in Staten Island, New York. It is one of the 11 four-year senior colleges within the City University of New York system. Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studies lead to bachelor's and associate degrees. The

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

is awarded in 13 professional and

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and sciences fields of study. A clinical doctorate is awarded by the department of physical therapy. The college participates in doctoral programs of the

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biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

, chemistry,

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physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

, and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

History

The College of Staten Island is the product of a merger in 1976 of Staten Island Community College (SICC), founded in 1956, and Richmond College, founded in 1965. Richmond College had been threatened with closure because of New York City's financial crisis, while SICC, because of its status as a

community college A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries: many community colleges have an "open enrollment" for students who have graduated from high school (also known as senior se ...

, received state support. The merger was particularly logical since the community college offered two-year degrees, while Richmond College was an "upper divisional" college (the third in the nation) that offered degrees to those in their third and fourth years of schooling. The College of Staten Island has been located on the grounds of the former

Willowbrook State School Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities located in the Willowbrook neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 ...

since 1993. It is the largest campus, in terms of physical size, in New York City. Before the relocation to Willowbrook, the college had a split campus, located at the former Staten Island Community College (in Sunnyside, on

Todt Hill Todt Hill ( ) is a hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod. The summi ...

; the campus now houses the

Michael J. Petrides School The Michael J. Petrides School is a State school, public school located at 715 Ocean Terrace in Staten Island, New York (state), New York. It was created by Board of Education officials and named for their late colleague and College of Staten Isla ...

) and Richmond College (in St. George).

Presidents

# Walter L. Willig, 1955–1968,Hall of Presidents
College of Staten Island. was the inaugural president of College of Staten Island predecessor institution Staten Island Community College (SICC). His academic area of expertise was civil engineering. # Herbert Schueler, 1966–1973, was the first president of College of Staten Island predecessor institution Richmond College. His academic specialties were German literature and philosophy. # William M. Birenbaum, 1968–1976, served as president of College of Staten Island predecessor institution Staten Island Community College (SICC) until the merger of SICC and Richmond College in 1976, which resulted in the formation of the College of Staten Island. His academic focus was access to higher education for all. # Edmond Volpe, 1976–1994, an American literature scholar, retired in 1994, after having successfully handled the merger of the two colleges and the unification of the two campuses. # Marlene Springer, 1994–2007, an English and American literature scholar, under whose leadership the college improved academic standards, introduced several master's programs, raised the level of the faculty, added research institutes, and introduced an Honors College, The Verrazano School, and the CSI High School for International Studies, retired in August 2007 # Tomás D. Morales, 2007–2012; arranged for a free shuttle from the

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to the Willowbrook campus; announced in May 2012 that he would be leaving to become president of California State University at San Bernardino some months after the faculty senate passed a motion of no confidence # William J. Fritz, 2012-2021, geologist, appointed interim president on August 15, 2012, and as president on May 6, 2014 Following the retirement of William J. Fritz on December 31, 2021, Timothy G. Lynch began serving as the college's interim president.

Academics

Research

CSI has more than 80 science labs which includes the Center for Developmental Neuroscience and The CUNY Interdisciplinary High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC). HPPC is made to advance the university's educational and research mission by providing advanced high-performance computing technology resources and corresponding technical assistance to faculty and students. It is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the region.

Rankings

As of the 2016 school year, '' U.S. News & World Report'' has ranked The College of Staten Island between 146th and 187th in their Best Regional Universities in the North category, and tied for 118th in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs that do not offer a doctorate, yet the college is unranked nationally. For 2018, the

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has placed The College of Staten Island between 601st and 800th in their US University Rankings category, while

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ranks the college 451st nationally, 152nd in their Public Colleges category, and 164th in the Northeast. Furthermore, Forbes ranks the college 111th in their America's Best Value Colleges. The college is also very research oriented and the High Impact Universities Research Performance Index (RPI) grades CSI with a B for its research performance. Furthermore, the college is ranked 37th nationally in the 2017 SMI Ranking which measures the upward economic mobility.

Athletics

The College of Staten Island athletic teams are known as the Dolphins. The university is a provisional member of the

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...

(NCAA) Division II, and set to join the

East Coast Conference The East Coast Conference (ECC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of C ...

(ECC) in the 2020–21 academic year. The university previously competed at the

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level as a member of the

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(CUNYAC) from 1979–80 to 2019–20. The college began the transition to Division II during the 2019–20 season playing a mixed schedule of Division II and Division III teams, the college. During the following two years of provisional status the Dolphins will compete in the conference and are eligible for conference awards but will not be eligible for ECC and NCAA championships until completing the transition process for the 2022–23 academic year. The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will remain in the

Metropolitan Swimming Conference The Metropolitan Swimming Conference (METS) is one of the largest intercollegiate swimming and diving conferences in the United States. It includes NCAA division I, II, & III teams from the New York metropolitan region. Teams compete at an annual ...

(METS) as the ECC doesn't sponsor the sport. The college competes in 16 sports. Men's sports are

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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

, cross country, soccer,

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and

diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

, and

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

(indoor and outdoor); women's sports are basketball, cross country, soccer,

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

, swimming and diving, tennis, and

(indoor and outdoor).

Notable people

Faculty/staff

* Nancy Bogen, professor of English, producer of

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combining photography, poetry and music *

Patricia J. Brooks Patricia J. Brooks (born July 16, 1965) is an American Developmental psychology, developmental psychologist. She is the director of the Language Learning Laboratory at the College of Staten Island of City University of New York and Doctoral Facult ...

, professor of psychology, director of the Language Learning Laboratory *

Jean Halley Jean Halley (born June 16, 1967) is an American writer and sociologist based in New York City. Her work revolves around issues of social power, violence, trauma, gender, and animal studies. Halley is also a professor of sociology at the College ...

, professor of sociology, focusing on issues of

social power In social science and politics, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Power does not exclusively refer to the threat or use of force (coercion) by one actor against ...

* Tyehimba Jess, professor of English, recipient of 2017

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...

* Cate Marvin, professor of English, writer of poetry and recipient of 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship *

Seth Roland Seth Roland (born 1957) is the head coach of the Fairleigh Dickinson men's soccer team, a position he has held since 1997. As a player, he won a silver medal with Team USA at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in Israel. As a coach of Team USA, he won a ...

(born 1957), soccer player and coach *

Sarah Schulman Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist, and AIDS historian. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at College of Staten Island (CSI) and a Fellow a ...

, CUNY distinguished professor of the Humanities, novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter and AIDS historian * Patricia Smith, professor of English, winner of the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Poetry * Charles Liu, professor of Astrophysics, former director of the Verrazano School and of the

William E. Macaulay Honors College William E. Macaulay Honors College, commonly referred to as Macaulay Honors College or Macaulay, is a highly selective honors college for students at the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. The college awards full-tuition ...

at CSI

Alumni

* Farooque Ahmed, imprisoned for planning to bomb Washington Metro stations *

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, civil rights activist in Alabama *

Justin Brannan Justin Lee Brannan (born October 14, 1978) is an American politician and musician. A Democrat, he is the current New York City Councilmember for the 43rd district, based in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. A former musician, he was a founding member of the ...

, New York City Council since 2018, representing Brooklyn; former musician * Sara M. Gonzalez, New York City Council 2002–2014, representing Brooklyn *

Vinny Guadagnino Vincent J. Guadagnino ( , ; born November 11, 1987) is an American reality television personality, best known for being a cast member on MTV's ''Jersey Shore''. Early life Guadagnino was raised in the Staten Island borough of New York City, and ...

, American

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personality, best known for MTV's '' Jersey Shore'' * Muriel A. Howard, president of

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1996–2009 * Raj Amit Kumar, filmmaker and writer, best known for ''

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'' which is banned in India *

Jeremy Luke Jeremy Luke (born March 23, 1977) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Danny in ''Don Jon'' and as Mickey Cohen in the TNT series '' Mob City''. Early life Luke was born and raised in Staten Island, New York. He attended the Colleg ...

, film and television actor * Bahman Maghsoudlou, filmmaker and film historian, CSI Alumni Hall of Fame *

Michael Mulgrew Michael Mulgrew is the fifth President of the United Federation of Teachers, the trade union of teachers in New York City, New York. The union's executive board elected Mulgrew in July 2009. Prior to his current position, Michael was elected Vice ...

, fifth President of the

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* Joe Rigby, jazz saxophonist, NYC music teacher of the year 1996 * Gene Simmons, co-lead singer and bassist from the band

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* Kevin Sussman, actor in ''

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''.

References

External links

Official websiteOfficial athletics website
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