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Minutes from New York City's Board of Higher Education meeting which authorized the establishment of Bronx Community College.

This front-page announces the College's move to the University Heights campus following its sale from NYU.

The College's home from 1959 to 1973 at former site of Bronx High School of Science.

Students smile after graduation. The first Hostos commencement ceremonies were held in the Cardinal Hayes High School Auditorium on June 13, 1972. Hostos President Candido de Leon conferred degrees on 152 candidates. Maria Josefa Canino, member of…

Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams (seated) receives a dental hygiene demonstration from Wendy Wallace, who in August 1972 would become the first graduate of the Dental Hygiene Program. Looking on are Dr. Cyril Price, Dean of Health Sciences…

Hostos Community College on the quiet morning of February 1, 1971. Later that day students would wage a strike for better campus conditions. Hostos classes had begun for the first time the previous September in this building, a rental space that…

Lehman College is situated on the original site of the Jerome Park Racetrack (1866 - 1890).

The uptown Bronx campus of Hunter College was used as the US Naval Training School, (WR), from 1943 - 1946

The campus on March 25th, 1946, the first day of meetings of the UN Security Council. Flags of the original 51 members of the United Nations were raised on flagpoles along the inner rim of the circular driveway that separated the Gym Building from…