According to a recent email sent out to the Hunter community by school officials, College President Jennifer Raab has negotiated with the developers of a new apartment building in East Harlem to offer discounted housing to Hunter College students. The new building, located on East 119th Street and Third Avenue, stands right across the street from the new School of Social Work and the CUNY School of Public Health.
Hunter Dean of Education Dr. David M. Steiner was appointed in July by the New York State Board of Regents to be the new State Education Commissioner and President of the State University of New York, the Hunter website announced recently. Steiner, who has been at Hunter for the past four years, will assume his new post on Oct 1.
This July, at a press conference at Bellevue Hospital, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced that she was awarding CUNY nursing programs with a grant for $500,000. The money will be used to support nurses teaching at Lehman College and Borough of Manhattan Community College, as well as to fund the new Hunter-Bellevue accelerated nursing program.
Hunter College is flying high this year, sort of. Princeton Review recently named Hunter one of best Northeastern colleges and among the best 371 colleges in the country, and US News and World Report, too, identified Hunter as a grade-A school based on its learning requirements.
Mihi cura futuri, Hunter College's motto, is Latin for "mine is the care of the future." The school's Children's Learning Center, a small office responsible for providing safe and affordable childcare for student-parents studying at Hunter, has operated under this motto for the past 26 years.