CUNY Graduate Center

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, formally the Graduate School and University Center, is the principal doctorate-granting institution of the CUNY system, housed at 365 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.纽约市立大学研究生中心正式名称为纽约市立大学研究生院与大学中心，是纽约市立大学系统主要的博士学位授予机构，位于曼哈顿中城第五大道 365 号。

Founded in 1961 as the Division of Graduate Studies and renamed in 1969, it is a public postgraduate and research institution classified as an R1 doctoral university, offering 32 doctoral programmes and 18 master's programmes.该机构 1961 年以研究生部之名创办，1969 年改用现名，是一所公立研究生与研究型院校，被列为 R1 级博士型大学，开设 32 个博士项目与 18 个硕士项目。

The Graduate Center is placed in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, is absent from the 2027 QS World University Rankings and the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and is not included in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list.研究生中心在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 401-500 名区间，未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单。

History

• CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961, and awarded its first two PhDs in 1965 to Daniel Robinson, in psychology, and Barbara Stern, in English literature.纽约市立大学于 1961 年通过研究生部开始提供博士教育，1965 年授予首批两个博士学位，分别属于心理学的丹尼尔·罗宾逊与英国文学的芭芭拉·斯特恩。
• In 1969 the Division of Graduate Studies formally became the Graduate School and University Center, and the mathematician Mina S. Rees served as its first president from 1969 until her retirement in 1972.1969 年，研究生部正式改组为研究生院与大学中心，数学家米娜·S·里斯自 1969 年起担任首任校长，直至 1972 年退休。
• Rees was succeeded by the environmental psychologist Harold M. Proshansky, who led the institution until his death in 1990.继任者是环境心理学家哈罗德·M·普罗尚斯基，他执掌该机构直至 1990 年去世。
• Provost Steven M. Cahn was named acting president in spring 1991, and the psychologist Frances Degen Horowitz was appointed president in September 1991.1991 年春，教务长史蒂文·M·卡恩被任命为代理校长，同年 9 月心理学家弗朗西丝·迪根·霍罗维茨出任校长。
• In 2005 Horowitz was succeeded by the school's provost, the English literature professor William P. Kelly.2005 年，霍罗维茨由该校教务长、英国文学教授威廉·P·凯利接任。
• Under Kelly the Graduate Center pursued a strategic plan whose first goal was enhancing student support, and in 2013 it awarded 83 dissertation-year fellowships at a total cost of $1.65 million.在凯利任内，研究生中心推行了一项以加强对学生的支持为首要目标的战略规划，并于 2013 年发放 83 项论文年奖学金，总额 165 万美元。
• Student support rose from 14 million in 2001 to51 million in fall 2013, with packages that increased stipends and reduced teaching requirements.学生资助从 2001 年的 1400 万美元增至 2013 年秋季的 5100 万美元，资助方案提高了生活津贴并减少了教学任务。
• On 23 April 2013 the CUNY Board of Trustees announced that Kelly would serve as interim chancellor of the university from 1 July, following the retirement of chancellor Matthew Goldstein.2013 年 4 月 23 日，纽约市立大学董事会宣布，随着校监马修·戈德斯坦退休，凯利将自 7 月 1 日起出任该校临时校监。
• Provost Chase F. Robinson, a historian, became interim president in 2013 and then president from July 2014 to December 2018.历史学家、教务长蔡斯·F·罗宾逊于 2013 年出任临时校长，随后在 2014 年 7 月至 2018 年 12 月担任校长。
• Joy Connolly became provost in August 2016 and interim president in December 2018, while Julia Wrigley was appointed interim provost in December 2018.乔伊·康诺利于 2016 年 8 月出任教务长，2018 年 12 月转任临时校长，朱莉娅·里格利则在 2018 年 12 月被任命为临时教务长。
• In July 2019 James Muyskens became interim president after Connolly was appointed president of the American Council of Learned Societies.2019 年 7 月，康诺利出任美国学术团体协会主席后，詹姆斯·米肯斯接任临时校长。
• On 30 March 2020 Robin L. Garrell, vice provost for graduate education at the University of California, Los Angeles, was announced as president, taking office on 1 August 2020 and serving until 28 September 2023.2020 年 3 月 30 日，时任加州大学洛杉矶分校研究生教育副教务长的罗宾·L·加雷尔被宣布为校长，于 2020 年 8 月 1 日就职，任职至 2023 年 9 月 28 日。
• Joshua Brumberg became interim president on 2 October 2023 and was appointed president of the Graduate Center in June 2024.约书亚·布伦伯格于 2023 年 10 月 2 日出任临时校长，并于 2024 年 6 月被正式任命为研究生中心校长。
• Steve Everett became provost and senior vice president in August 2021, Norman Carey succeeded him as interim provost in August 2024, and Joel P. Christensen was appointed provost in August 2025.史蒂夫·埃弗里特于 2021 年 8 月出任教务长兼高级副校长，诺曼·凯里于 2024 年 8 月接任临时教务长，乔尔·P·克里斯滕森则于 2025 年 8 月被任命为教务长。
• In 2001 the Graduate Center began a five-year faculty recruitment campaign to bolster its roster of renowned academics and public intellectuals, bringing in scholars including André Aciman, Jean Anyon, Mitchell Duneier, Victor Kolyvagin, Robert Reid-Pharr and Saul Kripke.2001 年，研究生中心启动为期五年的教师招聘计划，以充实知名学者与公共知识分子的队伍，延揽了安德烈·艾席蒙、琼·安扬、米切尔·杜尼尔、维克托·科利瓦金、罗伯特·里德—法尔和索尔·克里普克等学者。
• The Graduate Center pioneered the CUNY Academic Commons in 2009, an academic social network serving the 24 colleges of the university system.研究生中心于 2009 年首创纽约市立大学学术共享平台，这是面向该系统 24 所学院的学术社交网络。
• The Advanced Science Research Center opened in September 2014 as an outgrowth of CUNY's multibillion-dollar Decade of Science initiative, and formally joined the Graduate Center in spring 2017.高级科学研究中心于 2014 年 9 月启用，是纽约市立大学耗资数十亿美元的「科学十年」计划的产物，并于 2017 年春季正式并入研究生中心。
• The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality was launched on 1 September 2016, expanding and replacing the Luxembourg Income Study Center that had opened at the Graduate Center in 2009.詹姆斯·M·与凯瑟琳·D·斯通社会经济不平等研究中心于 2016 年 9 月 1 日成立，扩大并取代了 2009 年在研究生中心设立的卢森堡收入研究中心。
• The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning was established in 1981 by Stephen Brier and Herbert Gutman to produce materials on the social and cultural history of the United States.美国社会史项目兼媒体与学习中心由斯蒂芬·布里尔与赫伯特·古特曼于 1981 年创立，致力于制作关于美国社会与文化史的教学材料。
• The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation was founded in 1989, while the Research Center for Music Iconography dates from 1972.巴里·S·布鲁克音乐研究与文献中心创立于 1989 年，音乐图像学研究中心的渊源则可追溯到 1972 年。

Academics

• The Graduate Center offers 32 doctoral programmes, 18 master's programmes and operates more than 30 research centres and institutes.研究生中心开设 32 个博士项目与 18 个硕士项目，并运营 30 多个研究中心与研究所。
• It employs a core faculty of about 130 professors in addition to more than 1,700 faculty members appointed from other CUNY colleges across New York City.学院拥有约 130 名核心教授，另有 1700 多名来自纽约市各地其他市立大学学院的聘任教师。
• The Graduate Center uses a consortium model with 140 faculty holding sole appointments there, most of them senior scholars, while 1,800 faculty from other CUNY schools teach classes and advise graduate students.研究生中心采用联合体模式，有 140 名教师仅在本校任职，其中多为资深学者，另有 1800 名来自其他市立大学学院的教师承担授课与研究生指导。
• Courses in the social sciences, humanities and mathematics convene at the Graduate Center, whereas laboratory courses, clinical doctorates and courses in business, criminal justice, engineering and social welfare meet on CUNY college campuses across the city.社会科学、人文与数学课程在研究生中心本部上课，需要实验室的课程、临床博士课程以及商学、刑事司法、工程与社会福利课程则在全市各市立大学学院校园进行。
• In 2023 two doctoral programmes, criminal justice and English, were ranked among the top 20 graduate programmes in the United States, and four more, audiology, history, philosophy and sociology, among the top 30.2023 年，刑事司法与英语两个博士项目跻身全美研究生项目前 20 名，听力学、历史学、哲学与社会学四个项目进入前 30 名。
• Its philosophy programme was ranked 44th globally in the 2016 QS World University Rankings and 14th in the United States and 16th among English-speaking countries in the 2022 Philosophical Gourmet Report.其哲学项目在 2016 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 44 名，在 2022 年《哲学美食报告》中位列全美第 14 名、英语国家第 16 名。
• In 2026, QS placed the philosophy programme in the 50-100 band globally.2026 年，QS 将其哲学项目列为全球第 50-100 名区间。
• Four University Center programmes are affiliated with the institution, namely CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, the CUNY School of Professional Studies with the Joseph S. Murphy Institute, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Macaulay Honors College.四个大学中心项目隶属于该机构，分别是纽约市立大学个性化与跨学科研究学士项目、市立大学专业研究学院及约瑟夫·S·墨菲劳工研究所、市立大学新闻研究生院与麦考利荣誉学院。
• The Graduate Center describes itself as research-intensive and is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1 institution with highest research activity.研究生中心自称为研究密集型机构，并被卡内基高等教育机构分类列为研究活动最高的 R1 级院校。
• Its library network links 31 City University of New York libraries that together hold 6.2 million printed works and more than 300,000 e-books.其图书馆网络连接 31 所纽约市立大学图书馆，合计藏有 620 万册印刷文献与 30 多万种电子书。
• Since 1968 the Graduate Center has maintained a formal agreement with the New York Public Library, and the Manhattan Research Library Initiative extends borrowing privileges to the libraries of Columbia University and New York University.自 1968 年起，研究生中心与纽约公共图书馆保持正式合作协议，曼哈顿研究图书馆计划又将借阅权限扩展至哥伦比亚大学与纽约大学图书馆。
• The Mina Rees Library maintains CUNY Academic Works, an online repository hosting open-access faculty and student research.米娜·里斯图书馆维护纽约市立大学学术成果库，这一在线仓储开放收录教师与学生的研究成果。
• The Advanced Science Research Center pursues five fields, namely nanoscience, which draws on the living world to create new materials and devices, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience and environmental science, each occupying one floor of its building.高级科学研究中心涉猎五个领域，即借鉴生物界创制新材料与新器件的纳米科学、光子学、结构生物学、神经科学与环境科学，每个领域占用大楼的一层。
• The centre operates 15 core facilities, including biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, nanofabrication and magnetic resonance imaging, open to academic, non-profit and corporate researchers worldwide.该中心运营 15 个核心设施，包括生物分子核磁共振、质谱、纳米加工与磁共振成像设备，向全球学术界、非营利机构与企业研究人员开放。
• Between 2014 and 2019 researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center secured 126 grants totalling $61 million.2014 年至 2019 年间，高级科学研究中心的研究人员共获得 126 项资助，总额 6100 万美元。
• The centre hosts one of 15 Centers for Advanced Technology designated by Empire State Development NYSTAR, its Sensor CAT supported by a grant of nearly $8.8 million.该中心设有纽约州经济发展厅 NYSTAR 认定的 15 个先进技术中心之一，其传感器中心获得近 880 万美元资助。
• A 2020 grant of up to $16 million from the Simons Foundation supports a team led by Andrea Alù, director of the Photonics Initiative, studying wave transport in metamaterials.西蒙斯基金会 2020 年提供最高 1600 万美元资助，支持光子学计划主任安德烈亚·阿卢领导的团队研究超材料中的波传输。
• The Mina Rees Library takes part in a CUNY-wide book delivery system and offers interlibrary loan, bringing material from outside the university system to Graduate Center scholars.米娜·里斯图书馆参与市立大学全系统的图书递送服务，并提供馆际互借，把校外资料送到研究生中心学者手中。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the B. Altman and Company Building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, which the university shares with the academic publisher Oxford University Press.主校区位于曼哈顿中城第三十四街与第五大道交口的 B. 奥尔特曼公司大楼，该楼由大学与学术出版机构牛津大学出版社共用。
• Before 2000 the Graduate Center was housed in Aeolian Hall on West 42nd Street, across from the main branch of the New York Public Library.2000 年以前，研究生中心设于西四十二街的风神音乐厅大楼，与纽约公共图书馆总馆隔街相望。
• In 2017 the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, on the southern edge of the City College campus in Harlem, became part of the Graduate Center.2017 年，位于哈莱姆区城市学院校园南缘圣尼古拉斯台地 85 号的纽约市立大学高级科学研究中心并入研究生中心。
• The Mina Rees Library occupies three floors of the building and offers research consultations, a round-the-clock online reference chat with librarians, and workshops and webinars on research tools.米娜·里斯图书馆占据大楼的三个楼层，提供研究咨询、与馆员全天候在线交流的参考服务，以及研究工具工作坊与网络研讨会。
• The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium, named for the institution's second president, seats 389 on the concourse level.以该机构第二任校长命名的哈罗德·M·普罗尚斯基礼堂位于地下一层，设有 389 个座位。
• The Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall seats 180 and the Martin E. Segal Theatre seats 70, both on the first floor.贝斯利·鲍威尔·埃莱巴什独奏厅设有 180 个座位，马丁·E·西格尔剧场设有 70 个座位，二者均位于一层。
• The Amie and Tony James Gallery on the ground floor, overseen by the Center for the Humanities, mounts exhibitions that bring scholars and artists into dialogue, and has shown solo work by Alison Knowles and Dor Guez.位于底层的艾米与托尼·詹姆斯画廊由人文中心管理，举办让学者与艺术家对话的展览，并曾展出艾莉森·诺尔斯与多尔·格斯的个人作品。
• CUNY TV, the university's citywide cable channel, broadcasts on cable and on WNYE's digital subchannel 25.3, with studios on the first floor and satellite dishes on the rooftop.大学面向全市的有线频道纽约市立大学电视台通过有线网络与 WNYE 数字子频道 25.3 播出，演播室设在一层，卫星天线架设在楼顶。
• NYC Media, the broadcast network of the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, shares the facilities and runs WNYE-FM 91.5 and WNYE-TV channel 25, all broadcast around the clock from within the building.纽约市市长媒体与娱乐办公室的官方广播机构 NYC Media 共用这些设施，并在楼内运营 WNYE-FM 91.5 与 WNYE-TV 第 25 频道，全天候播出节目。
• The library's special collections include Activist Women's Voices, an oral history project documenting unheralded community-based women activists in New York City.图书馆的特藏包括「行动主义女性之声」，这一口述史项目记录纽约市鲜为人知的社区女性活动家。
• The Advanced Science Research Center's IlluminationSpace is an interactive education centre that hosts high school field trips and free community hours, and its Community Sensor Lab teaches participants to build low-cost environmental sensors.高级科学研究中心的启明空间是互动教育场所，接待高中参观并设免费社区开放时段，其社区传感器实验室则教参与者制作低成本环境传感器。
• Each research initiative at the centre occupies a floor housing four faculty laboratories and between two and four core facilities.该中心的每个研究方向占用一层楼，内设四个教师实验室与两到四个核心设施。
• The main branch of the New York Public Library stands a few blocks north on Fifth Avenue, and its Science, Industry and Business Library occupies space inside the B. Altman Building itself.纽约公共图书馆总馆位于第五大道向北几个街区处，其科学、工业与商业图书馆就设在 B. 奥尔特曼公司大楼内。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities the Graduate Center is placed in the 401-500 band rather than at a single position.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，研究生中心位于第 401-500 名区间，而非某个具体名次。
• The Graduate Center does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.研究生中心未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• It is likewise absent from the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该机构同样未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It is not included in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list.该机构也未进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单。
• Its faculty have included recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Abel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize and Grammy Awards, as well as members of the National Academy of Sciences.其教师中曾有诺贝尔奖、阿贝尔奖、普利策奖、国家人文奖章、国家科学奖章、沃尔夫奖与格莱美奖得主，以及美国国家科学院院士。
• The Graduate Center has graduated 15,000 alumni worldwide and, as of 2016, counted five MacArthur Foundation Fellows among them, the most recent being the writer Maggie Nelson.研究生中心在全球已培养 15000 名校友，截至 2016 年其中有五位麦克阿瑟基金会研究员，最近一位是作家玛吉·纳尔逊。
• Among alumni who graduated between 2003 and 2018, more than two-thirds work at educational institutions and over half have remained in New York City or its metropolitan area.在 2003 年至 2018 年间毕业的校友中，超过三分之二在教育机构工作，超过一半留在纽约市或其大都会区。
• The CUNY Academic Commons received awards and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Sloan Consortium and won the 2013 Digital Humanities Award.纽约市立大学学术共享平台获得阿尔弗雷德·P·斯隆基金会与斯隆联盟的奖项和资助，并赢得 2013 年数字人文奖。
• Two Advanced Science Research Center professors, Andrea Alù and Rein Ulijn, each won a $3 million Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense, in 2019 and 2021 respectively.高级科学研究中心的两位教授安德烈亚·阿卢与雷因·乌莱因分别于 2019 年与 2021 年获得美国国防部 300 万美元的万尼瓦尔·布什教职研究员资助。

Student life

• As of fall 2025 the Graduate Center enrolled more than 3,100 students across its doctoral and master's programmes, of whom 2,600 were doctoral students.截至 2025 年秋季，研究生中心在博士与硕士项目中注册学生超过 3100 人，其中博士生 2600 人。
• For the fall 2025 semester the average acceptance rate across all doctoral programmes was 13.5 percent.2025 年秋季学期，全部博士项目的平均录取率为 13.5%。
• The Doctoral and Graduate Students' Council is the sole policy-making body representing students in doctoral and master's programmes.博士与研究生学生理事会是代表博士与硕士项目学生的唯一决策机构。
• More than forty doctoral student organizations, ranging from the Middle Eastern Studies Organization to the Prison Studies Group, host conferences, publish online magazines and organize social events.四十多个博士生组织从中东研究组织到监狱研究小组不等，它们举办会议、创办网络杂志并组织社交活动。
• Doctoral students produce The GC Advocate, a newspaper funded by the student council and run by editors from the various doctoral programmes, published six times each academic year and free for students, faculty, staff and visitors.博士生创办《研究生中心倡导报》，该报由学生理事会资助、由各博士项目的编辑共同运营，每学年出版六期，向学生、教师、职员与访客免费发放。
• Graduate housing opened in East Harlem in fall 2011, built in conjunction with the construction of the Hunter College School of Social Work.研究生宿舍于 2011 年秋季在东哈莱姆启用，与亨特学院社会工作学院的建设项目同步落成。
• The eight-storey residence provides a gym, laundry facilities, a lounge and a rooftop terrace.这座八层宿舍楼配有健身房、洗衣设施、休息室与屋顶露台。
• Graduate Center students and faculty are the New York Public Library's primary academic constituents, holding borrowing privileges for its research collections.研究生中心的学生与教师是纽约公共图书馆主要的学术服务对象，享有其研究馆藏的借阅权限。

Notable people

• Nancy Fraser, a philosopher known for work on justice and recognition, is among the Graduate Center's alumni.以正义与承认理论闻名的哲学家南希·弗雷泽是研究生中心的校友。
• Art historian and ACT-UP activist Douglas Crimp, political scientist Douglas Hale and anthropologist Faye Ginsburg also count among its graduates.艺术史学家、ACT-UP 活动家道格拉斯·克里普，政治学家道格拉斯·黑尔与人类学家费伊·金斯伯格同样是该校毕业生。
• Sociologist Michael P. Jacobson and historian Maurice Berger, a cultural critic who wrote on race and visual culture, are alumni as well.社会学家迈克尔·P·雅各布森与撰写种族及视觉文化评论的历史学家莫里斯·伯杰也是校友。
• Gregory Pardlo, a student at the Graduate Center, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.研究生中心学生格雷戈里·帕德洛获得 2015 年普利策诗歌奖。
• Writer André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name, joined the faculty in the 2001 recruitment campaign.《请以你的名字呼唤我》的作者、作家安德烈·艾席蒙在 2001 年的招聘计划中加入教师队伍。
• Economist Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate, has taught at the Graduate Center.诺贝尔奖得主、经济学家保罗·克鲁格曼曾在研究生中心任教。
• Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and geographer David Harvey are among its prominent faculty.理论物理学家加来道雄与地理学家大卫·哈维是其知名教师。
• Social psychologist Stanley Milgram, known for experiments on obedience to authority, taught at the institution.以服从权威实验闻名的社会心理学家斯坦利·米尔格拉姆曾在此任教。
• Mathematician Dennis Sullivan and political scientist Frances Fox Piven have also been members of the faculty.数学家丹尼斯·沙利文与政治学家弗朗西丝·福克斯·皮文也曾是该校教师。
• Anthropologist Talal Asad and economist Branko Milanović, a scholar of inequality, are listed among the faculty.人类学家塔拉勒·阿萨德与研究不平等问题的经济学家布兰科·米兰诺维奇均列名教师之中。
• Composer John Corigliano and the philosopher Saul Kripke, recruited in 2001, have taught at the Graduate Center.作曲家约翰·科里利亚诺与 2001 年延揽的哲学家索尔·克里普克都曾在研究生中心任教。
• Conductor and music scholar Barry S. Brook, for whom the music research centre is named, was a member of the faculty.音乐研究所以其命名的指挥家与音乐学者巴里·S·布鲁克曾任教于此。
• Poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum, historian David Nasaw and literary critic Eric Lott are also listed among the institution's faculty.诗人与评论家韦恩·科斯滕鲍姆、历史学家戴维·纳索以及文学批评家埃里克·洛特也列名于该校教师之中。