Academic Units

Ann Marie P. Mauro, Joan Hansen Grabe Dean and Professor

The mission of the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing is to provide quality nursing education to promote health and provide care in culturally diverse urban and global communities through research, scholarship, and service.

Hunter College Elementary School

Dawn Roy, Principal at Hunter College Elementary School

Our school’s history began as the Hunter College Model School in 1870 as a teacher-training resource and was restructured in 1941 as Hunter College Elementary School for intellectually talented and gifted students. For over 80 years, HCES has been a model for gifted education. We pride ourselves on providing a safe, positive learning environment with a rigorous instructional program that meets the needs of our students. We value and foster respect for diversity, and create a community of inclusion for our students and families.

Hunter College High School

Dr. Tony Fisher, Principal at Hunter College High School

Our students are afforded a rigorous, deep core curriculum and have great flexibility in planning their own academic programs in the Junior and Senior years. Options for our older students range from Constitutional Law to Organic Chemistry to Theater in New York, along with a broad selection of more traditional Advanced Placement courses in all academic disciplines and the arts, outside internships, and classes at Hunter College.

Erica Chito Childs, Interim Ruth and Harold Newman Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences

The School of Arts and Sciences at Hunter College offers its students the opportunity to engage in a rigorous and impactful education across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and STEM, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our diverse student body receives a world-class education in diverse settings, including classrooms, laboratories, studios, and fieldwork environments across New York City. Our faculty are both cutting-edge researchers and exceptional teachers, recognizing these as integral elements of a robust and distinguished academic program. Additionally, we are dedicated to cultivating meaningful community partnerships, enriching the educational experience and extending our impact beyond the academic sphere.

Julie Gorlewski, Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean

The School of Education faculty, staff and students make significant contributions to lives of individuals, families and communities. Graduates of our programs assume roles of responsibility and leadership in PreK-12 classrooms, schools and school districts, research and policy centers, and community agencies. By using reflective practice and translating research into action, they are prepared to guide the academic, social and emotional development of children, adolescents and adults.

Hunter’s School of Health Professions is dedicated to the educational preparation of a range of health care professions. They opened their doors on East 106th Street in 1968 under the name Institute of Health Sciences. Six years later, the Institute became the School of Health Sciences and moved downtown to the Brookdale Campus. In 2014, the name was changed to the School of Health Professions. Today the School’s mission is the education of the next generation of health care professionals in the areas of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Physical Therapy, and Nutrition and Public Health. These professionals will work in health care centers, schools, organizations and private practice to improve the lives of those they assist through direct service delivery, research and education.

Mary Cavanaugh, Dean and Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work

The mission of the Silberman School of Social Work promotes civic engagement and dedication to public services in the City of New York. Our student body, field agencies, and alumni are the primary social work workforce of the public human service departments and not-for-profit agencies in New York City.

Ruth Finkelstein, Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College

Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging & Longevity of Hunter College is a multi-disciplinary center dedicated to the advancement of successful aging and longevity through research, education, and evaluation of evidence-based models of practice and policy.

Sean Ahearn, Director

The Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI) is a research facility at Hunter College in New York City. Their work focuses on the modeling and analysis of spatial information.

Felisa Vázquez-Abad, Executive Director

The Center for Computer Simulation, Stochastic Modeling, and Optimization (COSSMO) was founded in 2013. CoSSMO maintains a portfolio of research projects dealing with computer simulation, stochastic modeling and optimization. The focus is on the breadth of applications of stochastic modeling and optimization that are a direct benefit to government and private industry.

Yomaira Figueroa, Director

The Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos/Center for Puerto Rican Studies is a university-based research institute whose mission consists of two components.  One is to collect, preserve and provide access to archival and library resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans. The other is to produce, facilitate, and disseminate interdisciplinary research about the diasporic experiences of Puerto Ricans and to link this scholarly inquiry to social action and policy debates.

Peter Marcotullio, Director

The Hunter Center for Sustainable Cities seeks to create awareness and understanding of the connections between the everyday lives of urban citizens and their natural world, leading to the discovery and use of cities like New York as a learning laboratory to create a sustainable future for cities worldwide.

Annette Nielsen, Executive Director

The Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center develops intersectional, innovative, and evidence-based solutions to prevent diet-related diseases and promote food security in New York City and other urban centers. The Center works with policymakers, community organizations, advocates, and the public to create healthier, more sustainable food environments and to use food to promote community and economic development. Through interdisciplinary research, policy analysis, evaluation, and education, we leverage the expertise and passion of the students, faculty, and staff of Hunter College. The Center aims to make New York City a model for smart, fair food policy.

William A. Herbert, Esq., Director

The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (NCSCBHEP) is a national labor-management research center housed in and supported by Hunter College, City University of New York. Since 1972, the National Center has served as a national research center dedicated to studying the use of collective bargaining as a form of workplace democracy. It believes that collective bargaining is an important means for advancing higher education and the working conditions at colleges and universities as well as other industries. We believe that the study of collective bargaining is essential for a knowledge-based dialogue concerning labor-management and educational issues, and is critically important for reasoned societal debate that will lead to social progress.

Harold Holzer, Director

Jessica Neuwirth, Director, Human Rights Program

Basil Smilke, Director, Public Policy Program

The mission of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute is three-fold: to educate our students in public policy, to support applied policy research, and to foster creative dialogue. The institute provides a place for students to analyze critical public policy issues and experience meaningful civic engagement; a place for faculty to research, teach, and write constructively about the most important issues of the day; and a place for scholarly and public audiences to participate in high-profile lectures, seminars, and conferences.

Barbara Barone, Director

The Dolciani Mathematics Learning Center is a multi-purpose facility. It is a Resource Center providing computer assisted tutorials, multi-media materials and videotapes for students enrolled in all math/stat courses, students enrolled in other coureses needing a review of mathematics concepts, and students studying for standardized exams such as the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, LAST and Nursing Exams. It is a Tutoring Center for most math and stat courses and sponsors study groups and workshops for all areas of mathemaics. It is also the home base for the pre-101 and COMPASS workshops.

The Chanin Language Center is a specially designed space for Hunter students who wish to study foreign languages.

The Language Center makes possible total language immersion in an international atmosphere. The Center includes a large multimedia facility/lecture hall, a lounge, a library, a lab and a multimedia classroom. The space is designed so that students are afforded ample opportunity to practice the foreign language being studied through films, audio and video programs, and lots of interactive computer language-applications available to individual students and classes.

Jack Kenigsberg, Interim Coordinator

The Hunter College Reading/Writing Center is a comprehensive service for the entire college community, offering tutorial and computer-assisted instruction to students and technical support and development to faculty and staff.

TBA, Director

The Skirball Science Learning Center (SSLC) provides comprehensive assistance to all Hunter College students in all areas of the natural sciences and technology. Its professional staff and peer tutors provide a learning environment in which all students (regardless of major) are welcome.

Julie Van Peteghem, Director

A collaboration of Academic Affairs, Instructional Computing & Information Technology (ICIT), and the Office of Assessment, ACERT seeks to promote excellence in teaching and research at Hunter. The Center fosters a community in which faculty use innovative pedagogy, technology, and assessment to enhance their activities as teachers and scholars and thus facilitate engaged learning. Seminars allow participants to share and discuss high-impact practices that faculty can incorporate into their teaching and research.

Shiao-Chuan Kung, Director

The Center for Online Learning seeks to encourage the use of technology in the classroom and to increase student engagement by encouraging faculty to design projects that take advantage of new digital tools for content creation, simulation, animation, video, online collaboration, distance learning, and incorporation of mobile media devices.

The CUNY Technology Commercialization Office is the clearing house for information on technology transfer, patenting, licensing, commercialization, trademark, copyright, business development, and intellectual transfer for Hunter College and CUNY.

The Office of Research Administration is the focal point at Hunter College for information relating to grants and contracts for project support.  The office’s main functions involve the review, institutional approval, and submission of proposals to government and private agencies, the interpretation of Research Foundation policies, the review of all grant-funded personnel appointments, and the dissemination of information on grant opportunities.

The Office of Assessment supports College-wide efforts to increase the institution’s knowledge about its students, including their learning outcomes and other educational experiences, to continuously improve teaching, curricula, and support services.

The Office of Institutional Research supports the College’s decision-making, strategic planning, and assessment efforts. Our website hosts the Hunter College Factbook as well as other sources of information.