Hunter College

Hunter College of the City University of New York is one of the flagship senior colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Though it was founded as a teacher-training school for female graduates of the New York City public school system, it is currently a full-service, coeducational college with four schools: Education, Arts and Sciences, Social Work, and Health Professions. Its main campus, which houses the Schools of Education and Arts and Sciences, consists of an interconnected complex of buildings located at Lexington Avenue and 68th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

History

Hunter College grew out of an 1866 resolution by the New York City Department of Public Instruction to establish a high school and normal college for female graduates of the city's common schools. Four years later, on February 14, 1870, the Female and Normal High School, which was soon renamed the Normal College of the City of New York, began operations.