CUNY Master Plan 2012-2016

THE CUNY MASTER PLAN 2012-2016
Queensborough, and roof replacement and bathroom upgrades at Hostos. These efforts will continue as
projects are completed and new issues arise.
The third initiative involves financing and developing new CUNY facilities through public/private
partnerships.
• Residence Halls: In 2006, CUNY opened its first public/private residence hall on the City College
campus. In fall 2011 the Towers at City, a 589-bed residence hall, was 91 percent occupied. In 2009,
Queens College opened the Summit, a 506-bed residence hall on campus, which had a fall 2011 occupancy
rate of 98 percent. The Graduate Center Apartments, offering bright, modern, airy, and affordable
housing for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and members of the faculty opened in fall
2011 (100 percent occupancy). Additionally, the College of Staten Island has a 454-bed residence hall
designed and ready for financing in early 2012. The University is exploring opportunities for the
Manhattan colleges to occupy a shared facility.
• Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the CUNY School of Public Health at
Hunter College: Opened in fall 2011, the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the
CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College involved the purchase of a property in East Harlem
in order to relocate the Silberman School from its current leased facility on Manhattan’s Upper East
Side. A new 147,000-square-foot building was constructed on the purchased land to provide the
school with a permanent, owned facility. This public/private partnership was made possible through
the sale of the leased facility on East 79th Street, including the school’s lease interest at that site, to a
developer who was required to build the new facility in East Harlem before taking possession of the
79th Street building.
• New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences:
Also opened in fall 2011, the New York Simulation
Center for Health Sciences is a joint venture
between CUNY and New York University (NYU)
Langone Medical Center. The Simulation Center,
located on a floor at Bellevue Hospital, is the largest
state-of-the-art training facility for first responders,
emergency response workers, health care students,
and professionals in the nation. CUNY provided the
capital dollars for the renovation of the space, and
NYU will provide an equivalent amount in operating
funds, anticipated to cover the first decade of operations.
Funding for this project was made available
through Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who saw
the need for a training center following 9/11; he
appropriated $10.5 million in the state budget, which
was matched by Mayor Bloomberg in the city budget.
New York Simulation Center for
Health Sciences
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