The CUNY Leadership Academy is your source for leadership education, research, and opportunities at the City University of New York (CUNY). The Academy is where students come together with faculty and other leaders to develop the skills, knowledge, and experience necessary to become global leaders.

Leaders have studied, taught, and organized at the City University of New York throughout our rich history. We have a great tradition of developing leaders in a wide array of disciplines and sectors. From Jonas Salk to Abraham Maslow, Shirley Chisholm to Audre Lorde, and Colin Powell to President Barack Obama who did some of his early community organizing at our very own City College.

Our graduates include 12 Nobel Laureates, a U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, an astronaut, noted theorists, composers, noted writers, inventors, and corporate leaders. In fact, according to a recent national survey by Standard & Poor's, more top U.S. corporate executives earned their bachelor's degrees at The City University of New York than at any other university in the country.

Over time the tradition of producing leaders has informed the development of a wide range of both academic and co-curricular leadership education programs at the CUNY Colleges. It was the vision of Dr. Garrie W. Moore, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, to develop a world class leadership academy at CUNY that would connect programs from across CUNY as well as develop CUNY-wide leadership education programs that would take advantage of the extraordinary resources of CUNY and New York City.

This vision is made possible by the unique nature of the City University of New York. CUNY is a state university system with the unique characteristic that all of its campuses are located within one city, the great city of New York. Imagine if all of the University of California campuses were in Los Angeles, CUNY is something like that. Due to our unique geographic reality, we are able to partner with extraordinary educational leaders from across CUNY to offer leadership education programs at the university system level.

In addition to our remarkable history of leadership development, CUNY is arguably the most diverse university in the United States. Our diversity, the proximity of our campuses, and our location in New York City combine to provide unparalleled opportunities for our students to develop as leaders.

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Welcome to the CUNY Leadership Academy, where you change the world.