History
LaGuardia Community College was founded on January 22, 1968 by a resolution of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, a New York State agency which was the precursor to the Board of Trustees of CUNY. The new college, originally designated "Community College Number Nine", was to be comprehensive.
The college will be oriented to the needs and interests of the community in which it is located, providing cultural activities, special services, continuing education and skills training opportunities for community residents of all ages.
The college's first president was Dr. Joseph Shenker, who had been Acting President of Kingsborough Community College and at age 29, the youngest community college president anywhere. In October 1970, the Board of Higher Educatio, breaking with CUNY’s geographic naming convention, named the new college after Mayor LaGuardia, noting his
lifelong public service to the people of the City of New York and of the United States, and his ambitious and successful leadership of good government campaigns to provide decent living conditions and guarantee democratic processes for all...
The college was officially opened on September 22, 1971, and received its first accreditation, from the Middle States Association, in December 1972, when the college graduated its first class.
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