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Berklee College of Music was founded in 1945 by pianist and MIT graduate Lawrence Berk, who quit a job at Raytheon to open the school, originally called Schillinger House, in Boston's Back Bay. It was renamed Berklee School of Music in 1954, after Berk's twelve-year-old son Lee Eliot Berk, and became Berklee College of Music in 1970.
Berklee College of Music is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an international campus in Valencia, Spain, operating since 2012, and a New York campus, BerkleeNYC, housed in the Power Station studios in Hell's Kitchen.
Berklee College of Music alumni have won 310 Grammy Awards, more than alumni from any other college in the world. They have also won 108 Latin Grammy Awards, 34 Emmy Awards, 7 Tony Awards, 8 Academy Awards and 3 Saturn Awards.
The merger between Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory was confirmed on the 19th of January 2016, with the agreement signed the next day. Berklee College of Music was renamed Berklee, and the Boston Conservatory became the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
In November 2017, The Boston Globe reported a culture of sexual harassment on the Berklee campus, including at least three male professors who quietly left the school in 2008 after student misconduct reports. On the 13th of November 2017, students staged a silent protest, and president Roger Brown said the school had terminated eleven faculty members over the previous thirteen years for sexual harassment and assault.
Berklee Online is the college's online extension school, which began teaching classes in 2003 under Dave Kusek and later launched formal Bachelor of Professional Studies degree programs in October 2013. Since its inception, Berklee Online has taught more than 30,000 students from 144 countries.