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Old Main, the oldest building on campus. The university's origins can be traced back to the New Paltz Classical School, which originally opened in 1828.After changing its name to the New Paltz Academy in 1833, the school was decimated by a fire in 1884, after which the school offered their land to the state government of New York contingent upon the establishment of a normal school.
Monroe University is a private for-profit college in New York City. It was founded in 1933 and has campuses in the Bronx, New Rochelle and Saint Lucia, with degree programs also available through Monroe Online. The college is named after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States. [3]
Medaille University was a private college in Buffalo, New York. The Sisters of St. Joseph founded Medaille in 1937, naming it after their founder, Jean Paul Médaille. It later became nonsectarian and coeducational. [2] The college served roughly 1,600 students, mainly from Western New York and Southern Ontario, [3] during its final years.
Marc Edelman (born 1952, New York, New York) is an academic author and professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was president of the American Ethnological Society from 2017 to 2019.
In 1946, degree conferring status was granted and the academy became a college. Two years later, the college was one of the original institutions incorporated into the State University of New York system. In 1949, just one year later, the newly-minted university took on its current name, the State University of New York Maritime College. [4]
In 1908 President Boothe C. Davis of Alfred University persuaded the New York State legislature to locate the New York State School of Agriculture at the Alfred University Campus; the resulting allocation of $75,000 for three buildings, a farm, livestock, and machinery would set plans for the school in motion.
Queensborough Community College (QCC) is a public community college in New York City.One of seven community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, Queensborough enrolls more than 12,000 attending students [3] and more than 775 instructional faculty.
Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art.Although Carroll is best known for his work in the philosophy of film (he is a proponent of cognitive film theory), he has also published journalism, works on philosophy of art generally, theory of media, and also philosophy of history.