The University at Albany - SUNY , also known as the State University of New York at Albany , SUNY Albany , and UAlbany , is a public university located in the capital of New York State, and is the senior campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Founded in 1844, it is an internationally recognized public research institution, which carries out a broad mission of undergraduate and graduate education, research, and service. The University has three campuses: the Uptown and Downtown campuses in Albany, New York and one campus in the Town of East Greenbush, just east of Albany.
The University enrolls more than 18,000 students in nine schools and colleges, which offer 58 undergraduate majors and 128 graduate degree programs. The University’s academic choices are diverse and include a range of new and emerging fields such as public policy, nanotechnology, globalization, documentary studies, biotechnology, and informatics. Students take advantage of more than 300 study-abroad programs, as well as extensive internship opportunities that offer real-world experience in New York’s capital and surrounding region. The Honors College, which opened in fall 2006, offers opportunities for the best-prepared students to work closely with faculty.
University at Albany faculty attracted $342.3 million in research funding in 2008-2009 for work advancing discovery in a wide range of fields. The research enterprise is distinguished by established and emerging strengths in four areas: nanoscale sciences and engineering, social science and public policy, life sciences, and atmospheric sciences. A wide range of explorations in other areas also contributes to the rich spectrum of UAlbany research.
In addition to offering many cultural benefits, including a nationally-recognized contemporary art museum and a world-renowned writers institute, UAlbany plays a major role in the economic development of the Capital Region and New York State — particularly through its programs in nanosciences and nanotechnology and in the biotechnology and biomedical sciences. An economic impact study in 2004 estimated UAlbany’s economic impact to be $1.1 billion annually in New York State — $1 billion of that in the Capital Region.
History
The University at Albany began as the New York State Normal School on May 7, 1844, by vote of the State Legislature. Beginning with 29 students and four faculty in an abandoned railroad depot on State Street in the heart of the city, the Normal School was the first New York State-chartered institution of higher education.
Dedicated to training New York students as schoolteachers and administrators, by the early 1890s the “School” had become the New York State Normal College and, with a revised four-year curriculum in 1905, became the first public institution of higher education in New York to be granted the power to confer the bachelor's degree.
A new campus — today, UAlbany’s Downtown Campus — was established in 1909 on a four-and-a-half-acre site between Washington and Western avenues. By 1913, the institution was home to 590 students and 44 faculty members, it offered a master’s degree for the first time, and bore a new name — the New York State College for Teachers. Enrollments grew to a peak of 1,424 in 1932.
In 1948 the State University of New York system was created, comprising the College for Teachers and several other institutions throughout the state. SUNY, including UAlbany, ultimately became a manifestation of the grand vision of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, who wanted a public university system to accommodate the college students of the post-World War II baby boom. To do so, he launched a massive construction program that developed over 50 new campuses.
In 1962 the University at Albany was officially designated a doctoral-degree granting university center of SUNY. The same year, Rockefeller broke ground for the current Uptown Campus on the former site of the Albany Country Club. The new campus's first dormitory opened in October 1964, and the first classes on the academic podium in the Fall of 1966. By 1970, a year beyond the University’s 125th anniversary, enrollment had grown to 13,200 and the faculty to 746. The Uptown Campus, designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, accommodated this growth and gave the institution a new image befitting its broad liberal arts aspirations. The Downtown Campus became dedicated to the fields of public policy: criminal justice, public affairs, information science, and social welfare. In 1985, the University added the School of Public Health, a unique joint endeavor with the state’s Department of Health.
In 1983, the New York State Writers Institute was founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy. As of 2007 the Institute had hosted well over 850 writers, poets, journalists, historians, dramatists, and filmmakers. The list includes eight Nobel Prize winners, nearly 200 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, several Motion Picture Academy Award winners and nominees, and numerous other literary prize recipients. In addition the Institute has hosted many up-and-coming writers to provide them with exposure at the beginning of their writing careers.
During the 1990s, national attention was paid to the University’s $3 billion, 450,000-square-foot (42,000 m 2 ) Albany NanoTech complex, extending the Uptown Campus westward. By 2006, it became home to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. In 1996, a third campus — the East Campus — was added 12 miles (19 km) east of the Uptown Campus in Rensselaer County, when the University acquired former Sterling-Winthrop laboratories and converted them into labs, classrooms, and a business incubator concentrating on advances in biotechnology and other health-related disciplines. In 2005, the East Campus became home to the University’s Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics.
Growth occurred on the Uptown Campus in the fall of 2004, when a new Life Sciences Building opened, dedicated to basic research and education. In the spring of 2005, the University created the first-of-its-kind College of Computing and Information, with a stated goal of preparing students for the information technology-centric world of the 21st Century.
The effect of such growth in terms of faculty scholarship and research, as well as in increased linkages with government and business, could be seen in the University’s research expenditures, which, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, were $163.7 million — 23.9 percent higher than the previous year. This reached $342.3 million in 2008-09. It also swelled UAlbany’s effect on economic development. A 2004 study conducted by the independent Capital District Regional Planning Commission (www.cdrpc.org/) estimated the institution’s economic impact as $1.119 billion annually in New York State — $1.005 billion of that in the Capital Region.
Colleges and schools
The University comprises nine colleges and schools, plus an honors college:
College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences, comprising 23 departments, forms the largest academic division at the University.
Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences include Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Classics, Communication, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, East Asian Studies, Economics, English, Geography and Planning, History, Judaic Studies, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, Mathematics and Statistics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre, and Women's Studies. Undergraduate education consists of 56 majors offered in these areas, along with their paired minors and 17 other minors as well as a variety of cooperative interdisciplinary programs that include the arts, humanistic studies, physical sciences, and social sciences.
The College houses the following research centers: the Biological Imaging Center; Center for Applied Historical Research; Center for Astronomical Observatory; Center for Autism and Related Disabilities; Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities; Center for Language and International Communication (CLIC); Center for Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies(CELAC); Center for Biochemistry and Biophysics; Center for Economic Research; Center for Jewish Studies; Center for Neuroscience Research; Center for X-Ray Optics; Econometrics Research and Training Institute; Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Laboratory; Institute of Biomolecular Stereodynamics; Institute for Research on Women; Institute for Mesoamerican Studies; The Institute for Watershed Management; Ion Beam Laboratory; Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research; and the College-affiliated New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet).
Graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences in the humanities and fine arts, science and mathematics, social and behavioral studies, and college-based interdisciplinary majors lead to the following degrees and certificates: Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Regional Planning, Master of Fine Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Arts, Certificate of Advanced Standing, Certificate of Advanced Study, and the Certificate (in selected fields).
College of Computing and Information
The mission of the College of Computing and Information (CCI), created in 2005, is to support world-class, discipline-based research and educational programs
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