Center For Inter American Studies Established 1962 Center for Inter-American Studies established. Discontinued in 1976-1977.
New Campus Construction Begins 1962 Construction begins on new campus on site of Albany Country Club. Projected student body rapidly grows from 4,500 to 10,000, with plans for another 10,000 students early in the 1970s. New mix of students, no longer pledged to a teaching career, with predominantly Upstate students rapidly overcome...
Albany State: A Teachers College In Transition. 1962 January 20 David Boroff in a Saturday Review article, “Albany State: A Teachers College in Transition.” Says that though the College is perhaps the best in the country at training teachers, the student body is primarily from “small towns and the country”, the typical student “is conservative politically,...
Student Senate Appropriates $2,000.00 To Fund The Start Up Of Radio Station 1962 March 7 Student Senate appropriates $2,000.00 to fund the start-up of radio station WSCA which will broadcast as a closed circuit AM carrier current signal to dorms and reach 48% of students. Bill Alexander '65 is the first station manager, and Don Allen '63 is the Assistant Station Manager. Faculty...
State University Of New York At Albany 1962 August - 1986 Fall SUNYA made University Center. State University College at Albany renamed State University of New York at Albany.
Graduate Programs Expanded 1962 Fall Master's level degrees offered in Biology, Chemistry, English, French, History, Mathematics, Physics, Spanish, and Business.
Fencing Society Is Established At Sunya With Col. Walter M. Tisdale As The Society's Sponsor 1962 November 9 Fencing Society is established at SUNYA with Col. Walter M. Tisdale as the society's sponsor. Ed Reid is elected the first president.