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The State Normal School created by legislature to train teachers for the Common Schools of N. Y. S. It was the 4th state normal school in the country, the first in N. Y. S., and the first outside of Massachusetts. The school was financed by a $9,600.00 grant from the Literature Fund for the first...

The Executive Committee, forerunner of our current University Council, holds its first meeting. The first members of the Committee were Colonel Samuel Young, chairman (Secretary of State and Superintendent of the Common Schools), Regent Gideon Hawley, Francis Dwight, Rev. Dr. Alonzo Potter, and...

The first faculty member hired by Executive Committee was George R. Perkins, mathematical instructor. Perkins would become the second principal in 1848.

David Page's appointment as the School's first principal confirmed by the Executive Committee.

The first plan of organization for Normal School was submitted by Page and adopted with amendments by the Executive Committee.

State students also received a weekly room & board allowance, $1.25 for women, $1.00 for men.

The first classes were held at the State Normal School's temporary building, former Mohawk & Hudson Railway Building, later known as Van Vechten Hall, located at 115-121 State Street. The building’s second and third floors were donated by City of Albany rent free for five years. The City also...

The Experimental School would become the Milne School and last as a teaching laboratory till 1977. Reputed to be one of the, if not the first, practice-teaching school in the country. Forty-five pupils enrolled in first class.

James L. Wadsworth donates $300.00 in his will to purchase books on the Library List for the school’s Miscellanea Library accepted by the Executive Committee. Wadsworth was a prominent land developer and advocate of school libraries in NYS. This was the first private donation to the school. Other...

The Executive Committee mandates that all students be required to sign a “Declaration of Teaching”--a pledge to teach in New York State district schools. The pledge to teach was not abandoned until 1962.