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 by swelling Downstate student population attracted by the general (non-teacher training) curriculum.