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Phi Delta Kappa Installs Epsilon Omicron Campus Chapter

1962

Phi Delta Kappa is an international professional honor fraternity for men in education. The Epsilon Omicron Campus Chapter at the State University of New York at Albany was the first chapter to be formed at a State University of New York.

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College Council Becomes University Council

1962 September

College Council becomes University Council. University admits first freshmen non-teacher preparatory students as candidates for B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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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...

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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,...

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Student Senate Appropriates $2,000.00 To Fund The Start Up Of Radio Station

1962 March 7

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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...

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