Signum Laudis, the campus honorary society, formed and the draft constitution is printed in the State College News. President Brubacher and Dean Meltzer became the first honorary members. In the fall Louis Wolner was elected the first student president of the honorary.
1930 June 9
First known research grant. President Brubacher announces a five year grant from the Spellman Foundation of $12,000 per year to study child development and parental education focusing on the Junior High School level. The Albany Schools would be conducting a similar study on pre-school learning at...
1930 Spring
California Branch of Alumni Association formed reports President Brubacher.
1930 February 21
New York State budget includes $40,000 to convert the first floor of Hawley Hall into the College Library.
1930 June
Warren Cochran was the second identifiable African-American male graduate of the New York State College for Teachers
1930 June 14
Torch Light Ceremony and Procession initiated. Over 100 alumni participated in the inaugural Procession. “The Torch Light Procession lead to the Administration [Draper Hall] steps where seniors handed down to juniors ‘the light of intelligence’ and received from Miss Keating [Alumni Association...
1930 June 16
New York State College for Teachers commencement held at the David Perkins Page Hall.
1930
Enrollment was 1328 students for 1930.
Edward Eldred Potter Club formed "to form a closer bond between alumni and undergraduates, to raise the social standard of State College." Potter was a World War I New York State College for Teachers' military hero. The club bore his name at President Abram Brubacher's suggestion.
The New York State College For Teachers was the third teachers college to win accreditation, and the first state teachers college to do so. Teachers College of Columbia was accredited in 1917 and the George Peabody College for Teachers was accredited in 1925.