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became College of Human Services
in 1970 and then named Audrey Cohen College in 1992 after the founder; name
changed again in 2002 to Metropolitan College of New York
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, June 20, 2003, p. A23
found by Daniel W. Lowell as
Lowell School of Business.In 1858
name changed to Binghamton Commercial College and soon there after to
Lowell's Commercial College.See entry
for Lowell's Commercial College.
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Briarcliff
College
Briarcliff Manor
New York
1904
1977
taken over by Pace University
O'Neill & Barnett.Colleges and Corporate Change.Conference-University Press, 1980.
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Brooklyn
College of Pharmacy
Brooklyn
New York
1929
became affiliated with Long
Island University in 1929 and merged with the Brooklyn Campus in 1976
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. 1978.
Established by Most Reverend
Charles E. McDonnell, the second Bishop of Brooklyn, to ensure proper
education system for future priests.Initially located at 555 Washington Ave.Included high school and first two years of
college.In 1967 Archbishop McEntegart
established four-year seminary in Douglaston to serve Dioceses of Brooklyn
and Rockville Centre.At its peak
housed more than 370 students and offered baccalaureate degrees in nearly a
dozen majors.Decline of interest in
entering the priesthood led to closing.
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Songe, Alice H.American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name
Changes.1978.
Champlain
College
Plattsburgh
New York
1946
1953
initiated to meet needs of
returning veterans as one of five Associated Colleges of Upper New York
(ACUNY); former Plattsburg Army Barracks; in 1950 became a part of SUNY
system and ACUNY ceased to exist
founded as Casey Jones School of
Aeronautics; became Academy of Aeronautics in 1964 and the College of
Aeronautics in 1996;name changed to
Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology in 2004
www.vaughn.edu
College
and Seminary of Our Lady of Angels
Niagra Falls
New York
1856
Congregation of the Mission
became Seminary of Our Lady of
Angels in 1856 and Niagra University in 1883
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
College
of Holy Names
New York
1969
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus
and Mary
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
College
of Human Services
New York
New York
1964
see entry for Audrey Cohen
College
College
of Insurance
New York
2001
merged with Saint John's
University
Brenner, Morgan G.The Encyclopedia of
College & University Name Histories. 2003.
College
of Pharmaceutical Science
New York
New York
1976
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
College
of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York
Fairfield
New York
in 1806 courses in anatomy and
pharmacy were added to curricular offerings of Fairfield Academy and over
time additional medical courses and faculty were added; in 1811-1812
forty-three students; while some medical schools did arise from undergraduate
colleges, this may be the only instance where a medical college grew from an
academy, students completing the medical courses at this time did not receive
a degree; in 1812 a charter was obtained from the state as well as some
funding and became known as Fairfield Medical College; 217 students in
1833-34 and only the medical depts of Univ of Pennsylvania and Univ of
Kentucky had more students; awarded 609 degrees of Doctor of Medicine;
attendance declined after 1835 with founding of new medical colleges in New
York and adjoining states
Blackmar, Frank W. "The
History of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the United
States," in Herbert B. Adams, ed.Contributions to American Educational History. 1890.
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=199786
O'Donneli, Thomas C.Tip of the Hill: An Informal History of Fairfield Academy and
Medical College. 1953.
College
of Police Science
New York
New York
1964
Municipal
name changed to John Jay College
of Criminal Justice in 1966
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
College
of Sacred Heart
Purchase
New York
1917
Religious of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus
now Manhattanville College;
religious affiliation discontinued in 1970
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's
Colleges in America.2002.
Songe, Alice H.American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name
Changes. 1978.
College
of Saint Angela
New Rochelle
New York
1904
Ursuline Sisters
name changed to College of New
Rochelle in 1911
www.newrochelleny.com/20thcentury.html
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
founded by Lydia Booth and
closed at her death in 1854; purchased and reopened by Milo P. Jewett in
1856; Jewett later served as the first president of Vassar; in 1867 he moved
to Milwaukee and became a trustee of Milwaukee Female College
http://faculty.vassar.edu/daniels/1792_1860.html
De Veaux
College
Niagra Falls
New York
1857
Episcopal
college curriculum was dropped
in early 1900's and preparatory school closed in 1973
Hunt and Carper, eds.Religious Higher
Education in the United States. 1996.
Eastman
National Business College
Poughkeepsie
New York
1859
proprietary
founded by Harvey Gridley
Eastman; five years earlier he opened a school in St. Louis; at it's height,
the school in Poughkeepsie occupied five buildings, enrolled 1,600 students
and employed 60 instructors
opened with 23 faculty and 300
students; became a branch of RIT; later closed
Berger, Ira M."The Death of a College: A Faculty
Reminiscence of Eisenhower College," Liberal Education, v70 n4 pp
401-08, Winter 1984.
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Elizabeth
Seton College
Yonkers
New York
1961
1991
Sisters of Charity of New York
merged with Iona College in 1989
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
conceived as an accredited,
co-educational, degree-granting liberal arts college combining a residence
program with the opportunity for foreign travel and study. Planned as a
“college without walls,” it was sponsored by the New York Yearly Meeting and
opened in September 1965 at a temporary campus in Westbury, NY;after 1868 programs were established in
Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, rural Canada, and the home campus was
moved to Huntington;maximum
enrollment of 250 was reached in 1972;from 1970-1980, the College was guided
by an administrative structure known as a "Troika," composed of a
student, a faculty member, and an administrator; in 1975 became legally
independent of the NY Yearly Meeting; in 1991 the Trustees approved transfer
of assets to Long Island University
founded as Triple Cities College
of Syracuse University in Endicott, NY; name changed to Harpur College in
1950; moved to Binghamton, NY in 1961; name change to SUNY Binghamton in 1965
www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Harriman
College
Harriman
New York
1981
Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate
formerly Queen of Apostles
College
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Hudson
River State Hospital School of Nursing
Poughkeepsie
New York
1886
1977
Hunter
College in the Bronx
New York
New York
1931
Municipal
became Herbert H. Lehman College
of the City University of New York in 1968
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Immaculata
College
Hamburg
New York
1957
Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph
name changed to Hilbert College
in 1969
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Brenner, Morgan G.The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories.2003.
Ingham
University
LeRoy
New York
1857
1892
Presbyterian
founded in 1837 as LeRoy Female
Seminary; in 1852 name changed to Ingham Collegiate Institute and in 1857 to
Ingham University; claims to be first university for women in U.S.
www.co.genesee.ny.us/;
www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/women/women.htm;
Wing, Richard Lewis.Ingram University, 1857-1892: An Exploration of the Life and
Death of an Early Institution of Higher Education for Women.Ph.D. dissertation.
1990.
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's
Colleges in America.2002.
King's
College
New York
New York
1754
1776
closed with Revolutionary War;
after the war became Columbia College in 1784 and then Columbia University in
1912
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Blackmar, Frank W. "The History of Federal and State Aid to Higher
Education in the United States," in Herbert B. Adams, ed.Contributions
to American Educational History. 1890.
King's
College
Briarcliff Manor
New York
1938
1994
begun in New Jersey as a
Christian liberal-arts college; in 1955, accredited by the State Board of
Regents; closed in 1994, after struggling financially; reopened in New York
City in 1998 under the new ownership of Campus Crusade for Christ
Missionary Sisters of the Third
Order of Saint Francis
grounds and buildings purchased
by the U.S. Military Academy and are now West Point's museum and visitor's
center.
Harwarth, Maline, and
DeBra.Women's
Colleges in the United States.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/PLLI/webreprt.html;
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Lowell's
Commercial College
Binghamton
New York
1850
proprietary
founded as Lowell School of
Business; for a brief period after 1858 was named Binghamton Commercial
College before a change to Lowell's Commercial College; in 1962 acquired by
Earle D Ridley, operating separately until consolidation in 1968 with Ridley
Secretarial School to become Ridley-Lowell Business and Technical Institute
name changed to Mary Rogers
College in 1963, to Rogers College in 1970
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Marymount
College
Tarrytown
New York
2002
Religious of the Sacred Heart of
Mary
merged with Fordham University;
Fordham's Board of Trustees announced in October 2005 that they will conclude
a phase out of Marymount College by June 2007;
December 11, 2000, January 5,
2001, March 23, 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education;
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
http://www.fordham.edu/Marymount_College_of/index.asp
Santos, Fernanda. "At Marymount Graduation, a Centennial, and a
Farewell," New York Times, May 21, 2007.
1999 closing date in Chronicle;
2001 closing date on nysed site
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, June 14, 2002
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Metropolitan
Medical College
New York
New York
1852
1862
Haller, John. Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America 1836-1911. 1997.
founded as Institute of the
Sisters of St. Joseph, became Mount Saint Joseph Normal School in 1927, Mount
Saint Joseph Teachers College in 1937, Mount St. Joseph College in 1964;
recharted in 1968 as non-sectarian Medaille College
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/ocue/closed%20inst%20directory.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Songe, Alice H.American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name
Changes.1978.
founded as New York State Normal
School, became New York State Normal College in 1890, New York College for
Teachers in 1914, State University of Education in 1959, State University
College at Albany in 1961 and State University of New York at Albany in 1962
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
This was incorporated April 12,
1853, and fine buildings were erected in 1857. By an act of May 14,
1863, the income and revenue granted by Congress, July 2, 1862, in and of
colleges for teaching agriculture and the mechanic arts, were offered to the
People's College at Havana, but with condition as to endowment and
preparation which the trustees of the latter were unable to meet. It
was finally, by act of April 27, 1863, granted to the Cornell University, but
not without still offering the opportunity to the People's College, of
meeting the conditions within three months, which they failed to do.
Upon the project being abandoned, it was the NY Masonic Orphan Asylum.In 1870 the school was purchased by Elbert
W. Cook, brother of the original founder Charles Cook and opend in 1873 as a
private boarding high school.Later it
was St. John's Seminary of Atonement for high school boyes and is currently
the Fire Academy of Sciences operated by the state of NY.
founded by Rev. William Augustus
Muhlenberg, rector of St. George Episcopal Church in Flushing
Burke, Colin B.American Collegiate
Populations. 1982.
http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/spectown/hist0007.htm
Saint
Stephen's College
Annandale on Hudson
New York
1860
Episcopal
offered classical curriculum
preparing young men for seminary; in 1928 became an undergraduate college of
Columbia University; name changed to Bard College in 1934; severed
relationship with Columbia in 1944
www.bard.edu
Hunt and Carper, eds.Religious Higher Education in the United States.1996.
Sampson
College
Geneva
New York
1946
1949
initiated to meet needs of
returning veterans as part of five Associated Colleges of Upper New York
(ACUNY); former Naval Training Center
the foreclosed property was sold
to St. Mary's Church of Albany and was opened as St. Joseph's Provincial
Seminary; later the Sisters of St. Joseph purchased the property in 1908 and
established a Provincial House and Novitiate;the property was purchased by Rensselaer in 1958
