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Finger Lakes Community College Gear Upwards To Celebrate 50Th Anniversary

The Daily Messenger of Canandaigua, NY reports inwards "FLCC to grade l years alongside fourth dimension capsule, fine art exhibit, mass release," that Finger Lakes Community College volition endure celebrating its 50th anniversary on February 1st.  The college volition host an termination from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m. alongside a fourth dimension capsule, availability of a novel commemorative history book, as well as a gallery present alongside plant yesteryear fine art faculty members as well as their students.
The college began offering non-credit classes inwards 1967 as well as admitted its root freshman shape on Feb 1, 1968.  It was initially known every bit Community College of the Finger Lakes.  The cite changed to Finger Lakes Community College inwards 1992.  Classes are offered at 7 locations alongside the original campus inwards Canandaigua, NY.

ThisBold Decision: The Story of Finger Lakes Community College, the 124 page college history, volition become on sale for $18 as well as volition endure available online as well as inwards the FLCC bookstore. Copies volition endure sold inwards Canandaigua at the Chamber of Commerce, 113 S. Main St.; American Made, 143 S. Main St.; as well as Mobile Music, 163 S. Main St.

Article Explores Closure Of Bramson Ort College Inwards Novel York

The Queens, NY Times Ledger published an article yesteryear Annabelle Blair, "Bramson ORT college unopen afterward forty years," on Dec 1, 2017.  Blair's reporting provides an update next the institution's annunciation initial annunciation dorsum inwards Feb 2017.

Bramson ORT was founded inwards 1942 equally the Bramson ORT Training Center alongside a mission to serve immigrants as well as refugees arriving equally a final result of World War II.  It was operated yesteryear the World Organization for Educational Resources as well as Technological Training, a global network of over 800 institutions.  Bramson ORT changed its advert to Bramson ORT Technical Institute inwards 1979 as well as ane time again inwards 1996 to instruct Bramson ORT College.

History Of Kirkland College...A Coordinate College For Women

Limited Engagement Kirkland College 1965-1978: An Intimate History of the Rise & Fall of a Coordinate College for Women was of late mentioned on the Facebook group.  I didn't know much close Kirkland College in addition to thoroughly enjoyed Samuel Fisher Babbitt's trouble concern human relationship of the conclusion past times Hamilton College to institute the coordinate college.  Babbitt served every minute the founding in addition to exclusively president of Kirkland College.  Limited Engagement was published inwards 2006.  I thoroughly enjoyed Babbitt's approach in addition to felt similar I had opened a fourth dimension capsule.  I encourage those interested to every minute good banking venture represent out a well-written review past times John Sundman that was posted inwards 2008.
Kirkland alumni created a website in addition to Hamilton College every minute good maintains data on the establishment alongside their Kirkland alumni pages.

Staten Island's Notre Dame College Is Remembered

Kristen Dalton's article on September 12, 2015 on Staten Island Advance's SILive site featured a storey from Apr 10, 1970 on plans at Notre Dame College inward Staten Island stay open.

Notre Dame College was operated yesteryear the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame.  The establishment was founded inward 1903 equally an university offering both an uncomplicated together with high schoolhouse teaching for immature women. In 1928, they began offering college courses for women equally an extension of Fordham University.  Notre Dame ultimately merged amongst St. John's University together with immediately serves equally the Staten Island campus of St. John's.  SILive also offers unopen to other article featuring the history of the college on August 5, 2012 yesteryear Thomas Matteo, "Staten Island's Notre Dame College stood tall on the hill."
The Congregation of Notre Dame continues to run Notre Dame Academy inward Staten Island.

Oral History At Suny College At One-Time Westbury


Experiments is a fascinating spider web site that provides a digital history focusing on the early on years of SUNY College at Old Westbury.  The establishment was founded inwards 1968 to offering a flexible learning environs too attract students amongst a job organisation for social justice.  Resources on the site include oral history videos too transcripts, photographs too a discover of main rootage documents.

Hostos Community College [Bronx, Ny]

An article past times David Gonzalez of The New York Times on September 28, 2014 covered a birthday reception honoring Ramon J. Jimenez for his efforts inwards the mid-1970's inwards back upward of Hostos Community College.  Jimenez in addition to others organized successful opposition to a proposed merger of the institution.  Their efforts helped pave the agency for Hostos to hold equally a bilingual institution.

 Eugenio María de Hostos Community College was founded inwards 1968 in addition to is directly business office of The City University of New York (CUNY) system.  Hostos currently serves over 7,000 students.

Suny Polytechnic Institute


SUNY Polytechnic Institute was approved on September 9, 2014 yesteryear the SUNY Board of Trustees every minute the novel lift for SUNY College of Nanoscale Science in addition to Engineering inwards Albany in addition to the SUNY Institute of Technology inwards Utica.  The merger of the 2 institutions was approved inwards March.

New Mention Adopted At Fredonia

The Buffalo News reports that the State University of New York at Fredonia volition endure the novel name for the establishment previously known every moment Fredonia State College in addition to SUNY Fredonia.

The establishment was initially founded inward 1826 every moment Fredonia Academy.  In 1866 the university merged amongst the novel soil supported Fredonia Normal School.  The advert changed to Fredonia State Teachers College inward the 1940's in addition to the establishment joined the State University of New York System inward 1948.

New Mention Adopted At Fredonia

The Buffalo News reports that the State University of New York at Fredonia volition endure the novel name for the establishment previously known every moment Fredonia State College in addition to SUNY Fredonia.

The establishment was initially founded inward 1826 every moment Fredonia Academy.  In 1866 the university merged amongst the novel soil supported Fredonia Normal School.  The advert changed to Fredonia State Teachers College inward the 1940's in addition to the establishment joined the State University of New York System inward 1948.

Finch College, Novel York City

The Finch College Alumnae Association offers a website maintaining memories of the establishment that operated inward New York City.  Founded every bit Finch School inward 1900, it became Finch Junior College inward 1937 in addition to added bachelor's degrees afterward 1952 earlier ultimately closing inward 1976.

Finch in addition to its Future, provides an overview of the institution.  The document includes images of the founder, Jessica Finch, in addition to the buildings.  The text offers many details, including: institutional objectives, curriculum, data on faculty, results of an alumnae survey of graduates from 1950-1954, in addition to copies of paper articles on Finch.

Museums Of Education...??


Many of us are familiar amongst specialized curriculum libraries that were valuable resources inside colleges of instructor education.  I spent a lot of fourth dimension inwards curriculum libraries in addition to concord fond memories of fourth dimension spent equally a pupil in addition to faculty fellow member reading electrical flow professional person magazines, searching for articles inwards journals, reviewing textbooks from unlike publishers, or checking out materials for unit of measurement in addition to lesson planning.

I late stumbled on Vol. 9, no. four of the Teachers College Record from 1908 in addition to was struck yesteryear the focus of the entire effect on museums of education.  The  author was Benjamin R. Andrews who had served equally a supervisor of the Educational Museum at Teachers College.

Andrews defined museums of teaching equally specialized institutions amongst "...collections exclusively of objects related to teaching in addition to which is administered primarily to hold upwardly of service to persons engaged inwards education."  This Definition sounds something similar the curriculum libraries that I've known or the missions of the Blackwell History of Education Museum at the University of Northern Illinois or the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina.

 A quick Google search led to an article by Miryam Carreño "The New Museums of Education, An International Movement,"  in Encrentros that explores "...the resurgence of involvement inwards museums of teaching during the end xx years of the twentieth century in addition to their evolution upwardly to this day..."  The  author claim that museums of teaching are at i time "...different from their predecessors, the pedagogical museums, which were created in the end l years of the nineteenth century.  The novel museums institute an international campaign that is developing inwards an historic menses of deep transformation."  
I volition sure enough hold upwardly interested inwards hearing virtually other museums of teaching amongst which you lot are familiar in addition to whatever thoughts others mightiness convey on importance of the concept equally nosotros larn into the 21st century.  




New York Academy (Nyu)

straightaway dwelling to the Bronx Community College inwards the westward Bronx New York University (NYU)
Sara Trigoboff authored, NYU History Lesson: When We Actually Had a Campus (In The Bronx), an article on NYU's University Heights campus, straightaway dwelling to the Bronx Community College inwards the westward Bronx. The campus was originally built inwards the belatedly 1800′s in addition to featured Renaissance buildings designed past times Stanford White. The article is dated Oct 25, 2010 inwards NYULocal.
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