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State University of New York at Cortland
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| SUNY Cortland | |
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| Established | 1868 |
| Undergraduates: | 5,987 |
| Location | Cortland, New York, USA |
| Campus: | 191 acres |
| Nickname: | Red Dragons |
The State University of New York College at Cortland, also called SUNY Cortland, is located in Cortland, New York. Cortland is located off of Interstate 81, between Syracuse and Binghamton.
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The State University of New York College at Cortland was founded in 1868 as the Cortland Normal School, which included among its earliest students inventor and industrialist Elmer A. Sperry of Sperry Rand Corp. fame.
Over the decades, the campus expanded and in 1941, by an act of legislature and the Board of Regents, the institution officially became a four-year college providing courses leading to the bachelor's degree (as Cortland State Teachers College). In 1948, Cortland was a founding member of the State University of New York.
Today, approximately 7,300 students are pursuing degrees within the College's three academic divisions — arts and sciences, education and professional studies. Twenty-three departments with a faculty of more than 400 offer the SUNY Cortland student body 59 majors and 44 minors from which to choose.
The College's main campus covers 191 acres (773,000 m²) and includes 30 traditional and modern buildings. Fourteen of these structures are residence halls providing on-campus housing for approximately 3,000 students. SUNY Cortland also operates its Outdoor Education Center at Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks, the Hoxie Gorge Nature Preserve outside Cortland, and the Brauer Memorial Geological Field Station on the Helderberg Escarpment near Albany.
The U.S. Department of the Interior in 2004 designated Camp Pine Knot, now known as the Huntington Memorial Camp and part of its Outdoor Education center at Raquette Lake, N.Y., as the first and only National Historic Landmark within the State University of New York (SUNY). Camp Pine Knot was the first Great Camp of the Adirondacks and the birthplace of what is now known as the Adirondack style of architecture. SUNY Cortland has 55,000 alumni living in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries.
- professional wrestler (and best-selling author) Mick Foley aka "Mankind"
- Hollywood director Ted Demme
- top-ranked female U.S. Army general Major General Ann Dunwoody
- former New York Governor Nathan L. Miller
- playwright Carol E St John
- Former NFL player and current CFL player R-Kal Truluck
- comedian Paul C. Morrissey
- Buffalo Bills' Kevin Shearer '03
- Film & TV writer/producer, Shane's Inspiration founder Scott Williams
- Pat Aris, tap dancer who starred in Broadway's Chicago in the year 2002.
- Bill Shear, who in 1966 became the first player at any level of organized football to kick a 60-yard field goal with his successful 61-yard attempt in the Cortland-Hobart contest
- Major League Baseball umpire C.B. Bucknor
- Former NYSE vice-president Charles Bocklet II
- comedian Kevin James
- exercise guru Jake Steinfeld ("Body By Jake")
- former CIA head George Tenet
- NBA star Dikembe Mutombo received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.) degree from SUNY Cortland on May 15, 2004 for his philanthropic efforts in his native country, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other African nations.
- School of Arts and Sciences
- School of Education
- School of Professional Studies
SUNY Cortland has had the most nationally successful men's and women's intercollegiate athletics program in New York over the past decade. In 1995, the Sears Director's Cup was established to gauge and recognize the most successful intercollegiate athletics programs in the nation. SUNY Cortland is one of only six colleges and universities in the U.S. to have finished every year among the Top 20 NCAA Division III programs. Cortland placed third out of 430 schools during 2006-07 in the competition that is now known as the United States Sports Academy Director's Cup. The competition is sponsored by USA Today, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, and the United States Sports Academy. The standings are based on schools' national finishes in different sports.
The Cortland Red Dragons annually play Ithaca College Bombers for the Cortaca Jug, which was added in 1959 to an already competitive rivalry. The matchup is one of the most prominent in Division III college football.
Cortland won the 2006 NCAA Lacrosse Div. III National Championship. The team reached the 2007 National Championship in a rematch against Salisbury University held on May 27, 2007 but fell to the undefeated Salisbury team.
- Kiplinger's ranked SUNY Cortland among its 100 Best Values in Public Education in 2007
- Home to the largest teacher education program in the Northeast and 9th largest in the U.S.
- SUNY Cortland has one of the nation's largest undergraduate programs in physical education.
- SUNY Cortland offers degrees in 68 areas.
- Current enrollment is about 7,000 students.
- Ranked one of America's Top 50 Best Buy Public Colleges and Universities in 2004 by Consumers Digest
- Ranked 11th top party school in the nation by Playboy in 1987.[1]
- SUNY Cortland
- SUNY Cortland Athletics
- Google Map of SUNY Cortland campus buildings (note: best viewed in Satellite view)
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