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Westchester Community College

Hartford Hall on the WCC campus.
One-time names	New York State Establish of Practical Arts and Sciences (1946-1953)
Motto	Building Minds, Edifice Futures.
Type	Public community college
Established	1946; 76 years ago  (1946)
Parent establishment	Country University of New York
President	Belinda Southward. Miles
Academic staff	209 (Full fourth dimension),[one] 805 (Part time)[2]
Administrative staff	47[3]
Undergraduates	11,535[4]
Location	Valhalla , New York , United States 41°04′00″Northward 73°47′25″W  /  41.06667°North 73.79028°W  / 41.06667; -73.79028 Coordinates: 41°04′00″N 73°47′25″W  /  41.06667°N 73.79028°W  / 41.06667; -73.79028
Campus	Suburban 218 acres (88 ha)
Colors	Navy and Golden
Nickname	Vikings, Westcos[v]
Affiliations	NJCAA Division I, 3 Region 15, District three, Mid Hudson Conference[five]
Mascot	Chester[v]
Website	www.sunywcc.edu

Westchester Customs College (WCC) is a public community higher in Valhalla, New York, in Westchester County. It is part of the Land University of New York (SUNY) organisation.

History [edit]

New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences becomes Westchester Customs College [edit]

New York state opened v coed technical institutes in 1946, one each in the communities of Buffalo, Binghamton, Utica, New York, and White Plains. The five institutes were operated and financially supported by the land.^[6] The Westchester Canton location in White Plains was chosen the New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and was housed in a few rooms of the Boxing Hill Schoolhouse.^[seven] The country decided to close the schools in 1953, unless the five communities would accept operating responsibilities and share the financial costs with the state. All five communities decided to retain the institutes. Some members of the Westchester County Board of Supervisors objected to taking on the management of the New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, but customs organizations, such as women'south clubs, business men'southward leagues, and civic associations, voiced back up. Some fifty-fifty pledged scholarships. A deal was reached so that the financial burden would exist shared equally between the state, canton, and the educatee body, with each contributing one-third towards the school'southward operating costs.^{[half dozen]} On August 12, 1953, Westchester County announced that the Institute would be replaced with Westchester Community College outset September 1, 1953.^[vii]

New York governor Thomas Due east. Dewey appointed WCC's first board of trustees, which was composed of "successful lawyers, editors, manufacturers, labor readers and persons of varied racial backgrounds".^[8] The higher'south first president was Dr. Philip C. Martin, and its first lath chairman was Chauncey T.S. Fish. WCC began operating with a budget of $400,893.^[vii] Original enrollment at the school was 550 men and women, paying in-country tuition of $125 per semester, and out-of-land tuition of $250 per semester. Westchester County billed the home counties of not-Westchester students an additional $125. The start courses available were in business administration, building construction, technologies (electrical, mechanical, industrial chemistry), nutrient assistants, and medical-dental office piece of work. Originally, the college awarded Associate of Applied Sciences degrees. Dark courses were offered, but did not count towards a caste. Boosted teaching was provided in English language, mathematics, and social sciences. Initial extracurricular activities included music, golf, basketball game, runway, chess, radio, and photography.^[6]

The salary range for faculty was $3,900-seven,000, "somewhat higher than most public schools" in 1953, but required 12 months of piece of work and no tenure was granted at the time.^[6] "Small employees" of the college had a salary starting at $3,480, and the president received a salary of $12,400.^[9]

Search for a permanent location [edit]

Paying $30,000 per twelvemonth in rent to the county, and facing eviction from the Battle Loma Schoolhouse facility, the higher began looking for alternating housing.^[10] The trustees of State University of New York (SUNY) approved spending $25,000, matching a pledge by the county board, to plan for a permanent site for WCC.^[11] In Apr 1955, a ten-member commission was formed by County Executive James D. Hopkins investigated possible sites for Westchester Community College. In add-on to "many former estates", iii chief sites were available to the college: Ridge Road Park (Greenburgh), reservation country in White Plains on the Bronx River Parkway, and "an used state normal schoolhouse site" in White Plains on North Street.^[10] By late in that year, xvi properties had been examined, including lands located in parks, private estates, closed schools, and open up countryside. The site committee agreed to a minimum of 100-acres for the college, and the country and canton were sharing a capital commitment of $5,800,000 to build the new campus.^[12]

In Baronial 1956, the site committee chose to locate the campus on the Ridge Road Park property in Hartsdale, then the estate of Henry J. Gaisman, an executive with The Gillette Company. The committee rejected more rural sites because of their distance from populated areas. The chosen belongings was within walking distance to the Hartsdale train station and to autobus stops on Central Park Avenue. Hopkins and the commission asked the county to buy the holding immediately, but Gaisman "cooled to the idea" and eventually prevented officials from entering the belongings.^[13] John H. Downing, a member of the lath of supervisors, argued to have a northern Westchester site chosen instead of the Gaisman manor. The board argued that the 136 acre Gaisman property was best because of its central location in the canton, and that 85% of the college'due south students lived in southern Westchester and New York City.^[14] Gaisman continued to refuse to sell his property, and on October 1, 1956, the County Lath of Supervisors voted 25 to 15 to larn the state by ways of condemnation.^[xv] Before the county could legally act, Gaisman gifted the estate to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, forcing the site committee to wait elsewhere.^[16]

With the Gaisman estate off the tabular array, the county turned its attending to the 364-acre Valhalla estate of the tardily John A. Hartford,^[17] who was president of the Not bad Atlantic and Pacific Tea Visitor.^[18] The property, called Buena Vista Farm,^[xix] was occupied by Yale University, which merely used "a few of the acres", just which had a contract with the Hartford Foundation to use the land until 1972.^[17] Yale conducted forestry enquiry at the site, and had a $500,000 geophysics laboratory located there.^[xx] On June 28, 1957, the county lath voted 37 to 3 to buy the Hartford site.^[xviii] The canton's contract with the Hartford Foundation specified that the land be used for "educational and charitable" purposes. Some canton officials objected to the big site being used exclusively for the higher. A compromise was reached to carve up the country for use between the higher and county recreation. Yale agreed to vacate its operations completely by Baronial 31, 1958.^[21] The Hartford Foundation agreed to sell the property, valued in 1958 between $iii,000,000-4,000,000, for just $750,000. The low price was offered to help lower the price of tuition for students. With the land finally acquired and plans in identify to relocate the college from the Boxing Hill Schoolhouse to Valhalla by 1959, County Executive Hopkins vowed to expand the college into a four-yr school application bachelor'southward degrees.^[20]

Expansion [edit]

In 1971, Joseph N. Hankin succeeded Martin as the college'due south president. Hankin had previously been the director of evening and summertime sessions, and and so the president, of Harford Customs College in Bel Air, Maryland.^[22] He continued to serve every bit president of WCC for more than 40 years, the longest serving community college president in the U.s.a., until his retirement.^[23]

Campus [edit]

The Gateway Building on the campus of Westchester Community Higher in Valhalla, New York.

WCC'due south chief campus sits at an elevation of 500 ft (152 m),^[24] off of Grasslands Road in Valhalla, just north of White Plains.^[25] In 1780, this location was the site of a surprise assault by British and Hessian troops on American soldiers. The set on occurred at what was then chosen Immature's Corners (now Knollwood and Grasslands roads) at Immature'due south Tavern.^[26] When the troops marched off the fields, they encountered a grouping of American colonists, some the victims of smallpox, who were buried alive in snowdrifts.^[19] The land later belonged to the founder of Kensico Cemetery, Reiss Carpentar. He died in 1910, after beingness the victim of a swindle, and the land was then caused past Joseph Daly. Daly used the holding largely for breeding horses, and he later sold it to John Hartford.^[26]

A master plan for the college was completed in 1961, with plans for the buildings on campus.^[27] The plan included 8 buildings, and they were to exist finished by 1988: the Applied science Technologies edifice (1962), the Student Center (1963), the Physical Education building (1964), the Classroom edifice (1967), the Learning Resource Center (1969), the Science building (1978), the Academic Arts building (1981), and the Administration building (1988).^[28] The Mount Kisco architecture house of Kaeyer, Parker & Garment designed the Science, Bookish Arts, and Administration buildings. The Administration edifice was originally to have four floors, according to the master plan, just was scaled back to three later funding from the county and the New York Land Dormitory Authority was reduced due to inflation.^[27]

The Learning Resource Eye was renamed the Harold L. Drimmer Library in 1994, after a longtime chairman of the college'due south board of trustees.^[29] The library was completely renovated and expanded in 2002,^[30] at a price of $15 million. The new design was carried out by the firm Lothrop Associates, which doubled the size of the building to over 100,000 square feet. The updated edifice contains not only library facilities, but also computer grooming labs, a pupil lounge, and conference rooms.^[31] The edifice'southward architect, Aaron B. Schwarz of Perkins Eastman architects, incorporated as much natural lighting as possible into the new design. The building's facade has stones like to the original Learning Resources Center building, to better match the existing look on campus. Schwarz received a Design Award in 2003 for the building, from the Westchester/Mid-Hudson chapter of the American Plant of Architects.^[32] A more recent addition was the Gateway Centre which functions every bit a unique resources on the campus, housing the higher'due south Business concern Programs, Professional Development Center, and multi lingual programs. The blueprint of this building was fabricated past Ennead Architects, and structurally engineered by Leslie Due east. Robertson Associates. This building has won ii awards; National Winner, AISC Ideas2 Award (2011), and Excellence in Structural Engineering, SEAoNY (2011).^[33]

Extension sites [edit]

In addition to the Valhalla campus, the college provides instruction at twelve other off-campus locations including extension centers in Peekskill, Ossining, White Plains, Mountain Vernon, and Yonkers. In addition, it offers classes in Shrub Oak, New Rochelle, Mahopac and Port Chester. Other classes for programs such equally "Mainstream" (for mature adults) are offered at various locations throughout the canton. The Educational Opportunity Middle is in Yonkers.

Native Plant Eye [edit]

The Native Plant Center (NPC), a non-profit project of the Westchester Community Higher Foundation, is an affiliate of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Middle in Austin, Texas. The NPC, with the goal to educate the community on the value of native plants, presents various educational programs including workshops and conferences, is responsible for ii demonstration gardens on the principal campus, offers trips to gardens and horticultural displays, and coordinates an annual plant auction.

Westchester Center for the Arts [edit]

The Westchester Gallery is located in the Westechester Community Higher Center for the Arts in the Canton Center in White Plains. Located in the entryway of the Centre for the Arts, the gallery hosts professional local, regional, and national artists, besides as the middle's yearly kinesthesia and student art exhibitions. Exhibitions at the gallery are oft accompanied past talks, lectures, and presentations from the featured artists, and draw audiences from around the county.^[34]

Academics [edit]

The college offers three associate degrees: acquaintance of arts, associate of science, and associate of technology.^[35]

The college'due south curriculum is registered and approved past the New York Land Pedagogy Section and offers associate degrees in 40 areas and certificates in twenty. Courses are offered during spring and fall semesters as well as 2 sessions during the summertime.

In improver to courses leading to acquaintance degrees or certificates, the college offers a range of not-credit courses for students of all ages to sharpen their skills and augment their interests. The student body numbers 12,000.

Admissions [edit]

Although the college does not crave Saturday nor ACT scores, the ACCUPLACER placement tests are required in mathematics, reading, and writing to decide advisable course placement based on the students performance. If the educatee scores in the depression range, they will accept to take developmental courses that practice not effect credit upon successful completion but prepares the student for college-level curriculum prior to enrolling in higher-level courses that outcome credit. It is developed past the College Board which also develops the SAT and AP examinations.

The college's Admissions Office has a staff of counselors who work with students on their academic choices. In that location is an international student office (the educatee torso includes individuals from dozens of countries) and an function for students with learning disabilities.

Pupil life [edit]

Extracurricular and co-curricular activities at Westchester Community College include varsity, club, and intramural athletics; student publications; a variety of special interest clubs; a student government association; a pupil run programming board called the Westchester Events Board (Web), who plans major social events; and a full range of cultural events. These activities complement students' academic work and offer opportunities to grade new friendships and develop leadership and other transferable skills. Participation can give a sense of customs with the rest of the higher and assistance brand educational activity a memorable experience with the 66 clubs to choose from. Noteworthy clubs/organizations include: The Viking Newspaper,^[36] Blastoff Beta Gamma, Drama Social club, Dance Club, Ems Club, Urban Poets Lodge, Black Student Marriage, The Italian Club, The Brazilian Club, WARY, and Gays, Lesbians and Others of Westchester (GLOW).

See as well [edit]

• Land Academy of New York

References [edit]

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2. ^ Stern, Gary (2011-02-15). "Public colleges worry virtually less country funding". The Journal News. Gannett Company. p. A1.
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15. ^ Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES (Aug four, 1956). "Westchester to Condemn Estate For Community College Campus: Board Besides Opposes Runway Charge per unit Rise but Favors Airdrome and Voting Plans". The New York Times. p. 37.
16. ^ Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES (April 10, 1957). "BIG Estate SOUGHT FOR COLLEGE IS SOLD". The New York Times. p. 23L.
17. ^ ^{a b} Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES (1957-06-20). "WESTCHESTER QUEST FOR CAMPUS SHIFTED". The New York Times. p. 31.
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19. ^ ^{a b} Hershenson, Roberta (Oct 8, 2000). "College Mansion Tours Ready". The New York Times. p. WE19.
20. ^ ^{a b} Folsom, Merrill (Aug six, 1957). "CAMPUS Assured FOR WESTCHESTER: Westchester Customs Higher Acquires a Rustic Hilltop Campus". The New York Times. p. 28.
21. ^ Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES (1957-07-30). "COUNTY TO SPLIT TRACT: Westchester to Utilize Acreage as Campus and for Recreation". The New York Times. p. 32.
22. ^ Joseph North., Hankin; Stuart Steiner (Apr 3, 2010). "With a Combined 78 Years on the Job, These Two Presidents Accept Learned a Thing or 2". Chronicle of Higher Education. 56 (32): B20–B22.
23. ^ Sarina, Trangle (Sep 24, 2011). "President Joseph Hankin Celebrates 40 Years at WCC". Greenburgh Daily Vocalism. The Greenburgh Daily Voice. Retrieved 2012-10-16 .
24. ^ Us Geological Survey (2012). "USGS The National Map Viewer". The National Map. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-ten-xviii .
25. ^ HigherEdJobs. "Institutional Contour: Westchester Community College". HigherEdJobs.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-24.
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27. ^ ^{a b} Keegan, Patricia (1988-10-16). "Westchester Journal: A College Dedication". The New York Times. pp. WC3.
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29. ^ Sadler, Liz (Dec 6, 2005). "Harold Drimmer, longtime WCC trustee, dies at 91". The Periodical News. Gannett Company. p. A10.
30. ^ Cooper, Rose (2012). A handbook for full-time kinesthesia: 2012-2013. Valhalla, New York: Westchester Customs College.
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32. ^ Furio, Joanne (Oct iii, 2003). "Design awards presented past the local American Found of Architects honour additions and renovations". The Journal News. Gannett Company. pp. G1.
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34. ^ "Gallery - Westchester Customs College". Archived from the original on 2013-06-29.
35. ^ Slayton, Robert A. (2002). "Affiliate iii: The essential tool: A superb didactics at every level". Westchester County NY: Headquarters to the World. Encino, California: Cherbo Publishing Group, Inc. pp. thirty–31. ISBN1-882933-42-vii.
36. ^ "The Viking News".

External links [edit]

• Official website

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