students are enrolled in over 50 undergraduate and three graduate programs. The Knights compete in NCAA Division III athletics in the Skyline Conference.
== History ==
=== Academy and Normal School (1883–1958) ===
A group of four German-speaking sisters of St. Dominic first arrived in New York City in 1853. They left their convent of the Holy Cross in Regensburg, Germany to start a school in Pennsylvania. Plans went awry and the sisters opened a school on Second Street in lower Manhattan instead. In 1883, at the request of the pastor of St. Mary's Church in Newburgh, a small group of sisters from the Second Street Convent opened Mount Saint Mary Academy off Gidney Avenue on property that had once belonged to the prosperous Harvey Weed family.
S. R. Van Duzer, a wealthy wholesale drug company owner, moved into A. Gerald Hull's Villa on the southeast side of the Thomas Powell estate in 1853. VanDuzer changed the name from Hull's Villa to Rozenhof. VanDuzer died in 1903 and his wife died six months later. The …
