Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

of Saranac Lake, in the hamlet / village of Paul Smiths in the Town of Brighton, in Franklin County, New York. Although the donation of money and surrounding land for the college was made in 1937, the college would not officially open until nine years later in 1946, when the first class of 150 students entered to study forestry and resort management.
In 2015, Joan H. Mosher Weill, wife of Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, a banker, financier, philanthropist and chairman of Citicorp bank in New York City, offered a $20 million dollars donation on the condition that the institution change its name to Joan Weill-Paul Smith's College. Ms. Weill was a former trustee of the college. This change however would have violated Phelps Smith's founding bequest, which required that the school be "forever known" as Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences. Justice John T. Ellis of the New York State Supreme Court later ruled that the college could not be renamed, and the proposed donation was withdrawn.
In 2023, the college proposed …