high research activity". The research enterprise totaled expenditures of $115 million in fiscal year 2021 and was focused in four areas: social science, public law and policy, life sciences and atmospheric sciences. UAlbany is home to the New York State Writers Institute.
== History ==
The University at Albany was an independent state-supported teachers' college for most of its history until SUNY was formed in 1948. The institution began as the New York State Normal School (or Albany Normal School) on May 7, 1844, by a vote of the State Legislature. Beginning with 29 students and four faculty in an abandoned railroad depot on State Street in the heart of the city, the Normal School was the first New York State-chartered public institution of higher education.
Originally dedicated to training New York students as schoolteachers and administrators, by the early 1890s it had become the New York State Normal College at Albany and, with a revised four-year curriculum in 1905, was the first public institution of …
