University at Albany

higher education in New York to be granted the power to confer the bachelor's degree.
A new campus—today, UAlbany's Downtown Campus—was built in 1909 on a site of 4.5 acres (18,000 m2) between Washington and Western avenues. By 1913, the institution was home to 590 students and 44 faculty members, offered a master's degree for the first time, and bore a new name—the New York State College for Teachers at Albany. Enrollment grew to a peak of 1,424 in 1932. By this time, the college had developed a curriculum similar to those found at four-year liberal arts colleges, but it did not abandon its primary focus on training teachers.
In 1948 the State University of New York system was created, with the College for Teachers and the state's other teacher-training schools serving as the nuclei. SUNY, including the Albany campus, became a manifestation of the vision of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, who wanted a public university system to accommodate the college students of the post–World War II baby boom. To do so, he …