Utica College
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Utica College is a private
Private university
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 university
University
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 located in Utica
Utica, New York
Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....

, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. The history of the college dates back to the 1930s when Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...

 began offering extension courses in the Utica area. Syracuse University established Utica College as a four-year institution in 1946, and in 1995, UC became a financially and legally independent institution. UC is officially mentioned in Syracuse's Charter
Charter
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, Article 1, Section 3: "Utica College shall be represented by the President, appointed ex officio, and by the dean of the college, and another representative selected by the college." Utica College offers the UC baccalaureate degree to all entering students. (Utica College began offering its own graduate degrees in 1999.) In addition, the transition to full independence will afford UC faculty full autonomy to develop new academic programs.

Campus

Utica College was originally located in downtown Utica, NY in what is now called Oneida Square. In 1961 the school moved to its current 128 acre (0.51799808 km²) campus, located in the western area of the city. Close to its borders are the towns of Whitestown
Whitestown, New York
Whitestown is a town in Oneida County, New York, USA. The population was 18,635 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from Judge Hugh White, an early settler.The Town of Whitestown is immediately west of Utica, New York...

 and New Hartford
New Hartford, New York
New Hartford, New York may refer to:* New Hartford , New York, in Oneida County* New Hartford , New York, within the town of New Hartford...

. The campus can be accessed from both Burrstone Road and Champlin Avenue.

When first completed, the current campus consisted of Hubbard Hall (academic classrooms), Addison Miller White Hall (administration), Gordon Science Center, DePerno Hall (faculty offices), and the Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library. Gannett Library is located on the Champlin Avenue side of the campus and provides students with access to over 200,000 volumes.

The original dormitories
Dormitory
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 of North and South Hall are still in use as is Alumni Hall, an apartment
Apartment
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-style dormitory. The Ralph F. Strebel Center is the student center which houses the Pioneer Cafe, the college radio station WPNR, the Utica College bookstore, and the school newspaper The Tangerine. Increased enrollment at the turn of the millennium prompted the administration to expand. Recent construction projects include an addition to the main academic building in 2002, and three dormitories of New Hall and Conference Center, Tower Hall, and Bell Hall. Construction is now complete on the new F. Eugene Romano Hall, Phase I of UC's new Science and Technology Center, which will be 23000 square feet (2,136.8 m²) of classrooms, laboratories, clinical space, and technological upgrades. Fundraising and pursuit of grants is currently underway for another planned phase of the expansion project.

In Fall 2008, the college enrolled 2,505 undergraduate students and 599 graduate students. There are nearly 20,000 Utica College alumni.

In Winter 2009 the college opened up a new building called the Economic Crime, Justice Studies, and Cybersecurity building.

Academics

Utica College offers 37 majors, 27 minors, 21 Master's and Doctoral degree programs, and a number of pre-professional and special programs. The chemistry program is approved by the American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
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. Utica College also offers programs in teacher education
Teacher education
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 which lead to certification.

Utica College is well known for its health science education. It is one of the leading colleges in both occupational therapy
Occupational therapy
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 and physical therapy
Physical therapy
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. One of its strongest social science programs is in child life psychology
Psychology
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  The college has also received national attention for its economic crime programs. In fact, Utica College was the first institution in the world to offer a Master's degree in Economic Crime Management.

For the Class of 2013, the average high school GPA was a 3.42. The current freshman class is also the largest in the college's history with over 600 students.

Notable alumni

  • Sherwood Boehlert
    Sherwood Boehlert
    Sherwood "Sherry" Louis Boehlert is a retired American politician from New York. He represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007. Boehlert, a Republican, was considered to be a member of the party's moderate wing. In 2003, Utica Union Station was...

    , B.A 1961, congressman from January 1983 to January 2007

  • Frank Lentricchia
    Frank Lentricchia
    Frank Lentricchia is an American literary critic, novelist, and film teacher. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a B.A. from Utica College in 1962...

    , B.A 1962, literature professor at Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...


  • John M. McHugh
    John M. McHugh
    John Michael McHugh is the 21st United States Secretary of the Army and a former Republican politician from the state of New York, formerly representing the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.On June 2, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him to...

    , B.A 1970, congressman from January 1993 to 2009; Secretary of the Army 2009 -

  • Michael McKeon
    Michael McKeon
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    , B.A. 1985, Partner of Mercury Public Affairs, Director of Communications and chief spokesman for Governor George Pataki
    George Pataki
    George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.- Early life :...

    , New York City newspaper reporter

  • Andy Rubin
    Andy Rubin
    Andrew Rubin is a technology pioneer, co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc., and Android Inc. He is currently Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, where he oversees development of Android, an open-source operating system for smartphones...

    , B.S. 1986, Technology pioneer, co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android. He is the current Director of Mobile Platforms at Google,


Gary Kunath, Graduated 1979. Founder of The Summit Group. Named 2008 Businessman of the Year.

Athletics

UC offers 21 Division III intercollegiate sports affiliated with the NCAA, Empire 8 Conference and the ECAC.

Teams are known as the Pioneers and compete in the Empire 8 Athletic Conference
Empire 8
The Empire 8 is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III.-Members:Full member institutions include:-Football affiliation:*Springfield College...

 along with Elmira
Elmira College
Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...

, Alfred
Alfred University
Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in Western New York, USA, an hour and a half south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students...

, Hartwick
Hartwick College
Hartwick College is a non-denominational, private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York, in the United States. The institution was founded as Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, and is now known as Hartwick College...

, Ithaca
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...

, Nazareth
Nazareth College (New York)
Nazareth College of Rochester, NY, is a private liberal arts college in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester.-History:Nazareth was founded in 1924 by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The first class, comprising 25 young women, began their studies in a large mansion on Lake Avenue in Rochester, New...

, Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology is a technological university located on a campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA – founded in 1870 with an 1868 bequest from Edwin A. Stevens. It is known for its engineering, science, and technological management curricula.The institute has produced leading...

 and St. John Fisher
Saint John Fisher College
St. John Fisher College is a private liberal arts college located in Pittsford, New York, United States, an eastern suburb of Rochester. Fisher is ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the "Tier 1" Northern Master's Universities, while U.S News rates admissions to the College as...

. The men's and women's hockey teams compete in the ECAC West
ECAC West
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 athletic conference. The women's water polo team competes in the Collegiate Water Polo Association's Northern Division. The school's mascot
Mascot
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 is a moose named Trax.
Almost 70% of the student population engages in intramural activities.

Facility use is at an all-time high as UC students, faculty, and staff pursue a healthy array of recreational opportunities in the Harold T. Clark Athletic Center. Recent renovation to the fitness center offers the UC community one of the best nautilus and free weight exercise experiences in the area.

The student body's overall interest in athletics was significantly bolstered by the addition of football
American football
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 and ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 teams in 2001. The football, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, soccer and lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

 teams play in Charles A. Gaetano Stadium
Charles A. Gaetano Stadium
Charles A. Gaetano Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located on the Utica College campus in Utica, New York. The facility was completed in 2001.- Usage and facilities :It is the home to the Utica Pioneers football, field hockey, lacrosse and soccer teams...

. The 1,200 seat venue was completed in 2001 and has a modern field turf playing surface. The ice hockey teams compete at the Utica Memorial Auditorium
Utica Memorial Auditorium
Utica Memorial Auditorium is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Utica, New York, with a capacity of 5,700 for concerts.It was built in 1959 on the site of the old Erie Canal. When it was completed, the "Aud" was one of just three arenas built without obstructed views. It hosted the 1962 NCAA...

. The Aud, as it is commonly called, was built in 1959 and provides seating for over 4,000 fans. The men's hockey team led the nation in Division III home attendance in the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons. The basketball
Basketball
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 teams play on campus at the Harold Thomas Clark Jr. Athletic Center, which also has a pool and racquetball
Racquetball
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 courts.

In November 2007, the Utica College football team set an NCAA football record, the highest combined score (142 points) by two teams, in their 72-70 loss to Hartwick College
Hartwick College
Hartwick College is a non-denominational, private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York, in the United States. The institution was founded as Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, and is now known as Hartwick College...

in four overtimes. In this game, Utica also set the NCAA record for most points scored (70) in a loss.

UC has had a strong Women's Basketball team in recent years. In 2008, the team won the Empire 8 Conference Championship. In 2009, they tied with Ithaca as the regular season Empire 8 champions. In 2010, they regained their Empire 8 Conference Championship title.

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