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Hudson Valley Community College
Hudson Valley Community College is a public community college in Troy, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY). Although about eighty percent of the students are from the Capital District, the remainder are from other parts of New York, other states and from some 30 countries around the world.
The college is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and is overseen by a 10-member Board of Trustees.
The roots of HVCC are in the Veteran's Vocational School in downtown Troy, set up in 1946 to provide high school level instruction to returning veterans of World War II. Hyman Rosenblum, an Albany businessman, helped persuade Rensselaer County officials that a community college would benefit residents and be worth the money; Rosenblum was on the college's Board of Trustees from 1953 to 1957, becoming the board's secretary from 1957 until his death in 1996; Rosenblum was also one of the founders of what would become the media company Capital Cities/ABC. In order to provide college-level instruction to veterans among others, the college was founded in 1953 as the Hudson Valley Technical Institute, providing five vocational training programs; it was initially housed in the former Earl and Wilson shirt collar factory building on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Broadway. Dwight Marvin, editor of the Troy Record, was one of several community leaders who pressed to create a broader mission for the college; Marvin served as the first chairman of the college's Board of Trustees.
By 1955, the board of trustees was already looking for a larger location to site a campus, with trustees surveying likely sites. The new campus was initially opposed by a group of Rensselaer County taxpayers, who argued that the county should not have to pay for half the cost of the campus construction if fewer than half the students were county residents.[citation needed] What would become a landmark case for community colleges in New York State eventually was heard by the state's Court of Appeals.Grimm v. Rensselaer County,, 171 N.Y.S.2d 491. On June 25, 1958, the court upheld the county's right to fund half of the cost of construction and paved the way for capital construction at community colleges around the state.Grimm v. Rensselaer County, 4 N.Y.S.2d 416.
In 1959, at Rosenblum's suggestion, the college changed its name to Hudson Valley Community College.
The new campus, with five Indiana limestone buildings, was completed in 1961 and the former factory building was abandoned and eventually torn down.
A $47.4 million, 100,000-square-foot science center on campus was completed in the fall of 2013. The building houses laboratory and classroom space for the college's science programs and support degree offerings in biological sciences, biotechnology, physical science and environmental science. Equipment and processes available to students include high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy; confocal microscopes; flow cytometers and sorters, advanced digital microscopy; DNA sequencers; real-time PCR detection systems; and automated protein/RNA electrophoresis.
In fall 2019, the college opened the $14.5 million, 37,000 square foot Gene F. Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing Skills. The center will allow the college to grow enrollment in its Advanced Manufacturing Technology degree program and meet an urgent workforce demand for skilled employees in the region.
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Hudson Valley Community College
Hudson Valley Community College is a public community college in Troy, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY). Although about eighty percent of the students are from the Capital District, the remainder are from other parts of New York, other states and from some 30 countries around the world.
The college is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and is overseen by a 10-member Board of Trustees.
The roots of HVCC are in the Veteran's Vocational School in downtown Troy, set up in 1946 to provide high school level instruction to returning veterans of World War II. Hyman Rosenblum, an Albany businessman, helped persuade Rensselaer County officials that a community college would benefit residents and be worth the money; Rosenblum was on the college's Board of Trustees from 1953 to 1957, becoming the board's secretary from 1957 until his death in 1996; Rosenblum was also one of the founders of what would become the media company Capital Cities/ABC. In order to provide college-level instruction to veterans among others, the college was founded in 1953 as the Hudson Valley Technical Institute, providing five vocational training programs; it was initially housed in the former Earl and Wilson shirt collar factory building on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Broadway. Dwight Marvin, editor of the Troy Record, was one of several community leaders who pressed to create a broader mission for the college; Marvin served as the first chairman of the college's Board of Trustees.
By 1955, the board of trustees was already looking for a larger location to site a campus, with trustees surveying likely sites. The new campus was initially opposed by a group of Rensselaer County taxpayers, who argued that the county should not have to pay for half the cost of the campus construction if fewer than half the students were county residents.[citation needed] What would become a landmark case for community colleges in New York State eventually was heard by the state's Court of Appeals.Grimm v. Rensselaer County,, 171 N.Y.S.2d 491. On June 25, 1958, the court upheld the county's right to fund half of the cost of construction and paved the way for capital construction at community colleges around the state.Grimm v. Rensselaer County, 4 N.Y.S.2d 416.
In 1959, at Rosenblum's suggestion, the college changed its name to Hudson Valley Community College.
The new campus, with five Indiana limestone buildings, was completed in 1961 and the former factory building was abandoned and eventually torn down.
A $47.4 million, 100,000-square-foot science center on campus was completed in the fall of 2013. The building houses laboratory and classroom space for the college's science programs and support degree offerings in biological sciences, biotechnology, physical science and environmental science. Equipment and processes available to students include high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy; confocal microscopes; flow cytometers and sorters, advanced digital microscopy; DNA sequencers; real-time PCR detection systems; and automated protein/RNA electrophoresis.
In fall 2019, the college opened the $14.5 million, 37,000 square foot Gene F. Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing Skills. The center will allow the college to grow enrollment in its Advanced Manufacturing Technology degree program and meet an urgent workforce demand for skilled employees in the region.