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The history of Union Graduate College
begins in the early 20th century.
By that time, advanced degree study was being conducted on the Union College Campus in several disciplines. The Masters in Electrical Engineering was available as early as 1905 and, in fact, was the first graduate degree awarded by Union to a woman, when Florence Buckland received her Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1925.
Union Graduate College’s School of Management can date its origins to the Economics Department of Union College. In February 1960, Professor Alfred Timm joined the Economics Department faculty to continue the Department’s undergraduate work in Industrial Administration and begin to explore the possibilities of a graduate program. In May of 1961, the Union Board of Trustees approved a program leading to a master’s degree in Industrial Administration. The first three degrees (Master of Science in Industrial Administration) were awarded in 1964.
Although advanced degrees in education had been available at Union earlier in the 1900’s, a team of academic and administrative faculty was formed in 1986 to investigate the possibility of creating an innovative, high quality teacher education program. They developed Union Graduate College’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program in discipline areas that dove-tailed with the College’s academic strengths: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science (Geology), French, German, Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics, Social Studies, and Spanish. The first class of 15 MAT students graduated in 1990.
Union College continued to expand its graduate degree study offerings with new masters programs in Management, Engineering, Education and Bioethics (Union Graduate College’s first on-line program), developing innovative programs through strategic relationships with other highly respected Upstate New York education institutions such as Albany Law School, Albany College of Pharmacy, and Albany Medical College. Union College established what was then known as the “Center for Graduate Education and Special Programs” to administer these advanced degree programs.
In the new millennium, bolstered by expanding enrollments in all graduate programs and the growing regional demand for full-time and part-time graduate study, Union recognized the need to create a new, independent, professional Graduate College. The Graduate College of Union University was formed and chartered by the State Board of Regents as an independent college in July 2003. The school’s name was changed to Union Graduate College in May 2006, a name that better reflected its Union College heritage.
Today, as an affiliate of Union College and the other Union University Colleges, Union Graduate College values its rich and multi-varied connection to the liberal arts and sciences. Future graduate study programs will build on these historical foundations of quality education that provides our graduate with the “Skill and Vision to Lead”.
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Full, part time and accelerated Graduate Masters Degree Study Programs.
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