SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Short description: Technical school in Marcy, New York

State University of New York Polytechnic Institute

Former names

| Upper Division College at Herkimer/Rome/Utica (1966–1977)
State University of New York College of Technology at Utica-Rome (1977–1989)
State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome (1989–2014)
Type| Public university
Established| June 14, 1966; 59 years ago (1966-06-14)

Parent institution

| State University of New York
Endowment| United States dollar 11.9 million (2022; Unaudited)[1]
Provost| Mark Montgomery (interim)
President| Winston (Wole) Soboyejo[2]

Academic staff

| 290 (fall 2018)[3]
Students| 2,850[4]
Undergraduates| 2,208[4]
Postgraduates| 794[4]

Doctoral students

| 62 (fall 2019)[5]
Location|

Marcy, New York

U.S.

[ ⚑ ] : 43°08′02″N 75°13′44″W﻿ / ﻿43.134°N 75.229°W﻿ / 43.134; -75.229
Campus| Suburban, urban, 762 acres (308 ha), Marcy campus[6]
|u}}rs|  Blue, white, gold[citation needed]

Nickname| Wildcats
Mascot| Walter T. Wildcat
Website| sunypoly.edu

The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Polytechnic Institute or SUNY Poly[7]) is a public university in Marcy, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Founded in 1966 using classrooms at a primary school,[8] what became SUNY Poly is New York's public polytechnic college.[9] The Marcy campus, formerly the SUNY Institute of Technology, has a Utica, New York mailing address and was established in 1987.

SUNY Poly is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The university offers over 25 bachelor's degrees, 18 graduate level degrees, and five doctoral degrees within five different colleges. SUNY Poly students come from across the state of New York, throughout the United States, and more than twenty other nations, with more than 25,000 alumni.[10]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Campus
* 2.1 Marcy
* 3 Academics
* 4 Residence halls
* 5 Athletics
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## History

SUNY Poly was initially established in 1966 as a graduate and upper-division (transfer) institution in 1966 known as the Upper Division College at Herkimer/Rome/Utica. At that time, the school offered classes in temporary locations throughout Utica and at extension sites for several years until the first buildings were constructed on the permanent Marcy campus in the 1980s.[11] After a decade of growing enrollment, the school took on a new name in 1977, the State University of New York College of Technology at Utica-Rome. A decade later, in 1987, the school finally moved to its present location in Marcy and, two years later in 1989, changed its names again, becoming the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome.[12]

In 2002, the SUNY Board of Trustees approved a mission change, enabling SUNY Poly to offer upper-division programs in professional, technological, and applied studies. In 2003, SUNY Poly admitted its first class of freshmen, becoming a four-year institution.[13] This class graduated in May 2007.

The university's current name, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, derives from the 2014 merger of the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, formerly a component of the University at Albany. This merger created five colleges within the institute, including the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering, the College of Health Sciences, the College of Business Management, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

The university offers programs in the disciplines of engineering, engineering technology, and other programs and degrees in business administration,[14] technology, nursing, design, professional studies, and the arts and sciences at its Utica campus, and nanoscale science, nanoscale engineering, as well as nanobioscience programs.

In August 2023, The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), was transferred back under the University of Albany's umbrella of colleges.

## Campus

### Marcy

The Marcy campus occupies more than 400 acres, with major buildings, including four residential complexes, surrounded by trees and green landscape. The "west campus" property of more than 300 acres is reserved for the development of the Marcy NanoCenter. Construction and renovation projects totaling $100 million in recent years included a new student center, field house, and residence hall complex—all completed in 2011.

There are two academic halls on campus: William R. Kunsela Hall and James H. Donovan Hall. Opened in March 2003, the Peter J. Cayan Library is on the southern portion of the campus.

Notable people who have visited SUNY Poly's Albany campus include President Barack Obama[15] and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak.[16]

* Aerial view of Marcy campus

* Aerial view of SUNY Poly's Albany Campus

* Former U.S. President Barack Obama prepares for a speech at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in 2012.

## Academics

SUNY Poly is organized into four colleges:

* College of Arts & Sciences
* College of Business Management
* College of Engineering
* College of Health Sciences

## Residence halls

Oriskany Residence Hall, Marcy campus

Four residence halls are on the Marcy campus, including the oldest, Adirondack Residence Hall, Mohawk Residence Hall, constructed in the late-1990s and located on the northern portion of campus, Oriskany Residence Hall, completed in 2011, and Hilltop residence Hall, completed in 2020. In 2019, SUNY Poly broke ground on its next residence hall, opened in the fall 2020 semester. The residence hall is designed to be “zero-net, carbon certified,” exceeding existing energy codes with the infrastructure to add future on-site renewable energy production systems. Once these systems are installed, the building will use equal to or less than the energy annually it can produce on-site through renewable resources.[17]

## Athletics

SUNY Poly is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III and the North Atlantic Conference (formerly known as the North Eastern Athletic Conference, or NEAC). The current roster of SUNY Poly varsity sports includes baseball, softball, and men's and women's basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, and golf. SUNY Poly's athletic nickname is the Wildcats.

The Wildcat Field House, completed in 2011, features a state-of-the-art fitness center, two full-sized basketball courts and four volleyball courts, indoor practice facilities for all Wildcat teams, a running track, an expansive training room, team rooms, and offices for the athletics department's administrative staff and coaches.[18] A new multi-sport turf field, new baseball field, and an updated softball field were also constructed as part of the Wildcat Field House project. The SUNY Poly basketball teams play their home contests in the Campus Center Gym. The "CC" was completed in the early 1980s as the original home for Wildcat Athletics. Upon the completion of the Wildcat Field House, the Campus Center was retrofitted to be used solely for basketball. The most recent update to the gym was in 2016 when the scoreboard was updated and the floor and paint were refinished to match the current team identity. In the 2020-21 season, the Wildcats changed conferences, transitioning from the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) to the North Atlantic Conference (NAC).[19]

## References

1. ↑ https://annualreport.sunypoly.edu/2022-2023/at-a-glance/
2. ↑ "Winston (Wole) Soboyejo | SUNY" (in en). https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/9-23/9-12-23-poly/poly-president.html.
3. ↑ "U.S. News & World Report Ranking". https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/suny-it-11678.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Fast Facts - SUNY". https://www.suny.edu/about/fast-facts/.
5. ↑ "Albany Business Review Report Filing 2019"
6. ↑ "2018 Campus Statement". https://www.sucf.suny.edu/project/mcp/polytechnicinstitute.pdf.
7. ↑ "Usage". https://www.sunypoly.edu/usage?cms=webace.
8. ↑ "SUNY IT History". SUNY Polytechnic Institute. http://www.sunyit.edu/about/history.
9. ↑ “State Board of Regents gives approval to area upper division college," Observer-Dispatch/UticaOD, November 19, 1966
10. ↑ "Admissions | SUNY Polytechnic Institute" (in en). https://sunypoly.edu/admissions.html.
11. ↑ “SUNY OKs Marcy Campus," Observer-Dispatch/UticaOD, April 22, 1981
12. ↑ "History". SUNY Polytechnic Institute. https://sunypoly.edu/about/history.html.
13. ↑ Swann, John (2006). From the Mills to Marcy: The Early History of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. State University of New York Institute of Technology.
14. ↑ "Business Administration Program at SUNY Poly" (in en-US). https://sunypoly.edu/undergraduate/business-administration/.
15. ↑ "President Obama Lauds UAlbany NanoCollege". Albany.edu. http://www.albany.edu/gallery/24432.php.
16. ↑ "Photos: Woz comes to town". TimesUnion.com. 5 September 2012. https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Photos-Woz-comes-to-town-3842920.php.
17. ↑ "Hilltop Hall". https://sunypoly.edu/student-life/housing-dining/residential-life-housing/utica-residential-life/hilltop-hall.html.
18. ↑ Bader, Daniel P. (April 27, 2012). "SUNYIT celebrates new Wildcat Field House". Observer-Dispatch. http://www.uticaod.com/article/20120427/NEWS/304279917/0/SEARCH.
19. ↑ "SUNY Poly Announces Transition to the North Atlantic Conference for the 2020-21 Season.". 21 August 2019. http://wildcats.sunypoly.edu/general/2019-20/releases/20190821kvs4ou.

## External links

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Polytechnic Institutes and Universities in the United States

Public|

* Air Force Institute of Technology
* ASU Polytechnic School
* Arkansas Tech
* Cal Poly (Pomona and San Luis Obispo)
* Colorado Mines
* Florida Poly
* Georgia Tech
* Iowa State
* Kansas State Polytechnic
* Louisiana Tech
* Michigan Tech
* Missouri S&T
* Montana Tech
* New Jersey Institute of Technology
* New Mexico Tech
* Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
* Oregon Tech
* South Dakota Mines
* Southern Poly
* SUNY Poly
* Tennessee Tech
* Texas Tech
* UW–Stout
* Virginia Tech
* WVU Tech

Private|

* Caltech
* Florida Tech
* Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
* Illinois Tech
* Indiana Tech
* Lawrence Tech
* MIT
* New England Tech
* NYIT
* Northwestern Polytechnic
* Rensselaer
* RIT
* Rose-Hulman
* Stevens
* Wentworth
* WPI

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