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SUNY Potsdam
Founded in 1816, and located on the outskirts of the beautiful Adirondack Park, the State University of New York at Potsdam is one of America’s first 50 colleges. SUNY Potsdam currently enrolls approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students. Home to the world-renowned Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam is known for its handcrafted education, challenging liberal arts and sciences core, excellence in teacher training and leadership in the performing and visual arts. Find out more at www.potsdam.edu.
School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Potsdam exposes students to a variety of fields within the fine arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. The School’s strong foundation in the liberal arts prizes creativity and inquiry, offering a full palette of study in 19 departments offering majors, minors and interdisciplinary programs that encourage hands-on learning opportunities for every student.
School of Education and Professional Studies
The School of Education and Professional Studies at SUNY Potsdam has been preparing educators for nearly 200 years. Today, that legacy of educational excellence also stretches to programs in business administration, community health, wilderness education and information and communication technology, to help students prepare for professions in the global economy.
Crane School of Music
Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music is the birthplace of American music education with a tradition of innovation for 125 years. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. Crane is SUNY’s one and only All-Steinway institution with a legacy of excellence in performance and music education. Learn more about the Crane School of Music at www.potsdam.edu/crane.
State University of New York
The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States, educating nearly 465,000 students in 7,351 degree and certificate programs on 64 campuses. To learn more about how SUNY creates opportunity, visit www.suny.edu.
Potsdam College Foundation
Established in 1986, the Potsdam College Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to stewarding the continued growth of private giving in support of SUNY Potsdam. Its mission is to ensure a quality future for the College and its people, by establishing endowments to support scholarships and programs to ensure campus needs are met.
Community Performance Series
Established in 1989, the Community Performance Series at SUNY Potsdam is a college-community partnership presenting world-class performing artists and arts education opportunities in Northern New York. At CPS, a rich mixture of programs links community, classroom and audiences of all ages, while preserving access to the performing arts for future generations.
Gibson Gallery
The Gibson Gallery is the art museum at SUNY Potsdam and serves as the center for visual arts at the College through the collection, exhibition and interpretation of quality works of art. The museum’s collection includes significant works from the 20th and 21st centuries as well as earlier pieces. The Gibson Gallery’s mission is to make direct experience of the visual arts accessible to students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as to residents of Northern New York.
Weaver Museum
SUNY Potsdam’s Charles T. Weaver Anthropology Museum was established in 1991 in honor of a former College faculty member who spent many years among the Tetela people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Weaver Museum regularly hosts exhibits created by student curators and serves as a teaching museum for students in the museum studies program.
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