SUNY Polytechnic Institute
{{Short description|Polytechnic university in Marcy, New York}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox university
| name = 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)
| image = SUNY Polytechnic Institute seal.svg
| image_upright = 0.7
| motto =
| established = {{start date and age|1966|6|14}}
| type = Public university
| endowment = US $5.5 million{{cite web | url=https://annualreport.sunypoly.edu/2023-2024/at-a-glance/ | title=SUNY Poly in 2023: At a Glance }}
| president = Winston (Wole) Soboyejo{{cite web|url=https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/9-23/9-12-23-poly/poly-president.html|title=Winston (Wole) Soboyejo {{!}} SUNY|website=www.suny.edu|language=en|access-date=2023-09-12}}
| provost = Andrew Russell
| academic_staff =
| doctoral =
| city = Marcy (town), New York
| country = U.S.
| coordinates = {{Coord|43.134|-75.229|type:edu|display=inline, title}}
| campus = Suburban, urban, {{convert|762|acre}}, Marcy campus{{cite web|url=https://www.sucf.suny.edu/project/mcp/polytechnicinstitute.pdf|website=www.sucf.suny.edu|title=2018 Campus Statement}}
| colors = {{color box|#002D72}}{{color box|white}}{{color box|#EAAA00}} Blue, white, gold{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}
| athletics_affiliations = NCAA Division III, Empire 8
| parent = State University of New York
| sports_nickname = Wildcats
| mascot = Walter T. Wildcat
| website = {{URL|https://sunypoly.edu/|sunypoly.edu}}
| logo = SUNY Polytechnic Institute wordmark.svg
| logo_size = 200
}}
The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Polytechnic Institute or SUNY Poly{{Cite web|url = https://www.sunypoly.edu/usage?cms=webace|title = Usage|access-date = May 26, 2015|website = SUNY Poly|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150527040134/https://www.sunypoly.edu/usage?cms=webace|archive-date = May 27, 2015|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}}) is a public university in the town of Marcy, New York, in the Utica–Rome metropolitan area. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, serving as its institute of technology. The institution was established as the Upper Division College at Herkimer/Rome/Utica in 1966.{{cite book|last=Swann|first=John|title=From the Mills to Marcy: The Early History of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome|date=2006|publisher=State University of New York Institute of Technology|url=https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/items/a9b149ad-5522-4651-b8c1-959ecc07787e}}
SUNY Poly is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The university has programs in the disciplines of engineering, engineering technology, and other programs and degrees in business administration,{{Cite web|url=https://sunypoly.edu/undergraduate/business-administration/|title=Business Administration Program at SUNY Poly|website=SUNY Poly|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406043540/https://sunypoly.edu/undergraduate/business-administration/|archive-date=April 6, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} technology, nursing, design, professional studies, and the arts and sciences. It offers undergraduate and graduate study, including five doctoral programs.{{Cite web|url=https://sunypoly.edu/admissions.html|title=Admissions {{!}} SUNY Polytechnic Institute|website=sunypoly.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-07-09}}
History
The university was initially established in 1966 as a graduate and upper-division (transfer) institution known as the Upper Division College at Herkimer/Rome/Utica.{{cite news|title=State Board of Regents gives approval to area upper division college|work=Observer-Dispatch|date=November 19, 1966}} Beginning in 1969 the school offered classes in temporary locations such as classrooms at an elementary school and a disused mill building, and at extension sites for several years until the first buildings were constructed on the permanent Marcy campus in the 1980s.{{cite news|title=SUNY OKs Marcy Campus|work=Observer-Dispatch|date=April 22, 1981}} 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 name again, becoming the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica–Rome (SUNYIT).{{cite web |title=History |url=https://sunypoly.edu/about/history.html |website=sunypoly.edu |publisher=SUNY Polytechnic Institute |access-date=16 October 2023}}
In 2002, the SUNY Board of Trustees approved a mission change, enabling SUNYIT to add lower-division programs in professional, technological, and applied studies to its upper-division offerings. In 2003, SUNYIT admitted its first class of freshmen, becoming a four-year institution.{{cite book|last=Swann|first=John|title=From the Mills to Marcy: The Early History of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome|date=2006|publisher=State University of New York Institute of Technology|url=https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/items/a9b149ad-5522-4651-b8c1-959ecc07787e}}
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The university adopted its current name, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, with the 2014 merger of the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, previously part of the University at Albany.{{Cite web |date=September 25, 2014 |title=Trustees Unanimously Approve SUNY Polytechnic Institute As New Name for Merged SUNY CNSE / SUNYIT |url=https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/september-2014/9-9-14-suny-poly/ |website=State University of New York}} This merger created five colleges within the institute: 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. This was part of a larger effort by state government to create a nanotechnology hub in the Mohawk Valley.{{cite web |title=Governor Cuomo Announces 'Nano Utica' $1.5 Billion Public-Private Investment That Will Make the Mohawk Valley New York's Next Major Hub of Nanotech Research |url=https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-nano-utica-15-billion-public-private-investment-will-make-mohawk |access-date=April 20, 2015 |date=October 10, 2013 |website=Governor Andrew M. Cuomo |publisher=New York State |archive-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427111114/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-nano-utica-15-billion-public-private-investment-will-make-mohawk |url-status=dead}}
In September 2016, SUNY Poly President Alain E. Kaloyeros was charged with felony bid rigging.{{Cite news |last=Yee |first=Vivian |date=September 22, 2016 |title=Physicist in Albany Corruption Case Was A Geek with Big Goals |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/nyregion/physicist-in-albany-corruption-case-was-a-geek-with-big-goals.html |work=New York Times}}{{Cite web |date=2016-09-22 |title=Nine Defendants, Including Joseph Percoco, Former Executive Deputy Secretary To The Governor, And Alain Kaloyeros, President Of Suny Polytechnic Institute, Charged With Federal Corruption And Fraud Offenses |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/nine-defendants-including-joseph-percoco-former-executive-deputy-secretary-governor-and |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=United States Department of Justice |language=en}} He was consequently suspended as president without pay.{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2016/09/22/suny-poly-president-alain-kaloyeros-suspended-from.html|title=SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros suspended from job, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces - Albany Business Review|publisher=bizjournals.com|accessdate=23 September 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/SUNY-suspends-Kaloyeros-without-pay-appoints-9239718.php|title=SUNY suspends Kaloyeros without pay, appoints system administrators to lead SUNY Poly|first=Bethany|last=Bump|publisher=timesunion.com|date=22 September 2016|accessdate=23 September 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/suny-polytechnic-president-charged-with-felony-bid-rigging-is-suspended-without-pay/114576|title=SUNY Polytechnic President, Charged With Felony Bid-Rigging, Is Suspended Without Pay – The Ticker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education|first=Fernanda|last= Zamudio-Suaréz|website=chronicle.com|publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=22 September 2016|accessdate=23 September 2016}} Kaloyeros was convicted in 2018,{{Cite news |last=Weiser |first=Benjamin |date=July 12, 2018 |title=Architect of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion Project Is Convicted in Bid-Rigging Scheme |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/nyregion/kaloyeros-guilty-buffalo-billion-cuomo.html |work=New York Times}}{{Cite web |date=2018-07-12 |title=Alain Kaloyeros, President Of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, And Three Executives Of Real Estate Development Companies Found Guilty Of Fraud In Connection With Buffalo Billion Projects |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/alain-kaloyeros-president-suny-polytechnic-institute-and-three-executives-real-estate |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=US Department of Justice |language=en}} but the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Kaloyeros's conviction in 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-12 |title=U.S. Supreme Court tosses Percoco, Kaloyeros convictions |url=https://www.news10.com/news/u-s-supreme-court-tosses-percoco-kaloyeros-convictions/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=NEWS10 ABC |language=en-US}}
In its 2016 tax filings, SUNY Poly disclosed investments in a number of box-office bombs produced by Ron Perlman, including a $750,000 investment in Pottersville.{{Cite web |last=Rulison |first=Larry |date=2018-09-07 |title=Tax records: SUNY Poly spent $750,000 on failed low-budget comedy movie |url=https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/SUNY-Poly-takes-a-750-000-hit-on-Pottersville-13212185.php |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Times Union |language=en}}
In 2022, semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed opened a plant at the Marcy Nanocenter at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.{{cite web | title=Marcy Nanocenter | website=Marcy Nanocenter | date=2020-09-20 | url=https://marcynanocenter.com/ | access-date=2024-11-27}}{{Cite web |last=Howe |first=Steve |title=What to know about Wolfspeed and its $1B facility in Upstate New York |url=https://www.uticaod.com/story/news/local/2022/05/02/wolfspeed-opens-1-b-silicon-carbide-plant-upstate-new-york/9538712002/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Utica Observer Dispatch |language=en-US}}
In December 2022, the SUNY Board of Trustees voted to return the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) to the University at Albany. The transfer was completed in August 2023. Several academic programs and about 90 students, 29 faculty and lecturers, and more than 100 other staff transferred from Utica to Albany.{{cite web | title=UAlbany launches new college | website=Troy Record | date=2023-08-26 | url=https://www.troyrecord.com/2023/08/26/ualbany-launches-new-college/ | access-date=2024-11-27}}
Campus
File:Aerial photo of SUNYIT in Fall 2011.jpg
The campus is in the town of Marcy.{{cite map|author=Geography Division|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st36_ny/cousub/cs3606545535_marcy/DC20BLK_CS3606545535.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Marcy town, NY|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|date=April 14, 2021|page=2 (PDF p. 3/3)|access-date=2025-05-14|quote=State University of New York Polytechnic Inst}} - The map shows the campus is in the Town of Marcy, but not in the Marcy census-designated place.
The college 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.
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
File:OriskanyHall2014.jpgFour residence halls are on the college 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.{{Cite web|url =https://sunypoly.edu/student-life/housing-dining/residential-life-housing/utica-residential-life/hilltop-hall.html|title =Hilltop Hall|access-date =10 December 2019|website =SUNY Poly}}
Athletics
File:Sunypoly wildcats wordmark.png
SUNY Poly is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III and the Empire 8 Conference. 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.{{cite news|last = Bader|first = Daniel P.|title = SUNYIT celebrates new Wildcat Field House|url = http://www.uticaod.com/article/20120427/NEWS/304279917/0/SEARCH|access-date = May 6, 2014|newspaper = Observer-Dispatch|date = April 27, 2012}}
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).
In the 2024–2025 season, the Wildcats changed conferences, transitioning from the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) to the Empire 8 Conference.
The Wildcats also compete in esports.{{cite web | title=Wildcat Esports | website=SUNY Polytechnic Institute | url=https://sunypoly.edu/student-life/clubs-organizations/wildcat-esports.html | access-date=2024-11-25}} In 2022, a 'Drone Soccer Championship' was held at SUNY Poly.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-06 |title=First 'Drone Soccer Championship' showcase at SUNY Poly a success |url=https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/regional-news/first-drone-soccer-championship-showcase-at-suny-poly-a-success/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=WIVT - News 34 |language=en-US}}
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