Southampton College
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The Southampton College of is a liberal arts college in Southampton, New York and that is now affiliated with State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The campus was founded in 1963 by Long Island University. After many years of fiscal mismanagement, the University announced a multi-million dollar capital campaign, launched a new interdisciplinay CORE curriculum and the construction of a new library (almost completed) to re-vamp the campus. After one year of a 10 year plan however, Long Island University officials ceased all plans.
Long Island University thus decided to effectively close the campus by relocating all Undergraduate Programs to the C.W. Post Campus. This forced most students to either move to C.W. Post where their programs would be offered but no classes would be added to C.W. Post's curiculum, or transfer elsewhere.
Although protests and advocacy including a rally by the non-profit Save The College at Southampton and the student-led organization The Orphans of L.I.U. (Long Island University) made numerous headlines with their actions, Undergraduate Programs ceased and all but a few campus buildings were shuttered by the end of Summer 2005.
A deal closed in March 2006 transferring the college to the State University of New York at Stony Brook. SUNY is paying US $35 million for the 84 acre campus and its waterfront facility for its famed Marine Biology department (which was transferred to Stony Brook) as well as the NPR affiliated WLIU-FM 88.3 radio station.
The campus is between the Shinnecock Indian Reservation and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. It had a separate stop on the Long Island Railroad until 1998 when the station was dismantled because it was lightly used. In 2005 the Shinnecock Indian Nation filed a suit seeking return of 3,500 acres including both the campus and the golf club. When Long Island University announced its plans to close the campus there were concerns that either the land would be taken over by the Shinnecocks for a casino or that the land would be scooped up for a massive housing development in the Hamptons.
In 2005, Long Island University closed the undergraduate Southampton classes and moved them to Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, where a few hundred students are unhappily finishing out their degrees at a school they never wanted to attend. The undergraduate Marine Biology department was moved to Stony Brook.
Graduate programs still in Southampton are:
- Childhood Education (MS)
- English and Writing (MFA)
- Homeland Security (Advanced Certificate)
- Literacy Education (MS)
- Teaching Students with Disabilities (MS)
- Avery Corman
- Jules Feiffer
- Molly Haskell
- Kaylie Jones
- Clark Blaise
- Peter Matthiessen
- Roger Rosenblatt
- Robert Reeves
- Dava Sobel
- Nahid Rachlin
- Alan Weinblatt
- Matt Klam
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