Wagner College

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Wagner College
Seal of Wagner College
Latin: Collegium Wagnerianum
Established 1883
Type Private
Endowment over $30m
President Richard Guarasci
Provost Devorah Lieberman
Dean Anne Goodsell-Love
Faculty 107
Students 2,335
Undergraduates 1,954
Postgraduates 381
Location Staten Island, NY, USA
Campus Suburban, hilltop overlooks NYC skyline. 105 acres (0.42 km²)
Athletics NCAA Division I-AA
Colors Green and White
Mascot Seahawks
Affiliations ELCA
Website wagner.edu

Wagner College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located on Staten Island in New York City. Wagner enrolls about 1900 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. The college is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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[edit] History

Founded in 1883 in Rochester, New York as the Rochester Lutheran Proseminary and later known as Wagner Memorial Lutheran College, the college moved to the 38-acre former Cunard estate on Grymes Hill, Staten Island in 1918 (the Cunard mansion which dates from 1852 is extant). The college admitted women in 1930 and introduced graduate programs in 1951. In 1993, the college acquired the adjacent property of the former Augustinian High School which has largely remained wooded greenspace and athletic fields. The college now occupies 106 acres on the hill and has commanding views of New York harbor, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Brooklyn, and lower Manhattan.

[edit] General

The college is known for the Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts which emphasizes learning by doing (academic course work coupled with real world experience). In 2005, the college was awarded the TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for its first year program.

Prominent buildings include Main Hall and Parker Hall built in the collegiate gothic style in the late 1920s. A harmonious group of modern buildings built in the 1950s include the Student Union, Megerle Science Building, and the Spiro Communication Center. The Reynolds House dates from the 19th century. The Horrmann Library contains over 200,000 volumes and holds the collection and personal papers of poet Edwin Markham. 80% of the undergraduates live in one of three residence halls.

Wagner was recently declared by the Princeton Review as having the best college theater in the nation. Many successful performers are alumni of Wagner's department of Theatre and Dance including Randy Graff and Kathy Brier. The Review also named it "College with the Most Beautiful Campus" for 2004.

Other popular majors at Wagner include business, psychology, sociology, biology and education.

[edit] Academics

Wagner offers several undergraduate degrees in the arts and sciences as well as some pre-professional courses of study.

[edit] Majors and concentrations

  • Accounting, M.A.
  • Anthropology, B.A.
  • Art, B.A.
  • Arts Administration, B.S.
  • Biology, B.S.
  • Biopsychology, B.S.
  • Business Administration, B.S.
  • Chemistry, B.S.
  • Computer Science, B.S.
  • Dance (minor)
  • Economics, B.A.
  • Education, B.A. and B.S.
  • English, B.A.
  • Environmental Studies (minor)
  • Gender Studies (minor)
  • History, B.A.
  • Information Systems (minor)
  • International Affairs, B.A.
  • Journalism (minor)
  • Languages (minors and major)
  • Mathematics, B.S.
  • Microbiology, B.S.
  • Music, B.A.
  • Nursing, B.S.
  • Philosophy, B.A.
  • Physician Assistant, B.S.
  • Physics, B.S.
  • Policital Science, B.A.
  • Public Policy and Administration, B.A.
  • Psychology, B.A. and B.S.
  • Religious Studies (minor)
  • Sociology/Anthropology, B.A.
  • Spanish, B.A.
  • Theatre Performance (Musical Theatre), B.A.
  • NEW Accelerated MBA Program (Visit our website)

[edit] Pre-professional programs

  • Pre-Law
  • Pre-Engineering
  • Pre-Ministry
  • Pre-Health Science Programs
    • Medicine
    • Dentistry
    • Veterinary Medicine
    • Pharmacy
    • Optometry
    • Podiatry

[edit] Notable alumni

  • Peter L. Berger, sociologist and theologian
  • Kathy Brier, actor
  • Tim Capstraw, sports announcer and college basketball coach
  • Michelle Cliff, author
  • Fred Espenak, NASA astronomer
  • Randy Graff, actor
  • Laura Graham, executive director, William J. Clinton Foundation
  • Rich Kotite, Former NFL coach
  • Donna Lupardo, member of New York State Assembly
  • William Maxwell, artist
  • Michelle Millerick, actor/singer
  • Guy Molinari, Borough President of Staten Island
  • Albert P. Stauderman, editor of The Lutheran
  • Lynne Stewart, attorney and activist
  • Robert Straniere, member of New York State Assembly
  • Richard tum Suden, artist
  • Emily Youssouf, President, New York Housing Development Corporation
  • Paul Zindel, author and playwright

[edit] Movies & television

Wagner's campus has been featured in:

[edit] External links


Colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Augsburg • Augustana (IL) • Augustana (SD) • Bethany • California Lutheran • Capital • Carthage • Concordia • Dana • Finlandia • Gettysburg • Grand View • Gustavus Adolphus • Lenoir-Rhyne • Luther (IA) • Midland • Muhlenberg • Newberry • Pacific Lutheran • Roanoke • St. Olaf • Susquehanna • Texas Lutheran • Thiel • Wagner • Waldorf • Wartburg • Wittenberg
Northeast Conference
Central Connecticut • Fairleigh Dickinson • LIU–Brooklyn • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary's • Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis(NY) • St. Francis(PA) • Wagner
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