Wagner College

Wagner College

Seal of Wagner College
Latin: Collegium Wagnerianum
Type	Private
Established	1883
Endowment	over $30m
President	Richard Guarasci
Provost	Devorah Lieberman
Dean	Anne Goodsell-Love
Academic staff	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
Affiliations	ELCA
Mascot	Seahawks
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.

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.

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.

Academics

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

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.

The AccMBA Program is the greatest!!!!

Pre-professional programs

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

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, 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

Movies & television

Wagner's campus has been featured in:

• School of Rock, 2003 film starring Jack Black and Joan Cusack.
• The Sopranos, 2001 (season 3). The campus was featured when Tony and Carmela visited a military school.
• The Education of Max Bickford, 2001-2001. CBS drama series starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden. Wagner (along with Brooklyn College) was the fictional Chadwick College.
• Spike TV, 2003 a commercial featuring a girls field hockey team.
• Law & Order

External links

• Wagner College