SUNY Brockport: Rankings, Courses & Admissions

Donald Tower became president of the school in 1944. At that time, the entire campus was what we now known as Hartwell Hall. There were only a few hundred students and under 50 faculty and staff members. By the time Tower retired in 1964 there were several thousand students and several hundred faculty and staff members. The physical space of the campus also expanded, adding residence halls and a college union.

The purpose and organization of the University had also grown, as it evolved from a college geared towards only teacher education, into a liberal arts college with a number of master’s degree programs. The first graduate degree was awarded in January of 1950.

The school’s growth rate peaked in the late ’60s which lead to the expansion of more buildings including, the high-rise residence halls and library. In the late ’90s. The University launched the MetroCenter (now Brockport Downtown), a complex with a host of classrooms in downtown Rochester.