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'''Canandaigua Polytechnic Institute''' ('''CPI'''), more commonly known as ''' | '''Canandaigua Polytechnic Institute''' ('''CPI'''), more commonly known as '''Cana Tech''', officially '''Canandaigua Polytechnic Institute and Haudenosaunee National University''', is a public polytechnic university in Canandaigua, New York. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== Early years (1874–1884) === | |||
Cana Tech was founded in 1874 as '''Kanandarque College''' after [[Seneca University|Seneca Polytechnic and Iroquois Confederacy University]], the main university for the Haudenosaunee, became private in 1872 due to government threats. It originally consisted of three academic faculties: arts, engineering, and natural sciences. Its inagural class would consist of ~500 undergraduates. | |||
The university would grow rapidly, and by 1884, it would add | |||
== Academics == | == Academics == | ||