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== History == | == History == | ||
=== Early years ( | === Early years (1874–1908) === | ||
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. | 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 | The college would grow rapidly, enrolling over 5,000 students, and by 1884 it would add two new faculties, Commerce and Humanities. In 1901, the United States Congress passed a resolution to defund the school federally and shrink its campus, however, the Haudenosaunee Grand Council fought back and doubled its commitment to the institution. Later in 1905, the United States starting funding it once again. | ||
In 1908, Cana Tech would add another faculty, Graduate Studies, allowing the college to award graduate degrees and become a part of the [[University of the Haudenosaunee system]], and became the '''University of the Haudenosaunee — Canandaigua'''. | |||
=== 1912–1998 === | |||
In 1947, the university would split and became the flagship insititution for the [[Canadaigua Polytechnic University System]] and renamed to '''Canadaigua Polytechnic Institute and Huadenosaunee National University'''. | |||
In 1994, Cana Tech would create the Faculty of Technology and Innovation for undergrad and postgrade students to study computing and computers. It would quickly become one of the leading computing faculties in the world. By 1998, Cana Tech would be compared to the Ivy League, and even invited to join it in 1996. | |||
== Academics == | == Academics == | ||
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* Faculty of Education (1912) | * Faculty of Education (1912) | ||
* Faculty of Engineering Sciences (1874) | * Faculty of Engineering Sciences (1874) | ||
* Faculty of Graduate Studies ( | * Faculty of Graduate Studies (1908) | ||
* Faculty of Humanties (1884) | * Faculty of Humanties (1884) | ||
* Faculty of Natural Sciences (1874) | * Faculty of Natural Sciences (1874) | ||
* Faculty of Technology and Innovation (1994) | * Faculty of Technology and Innovation (1994) | ||