Canandaigua Polytechnic Institute
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Other name | Canandaigua Polytechnic Institute |
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| Motto | Honneur |
Motto in English | Honour |
| Type | Public polytechnic university |
Academic staff | 1,380 |
| Students | 28,972 |
| Undergraduates | 20,859 |
| Postgraduates | 8,112 |
| Location | Ganondagan , United States |
| Campus | Suburban, 13.1 square kilometres (3,200 acres) |
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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
Early years (1874–1884)
Cana Tech was founded in 1874 as Kanandarque College after 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
The university in organized into 8 faculties:
- Faculty of Arts and Music (1874)
- Faculty of Commerce (1876)
- Faculty of Education (1912)
- Faculty of Engineering Sciences (1874)
- Faculty of Graduate Studies (1901)
- Faculty of Humanties (1884)
- Faculty of Natural Sciences (1874)
- Faculty of Technology and Innovation (1994)