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Nassau Community College

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School Notes:

• Nassau Community College was created as part of the State University of New York by the Nassau County Board of Supervisors on February 9, 1959. When the College opened in a wing of the County Court House in Mineola on February 1, 1960, it had only 632 students. Enrollment increased dramatically after 1962, when classes were moved to spacious facilities at the former U.S. Air Force base at Mitchel Field.
• Nassau, the largest of SUNY's 30 community colleges, enjoys a nationwide reputation for academic excellence and ease of transferability to four-year schools. Nassau‘s faculty is one of the best in New York State, having a higher than average number of Ph.D's and one of the lowest teacher/student ratios.
• The modern campus includes a library with sophisticated audio-visual facilities and classroom/laboratory wings equipped with personal computers and state-of-the-art apparatus for instruction in more than 60 different fields of study in business, fine & performing arts, health related sciences, liberal arts & sciences, mathematics / computer processing, natural sciences, engineering technologies and social sciences.
• Expert coaching in the finest indoor and outdoor athletic facilities has made the men's and women's varsity teams at Nassau a dominant force in the National Junior College Athletic Association. Individual athletes have gone on to prominence at senior colleges and universities, as well as in professional sports and as coaches and physical education teachers.
• The College is fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is authorized by the N.Y. State Board of Regents to award two-year Associate Degrees in Arts (A.A.), Science (A.S.), and Applied Science (A.A.S.).
• Profile last updated: 07/03/2009.

In the News:

• Long Island people on the move (Newsday)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 08:46:19 pm
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• ‘BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE’ (Bluffton Today)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 01:16:10 pm
  ‘BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE’ By ARNOLD ROSEN Rosen retired as a professor emeritus at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., in 1995, and authored 20 college technology textbooks and a book about a gated community in New York. He moved to Sun City in 2004 and put his writing experience to work, mostly doing short veteran profiles for the Sun City Veterans Association’s newsletter.
• Michael Sanchez Is LI’s First-Ever Sweet Million-aire (Hicksville Illustrated News)
  posted on November 6, 2009 at 05:15:12 am
  21-Year-Old Plans to Use Money to Help Mom, Travel Twenty-one-year-old Michael Sanchez of Hicksville is the new millionaire-on-campus at Nassau Community College where he’s enrolled as a liberal arts major with dreams of becoming a nurse. The El Salvador native is Long Island’s first-ever $1,000,000 winner on the New York Lottery’s new Sweet Million draw game.
• Sunday, Nov. 15 (Newsday)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 10:11:00 pm
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• Hempstead, Oyster Bay guide, Nov. 15 (Newsday)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 09:11:02 pm
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