1910 NYIT’s predecessor, New York Technical Institute, opens.
1955 Provisional charter granted by the New York State Board of Regents to NYIT. First campus opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1957 New York State Board of Regents approves NYIT’s request to offer an associate’s degree in applied science.
1958 NYIT enrollment exceeds 300 students.
1958 At NYIT’s first Founders Dinner, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner Jr. proclaims the day New York Institute of Technology Day.
1958 NYIT relocates main offices to the former Knights of Pythias building in Manhattan.
1959 “Teaching machines” introduced for student instruction in physics, electronics and mathematics.
1959 NYIT awards degrees to its first generation of alumni.
1960 New York State Board of Regents grants provisional charter to operate as a four-year college.
1964 Manhattan student newspaper, the Scope, launched.
1964 Carnegie Corporation provides grant to develop automated, self-instructional system to train engineering technicians.
1965 Old Westbury campus opens on the former Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney estate.
1965 WNYT – the college’s first radio station – hits the airwaves.
1966 Old Westbury student newspaper, the Campus Slate, launched.
1968 Federal government awards $3 million in grants to NYIT for computer research.
1969 Student Activity Center opens at the Old Westbury campus.
1970 Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools grants accreditation to NYIT.
1970 NYIT enrollment soars past 5,000.
1970 Alumni association established.
1972 First graduate-level program, the Masters in Business Administration, opens to NYIT students.
1972 The former Alfred I. du Pont Gold Coast mansion renamed the de Seversky Conference Center.
1974 Computer Graphics Laboratory opens at Old Westbury campus.
1976 Alvy Ray Smith develops eight-bit paint system to ease computer animation.
1976 Manhattan campus moves to current location at 61st St. and Broadway.
1977 NYIT launches the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM). Nelson A. Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger take part in the school’s opening convocation.
1980 Men’s basketball team reaches the NCAA Division II finals.
1981 Center for Robotics Research opens at the Old Westbury campus.
1982 Center for Labor and Industrial Relations receives a U.S. Department of Transportation grant to develop a manager training program.
1982 Matthew Schure, Ph.D., becomes the second president of NYIT. 1983 “LI News Tonight” broadcasts its first show on cable television.
1983 NYCOM establishes minority recruitment program.
1984 The college launches its first “virtual campus,” American Open University of NYIT.
1984 Central Islip campus opens.
1985 NYIT’s “Starlink” project allows computer conferencing between Long Island school children and students in Australia.
1990 The George and Gertrude Wisser Memorial Library opens at the Old Westbury campus.
1990 NYIT’s forms the Carleton Group, a student-run advertising agency.
1991 NYCOM graduates its 1,000th physician.
1992 NYCOM establishes first clinical campus, St. Barnabas Hospital.
1997 Men’s lacrosse team wins the NCAA Division II national championship.
1998 NYCOM opens the Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Center.
1998 NYIT’s international program in China opens.
1999 Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers a speech at NYIT and receives the college’s Presidential Medal.
2000 Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., becomes NYIT’s third president.
2001 Women’s volleyball team reaches NCAA Division II playoffs, the first of five consecutive appearances.
2002 NYIT installs new broadband connection, the fastest on the East Coast.
2002 Federal government awards $300,000 for new cyber security lab.
2002 NYIT Magazine launches its first issue.
2003 Ellis College of NYIT launched.
2003 Men’s lacrosse team wins its second NCAA Division II championship.
2003 Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccredits NYIT and commends the school on its continued improvements.
2003 NYIT’s 3-D distance learning system developed.
2003 NYIT’s Bahrain campus opens.
2004 Plans announced to reorganize Central Islip campus into a community service facility.
2005 Congressman Richard Gephardt delivers keynote address at NYCOM’s 25th annual Hooding Ceremony.
2005 Men’s lacrosse team wins its third NCAA Division II national championship.
2005 NYIT students build a solar-powered house to compete in the Solar Decathlon and are awarded fifth place overall out of 18 colleges.
2005 NYIT signs an agreement to offer a new program in Brazil.
2005 President Guiliano kicks off NYIT’s 50th anniversary. |
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