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The Union College is an independent, coeducational, liberal arts college with engineering for students of high academic promise and strong personal motivation. College believes that knowledge of the self is an important goal of liberal education, a goal that is best attained as one learns more about other cultures and one's own. Consequently, we offer extensive opportunities for study abroad, and curricular and residential experiences that enable students to see the ways in which they are part of something larger — a community, a culture, and a world of many cultures.

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School Overview:

	Union College
County	Schenectady County, NY
Title IV Eligible	Yes
Carnegie Classification	Baccalaureate (Liberal Arts) Colleges I
Institution Level	4 or more years
Institution Control	Private, non-profit
Full-Time Undergraduate	2,209 students
Part-Time Undergraduate	43 students

Total Enrollment	2,252 students
Total Dormitory Capacity	1,916 students
% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid	60%
% Students Receiving Federal Grants	13%
Avg. Amount Of Federal Grants Received	$4,065
% Students Receiving State/Local Grants	23%
Avg. Amount Of State/Local Grants Received	$2,322
% Students Receiving Institutional Grants	59%
Avg. Amount Of Institutional Grants Received	$18,189
% Students Receiving Loans	42%
Avg. Amount Of Loan Received	$3,096

School Notes:

Union offers nearly 1,000 courses in the humanities, the social sciences, the sciences, and engineering - a range that is unusual among America's highly-selective colleges.Major fields of study may be centered in one of 20 academic departments. Your major can be a traditional subject, such as English, history, or physics, studied within the normal departmental context. Or, at Union, the first liberal arts college to offer engineering, you may study one of the principal branches of engineering.
Converging Technologies at Union focuses creative thought from engineering and the liberal arts on new ideas that are changing the landscape of global society. We believe that these ideas, which spill across disciplinary boundaries, will define innovation in the 21st century.
The College offers a range of formal resident-study programs in foreign countries, and half of Union's students study abroad at some point. In the foreign country, the student in most instances lives independently with a family or in an international dormitory and participates in the normal cultural life of the community.
Union College is a place of many "firsts"; in fact, the modern Greek system was founded here in 1825. Our 16 national fraternities and 4 national sororities are large supporters of community service projects and campus activities. Roughly 40% of men and 30% of women join while at Union, but if you're not comfortable with the idea of fraternities and sororities, it is important to know that they are a lifestyle option and there is no pressure at all to join.
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Update: Schdy City meeting regular tries to force Republican primary (Albany Times Union)
posted on June 27, 2011 at 07:53:53 pm
Longtime City Council meeting devotee and critic Mary McClaine is currently gathering signatures to try and force a primary against four other Republican-endorsed candidates for a City Council seat. McClaine (who prefaced her age, 78, by saying she’s “younger than the pope”) is rather perturbed that the party is backing former Union College president Roger [...]
A masterpiece flew the coop (Albany Times Union)
posted on June 19, 2011 at 04:23:28 am
The Capital Region's greatest art heist took place 40 years ago when rare James Audubon bird prints were stolen from a library at Union College. Although the art was recovered, the thief was never caught. Today the case remains a bit of a mystery, though new information indicates a man hailed as a hero for helping return the art to the college may have played a part in the crime. For the whole ...
Grad gets a first cheer (Albany Times Union)
posted on June 13, 2011 at 04:08:09 am
Aung Kyaw Soe's family saw their first graduation ceremony on Sunday. On Sunday, Soe, 24, joined his fellow graduates in walking across the Union College stage to pick up his diploma. On Sunday, 520 students received their diploma in the school's 217th commencement ceremony. The school awarded a honorary degree to broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff, who gave the address. Soe graduated from high ...
Republicans make move in Schenectady (Albany Times Union)
posted on June 8, 2011 at 04:22:09 am
City Republicans have decided to endorse three from the slate of mayoral candidate Roger Hull, the former Union College president who was already endorsed by Republicans and is running on a third-party line. County Republicans Monday night also endorsed 2003 mayoral candidate Peter Guidarelli and Union College building services manager Richard Patierne for Legislature District 1 and longtime ...
IBM Donates Top Undergraduate Computing Capability to Union College (redOrbit)
posted on May 23, 2011 at 10:17:23 pm
SCHENECTADY, N.Y., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) is donating one of its Intelligent Cluster computing solutions to Union College, providing the school with the greatest computing capability of any undergraduate liberal arts college in the nation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) The announcement was made at the dedication of ...