Molloy College
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Motto | Veritas |
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Type | Private university |
Established | 1955 |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic (Dominican) |
Endowment | $43.6 million (2020)[1] |
President | James Lentini |
Students | 5,000+ |
Undergraduates | 3500 |
Location | , , United States 40°41′9″N 73°37′35″W / 40.68583°N 73.62639°WCoordinates: 40°41′9″N 73°37′35″W / 40.68583°N 73.62639°W |
Campus | Rockville Centre, Suffolk Center, Manhattan Center (50 Broadway) |
Athletics | NCAA Division II |
Colours | White and Cerise |
Nickname | Lions |
Mascot | Victor E. Lion |
Website | www |
Molloy College is a private Catholic university in Rockville Centre, New York. It provides more than 50 academic undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs for over 5,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. The Molloy College Lions participate in NCAA Division II athletics.
History[edit]
In 1941 the Sisters of St. Dominic purchased 25 acres in Rockville Centre. In 1955 the Dominican Sisters of Amityville founded Molloy Catholic College. It was established as a women's college appointing Mother Anselma Ruth, O.P., Ph.D., as the first president. A year later the first institutional building called Quealy Hall opened. Soon after, Mother Bernadette de Lourdes, O.P., was appointed as the second president followed by the opening of Kellenberg Hall. In 1959 the first commencement ceremony took place celebrating the first graduating class. In 1971 its name was changed to Molloy College. In 1972 it began accepting men into the nursing program and in 1982 became fully coeducational.[2]
Student life[edit]
Molloy College offers over 60 clubs and organizations. Some are founded on academics but others are centered around a cultural theme.[3]
Dorm life[edit]
Molloy has three residence halls that house nearly 350 students, Maria Regina, Fitzgerald, and Bogner Hall, which opened in August, 2019. Dorms are co-ed but the halls and wings are separated by gender. Students living on campus have a choice of three different meal plans, and the school provides daily shuttle service for dining, shopping, or the train. [4]
Madison Theatre[edit]
The Madison Theatre at Molloy College opened in the late fall of 2011. The 550-seat theater hosts a variety of performers from the world of theater, music, dance, cabaret, comedy and more. Madison Theatre's Artistic Director is Angelo Fraboni, a Broadway performer who has produced and managed a range of Off-Broadway productions and tours.[5]
Faculty[edit]
Molloy College's academic structure has four distinct schools (Business, Education & Human Services, Nursing & Health Sciences, and Arts & Sciences) under which individual academic departments fall.[6] The Vice-President for Academic Affairs is the senior administrator for Molloy College academics.
Molloy College faculty is made up of 74.7% part-time adjunct-faculty - 723 in number. 26.3% of faculty are full-time professors - 190 in number.[7] The adjunct-faculty is about twice the percentage of the typical not-for-profit college or university, whose average adjunct-faculty composition is between 30%-40%.[8]
Athletics[edit]
Molloy College athletic teams are known as the Lions. The college is a member of the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the East Coast Conference (ECC; originally called as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) until after the 2005–06 academic year) since the 1989–90 academic year.
The college has 19 intercollegiate athletic teams: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross-country, field hockey, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field and volleyball.
One player from their basketball team, Jaylen Morris, managed to play professionally in the NBA after graduation. In addition to the Molloy Men's Rugby Club, the College's club sports include the equestrian team and the cheerleading and dance squads.
The Molloy College softball team earned a trip to the College World Series three times in the 2010s.[9] Also, during 2014–15 Molloy had two of its student-athletes named All-American selections.[10]
Notable alumni[edit]
- Shea Spitzbarth- baseball player
References[edit]
- ^ As of June 30, 2020. U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 (Report). National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. February 19, 2021. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ Ziegler, Patrick (2005). Encyclopedia of New York State (8th ed.). Peter R. Eisenstadt and Laura-Eve Moss. p. 997.
- ^ "Clubs and Organizations". Molloy College. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ Residence Life, Molloy College, retrieved 2016-03-01
- ^ "Madison Theatre". madisontheatreny.org. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ "Academic Division Structure 2017 - 2018". Molloy College.
- ^ "Molloy College Faculty Composition". 2013-02-20.
- ^ "Are Full-Time Faculty Being Adjunctified? Recent Data Show Otherwise". 2017-05-19.
- ^ "Molloy scraps way to Div. II World Series". Newsday. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^ "Academic All-Americans for two at Molloy College". Molloy College. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
External links[edit]
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