Alfred University

History of Alfred

Alfred was founded in 1836 as the Select School by Seventh Day Baptists as a non-sectarian institution. Unusually for the time, the school was co-educational. It was also racially integrated, and enrolled its first African-American student and two Native American students in the 1850s, becoming the second college in the nation to do so.

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1836 - Seventh Day Baptists - Non-sectarian - Co-educational - African-American - Native American - 1850s

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The origin of the name "Alfred" is uncertain. Residents of the town and students at the two schools believe that the town received its name in honor of Alfred the Great, king of the Saxons, although the first documented occurrence of this connection was in 1881, 73 years after the first record of the name being used. State records which could verify the connection between the Saxon king and the university were lost in a fire in 1911.http://www.herr.alfred.edu/special/archives/histories/alfreds_town_name.asp Regardless of whether the connection is historically accurate, Alfred University has embraced King Alfred as a symbol of the school's values, and a statue of the king stands in the center of one of the campus quads.

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Alfred the Great - 1881 - 1911 - Symbol

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Alfred is a member of the Rochester Area Colleges consortium along with the University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, Saint John Fisher College, Roberts Wesleyan College, Nazareth College, Monroe Community College, SUNY Brockport, and SUNY Geneseo.

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Rochester Area Colleges - University of Rochester - Rochester Institute of Technology - Saint John Fisher College - Roberts Wesleyan College - Nazareth College - Monroe Community College - SUNY Brockport - SUNY Geneseo

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Alfred University, together with Corning Glass Works and the State of New York created the Ceramic Corridor, a high-tech incubator project designed to take advantage of the emerging ceramics industry and to create new jobs. This unique industrial development program is the only one in the United States concentrating on one single aspect of technology - high-tech ceramics - and that it is the only major industrial development project centered in a rural area in the U.S.

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Corning Glass Works - State of New York - Ceramic Corridor

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