Uni & College Info

Hofstra University is a private, non-benefit, nonsectarian foundation of higher learning. Its fundamental grounds is situated in the town of Hempstead, New York, United States, roughly 7 miles (11 km) east of New York City. It began in 1935 as an expansion of New York University (NYU) called "Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island"; in 1939, the establishment isolated from NYU and picked up freedom as Hofstra College,[8] and in 1963, Hofstra College picked up college status. Containing ten schools, including a School of Medicine and a School of Law, Hofstra is noted for a progression of unmistakable Presidential meetings, and also being chosen to host United States Presidential Debates in 2008 and 2012.

The school—built up as an augmentation of New York University (NYU) — was established on the domain of an as of late expired well off couple, a wood business person of Dutch lineage, William S. Hofstra (1861–1932) and his second wife, Kate Mason (1854–1933). The augmentation had been proposed by a Hempstead inhabitant, Truesdel Peck Calkins, who had been director of schools for Hempstead. In her will, Kate Mason gave the main part of their property and bequest to be utilized for a beneficent, exploratory or helpful reason, to be named out of appreciation for her spouse. Two companions, Howard Brower and James Barnard, were requested that choose what to do with the bequest. Another Hempstead occupant, Truesdel Peck Calkins, commented to Brower that he had been searching for a site to begin a foundation of advanced education, and the three men concurred it would be a fitting utilization of the home. Calkins drew nearer the organization at New York University, and they communicated interest. 

The school was established as a coeducational, suburbanite foundation with day and night classes. The principal day of classes was September 23, 1935, and the top of the line of understudies was comprised of 159 day and 621 night understudies. The educational cost charge for the year was $375. The school got a temporary sanction, and its official name was changed to Hofstra College on January 16, 1937. 

Hofstra College isolated from New York University in 1939 and was conceded an outright contract on February 16, 1940. 

Hofstra's logo banner 

Hofstra's unique logo was a seal made by Professor of Art Constant van de Wall in 1937. The symbol was gotten from the official seal of the prevailing place of the Netherlands, the House of Orange-Nassau. Utilized with the consent of the ruler of the Netherlands, the seal additionally incorporated the Dutch national maxim Je Maintiendrai, signifying "I stand unflinching" (truly "I might keep up") in French. 

In 1939, Hofstra commended its initial four-year initiation, graduating a class of 83 understudies. The primary graduates had solid affections for the new organization. When they were permitted to pick whether they would get degrees from New York University or Hofstra, they overwhelmingly picked Hofstra degrees. Scholastic acknowledgment of Hofstra was confirmed when the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools acknowledged Hofstra for enrollment on November 22, 1940. Ahead of schedule in 1941 the school was chosen to participation in the American Association of Colleges. 

In 1950 Calkins Gymnasium was the site of the first Shakespeare Festival. It was performed on a five-sixths-sized imitation of the Globe Theater. 

With the endorsement of the New York State Board of Regents, Hofstra turned out to be Long Island's first private college on March 1, 1963. Likewise in that year, the Board of Trustees made plans to make Hofstra compositionally hindrance free for people with physical inabilities, expressing that all understudies ought to have entry to advanced education. In spite of the fact that this later got to be government law, and in this manner Hofstra was perceived as a pioneer. Other ground breaking projects and occasions took after, including the New Opportunities at Hofstra (NOAH) program, which was set up the next year. NOAH is Hofstra's Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program. 

In 1963, Mitchel Air Force Base was shut by the military and proclaimed surplus property. The University requested some portion of the territory to be utilized for instructive purposes, and was accordingly conceded 110 sections of land (0.45 km2). Leftovers of the solid runways from the Air Force base are currently parking garages for Hofstra's North Campus. 

In 1963, the Hofstra University Museum was built up. 

The University revamped its divisions into "schools" in the 1960s. Hofstra was approved by the Board of Regents to offer its first doctoral degrees in 1966. In 1968, the Hofstra Stadium turned into the first to introduce Astroturf outside in the East, and the New York Jets started holding their late spring preparing camp toward the North Campus, until 2008, when the Jets moved to Florham Park, New