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Dominican College (New York)
Dominican College • The Counseling Office and offices for some of the
coaches can be found here.
Granito Center
• Holds the campus’s cafe as well as the Barnes and
Noble college bookstore. It serves as the focal point
of the campus.
Hennessy Center
• Houses the gym and an indoor track
Prusmack Center
Established 1952 • This building utilizes Green Technology and is
Type Private, nonprofit
designed to serve as a teaching and learning
laboratory for students in nursing, physical therapy,
President Sr. Mary E. O’Brien O.P., Ph.D. occupational therapy and athletic training. It
Location consists of seminar rooms, offices, computer rooms,
Orangeburg, NY, USA
laboratories, and a large lecture hall.
Campus Suburban DePorres Hall
Colors Red, Black & White • Offices of the Admissions Director and staff are in
this pleasant white building
Athletics NCAA Division II
Nickname Chargers
Academic programs
Majors and Minors
Website www.dc.edu
• Accounting
• Athletic Training
Dominican College also known as Dominican College of
• Biology
Blauvelt is an independent, four-year and master’s-level
• Business Administration
liberal arts college, chartered by the Board of Regents of
• Communication Studies
the University of the State of New York and fully accred-
• Computer Information Systems
ited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Se-
• Criminal Justice
condary Schools, with many programs holding additional
• Economics
specialized national accreditation. The 64-acre (260,000
• English
m2) suburban campus is located in Orangeburg, New
• Ethnic Diversity Studies Minor
York just 17 miles (27 km) from New York City in Rock-
• Gender Studies Minor
land County. The college was founded in 1952 by the Do-
• Health Services Administration
minican Sisters of Blauvelt as a teacher training school
• History
for women. Dominican College is now co-educational and
• Humanities
offers an array of degree programs along with a low
• Communications
student-to-faculty ratio of 15:1.
• English
• Hispanic Language and Culture
Campus • Philosophy and Religion
• Liberal Arts Concentrations (with B.S.Ed.)
Casey Hall
• American Studies
• Consists of classrooms related to the English and the
• Humanities
arts departments. Casey Hall also has a Cafe and
• Mathematics
lounge, as well as two computer labs.
• Natural Sciences
Cooke Hall
• Management
• Hall where the college’s administrative offices are
• Financial Management
located
• Human Resources Management
Forkel Hall
• International Management
• Management Information Systems
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• Marketing Management • Computer Information Systems; Computer
• Mathematics Programming; Personal Computers
• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy
• Philosophy
Athletics
• Psychology Dominican College is a member of the Central Atlantic
• Religion College Conference (CACC) and the National Collegiate
• Social Sciences Athletic Association (NCAA), Division II and the Eastern
• Criminal Justice College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Dominican College’s
• Economics varsity teams have won 12 conference championships in
• History the last five years, and the athletic program is recognized
• Political Science as one of the finest in the metropolitan area, among small
• Psychology colleges and is the home of the Dominican College Charg-
• Sociology/Anthropology ers who proudly display the school colors of red, black
• Social Work and white. The college offers scholarships to qualified
• Spanish student-athletes.
• Teacher Education Men’s Varsity Sports
Professional and Preprofessional Programs • Baseball
• Athletic Training: accredited by CAATE • Basketball
• Business: IACBE accredited undergraduate programs • Golf
in: • Lacrosse
• Accounting • Soccer
• Business Administration Women’s Varsity Sports
• Computer Information Systems • Basketball
• Management (offering five areas of • Cross-Country
specialization) • Lacrosse
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program: • Soccer
IACBE accredited • Softball
• Health Services Administration • Track and Field
• Educational Media • Volleyball
• Nursing: C.C.N.E. accredited upper-division and four-
year generic program
• Graduate Nursing: C.C.N.E. accredited advanced
Faculty and Student Enroll-
practice Master’s program (Family Nurse ment
Practitioner)
Faculty Fall 2010: 72 Full Time / 160 Part Time
• Occupational Therapy: A.C.O.T.E. accredited entry-
Student Enrollment Fall 2010: 1,516 Full-time / 554
level Master’s program (B.S./M.S.)
Part-time: 2,070 Total Enrollment
• Physical Therapy: C.A.P.T.E. accredited Doctor of
Student/Faculty Ratio: 15:1
Physical Therapy (DPT) program
• Social Work: C.S.W.E. accredited baccalaureate
program The Sullivan College Library in
• Teacher Education: T.E.A.C. accredited certification
programs in Rosary Hall provides approxi-
• Childhood Education mately
• Adolescence Education
• Childhood Education/Students with Disabilities 88,645 volumes; 360 periodical titles; 50,568 full-text
• Adolescence Education/Students with Disabilities journals online; 52,650 full-text books online.
Graduate Teacher Education Residence Life Dominican College’s Residence Cen-
• Teacher of Students with Disabilities: (Early ters offer rooms with many different configurations.
Childhood, Childhood, Middle Childhood, Among the spaces available in the residence centers are
Adolescence) computer labs, lounges, and meeting rooms. All dorm
• Teacher of Students who are Blind or Visually rooms are equipped with cable TV hookups and comput-
Impaired er ports.
• Instructional Technology
Certificate Programs
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The Residence Centers includes both 4-bedroom, 2-bath suites with a
common living room and kitchenette, as well as
• Hertel Hall opened in 1996, ideal walking distances to 2-bedroom, 1-bath suites. Each suite has cable TV
the other buildings, has a computer lab along with hookups and computer ports, plus air conditioning
many lounges. and individual thermostats.
• Rosary Hall, this 160-room Residence Center offers • The college also offers housing at the nearby Holiday
rooms with many different configurations, and Inn, offering more space. Rooms at the Holiday Day
contains lounges, meeting rooms and a game room. Inn are in most cases triples.
• Guzman Hall dedicated in the Fall of 2007, this External links
64,000-square-foot (5,900 m2) residential facility • Official website
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