It grew into a two-year branch college of SU by and soon after evolved into four-year status, awarding its first degrees in Rome, Endicott, and Poughkeepsie emphasized engineering and science courses for the U. A grant supported creation of a General Education Program leading to an Associate of Arts degree now liberal studies.
It has earned numerous national awards. A grant facilitated the development of a new Bachelor of Liberal Studies for adults. The next year, its first grant from the state Higher Education Opportunity Program made it one of the 24 original schools in New York State to initiate such a program. The Legal Assistant Certificate Program was started in cooperation with members of the judiciary and the state and county bar associations.
The Newhouse School, Syracuse University's most highly acclaimed example of modern architecture, was designed by the internationally recognized architect I. Pei in The campus' physical expansion coincided with the heyday of urban renewal in the City of Syracuse.
For the University, the urban renewal process and its companion state and federal funding streams could not have come at a more opportune time. As one of the urban renewal plan's primary beneficiaries, the institution obtained a canvas suitable for its ambitions.
It set about preparing that canvas, acquiring residential and commercial properties as part of a plan to expand the University northward as far as Erie Boulevard. Simultaneously, the urban renewal effort essentially erased the low-income neighborhood known as "the Ward," situated between the University, the hospitals, and downtown Syracuse. The Ward was replaced by an elevated highway right-of-way, public housing projects, commercial buildings, and new facilities for the growing medical complex along Irving Avenue and East Adams Street.
Further inspired by visions of seemingly limitless growth, and empowered by the mandate to modernize, the University, the City, and the hospitals were remaking the face and character of University Hill.
Conceived in the modernist spirit of contemporaneous New York State developments such as Albany's SUNY campus and that city's Empire State Plaza, the plan proposed an expanded series of quadrangles, set into a landscape radically remade to accommodate the automobile. The plan included expressway ramps leading directly into plinth-like underground parking garages with new groups of residential and academic towers built atop the parking plinths as far north as East Adams Street.
This last idea was ultimately realized, in modified form, with the construction of the Center for Science and Technology. Bird library, built in , blocked Walnut Park's green axis into campus. It makes strong stylistic references to Pei's Newhouse School building, although it is much larger in scale and less refined in detail. Ultimately, however, in the accelerated rush to build, short-term pragmatism often preempted long-range planning as a guide to the physical development of the campus, resulting in significant departures from the University Hill Plan.
The most significant was the building of Bird Library in on the southernmost block of Walnut Park. The new library, intended to signal Syracuse's emergence as a major research institution, forever altered the relationship between Walnut Park and the Lawn.
The University continued to acquire and demolish buildings in the surrounding neighborhoods, transforming entire blocks into surface lots to meet immediate parking needs.
Other buildings were acquired as part of the University's land-banking activities, in the expectation that they would eventually be replaced by new construction. Like many older structures on campus, these buildings were allowed to gradually deteriorate. That assumption would continue to inspire new development, even as local residents and students began to protest against the impact of urban renewal and institutional expansion.
However, by the time Bird Library and Newhouse II were complete, this era of growth would be over. By the time Chancellor Melvin A. Eggers took office in , it was clear that demographic conditions could no longer power continuous enrollment growth. Making matters worse, inflation, energy costs, and disaffection with higher education had all been on the rise. Having planned for an ever-expanding future, the University now adopted a policy of retrenchment in order to accommodate its newly diminished horizons.
Unable to build anew as envisioned during the postwar era, and constrained by an uncertain financial position, Syracuse faced the need to attract students despite the marginal condition of much of its physical plant. As a result, the University turned its focus to maintaining the viability of its existing buildings. Thus began an era of strategic reinvestment, of reinforcing the functional adequacy of the physical campus. Investments were made in energy conservation, life-safety improvements, building rehabilitation, and other modest changes that would ensure the long-term viability of the University's existing infrastructure and past capital investments.
Carrier Dome While this period saw the construction of the Carrier Dome , it was also significant for the emergence of a new ethos: that of preservation, as most notably embodied by the rehabilitation of the Hall of Languages. That project, small though it was in comparison to the great dome, represented a dramatic shift in attitudes. Thenceforth, the University would consistently look to the past as an integral part of its planning for the future. Eventually, a strategic plan was developed that included new construction.
At its base, this planning effort clearly understood the importance of balancing two conflicting requirements: the need to enhance and strengthen the University's academic programs; and the need to reconcile capital and current year financial resources. This plan, ultimately referred to as the Twenty-Year Plan, sought to add new construction in order to eliminate dependence on the inefficient and marginal buildings acquired during the prewar period, and to reduce the utilization density of the existing permanent buildings while maximizing their functional adequacy.
New buildings, such as the Crouse-Hinds School of Management building and Schine Student Center were now accompanied by projects bringing new life to old buildings. West elevation of the Center for Science and Technology: This pavilion occupies the southern end of the complex's first construction phase. Axially facing Slocum Hall, this facade is intended to anchor a formal outdoor court whose completion is planned for later phases. Respect for the past was also accompanied by a newfound interest in urban context and the shaping of open space.
These attitudes were evident in the development of the Center for Science and Technology Sci-Tech in This massive complex effectively shifted the core campus' boundaries one block to the east. While Sci-tech was planned as the first stage of a larger research complex, its first phase carefully defined the edge of College Place, establishing the open space sited opposite Slocum Hall's east portico.
This concept had originally been proposed in the Rotunno plans. Sci-tech's design took pains to encourage east-west pedestrian movement across its site and into the Main Quadrangle, linking the student housing to the east with the core campus. The University also built upon the legacy of the Revels-Hallenbeck Plan. Sims Hall, the former dormitory building dating from that era, was strengthened with the addition of an imposing new corner entrance. Shaffer Art Building, the new home of the University's studio arts programs, was added to the Sims complex.
Its round entrance was designed to strengthen the Main Quadrangle. Similarly, the College of Law library addition marked the far corner of the West Quadrangle. These projects signaled the beginning of a new commitment to the University's original campus. During this time, a seemingly mundane zoning tool called the Planned Institutional District PID emerged as an important factor in shaping the campus.
Unlike traditional zoning, which regulates the individual land parcel, the PID concept bundles properties into districts, allowing development requirements to be met over larger areas. For example, traditional zoning may require the provision of a certain number of parking spaces on a specific development site. In contrast, the PID would allow those parking spaces to be provided elsewhere within the site's district. In effect, the PID codifies the zoning code's recognition that an institution functions as a single entity, even if it occupies multiple buildings and non-contiguous properties.
Sims Hall's new corner entrance facing College Place: The bus shelter at this location is a major circulation node with convenient access to the Main Quadrangle to the west. Throughout much of the twentieth century, traditional zoning ordinances treated colleges and universities as public schools. To correct this, the University sought to establish a PID governing the development of the campus core.
By encouraging the University to plan its campus as a series of districts, rather than as a collection of individual projects, the PID regulations facilitated planners' efforts to build a coherent campus. Therefore, during the 's the PID regulations would feature prominently in the University's efforts to develop a new comprehensive land use plan, one that could build sensitively upon the legacies of past campus plans and building campaigns.
All rights reserved. No endorsement or approval by Syracuse University is expressed or implied. Montgomery Schuyler, writing for The Architectural Record, made the following observations about Syracuse's campus in "Here was ample room to layout a collection of buildings which should have an effect of unity in the aggregate, together with whatever variety their varying purposes might invite or permit in detail. Aerial photograph of the North Campus in the late s Aerial perspective rendering of Pope and Baum's campus plan, showing the proposed auditorium building attached to Hendricks Chapel, and introducing the idea of a new axis extending northward across the Lawn into the residential portion of University Hill.
Eric H. Syracuse erects the Biological Research Building, the first air-conditioned, climate-controlled research structure on campus. The College launches the M. Program in Creative Writing and the M. Syracuse erects the Physics Building, with the National Science Foundation helping fund construction. Frederic J. Kramer, professor of German and acting dean of the Graduate School, becomes dean of the College. Gershon Vincow, professor of chemistry and future vice chancellor, becomes permanent dean of the College after 11 months as acting dean.
Ronald Cavanagh, professor and chair of religion, is interim dean of the College. He later becomes vice president of undergraduate studies at Syracuse. Samuel Gorovitz becomes dean of the College. Syracuse erects the Science and Technology Center, housing several academic departments and units, including chemistry.
Robert G. Cathryn R. Newton, then Heroy Professor and chair of Earth sciences, is named dean. The Andrew W. It houses the Syracuse University Humanities Center , the Central New York Humanities Corridor and other campus-wide initiatives in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. For the first time in Syracuse history, the departments of Biology and Chemistry are under one roof, along with interdisciplinary programs in the natural sciences.
George M. Langford becomes dean of the College. Following his tenure, he returns to the faculty as a Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, professor of biology and staunch advocate of Inclusive Excellence IE education. La Casita , a home for Latinx culture, heritage and art, opens its doors in Syracuse's Near Westside neighborhood. Her appointment becomes permanent a year later.
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