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Quinnipiac University is an American university located in Hamden, Connecticut, just
north of New Haven. The campus is situated at the foot of Sleeping Giant State
Park. Quinnipiac has over 63 programs of study in Communications, Health Sciences, Business, Liberal Arts, Law, Physical Therapy and Nursing. Quinnipiac also owns and operates two radio stations, a professionally run commercial station WQUN, and the student-run FM station WQAQ, which also streams on the Internet. It has a student-run television station, Q30, which can only be seen on campus, and a student-produced newspaper, The Chronicle, which was established in 1929 and publishes 2,500 copies on Wednesday. The University is also home to one of the world's largest collections of art commemorating the Great Irish Famine, "An Gorta Mor" or the Great Hunger. The University's collection is contained in the Lender Family Special Collection room located in the Arnold Bernhard library. |
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Established 1929 (as Connecticut College of Commerce) Type: Private Endowment: $185 million President: John L. Lahey Staff: 681 full time, 475 adjunct Undergraduates: 5,400 Postgraduates: 2,000 Location Hamden, CT, USA |
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Quinnipiac University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher
education. Originally known as the Connecticut College of Commerce, it was
founded in 1929 by Samuel W. Tator as a small business college awarding associate's
degrees. It was renamed Quinnipiac College in 1951, in honor of the Quinnipiack
Indian tribe who inhabited the Greater New Haven area during the 17th-19th
centuries. In 1952 Quinnipiac assumed administrative control of Larson College, a private women's college (the Georgian-style building formerly occupied by Larson College is now an assisted living facility. |