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Daemen University is a
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. Formerly Daemen College and Rosary Hill College, the now-nondenominational school was founded by the Sisters of St. Francis in 1947. As of fall 2020, 2,536 students were enrolled at Daemen (1,631 undergraduate, 905 graduate), 64 degree majors were offered in the health sciences, business, and liberal arts and other disciplines for undergraduates, and 19 programs for graduate students. In March 2022, the New York State Board of Regents approved a name change to Daemen University.


Main campus

Located in Western New York, Daemen’s main 46.5-acre campus is in a suburban setting in
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in the
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. Daemen is on Main Street in Amherst and close to the New York State Thruway and I-290 and the
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. The Amherst campus contains 19 buildings or complexes with classrooms, laboratories, residential and athletics facilities.


History

In 1947, Rosary Hill College was established by the
Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity The Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity is a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women. A third order secular group, the sisters are not cloistered nuns but active in the world, having historically been primarily involve ...
as an institution of higher education for women offering studies in the liberal arts. The institution has admitted men since the mid-1960s and graduated its first male student in 1965. In 1976, Rosary Hill became a secular and independent institution and was renamed Daemen College, in honor of the founder of the Sisters of St. Francis – Mother Magdalene Daemen, of Holland.


Recent developments

In 2015, Daemen opened the Academic Wellness Center after a $5.6 million renovation of the former YMCA building on Main Street in Amherst. In 2017, to mark its 70th anniversary, Daemen installed Founders Bell, which was forged in 1858 and restored by the Class of 1967. Each year, the bell is the centerpiece of Founders Celebration, an annual tradition to recognize the institution’s history. In 2020, Daemen opened the Center for Interprofessional Learning and Simulation (CILS), which has eight examination rooms, a counseling room and a space for telehealth counseling and is used by students in the university’s nursing, social work, physical therapy, physician assistant studies and other programs.


Presidents

Daemen has had six presidents since its founding in 1947: # Mother M. Alphonse Kampshoff, O.S.F. (1947 - 1953) # Sister M. Angela Canavan, O.S.F. (1953 - 1973) # Dr. Robert S. Marshall (1973 - 1996) # Dr. Martin J. Anisman (1996 - 2011) # Dr. Edwin G. Clausen (2011 - 2013) # Dr. Gary A. Olson (2013 - present) The president works with an administrative council called the president's cabinet. Daemen also has a faculty senate, a student government association, and an alumni board. The current president is
Gary A. Olson Gary A. Olson (born December 12, 1954) is a scholar of rhetoric and culture, a literary biographer, and president of Daemen College. He has served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Idaho State University, dean of the College ...
. For many years during his tenure as president, he has been named one of Western New York's most influential leaders by Buffalo Business First, the region's weekly business newspaper.


Academics

Daemen offers 65 academic majors and programs in a variety of disciplines and subject areas, including physical therapy, nursing, visual and performing arts, the liberal arts, business, and education. Since 2018, Daemen has been classified among "Doctoral/Professional Universities".


Rankings

Since 2019, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Daemen as a "Best National University". The publication has also recognized the institution in its Best Social Mobility rankings. U.S. News & World Report also includes four Daemen graduate programs among the nation’s best: nursing, social work, physician assistant studies and physical therapy. Daemen has been included in the
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(WSJ/THE) College Rankings since 2016. Since 2007, Daemen has been named a national College of Distinction. Daemen’s paralegal studies program is currently the only American Bar Association (ABA)-approved program in Western New York. In 2017, Daemen became the only state-approved applied behavior analysis graduate program in New York.


Accreditation

Daemen is accredited by the
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. Daemen has specific academic programs accredited by: * International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) *
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(CAATE) *
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing The National League for Nursing (NLN) is a national organization for faculty nurses and leaders in nurse education. It offers faculty development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives ...
(ACEN) *
Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) is the agency recognized by the United States Department of Education for granting accreditation status to entry-level education programs for physical therapists and physical ther ...
(CAPTE) *
Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant Accreditation is the independent, third-party evaluation of a conformity assessment body (such as certification body, inspection body or laboratory) against recognised standards, conveying formal demonstration of its impartiality and competence to ...
(ARC-PA) * Commission on Accreditation, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)


Colleges

Academic programs at the university are administered in three colleges: * The College of Arts, Science and Education houses programs and departments of education, the humanities, social sciences, visual and performing arts, and natural sciences and mathematics. * The College of Health, Human Sciences and Business houses the programs and departments of accounting, business, paralegal studies, behavioral science, health promotion, leadership & innovation, public health, social work and sociology. * The College of Health Professions houses the departments of athletic training, nursing, physician assistant studies, and physical therapy. Daemen is designated as a multi-campus institution by the New York State Department of Education, in recognition of the university’s campuses in Amherst and Brooklyn.


Libraries

The first library at Daemen was housed in Rosary Hall. In 1952, Marian Library opened and served the institution until 2008. The structure was renovated into the Nancy Haberman Gacioch, William T Gacioch & Family Center for Visual and Performing Arts in 2012. The current Daemen library, in the Research and Information Commons (RIC), opened in 2008. The RIC manages an archival collection that includes publications, photographs, and other materials documenting the history of the university, in addition to hardcopy books, journal and media volumes and other digital titles.


Athletics

The Daemen Wildcats represent Daemen in intercollegiate athletics. Daemen is a member of the East Coast Conference (ECC), competing at the NCAA Division II level. The university's official colors are royal blue, black, white, and gray. Men's sports include basketball, cross country, volleyball indoor track and outdoor track, soccer, and tennis. Women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, cheerleading, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, tennis, triathlon, and volleyball. A co-ed team competes in esports. The athletic department announced the addition of women's lacrosse beginning in 2023-24. During his presidency, Olson has also served as chair of the NCAA Division II Presidents Council and served on the NCAA Board of Governors, and NCAA President Mark Emmert has visited campus numerous times, serving as commencement speaker and holding town-hall discussions with student-athletes.


Housing

Daemen supports multiple student housing complexes and affiliations: * Canavan Hall is a traditional five-story facility housing approximately 260 students and is primarily used as first-year and new student housing. * Campus Apartments, housing approximately 384 students, is a complex of seven two-story apartment-style buildings providing housing typically for upperclassmen students. * Snyder Park, which is adjacent to Daemen’s Amherst campus, features apartment-style living with either single or double rooms. Daemen also maintains a partnership with Collegiate Village, an independently operated housing complex, which typically houses upperclassmen students in two- and four-bedroom apartments.


Media

A variety of student-sponsored and institutional-sponsored newspapers, magazines and periodicals have been published at Daemen. The ''Summit'' yearbook was published from 1952 until 2012. ''The Ascent'' student newspaper began printing in 1949 and was published until 2009. ''The Insight'' is Daemen's current student newspaper; it publishes twice a year. Daemen Today is the alumni periodical published twice a year


Traditions

Every fall Daemen hosts its annual Founders Celebration, which is a campus-wide event honoring the institution’s origins and commemorating its history of scholarship. Events include the ringing of Founders bell where representatives of the university ring the bell, the Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner, Daemen Day in Amherst in partnership with local businesses, key athletics events, and other student-centric events. The university conducts white coat ceremonies for health-related degrees. The ALHANA (African, Latinx, Hispanic, Asian, Native American) program and graduation celebrates individual student and class-wide accomplishments. Springfest is an annual music festival hosted by the Daemen Student Government Association. Artists have included Drake. Daemen Tradition Keepers complete a list of "50 Things to do Before You Graduate".


Notable people


Alumni

*
Gerald Beverly Gerald Leon Beverly (born November 18, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for Iwate Big Bulls of the Japanese B3 League. He played college basketball for the Daemen Wildcats. College career Beverly played four seasons at Daemen ...
2015, professional basketball player for Amatori Udine of the Italian
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league *
Catherine A. Carey Catherine Ann Carey (born 1945) is an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life She was born in 1945, in Lackawanna, Erie County, New York, the daughter of William James Carey and Mary Clare (Kuebler) Carey. She graduated with a B.A. f ...
1967, former Clerk of the
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from 1975 to 1984 *
MaryEllen Elia MaryEllen Elia (born 1948) is an American educator. She served for ten years as superintendent of Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Florida, but was fired by the school board, after a number of incidents that eroded the board's trust ...
1970, former New York State Education Commissioner and former superintendent of Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Florida *
Mary Ann Esposito Mary Ann Esposito (born August 3, 1942) is an American chef, cookbook writer, and the television host of ''Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito'', which started in 1989 and is the longest-running television cooking program in America. Esposito has ...
1964, creator/host of ''Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito'', a cooking program that is the longest-running United States television series of its kind *
Sue Falsone Sue Falsone is an American athletic trainer. She was the Head Athletic Trainer for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Major League Baseball from 2012 to 2013, and was the first female head athletic trainer in the major American professional sports lea ...
1996, owns Structure & Function by Sue Falsone. She was head of athletic training and sport performance with
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, the first female physical therapist in
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and head athletic trainer for the
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*
Samuel Ouedraogo Samuel Wendpagnangdé Ouedraogo (born March 15, 1987) is a Burkinabé former basketball player who plays both the power forward and center positions. He is a two times defensive player of the year and once led the NCAA II in both rebounds per g ...
, basketball player and member of the
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national basketball team * Liz Liddy 1966, former Dean of the iSchool at
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* Linda L. Neider 1975, professor of management at
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Faculty

* James K.Y. Kuo, professor of art. Kuo was an abstract expressionist painter. His works are in the
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and the China Institute


References


External links


Official website
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