Hofstra University is a

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, United States. It originated in 1935 as an extension of

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and became an independent college in 1939. Comprising ten schools, including the Zucker School of Medicine and the

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, Hofstra has hosted a series of prominent presidential conferences and several

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History

The college was founded in 1935 on the estate of namesake William S. Hofstra (1861–1932), a lumber entrepreneur of Dutch ancestry, and his second wife Kate Mason (1854–1933). It began as an extension of

(NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University. It became the fourth U.S. college or university named after a

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. The extension had been proposed by a Hempstead resident, Truesdel Peck Calkins, who had been superintendent of schools for Hempstead. In her will, Kate Mason provided the bulk of their property and estate to be used for a charitable, scientific or humanitarian purpose, to be named in honor of her husband. In the spring of 1934, the estate was offered to be converted into a sanitarium for those suffering with polio by the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, specifically offering to President

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, but nothing had materialized from it. Two friends, Howard Brower and James Barnard, were asked to decide what to do with the estate. Calkins remarked to Brower that he had been looking for a site to start an institution of higher education, and the three men agreed it would be an appropriate use of the estate. Calkins approached the administration at New York University, and they expressed interest. The college was founded as a coeducational, commuter institution with day and evening classes. The first day of classes at Nassau-Hofstra Memorial College was September 23, 1935, with 150 students enrolled and an equal divide between men and women. The first class of students was made up of 159 day and 621 evening students. The tuition fee for the year was $375. The college obtained provisional

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status, and its official name was changed to Hofstra College on January 16, 1937. Hofstra College separated from New York University on July 1, 1939, and was granted an absolute charter on February 16, 1940. In 1950, Calkins Gymnasium was the site of the first Shakespeare Festival. It was performed on a five-sixths-sized replica of the

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. The festival is now performed on the Globe Stage, the most accurate Globe Theatre replica in the United States. In 1968, a three-bank Aeolian

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was donated to Hofstra by John T. Ricks and Jane Ricks King, in the name of their late parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ricks. The organ was originally located in the former Ricks estate, Chanticlare, in Flower Hill, New York. Jesse Ricks was the former president and chairman of

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, and Mrs. Ricks was a volunteer church organist who often held organ performances at the estate for friends on Sundays. The organ was scheduled to be installed in the Hofstra Playhouse the following fall, and enabled organ music majors at Hofstra to practice on-campus – as opposed to at the nearby Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation. Hofstra Stadium served as the site of the first-ever

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game in 1971.

Dutch heritage

The university's founder, William S. Hofstra, was proud of his Dutch roots and that is reflected throughout Hofstra University's campus. It is one of several American universities named after

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, also including

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for

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and

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for

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. Hofstra's original logo was a seal created by professor of art Constant van de Wall in 1937. The insignia was derived from the official seal of the reigning house of the

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, the

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. Used with the permission of the monarch of the Netherlands, the seal also included the Dutch national motto ''Je Maintiendrai'', meaning "I stand steadfast" in French. Hofstra's flag is modeled after the Netherlands'

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, and its orange,-white-and-blue pattern was altered to feature the school's colors of gold and navy blue. In 1939, the Dutch ambassador to the United States left behind a flag of the

before he returned to his country for

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, which influenced Hofstra's school colors, university seal and coat of arms. Hofstra also pays homage to its Dutch heritage with a miniature

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structure near the admissions building and the planting of thousands of tulips in the springtime. In 1985, the commissioner to the Queen of the Netherlands presented the university with the Hofstra University Tulip, a flower hybrid named after the school. It is a focal point of Hofstra's annual springtime Dutch Festival. An on-campus housing complex is known as "the Netherlands" and features residence halls named after cities in the

, including

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, Hague,

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Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

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and

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. Hofstra's athletic teams were known as the Flying Dutchmen until 2001.

Campus

The

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and Bird Sanctuary at Hofstra University has a collection of diverse trees and reflecting its Dutch origin, and displays an array of rare and colorful tulips in the Spring. The campus has approximately 117 buildings on , and is located in the Uniondale section of Hempstead, a mile east of the town center. The part of the campus located south of Hempstead Turnpike (NY Route 24) and west of California Avenue is located in Hempstead Village. Hofstra also offers an MBA program as well as other classes in New York City from a center in Manhattan. The campus is roughly east of the

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, and the entire New York City skyline is visible from the tenth floor of the Axinn Library. The campus is located across the street from the "Nassau Hub" and

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (or simply the Nassau Coliseum) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, on Long Island. The venue is situated approximately east of the eastern limits of the borough of Queens in New York City, a ...

, former home of the

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, and New York Open.

Academics

Rankings and reputation

Hofstra University is

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in 28 academic areas and 32 total areas. Hofstra University offers 185 undergraduate and 170 graduate program options. Hofstra was ranked tied for 160th among national universities and named the 92nd 'best value school' by '' U.S. News & World Report'' for 2020, with its undergraduate engineering program ranked tied for 33rd among schools where doctorates are not offered. ''U.S. News'' also rated the part-time MBA program tied for 154th and the graduate programs in education as 133rd, among others. The Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College, whose admissions policy is more selective than that of the university as a whole, In the fall of 2011, the university welcomed the first class of students to its new

Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine The Zucker School of Medicine is the medical school of Hofstra University in the town of Hempstead on Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York. The academic institution was established in 2008 by Hofstra University and the North Shore-LIJ Hos ...

. In 2012, it established its school of engineering and applied science, featuring programs that partner with regional industry leaders, and its school of health sciences and human services, housing a new master of public health program. In August 2017, after a $61 million donation to the school, it was renamed the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. The Zucker School of Medicine was ranked No. 55 in primary care and No. 71 in research, according to ''U.S. News & World Report'', despite it being only being two years since its first class graduated. In September 2009, Stuart Rabinowitz announced the appointment of two senior presidential fellows at the university's Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency: Republican strategist and former presidential advisor Edward J. Rollins and former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee Chairman

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. In October 2011, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced it had chosen Hofstra for its second 2012 presidential debate on October 16, 2012, the "town hall" debate (between Barack Obama and

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). Hofstra University hosted the first 2016 presidential debate between

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and

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on September 26, 2016.

Admissions

Hofstra maintains a test-optional policy for admissions. For the cohort entering in 2023, 35% of enrollees submitted test scores and the average scores for the

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were 1230–1410 and for the ACT were 27–33. Hofstra admitted 62% of applicants with enrolled students having an average 3.7

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Schools and colleges

* Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, also known as Hofstra College, or Hofstra College of Arts & Sciences * Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy, and International Affairs * School of Education * School of Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts * School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics * Frank G. Zarb School of Business * Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College * The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication * School of Health Professions and Human Services * Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science *

* Zucker School of Medicine * Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies

Centers and institutes

* Center for Children, Families and the Law * Center for Civic Engagement * Center for Educational Access and Success (CEAS) * Center for Entrepreneurship * Center for Legal Advocacy * Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice * National Center for Suburban Studies * Center for Technological Literacy * Center for the Study of Higher Education * Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy (CSLD) * Hofstra University Cultural Center (HUCC) * Institute for Health Law and Policy * Institute for Real Estate * Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation * Institute for the Study of Gender, Law and Policy * Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics * Long Island Studies Institute (LISI) * Center for the Study of International Financial Service and Markets * Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency * The Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center * Scott Skodnek Business Development Center (BDC) * Wilber F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies * Hofstra University Museum * Asia Center * Center for Climate Study * Center for Innovation * The Digital Research Center at Hofstra University * Hofstra University Bioethics Center * Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Threat Assessment, and Strategic Analysis at Hofstra University

Athletics

Hofstra University teams were nicknamed the Flying Dutchmen from 1935 until 2001. The school's official team name became "The Pride" in 2001, referring to a pair of

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s which became the school's athletic

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s in the late 1980s. The Pride nickname evolved from the Hofstra Pride on- and off-campus image campaign that began in 1987, during the university's dramatic recovery and growth. This followed a financial crisis in the 1970s that forced the layoff of more than 100 employees. In 1977 Hofstra wrestler Nick Gallo won the 126 lb weight class at the NCAA National Championship and was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic Freestyle Wrestling teams, he was also given the title "Most Outstanding Wrestler" in the 1977

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. Prior to 2008, the

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held summer training camp at their on-campus headquarters before moving to their new headquarters in

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. The area has since been used for the construction of the medical school building, which was completed in 2015. On December 3, 2009, the university announced it was terminating the football program. Under NCAA rules, any football players who chose to transfer to other schools were eligible to play immediately, and not subjected to normal residency waiting periods. Scholarship-holders who wished to stay at Hofstra were permitted to keep their scholarships. Funds previously used for the football program went into the creation of the medical school, and enhancing a variety of programs, including hard sciences and engineering. On February 26, 2011, Hofstra Senior Day, the university retired the basketball jersey number 22 to honor senior Charles Jenkins before the end of the season. Jenkins, the school's all-time leading scorer, ranked fifth in the nation at 23.3 points per game last season () and was the front-runner to win

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honors. "I think it's very rare," head coach

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said by phone to reporter Jeff Eisenberg. "We have 25 other athletes that have had their numbers retired here at Hofstra, but none of them have ever been retired while they were still here at their last games. He's been such an integral part of this university on so many levels that we thought that was the highest honor we could give him." No other Hofstra athlete in any sport has received the same honor.

Media

Student newspaper

''The Hofstra Chronicle'' is the only student newspaper at Hofstra University. Established in 1935 and supported by the student activity fee and advertising, it is published in tabloid format every Tuesday evening each semester, with additional content available online.

Student radio station

The university operates

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's oldest

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station, WRHU-FM (88.7). The non-commercial station was founded in 1950 as WHCH, a campus-limited station, and received its broadcast license on June 9, 1959, using the call letters WVHC. The station became WRHU (for Radio Hofstra University) in 1983. WRHU currently serves as the radio home of the Long Island Nets and

, producing over 675 NHL broadcasts since 2010. It is the only student-run radio station to receive four Marconi Awards from the

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Notable alumni and faculty

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Hofstra.edu.

Gallery

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References

External links

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Hofstra Athletics website
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