Friday, November 6, 2015

Grossmont College

Hofstra University is a private, non-benefit, nonsectarian organization of higher learning. Its fundamental grounds is situated in the town of Hempstead, New York, United States, roughly 7 miles (11 km) east of New York City. It began in 1935 as an expansion of New York University (NYU) called "Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island"; in 1939, the establishment isolated from NYU and picked up autonomy as Hofstra College,[8] and in 1963, Hofstra College picked up college status. Involving ten schools, including a School of Medicine and a School of Law, Hofstra is noted for a progression of unmistakable Presidential gatherings, and also being chosen to host United States Presidential Debates in 2008 and 2012. 

The school—set up as an augmentation of New York University (NYU) — was established on the bequest of an as of late expired well off couple, a wood business visionary of Dutch parentage, William S. Hofstra (1861–1932) and his second wife, Kate Mason (1854–1933). The augmentation had been proposed by a Hempstead inhabitant, Truesdel Peck Calkins, who had been director of schools for Hempstead. In her will, Kate Mason gave the heft of their property and bequest to be utilized for a beneficent, logical or helpful reason, to be named out of appreciation for her spouse. Two companions, Howard Brower and James Barnard, were requested that choose what to do with the home. Another Hempstead occupant, Truesdel Peck Calkins, commented to Brower that he had been searching for a site to begin an organization of advanced education, and the three men concurred it would be a suitable utilization of the bequest. Calkins drew closer the organization at New York University, and they communicated

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