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Hartwick College
Motto	Historical: Ad Altiora Semper "Always Higher" Marketing: "Liberal Arts in Practice"
Established	1797
Type	Private
President	Richard P. Miller, Jr.
Staff	170
Undergraduates	1,480
Postgraduates	0
Location	Oneonta, NY, USA
Campus	Main academic campus: 425 acres Environmental campus: 920 acres
Athletics	Name: Hawks; Division I: (men's soccer and women's waterpolo); Division III: all other teams
Colors	Wellesley blue and white
Website	www.hartwick.edu

Hartwick College is a nationally ranked, non-denominational, private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York, in the United States. Hartwick has 170 faculty members and 1480 students from 38 states and 29 countries, and the student-faculty ratio is 11.5-1. [1] Hartwick College is one of the 222 colleges named a Best Northeastern College by The Princeton Review.

Contents 1 History 2 Academics 3 Study abroad 4 Pine Lake Environmental Campus 4.1 Living and Learning at Pine Lake 4.2 PL9 - The Pine Lake Shuttle 4.3 Accommodations 4.4 Activities 5 Campus activities 6 Fraternities and sororities 7 References 8 External links

Hartwick Seminary was founded in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister from Germany, who led several mission congregations of early settlers along the Hudson River and the Mohawk River in what is now upstate New York. Shortly after his death, his dream of establishing an institution of higher learning became a reality with the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797. The New York State Legislature in 1816 incorporated the new school--the first Lutheran seminary in America--as a classical academy and theological seminary, in the Town of Hartwick. The school moved to its present location in 1928 with land donated by the City of Oneonta, when it was incorporated as a four year college. The college's ties to the Lutheran Church ended in the 1960s and now carries no religious affiliation.

Hartwick offers 31 courses of study leading to a Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree, including four pre-professional programs (pre-law, pre-engineering, pre-med, and pre-allied health professions), five cooperative programs (business, engineering, law, occupational and physical therapy, and nursing), as well as academic minors. The college also offers an education certification program.

Hartwick College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the National Association of Schools of Music, the National League for Nursing, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. [1] The American Chemical Society also approved the bachelor of science degree program in chemistry. [1] U.S. News & World Report ranked Hartwick College in the third tier for Liberal Arts Colleges. [2]

Hartwick College was recently ranked 10th among colleges and universities nationwide by US News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2006" for the percentage of students who study abroad. Approximately 86 percent of Hartwick students participate in study abroad programs during their four years at Hartwick, with 198 students participating in study abroad programs in 2002-03.^{[citation needed]}

Hartwick College acquired the Pine Lake Environmental Campus in 1971 from the Neunzig family. Hartwick currently owns 920 acres in West Davenport, approximately 8.2 miles from the main campus by Interstate 88. There are other parallel roads ideal for bikes also. Ten buildings including seven cabins are available for student residence during the school year. Bailey (4), Redwood 1 (3), Redwood 2 (2), Outbacks 1,2,3 (2 each), Crossroads (2), Robertson Lodge (8), The Apartment (2), and the Farmhouse (3). Other buildings include the Manager's House, home to the resident manager of 18 years and his family; Strawbale, a straw insulated cabin created by the Architecture of the Sacred course as well as the Cob House; and currently under construction is Hill & Dale 2, which will hold two students. The Vaudevillian is an arched building, which looks similar to a gymnasium in the inside, used for showing movies, contra dances, indoor festivals, and other events. The Lakeside Classroom is a one room building used on occasion for non-science courses. The science courses that come to Pine Lake often use the R.R. Smith Field Station, which has a small classroom area, a computer lab area, and two lab rooms. A wood-burning Finnish sauna is right next to Pine Lake's boating area. The sauna is regularly open two nights a week, but is currently out of service due to the flooding this past summer.

Pine Lake residence is open to all full-time Hartwick students, and certainly a wide range of interests converge at Pine Lake. Common majors include biology and art, although everything including nursing, psychology, business, and outdoor recreation, and religion majors can be found there. Pine Lake residence is drastically different from campus life. The major difference between students living at Pine Lake versus a dorm, is that the Pine Lake residents specifically chose this arrangement away from campus. Reasons for living at Pine Lake vary, but often include: appeal of living in a cabin, living by a lake, being part of a close community, access to hiking trails, and the strong bond between Pine Lake residents.

Pine Lake owns a blue Chevy Venture, stickered with the Hartwick College logo and Pine Lake Shuttle, that is seen driving around campus and to/from Pine Lake often. The current shuttle system was relaunched by a Pine Lake resident in the spring of 2005, and continues to be used extensively to this date. PL9 holds 7 (including driver) and shuttles 6-12 students per day (mean 7.8 in 2006). Free to use, Pine Lake offers workstudy to student drivers that are able to drive the van on a regular basis. The shuttle van follows a schedule to/from the Robertson Lodge at Pine Lake and the museum entrance by Upper Yager, with new pick-up times determined each semester to accommodate the most people. The Pine Lake shuttle has a reserved parking spot across from Arnold.

The Robertson Lodge and the Field Station are the only buildings at Pine Lake which offer an internet connection, and both are wireless networks. The Lodge also has a television with media players and a digital cable connection. A pay-phone in the foyer of the Lodge is the only public phone available. The cabins have phone jacks, but only a phone line when activated by the students (this is atypical due to cost and cell phones).

Each cabin is heated primarily by a wood-pellet burning stove, one of the most efficient methods today. Wood pellets are provided by the school at no cost to the students, and are bought from a local furniture manufacturer in Stamford, NY. Each cabin also comes with beds, desks, furniture, a full kitchen including an oven, range and refrigerator, and a bathroom. Students all live in single occupancy bedrooms and housing costs are similar to a single room on campus. Although Pine Lake cabins are rustic, they all have electricity and running water.

Pine Lake life is drastically different from dorm living. Activities are often held at Pine Lake such as Eco-Art Festival, Pine Lake Day, Pot Luck dinners for gallery openings in the Lodge, Solstice parties, Bread and Puppet Theater, Contra Dances, Awakening (the freshmen pre-orientation program), etc. There are often campfires and impromptu gatherings occurring quite often. Boats can be borrowed and used on the lake during the warmer months, and during the summer months there are lifeguards on duty from 12 noon to 7pm, weather permitting.

Pine Lake's facilities are also available to Hartwick College staff, faculty, their families and their guests, as well as public members

There is an extensive trail system around the lake and on the northern side of the road, also called the Upper Tract. Trail maps for the Lower Tract were made last summer by GPS by a student living at the Pine Lake campus and are available in the office of the Lodge. Three trails lead up the Upper Tract and end at Mud Lake, a slowly enclosing lake surrounded by a bog. Several trails on the Lower Tract go by the swamp, and the "backfield", over ridges and through old housing sites. Mountain bikes are also used on the trails, but motorized vehicles are not allowed. The Pine Lake Environmental Campus is a well-conserved and beautiful tract of land, so many residents, college students, and local community members make good use of the trails.

Hartwick offers students many student run activities, through a variety of clubs (approximately 60) with a wide variety of topics. The student governing body known as Student Senate oversees the constitutions and budgets of every club. Some of the most well known clubs include Student Union, which hosts weekly events on Fridays in Laura's Cafe and weekly movies on Sunday nights in the Anderson Theater; a variety of honor societies for various majors and minors, campus activism groups for topics like Fair Trade, Local Environmentalism and School of America; and a variety of special interest clubs for a large variety of interests ranging from academic to leisurely.

Hartwick College currently has 6 registered Greek Life groups:

Fraternities: Alpha Delta Omega, Alpha Sigma Phi, Tau Kappa Epsilon

Sororities: Alpha Omicron Pi, Gamma Phi Delta, Phi Sigma Phi

A message from the President to all students regarding Greek life: "At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of May 11-13, I discussed with them my concerns about the behavior, and resultingly the future, of the off-campus Greek social organizations recognized by the College. ...my concerns include membership and financial trends, lack of alumni involvement, and impact on Greek behavior on city and neighborhood relations."

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• Princeton Review
• US News & World Report Rankings
• Primary sources (alumni and current students)

• Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York
• WRHO-FM, 89.7, 'The Voice of Hartwick College'

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