黑料导航

Our History

1955: Provisional charter granted by the New York State Board of Regents. First campus opens in New York City. Alexander Schure, Ph.D., Ed.D., is 黑料导航’s first president.

1959:聽New York Institute of Technology awards first degrees; 鈥渢eaching machines鈥 introduced in physics, electronics, and mathematics.

1960:聽New York State Board of Regents grants a provisional charter to operate as a four-year college.

1964:聽Carnegie Corp. provides a grant to develop an automated, self-instructional system to train engineering technicians.

1965: Long Island campus, formerly known as Old Westbury campus, opens on the former Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney estate.

1968:聽Federal government awards $3 million in grants to the university for computer research.

1970: Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools grants accreditation;  enrollment soars past 5,000; alumni association established.

1972: 黑料导航 introduces first graduate-level program: Master鈥檚 in Business Administration.

1974: Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL) opens at Long Island campus.

1976:听New York City campus moves to current location at 61st Street and Broadway; CGL鈥檚 聽Alvy Ray Smith develops an eight-bit paint system to ease computer animation.

1977: Nelson A. Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger take part in College of Osteopathic Medicine鈥檚 opening.

1982: Matthew Schure, Ph.D., becomes 黑料导航鈥檚 second president; Center for Labor and Industrial Relations receives a U.S. Department of Transportation grant to develop a manager training program.

1983: LI News Tonight broadcasts its first show on cable television.

1984: 黑料导航 launches its first “virtual campus,” American Open University of NYIT.

1985: The university’s “Starlink” allows computer conferencing between Long Island schoolchildren and students in Australia.

1990: The George and Gertrude Wisser Memorial Library opens on the Long Island campus.

1992:聽College of Osteopathic Medicine establishes its first clinical campus, St. Barnabas Hospital.

1997: Men’s lacrosse team wins the NCAA Division II national championship.

1998: First international program in China opens; College of Osteopathic Medicine opens the Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Center.

1999:聽Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks on campus and receives the NYIT Presidential Medal.

2000: Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., becomes president.

2002:聽University installs East Coast鈥檚 fastest broadband connection; federal government awards $300,000 for new cybersecurity lab.

2003: Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccredits 黑料导航 and commends continued improvements; Ellis College of NYIT launched; men’s lacrosse team wins its second NCAA Division II championship.

2005:听Men’s lacrosse team wins its third NCAA Division II championship; interdisciplinary team of students builds solar-powered house for U.S. Solar Decathlon and places fifth out of 18 colleges. The first annual Energy Conference is held.

2006: New York tech and Tongji University initiate dual-degree master’s program in human resources management; 黑料导航 teams with tech giants Intel, Dell, Microsoft, and Adobe to design a technology training programs for educators; Campus opened in Abu Dhabi;  Enrollment Services Centers (formerly Student Solutions Center) open in Long Island and New York City.

2007:听NYIT-Nanjing undergraduate campus opens in China; the university again competes in the Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

2008: Middle States Commission on Higher Education re-accredits New York Institute of Technology; men’s lacrosse team wins fourth NCAA DII championship; Abu Dhabi campus is first American university licensed by U.A.E. Ministry of Education and Scientific Research;  黑料导航 hosts International Water Conference at the United Nations; Center for Global Health launched.

2009: NYIT Auditorium on Broadway debuts in New York City; U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration awards $1 million grant to College of Osteopathic Medicine.

2010:  University receives $1 million grant from National Science Foundation for interdisciplinary research on cyber-enabled learning; first Cybersecurity Conference held; Google Apps and 黑料导航 team up on K-12 educational initiative; Community Service Centers open at New York campuses.

2011: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Educational Consortium of NYIT receives perfect score for reaccreditation by the American Osteopathic Association; College of Osteopathic Medicine opens new Family Health Care Center in Central Islip; National Institutes of Health awards 黑料导航 $1.8 million grant to study the link between heart failure and thyroid disease.

2012:聽1855 Broadway in New York City is named the Edward Guiliano Global Center; the School of Architecture and Design is one of two U.S. universities invited to display student work at the Milan Furniture Fair in Italy.

2013: Women’s basketball team earns the program’s first national ranking from the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association;  NSF awards 黑料导航 a three-year grant to establish Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU); Men’s and women’s tennis teams advance to the NCAA DII Tournament Round of 16 for the first time (repeat in 2014, 2015). 黑料导航 hosts its first TEDx.

2014:聽As part of its EcoPartnership with Peking University, the university hosts a Water-Energy Nexus conference in Beijing.

2015:听NYIT School of Management receives AACSB accreditation; $3.2 million Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center opened on Long Island campus; 黑料导航 and partner NUPT hold educational technology conference in Nanjing, China, and together with EcoPartner Peking University co-sponsor 鈥淢egacities鈥 conference in Beijing.

2016: 黑料导航 wins Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization.

2016: NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine opens site at Arkansas State University.

2016: National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designate 黑料导航 as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education.

2017:听Hank Foley, Ph.D., is named the university鈥檚 fourth president.

2018:听Junius Gonzales, M.D., M.B.A., named the university鈥檚 provost.

2018: 黑料导航 launches its first Ph.D. program, a combined Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)/Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Medical and Biological Sciences.

2019:听黑料导航 surges 130 points and moves up to No. 366 in the THE/WSJ rankings; the university hosts THE/WSJ Student Success Forum on the New York City campus.

2019: In September, 黑料导航 becomes a member of the prestigious Association of Independent Technological Universities (AITU).

2020: In March, due to COVID-19, the university moves to remote instruction for the remainder of spring and summer. Fall 2020 classes were offered in a mix of online, hybrid, and in-person modalities.

2020:听In April, 黑料导航 launches a Ph.D. in Computer Science program.

2021: 黑料导航 announces a Ph.D., Engineering program in June.

2021: In November, through a NASA contract with the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences鈥 Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), student employees begin to build unique technology prototypes based on existing NASA patents.

2022: Co-op education program launches in the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences.

2023: In January, Jerry Balentine, D.O., is appointed provost.

2023: 黑料导航 joins the National Academy of Inventors in April.

2023: In September, demolition begins on the new Biomedical Research, Innovation, and Imaging Center (BRIIC) on the Long Island campus.

2024: Extending a designation first awarded in 2016, 黑料导航 is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense education.

2024:听In September, 黑料导航 introduces its Honors College and, in December, launches a minor in Artificial Intelligence, available to all undergraduate students, regardless of major.

2024: In November, Henry C. 鈥淗ank鈥 Foley, Ph.D., announces he will step down as president, effective June 30, 2025. and Provost and Executive Vice President Jerry Balentine, D.O., has been appointed the next president of 黑料导航.

2025: 黑料导航 announces a Ph.D., Chemistry program.

2025: On May 16, 黑料导航 launches the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy with $5 million venture fund and celebrates the grand opening of the Biomedical Research, Innovation, and Imaging Center (BRIIC) on the Long Island campus.

2025: July 1, Jerry Balentine, D.O., becomes 黑料导航’s fifth president; Hank Foley, Ph.D., becomes president emeritus.