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Milestones: Quinnipiac University
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Business New Haven
11/24/2003
By: BNH
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Quinnipiac University
275 Mount Carmel Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Tel: 203-582-8200
Web: www.quinnipiac.edu
Ownership: Private, co-educational, non-sectarian institution
Milestone: 75 years
Timeline: Originally known as the Connecticut College of Commerce, Quinnipiac was founded in 1929 as the nation was on the brink of the Great Depression.
Quinnipiac was the brainchild of Samuel W. Tator, a highly respected teacher of accounting at the New Haven YMCA in an extension school, which was part of Northeastern University. When Northeastern withdrew its support of the extension school, a group of former students urged Tator to start a new college.
Judge Philip Troup, a Yale graduate, joined Tator in his efforts to found the new institution.
Tator's plan was to establish a small business college awarding associate's degrees. A group of Tator's former students served as incorporates of the institution. Troup, one of the incorporators, was elected president, serving until his death on 1939.
Tator's wife, Irmagarde Tator, was an important figure in Quinnipiac's early history. A 1913 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she served as bursar and dean of women. For several years, while her husband served the government in Washington, she ran the entire college.
Starting with an enrollment of just under 200 students, the school was initially located in New Haven. In June 1930 President conferred eight associate's degrees to the school's first graduating class.
In 1935 the college was granted approval to offer both Associate in Science and Associate in Arts degrees. That same year the name was changed to the Junior College of Commerce.
From 1943 to 1945 the school was forced to close its doors when almost its entire student body was drafted. It reopened in 1945 with slightly more than 200 students. Within a year enrollment had swelled to 714 students.
Achievements and Accomplishments: In 1951 the school changed its name to Quinnipiac College, a name commemorating the early Indian settlers who made their home in and around the New Haven Harbor area. That same year Quinnipiac began offering the bachelor's degree and two decades later expanded its offerings to master's degrees.
Quinnipiac assumed administrative control of Larson College, a private women's college, in 1952. Relocating within New Haven as expansion in enrollment and curriculum demanded, in 1966 the school moved to its current campus in the Mount Carmel section of Hamden.
On July 1, 2000 the school became Quinnipiac University.
Looking Back on a Changing Industry: Originally a commuter college, today the majority of Quinnipiac undergraduate students come from outside Connecticut. Like many institutions of higher learning, Quinnipiac had to grow and expand according to the needs of a changing environment. The ability to be flexible in its curriculum is, today, a critical ingredient for success.
Today, Quinnipiac enrolls undergraduate and graduate students in more than 63 programs of study in business, education, health sciences, law, liberal arts and communications. More than 2000 students are enrolled in graduate programs, which include the School of Business, Communications, Health Sciences, the College of Liberal Arts and School of Law.
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