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State University of New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (686 words) |
 | It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 413,000 students, plus 1.1 million continuing education students spanning 64 campuses across the state. |
 | The State University of New York was established in 1948 by then-Governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey, through legislative implementation of recommendations made by the Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University (1946-1948). |
 | SUNY comprises all institutions of higher education statewide that are state-supported, with the exception of the institutions that are units of the City University of New York (CUNY). |
| State University of New York Upstate Medical University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (934 words) |
 | The State University of New York Upstate Medical University (formerly known as Health Science Center Syracuse) is a State University of New York college of health sciences in the University Hill district of Syracuse, New York, USA. |
 | In the 1870s the SU College of Medicine was (along with Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan) among the first to institute a graded medical instruction program, with definite pre-clinical and clinical years. |
 | Upstate is the sixteenth oldest North American medical school and the second oldest in New York State, after Columbia University. |