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The college was founded in 1950 by the Sisters of Mercy. [13]In 2011, Mercy College absorbed the buildings and facilities of Our Lady of Victory Academy.In 2016, Mercy College opened a new $32 million, 100,000-square-foot residence hall, a 5,000-square-foot fitness center and a Starbucks Cafe and convenience store on its Dobbs Ferry campus. [14]
Glasgow was platted in 1852. [2] [3] The community was named after Glasgow, Scotland, the ancestral land of a large share of the first settlers. [4] A post office called Glasgow was established in 1839, and remained in operation until 1902. [5]
Our Lady of Victory Academy was established in 1961 [2] by the Sisters of Mercy, who had established Mercy College on the same site in 1960. [ 3 ] It was dedicated to preparing young women to take their full place in church and society by providing quality secondary education in fidelity to the Gospel, Catholic tradition, and the Mercy charism .
The City of Glasgow College (Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste Baile Glaschu) is a further and higher education college in the city of Glasgow. It was founded in 2010 when the Central College, Glasgow Metropolitan College, and the Glasgow College of Nautical Studies merged. [1] It is the largest college and technical institution in Scotland. [2]
Central College merged with two other city centre colleges – Metropolitan, and Nautical – to form a "super college" that is the biggest in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK. The Central College Board and staff had originally opposed the plan, but after much negotiation among the three Colleges, the merger was agreed. [5]
The College of Building has had a presence on the College's current site since 1927. The preceding colleges had a reputation for the provision of courses within the food, hospitality, tourism, construction and the creative industries. The merger and creation of Glasgow Metropolitan College created Glasgow’s biggest college with over 20,000 ...
The location, close to the original site of the University of Glasgow, [1] [2] [3] takes up 100,000 square metres (1.1 million square feet) on the corner of Duke Street and High Street. Collegelands, latterly known as the College Goods Railway Yard , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] is Glasgow's first new city centre quarter in several years.
Under the leadership of college librarian Azariah Smith Root (1887–1927), the Oberlin College Library grew by the end of his tenure to the sixteenth largest academic library in the nation. The former central library, which was funded by Andrew Carnegie , opened in 1908 and served both the college and the town of Oberlin for almost seven decades.