Cazenovia College to Close

Trustees of Cazenovia College announced this week that the institution will no longer enroll new students.

Cazenovia was founded as the Seminary of the Genesee Conference, the second Methodist seminary to be established in the United States. The name changed several times, first to the Seminary of the Genesee and Oneida conferences, later to the Oneida Conference Seminary, then to the Central New York Conference Seminary. In 1894 it became Cazenovia Seminary. 

In 1942 formed a new non-church-related board was created for Cazenovia Junior College. When the College received accreditation in 1961 from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, it dropped the "Junior" and became Cazenovia College for Women. In 1982 the trustees voted to return to coeducation and name change to Cazenovia College. In November 1988, the New York State Board of Regents awarded Cazenovia College the right to offer baccalaureate degrees and in May 2019, the State approved a change to the College’s charter to include graduate programs.

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