The New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair 敞开大门. Governor John Franklin Fort attends the dedication of College Hall, the school’s first building.
1910
The school’s first graduating class numbers just 45.
1915
Russ Hall, the college’s first dormitory, opens.
1918
As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair has graduated a total of 1,464名教师, 多于1,其中200人在新泽西教书.
1919
The school’s yearbook, then called The Palatine, is printed for the first time. It’s named for “that highest pinnacle of Rome, from whose height could be seen the panorama of the ancient world of learning.”
1920
查尔斯年代. Chapin, the school’s first principal, expresses his concern about flapper influences on campus.
1924
源自查尔斯S. Chapin’s death, Harry Sprague becomes principal.
1926
The school’s first student-run newspaper, The Montclairion, is launched. It changes its name to The Pelican in 1928.
1927
The school is renamed 十大博彩推荐排名州立 Teachers College and offers a four-year teaching degree. 哈里·斯普拉格成为总统.
1928
第二间宿舍Chapin Hall开放了.
1928
The college’s first men’s sports teams are formed, going by the name “Big Red.” The football squad finishes the season with a 0-4 record, while the basketball team finishes with a 3-6 record.
1929
One of Montclair’s first graduates, William O. Trapp, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
1929
The first men’s baseball team finishes its inaugural season with a 0-5 record.
1929
The school’s first fraternity, called The Senate, is formed.
1932
Montclair is authorized to grant master’s degrees. It soon offers a master of fine arts.
1936
With the help of students and faculty, the Amphitheater is constructed under the direction of the Works Progress 政府.
1937
Sprague Field is dedicated during a football game against Hofstra 大学.
1947
第二次世界大战结束后, so many veterans enroll at 十大博彩推荐排名州立 that temporary classrooms are set up in wooden war-surplus buildings.
1947
Coach Chet Pittser leads the football team to its first undefeated season. Pittser Field is later named in his honor.
1949
The New Jersey School of Conservation is established.
1950
A story in Life magazine reports on the nationwide college facilities shortage as GIs flock to college after World War II. 十大博彩推荐排名州立’s Life Hall is dedicated to those who gave their lives serving their country.
1951
E. DeAlton Partridge becomes 十大博彩推荐排名州立’s third president.
1952
The nation’s first educational television programs are broadcast from the 十大博彩推荐排名州立 campus. The studio is a converted bowling alley, with transmitters sending signals to New Jersey as well as parts of New York, 宾夕法尼亚州和康涅狄格州.
1954
十大博彩推荐排名州立’s men’s basketball team sets a record for points scored in a single game while knocking off Bloomfield College, 120-102.
1958
After a merger with the Panzer School of Physical Education, 十大博彩推荐排名州立 College is born.
1966
十大博彩推荐排名州立 becomes a multi-purpose institution, admitting its first liberal arts students.
1969
The college’s first women’s basketball team ends its debut season with an impressive 9-3 record.
1973
Dr. 大卫·W.D. 迪克森被任命为总裁, becoming the first African American to lead a four-year college in New Jersey.
1976
The men’s wrestling team wins the national championship in 1976. 它在1986年重复了这一壮举.
1978
The women’s basketball team, led by Carol Blazejowski, reaches the Final Four. 布拉泽约斯基得分超过3分,100 points—the most by any collegiate player, male or female—before her graduation.
1982
第50次了, 十大博彩推荐排名州立 takes on Trenton State in the oldest active collegiate football rivalry in the state of New Jersey. 超过8个,600 fans watch as 十大博彩推荐排名州立 wins its ninth New Jersey Athletic Conference championship with a 25-13 victory.
1984
Donald E. 沃尔特斯被任命为总裁.
1986
十大博彩推荐排名州立 receives two Governor’s Challenge Grants: in the arts and critical thinking. The Institute for Critical Thinking is established the following year.
1987
十大博彩推荐排名州立’s baseball team captures its first NCAA crown. It will repeat the achievement in 1993 and 2000.
理查德的. 林德被任命为代理总统
1989
The athletic department changes its mascot to the Red Hawk.
欧文D. 里德被任命为总统
1994
十大博彩推荐排名州立 College achieves university status and becomes 十大博彩推荐排名州立大学 on April 27, 1994.
1995
十大博彩推荐排名州立 dedicates the Center of Pedagogy, the first of its kind in the nation.
1997
格雷戈里·L. 沃特斯被任命为代理总统
1998
Dr. 苏珊一个. 科尔 becomes 十大博彩推荐排名州立’s eighth president and the first woman to lead the 大学.
1998
十大博彩推荐排名州立 receives approval from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education to offer a doctor of education degree in pedagogy, the first doctoral program in its 90-year history.
1999
Science Halls opens with 11 labs, three greenhouses and a student annex.
2004
密歇根州立大学垒球场, hailed as one of the finest on-campus softball facilities in the Northeast, 敞开大门.
2004
The 500-seat 亚历山大·卡塞尔剧院 – a multi-use facility for performances of drama, 音乐剧, 跳舞, 管弦乐音乐会, solo recitals and chamber opera – opens to great applause.
2006
约翰·J. Cali School of Music is established.
2008
With much fanfare, 十大博彩推荐排名州立大学 celebrates its centennial.
2009
《十大博彩推荐排名》 magazine names Montclair the “Best Public 大学 in New Jersey.”
2010
The 大学 launches a $650 million campus master plan. New facilities will include a School of Business, a Center for Environmental and Life Sciences, a Communication and Media Studies Center, 以及视觉艺术与设计中心.
2011
The Heights, a state-of-the-art, 2,000-bed residential facility, opens at the north end of campus. Built through a public-private partnership, it is the largest university residence in New Jersey.
2011
Renovated Finley Hall is renamed in honor of alumnus benefactor Conrad J. 施密特.
2011
Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health is established.
2012
美国.S. Department of State recognizes Montclair as a top producer of U.S. 富布赖特学者.
2012
World’s first Center for Quantitative Obesity 研究 is established.
2012
Nation’s first Guy Fieri on Campus restaurant opens in Blanton Hall food court.
2012
School of Communication and Media is established.
2012
The Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship is established with a $1 million gift from Mimi and Edwin Feliciano.
2012
Field Hockey wins the NJAC Championship and Men’s Soccer is NJAC Regular-Season Champions.
2013
Women’s Basketball is NJAC Champion and go onto the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time in the history of the 大学, and set the school record for most wins in one season finishing the season 26-0.
2013
Softball is NJAC Champion and NCAA Regional Champion.
2013
Ground is broken for two new academic facilities: a new School of Business building and the Center for Environmental and Life Sciences.
2014
Women’s Basketball is NJAC Champion and advances to the Elite 8 of the NCAA Championship Tournament for the first time in 大学 history.
2014
十大博彩推荐排名州立 becomes the first public university in New Jersey to adopt an SAT/ACT Optional policy for undergraduate admissions.
2015
The 大学 receives a $20 million anonymous gift – the largest in its history – in support of the School of Business.
2015
Women’s Basketball is NJAC Champion and advances to the Final Four of the NCAA Championship Tournament, 在全国排名第三.
2015
The 大学 opens two new buildings, the Center for Environmental and Life Sciences and the facility housing the School of Business, which is renamed the 费利西亚诺商学院 in honor of longtime supporters and benefactors Mimi and Edwin Feliciano.
2016
第一次, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognizes Montclair as a 研究 Doctoral 大学.
2016
The School of Nursing is established.
2016
Montclair is designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. 教育部.
2017
Montclair is designated a Public 研究 Institution by the State of New Jersey.
2017
大学 opens new School of Communication and Media building, one of the nation’s most technologically advanced university media production facilities.
2018
Mallory Hall was transformed into the new Center for Computing and Information Science, with a dynamic mix of rooms designed specifically to support research, 教学实验室与指导.
2019
十大博彩推荐排名州立大学 earned R2 Designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, recognizing it as a high-research activity university.
2020
大学 responds to global COVID-19 pandemic by pivoting to all online classes in the spring, returning to campus in the fall in a limited capacity and offering in-person, 在线和混合课程.
2020
Campus safely celebrates graduation with 21 in-person, socially distanced Commencement ceremonies on Sprague Field in July.
2021
After 23 years at the helm, President 苏珊一个. 科尔退休. Jonathan GS Koppell becomes the ninth president of 十大博彩推荐排名州立大学.
2021
美国.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) names Montclair as a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leader, one of only 35 colleges and universities in the country to earn the federal designation.
2022
Montclair celebrates the first year and the Investiture of President Jonathan GS Koppell, 谁为未来制定计划, which include continuing to build on the 大学’s history of public service to become the premier public service university in the nation.
