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Volume CX, Issue 1
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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Goodbye Manhattan College, Hello Manhattan University! Manhattan University Club Fair Manhattan University welcome sstudents back for the first week of classes. ANGELINA PERSAUD/THE QUADRANGLE
Manhattan University Rents Out RLC To Local Charter School Manhattan University’s Research and Learning Center (RLC) will look a little emptier this semester, as it will be rented out to local charter school Atmosphere Academy for the fall, and potentially spring semesters. This will be the second time the charter school has used the university’s amenities. In the spring of 2024, the school utilized the second floor of Hayden Hall due to renovations in their usual building. According to Atmosphere’s mission statement on their website, “Through the creation of a highly engaging school setting, Atmosphere Academy not only prepares students to be ready for college, career,
and life, but to succeed once they get there. By actively contributing to the school’s shared learning community, Atmosphere students will acquire the character, skills, and knowledge they need to think, collaborate, and lead.” On its website, MU states its mission as providing an education, “that prepares graduates for lives of personal development, professional success, civic engagement, and service to their fellow human beings.” From these statements, the goals of the two organizations seem to align well for a collaboration. While students were not officially notified of the rental of RLC, they quickly recognized the adjustment when offices inhabiting the building were relocated to other spots on campus. Analia Santana, a senior
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student worker in the Department of Communication, is one of the many who will be doing her job in a different location this school year due to the rental. “I feel like we all know that the school is in really bad debt, so if renting out RLC will give us more money to pay off the bills, I say, go for it,” Santana said. “It’s a little upsetting, now that the professors have moved all the way to Miguel and the student workers are in Leo, because I did like that you get to interact with your professors, and help them out with whatever they need, but also ask questions about things going on in the comm world. So now we’re all kind of in the equipment room, and we’re just by ourselves.” __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Isaiah Rosario Staff Writer
In a shocking turn of events and after years of deliberation, Manhattan College is no more. On Aug. 21, it was announced that the college’s name would be changed to Manhattan University, effective immediately. To become a university in the past, the college would need to satisfy a Ph.D. requirement. However, due to new requirements put forth by the New York State Board of Regents, colleges without Ph.D. programs are now able to apply to become a university, which made MU eligible. According to President Milo Riverso, he believed that some of the major items that went into the name change were the prominence of the faculty at the university and the programs that the university offers, which deserve a significant status to draw from the international sector more. “High school enrollment is declining and the value of a higher education is being questioned,” Riverso said. “The affordability of higher education is a concern to a lot of families who have multiple children, or even one child. We need to survive as an educational institution and draw from the international
sector. We also want to draw the best of the best students and we have great proficiency in business and in engineering and a lot of the stem sciences. That’s something that I think the international student is looking for.” While the school made a lot of changes academically in the past year with the removal of programs and majors, the name change to “university” brings hopes to push the school forward academically, including a move to the doctoral level in the future. Although there is no timeframe for the new program, administration at the school feels this is a step in the right direction. “I think that [becoming a university] gives us the ability to move to the doctoral level, for sure,” interim provost Rani Roy said. “I think that’s maybe a farther down-theroad conversation. I do think university is more reflective of the current depth and breadth of the programming that we offer at Manhattan [University] … so I believe that that university designation is very reflective of who we are. While New York State had these rules and changed them, we were kind of considered a master’s level institution that offered a wide variety of programs.” The Quadrangle spoke to Manhattan University seniors __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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