Question: Which university was founded first, Pacific Lutheran University or New York Institute of Technology?
Context: Aaron Padilla (born 1974) is an American artist and art educator.  He was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii in 1974.  He received a BFA in painting and printmaking from Pacific Lutheran University in 1996, and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2001.  Padilla has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Hawaii Potters’ Guild.  He is currently Director of Spalding House, a branch of the Honolulu Museum of Art.  He has created paintings and utilitarian ceramics, as well as abstract and semi-abstract ceramic sculptures.  In his current body of work, small angled pieces of wood are assembled to give the illusion of wood being woven or tied into knots. New York Institute of Technology (also known as NYIT) is a private, independent, nonprofit, non-sectarian, coeducational research university founded in 1910. Mike Dunbar (December 31, 1948 – September 13, 2013) was an American football and baseball coach.  He served as the head football coach at Central Washington University in 1983 and from 1987 to 1991 and at the University of Northern Iowa from 1997 to 2000, compiling a career college football coaching record of 83–24–1.  Dunbar was also the head baseball coach at Central Washington for one season, in 1983, tallying mark of 25–20–1.  He graduated from the University of Washington in 1972 with a B.A. in education and from Pacific Lutheran University in 1979 with an M.A. in education.  Dunbar died of cancer on September 13, 2013, in his hometown of Dupont, Washington, at the age of 64. Craig Marion Kupp (born April 14, 1967) is a former American football quarterback.  He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Phoenix Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys.  He played Football for the Selah Vikings from -1982-1985.  He was an exceptional Quarterback.  He played college football at Pacific Lutheran University and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1990 NFL draft by the New York Giants. Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), founded by Norwegian Lutheran pioneers in 1890, is a private university offering liberal arts and professional school programs located in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, United States.  PLU is sponsored by the 580 congregations of Region I of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  PLU has approximately 3,100 students enrolled.  As of 2017, the school employs approximately 220 full-time professors on the 156-acre (630,000 m²) woodland campus. The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is a consortium of eight private independent American theological schools and eleven centers and affiliates.  Seven of the theological schools are located in Berkeley, California.  The GTU was founded in 1962 and has established a relationship with the University of California, Berkeley that allows students from both institutions enjoying privileges accorded to their own students.  Additionally, some of the GTU consortial schools are part of other California universities such as Santa Clara University (Jesuit School of Theology) and California Lutheran University (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary).  Most of the GTU consortial schools are located in Berkeley around the campus of University of California, Berkeley, with the majority north of the campus in a neighborhood known as "Holy Hill" due to the cluster of GTU seminaries and centers located there. Bjug Harstad (December 17, 1848 – June 20, 1933) was a Lutheran pastor, founding president of Pacific Lutheran University, and first president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. PLU Crew is the varsity rowing program for Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.  The team was founded in 1964 as a joint program with University of Puget Sound.  Today the team consists of Men's and Women's programs for both Varsity and Novice rowers, and competes as a member of the Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference (NCRC) and Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association (WIRA). Billy Pegram is an author of books on photographic technique.  His books have sold throughout the world and have been used as instructional material at several colleges including Brooks Institute of Photography and Pacific Lutheran University. Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) in Berkeley, California, is a seminary affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and California Lutheran University, and is a member school of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU).
Answer: Pacific Lutheran University