Question: Karen R. Hitchcock worked at SUNY or The State University of New York, when was the university established?
Context: Born June 1, 1941 in Canandaigua, New York, H. (Harry) James Birx is an American anthropologist.  Birx spent his childhood on the combination farm and travelers motel operated by his parents in the small town of Bloomfield in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.  Graduating from Bloomfield Central High School in 1959, Birx completed his undergraduate studies at the nearby SUNY Geneseo before moving on to complete his M.A. in Anthropology and his Ph.D. in Philosophy, both from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.  He currently serves as a full professor of Anthropology at Canisius College where he lectures on Anthropology in Film and early Biological Anthropology.  He is also a Distinguished Research Scholar in the SUNY Geneseo's Department of Anthropology and he regularly holds a winter semester course entitled "Human Culture and Evolution" for the Doctoral Program of the University of Belgrade in Serbia.  He has been a visiting professor at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, twice a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and has lectured at universities around the world.  He received the 2003 Professional Achievement Award from the State University of New York at Geneseo. The SUNY Eye Institute (SEI) is a consortium of scientists from five campuses within the State University of New York.  Participating institutions include four SUNY medical schools (Downstate Medical Center, Upstate Medical University, Stony Brook University Medical Center, and the University at Buffalo) and the SUNY College of Optometry.  The SEI was organized in 2007 and formally recognized by SUNY in 2009.  Its aims are (1) to foster collaboration among SUNY research scientists in support of research on all aspects of visual function, with an emphasis on diseases of the human eye and their treatment, and (2) to enhance training in clinical and basic visual sciences in the U.S. State of New York.  It receives financial support from SUNY through the SUNY REACH program. The State University of New York at Albany, also known as University at Albany, SUNY Albany or UAlbany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Guilderland, and Rensselaer, New York, United States.  Founded in 1844, it carries out undergraduate and graduate education, research, and service.  It is a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The Global Open University is an Indian university established in 2005 in Dimapur, Nagaland.  It has been established under the provisions of The Global Open University Act 2006 (Act 3 of 2006) of the Government of Nagaland with a view to introducing vocational, job oriented and empoyment centric education in the North-East in general and in the State of Nagaland in particular.  The Global Open University, Nagaland (A State University established by the Government of Nagaland) has been legislated by the Nagaland State Legislative Assembly under The Global Open University Act 2006 (Act 3 of 2006) which received the assent of the Governor of Nagaland on 30 August 2006 and was notified vide Notification number Law/Act-10/2006 on 18 September 2006.  The provisions of The Global Open University Act 2006 were published in the Nagaland Official Gazette on 18 September 2006 for general information. Founded in 1887, the University at Buffalo School of Law (also known as UB Law, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, or SUNY Buffalo Law School) is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo.  It is the State University of New York (SUNY) system's only law school. " U.S. News & World Report" ranks the University at Buffalo School of Law 106th in the nation for 2018, a drop of six places from the previous year, and the first time the law school has dropped out of the second tier.  However, many lesser known sites rank the Law School much higher.  The University at Buffalo School of Law is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter's "Super Lawyers" ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York, which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State.  This is in addition to the UB Law School's 2010 national ranking, where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers, a measure which examines "twelve indicators of professional achievement".  Also, Malcolm Gladwell, in the "New Yorker" Magazine, devised a formula that ranks UB within the top 50 whereas Reuters ranks UB Law as 48th overall in the nation. The State University of New York at Buffalo is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States.  It is commonly referred to as the University at Buffalo (UB) or SUNY Buffalo, and was formerly known as the University of Buffalo.  The university was founded in 1846 as a private medical university, but in 1962 merged with the State University of New York (SUNY) system.  By enrollment, UB is the largest in the SUNY system, and also the largest public university in New York.  UB also has the largest endowment and research funding, as a comprehensive university center in the SUNY system. The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, commonly referred to as SUNY Polytechnic Institute or SUNY Poly, is a public research university with campuses in the town of Marcy in the Utica-Rome metropolitan area and Albany, New York.  Founded in 1966 using classrooms at a primary school, SUNY Poly is New York's public polytechnic college.  The Marcy campus, formerly the SUNY Institute of Technology, has a Utica, New York mailing address and was established in 1987.  The Albany campus was formerly a component of the University at Albany, established in January 2003. SUNY Orange, or Orange County Community College, is a two-year college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system offering almost 40 associate degrees and certificate programs.  As SUNY Orange is a part of the SUNY system, students from SUNY Orange may "seamlessly transfer" their credits to any other SUNY institution to continue towards other degrees, including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and master's degrees.  SUNY Orange also has many articulation agreements with four-year institutions outside of the SUNY system.  The college has two campuses in Middletown, New York and in Newburgh, New York.  The college also offers additional courses at satellite campuses in Warwick, Port Jervis, and Central Valley. Nancy L. Zimpher (born October 29, 1946) is an American educator, state university leader, and former Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY).  Prior to her service at SUNY, Zimpher was a dean and professor of education at Ohio State University (where she had earned her bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees); then Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee between 1998 and 2003; and President of the University of Cincinnati from 2003 through May 2009.  Zimpher is the first woman to serve as Chancellor of SUNY, was UWM's first woman chancellor, and was UC's first female president.  Zimpher is a native of the village of Gallipolis in southern Ohio. Karen R. Hitchcock is an American biologist and university administrator, who had troubled leadership positions at an American and a Canadian university.  She served as the President of SUNY's University at Albany in Albany, New York, from 1996 until her ouster in 2003.  She was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario from 2004 until an abrupt resignation in 2008, when she announced her departure in a sudden email to students.  After her sudden departure from Queens University, she returned, with husband Murray Blair, to the Albany, NY, area to live in Vischer Ferry.  Blair subsequently died in February, 2010.
Answer: 1844