page_title: Hartwick College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hartwick College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hartwick College Memorial Staircase and Bresee Hall
context_page_description: Hartwick College is a private college in Oneonta, New York. The institution's origin is rooted in the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick. In 1927, Hartwick Seminary moved to expand into a four-year college and was offered land by the city of Oneonta to move to Hartwick College's current location. The school has 1,200 undergraduate students from 30 states and 22 countries, 187 faculty members and the student-faculty ratio is 11-1.
context_section_description: Hartwick Seminary was founded in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister from Germany who led several mission congregations of early settlers along the Hudson River and the Mohawk River in what is now upstate New York. His dream of establishing an institution of higher learning became a reality shortly after his death, with the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797. In 1816, the New York State Legislature incorporated the new school—the first Lutheran seminary in America—as a classical academy and theological seminary in Hartwick, near Cooperstown. The school moved to its present location in Oneonta in 1928, when Hartwick was incorporated as a four-year college. The land for the campus was donated by the City of Oneonta. Bresee Hall, today the oldest building on campus, was designed by noted architect John Russell Pope and built in 1928. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.  The college's ties to the Lutheran Church ended in the 1960s and it now carries no religious affiliation.
  In May, 2016, President Margaret L. Drugovich was served a no confidence vote by the faculty and staff of Hartwick College and asked to resign. She was awarded a new eight-year contract by the Board of Trustees to continue serving as president, which she subsequently accepted.
  In July, 2016, the college set a fundraising record by securing more than $34 million through its latest capital campaign, exceeding the original goal of $32 million.
caption: Memorial Staircase and Bresee Hall
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