Daemen University
Daemen University is a private university in Amherst, New York and Brooklyn, New York. Formerly Daemen College and Rosary Hill College, the now-non-denominational school was founded by the Sisters of St. Francis in 1947. Daemen enrolls approximately 2,600 students. History. Rosary Hill College for women was established in 1947 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity. That order's founder, Mother Magdalene Daemen, was recognized when the school was renamed Daemen College in 1976 (the same year it became non-sectarian). The institution has admitted men since the mid-1960s and graduated its  first male student in 1968. It acquired its current name, Daemen University, in 2022. Academics. There are more than thirty undergraduate programs and six graduate programs at the university. Daemen has a competency-based core curriculum in which students are expected to master critical thinking and creative problem solving, information literacy, communication skills, affective awareness, moral and ethical discernment, contextual competency and civic responsibility. Also notable is Daemen's integration of service learning into the core curriculum. Sports. Daemen University teams, the Wildcats, are part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing as a member of the East  Coast Conference. Formerly, the Daemen College Wildcats were part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the now-defunct American Mideast Conference. Men's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and track and field. Women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, soccer, tennis, track and field, triathlon and volleyball. Names prior to Wildcats include the Rosary Hill College Angels, the Daemen College Demons, Golden Warriors and Warriors. The institution was the first private college in the Buffalo-Niagara region to start an official esports team. In 2018, the team competed in League of  Legends, Hearthstone and Quake Champions.