This school was founded in 1961 as Adirondack Community College. Willis F Watson was appointed to be the head of the vocation program for the college. In 1983, the Adirondack Community College Foundation was established to provide student scholarships. The college is now branded as SUNY Adirondack.
Campus
Office and service buildings
Warren Hall houses the business office, the financial aid office, payroll, office of the registrar, Barbara Green, the Interim Dean of Student affairs, the admissions office, and the office of accessibility services which provides assistance to students with disabilities. Student Center houses the school bookstore, a cafeteria, a student lounge with big-screen TV, a pool table, and a number of couches, chairs, and tables for students to relax or sleep. It also houses the Student Activities office, which is home to the SUNY Adirondack Student Senate.
Classroom buildings
Eisenhart Hall is the oldest classroom building on campus. A major renovation was completed in April 2006, including a new geothermal heating system, as it used to have poor climate control. It now also houses a SUNY Plattsburghlecture hall. Primarilybusiness classes are taught in this building: Accounting, Marketing, Management, Hospitality, Conventions and Events Planning, QuickBooks, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, social science classes are taught in this building: psychology, sociology, history, and political science, though other classes are taught here as well. Washington Hall is next to Eisenhart Hall and is home to nursing labs, the radio station, the television studio, a video editing lab, photography labs and darkroom, and a Mac lab for graphic design/media arts students. Dearlove Hall houses the Visual Arts Gallery, art studios, math lab, English and mathematics classrooms. The 3rd floor contains computer networking, IT:End User Support classrooms and tech. The offices of most English and Math professors are located in the basement of this hall. Art, language arts, and mathematics courses are primarily taught in this building. There is also an art gallery and a small lecture hall. Scoville Building houses a small café, the library, the computer center, a computer lab, and the computer classrooms. There are only a few non-computer classrooms here, which mainly provide room for overflow from Eisenhart Hall. The top floor houses the Office of the President. The library contains more than 63,000 books, including over 5,000 reference books, and subscribes to over 340 journals and other periodicals. Science and Humanities building is an academic building that contains all science labs, a performance auditorium, and several music classrooms. Music lessons for 17 instruments and private voice are available for credit to all students, regardless of major. The Regional Higher Education Center houses the extension centers of SUNY Plattsburgh, Empire State and Paul Smith's College. It also contains several classrooms.
Dormitories
New student housing was furnished in the Fall of 2013.
Student life
The Student Senate and the College Activity Board provide a variety of activities and events including monthly movies. Additionally, there are a number of clubs representing a variety of interests. Students can join:
SUNY Adirondack is a member of the NJCAA Region 3 Mountain Valley Athletic Conference and requires students be enrolled full-time and maintain a GPA of 2.0 or higher. The following are inter-collegiate, competitive teams:
