Two national organizations – the American Society of Landscape
Architects (ASLA) and Time Magazine/Princeton Review – recognized
the College recently.
The ASLA announced the 362 historic landscapes in the U.S., counting
Union as one of 22 campuses and the only one in the state. Also on the list
were such non-college attractions as Disneyland, the U.S. Capitol grounds,
and New York's Central Park. Other campuses recognized were Berkeley,
Stanford, Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Union received honorable mention for its social outreach efforts by the
editors of the 2000 edition of The Best College for You, a
co-publication of Time Magazine and The Princeton Review.
The magazine cited President Roger Hull and Trustee Neil Golub for their
work in establishing Schenectady 2000. Union was one of 11 colleges
nationwide and the only institution in New York recognized for their
outreach programs; the University of Southern California took top honors as
College of the Year.
Also, HotBot, one the largest search engines on the World Wide Web,
released its “HotBot Popularity Ranking,” which ranked Union third
among the nation's most searched-for college sites. To make the list
people had to have searched for Union by name. Taking top honors was Trinity
College of Connecticut followed by Smith College of Massachusetts. The
College has had more than 7.5 million hits this year, double last year's
total, said Saul Morse, Webmaster.