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GENERAL
INFORMATION
PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES
New Hampshire College serves the
community by educating professional men
and women to do more than merely fill a
position. By combining professional
preparation in business, education and
related areas with a background in the
liberal arts, we hope to instill in our
graduates those moral and social attitudes
necessary for meaningful service to the
community. The Bachelor of Science degree
should signify a commitment to making a
maximum contribution to solving the
incieasingly complex economic and social
problems of our technological era. In this
regard, New Hampshire College has the
following specific objectives:
To blend courses in the humanities and
social sciences with specialization in
business and business-related areas, giving
the student an awareness of the social,
economic and political forces at work in our
world
To maintain those supportive services
and programs necessary for a student
accepted by New Hampshire College to
complete a successful college career.
To encourage innovative teaching and
responsive relationships among students
and staff:
To provide an open atmosphere which
allows as much student participation in
decision-making as possible:
To allow student autonomy in
determining the government and activities of
the student body:
In this way, New Hampshire College
seeks to graduate professional people
serving a complex, pluralistic world in a
humanistic fashion.
HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE
New Hampshire College is a private, nonprofit,
fully-accredited, coeducational
institution located in Manchester, New
Hampshire. The College was founded by the
late H.A.B. Shapiro in 1932 as the New
Hampshire School of Accounting and
Secretarial Science. During the years 1932
to 1960, the College remained relatively
small.
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In 1961, the College was incorporated
and the name was changed to New
Hampshire College of Accounting and
Commerce. The State of New Hampshire
granted the College a charter in 1963,
making it a degree-granting institution of
higher education. The first associate
degrees were awarded the same year, and
three years later the first bachelor degrees
were conferred.
On September 1,1968, the College
became a non-profit institution and shortly
thereafter selected its first Board of Trustees.
The name was changed to New Hampshire
College on September 19, 1969. In August
1971, a new campus was opened replacing
the previous downtown Manchester
location. In September 1974, the College
began a Master of Business Administration
program.
The College now has a day school
enrollment of approximately 1250, a
graduate school enrollment of about 350, and
continuing education (evening school division)
enrollment in excess of 2250 students.
New Hampshire College has evolved
from a commuter school to a resident
college Nearly 950 students now reside on
campus, and approximately 30% are
residents of New Hampshire. Students come
to the College from throughout the United
States and foreign countries.