SUNY New Paltz is a public comprehensive university in the village of New Paltz, in the Hudson Valley of New York, founded in 1828 as a teacher-training school and now part of the SUNY system. Total enrollment is roughly 7,500 with about 6,500 undergraduates. Notable academic strengths include education, the arts (visual, performing, and creative writing), business, and engineering. The Hawks compete in NCAA Division III in the SUNYAC. New Paltz has a famously bohemian-progressive culture inflected by the surrounding Shawangunk Ridge ("the Gunks") rock-climbing destinations and the Hudson Vall…
