Stockton University

 Stockton University

An undergraduate and graduate university of the arts, sciences and professional studies of the New Jersey state system of higher education is the university of Stockton which is located in Galloway township in Atlantic county ,new jersey ,united state Later the Stockton university was named for Richard Stockton which the one of a new jersey signers of the declaration of the independence.In 1969 the Stockton university was founded.In 1971 Stockton accepted its charter class.In 1971 its opening was done and the classes was held at mayflower hotel in Atlantic city.

In 1971 township began operating late. 

At Stockton some 8570 students are enrolled which provides distinctive traditional and alternative approaches to the students.In 2015 Stockton was granted university status.For over the five years the Stockton had met the requirements such a designation and the middle states commission on higher education  the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review classified as comprehensive university. The middle states association of the college and schools was accredited to the university since 1975 and accreditation was reaffirmed in 2012.

In southern new jersey, in November 1968, New Jersey approved a $202.5 million capital construction bond issue with an earmarked $15 million designated for the construction of a new state college. In the heart of the Pine Barrens in Galloway Township in 1969 a 1,600 acres (6.5 km 2) tract was selected for the campus.The school south jersey state college originally was named by trustees.;they later renamed it as Stockton state college to avoid the confusion with Rutgers college of south jersey.  In 1970 Trustees realized they needed an alternative location for the first class in 1971 as construction began to run schedule.

In Atlantic city they selected the historic mayflower hotel as the temporary campus.In September 1971 the classes began on schedule with the commencement of the first academic year.The College officially took shape as 1,000 students, 50 of whom were Educational opportunity Fund students; 97 staff, and 60 full-time faculty took over the former resort hotel. Occupancy of the first phase of the new campus construction took place in December with the transfer of classes and offices to Galloway Township during the winter holiday period.

In  December 1975 accreditation of Stockton State College by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools was first granted. The College was re-accredited unconditionally for another 10 years by the Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education in July 1975 and middle States accreditation was reaffirmed most recently in 2012. The US Congress passed legislation creating the New Jersey Pin-elands National Reserve, the first such designation in the nation in 1978 , the first such designation in the nation, to protect the area's ecology and aquifer, which serves the large metropolitan region.

The College name was changed to The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 1993. On February 13, 2015  Rochelle Hendricks, New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education, approved Stockton’s petition to become a university