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Illustrations & documents · October 13, 1970

New Haven College becomes a university

University of New Haven

A period news heading announces the governors’ vote to change the institution’s name. It documents a milestone distinct from the 1920 founding and 1960 campus move.

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Source: Zrosen88; CC BY-SA 3.0; Wikimedia Commons

New Haven College becomes a university
Zrosen88; CC BY-SA 3.0; Wikimedia Commons. October 13, 1970. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, University of New Haven, SGC-90, PHOTO-26854694, “New Haven College becomes a university.” Source: Zrosen88; CC BY-SA 3.0; Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHC_to_UNH_name_change.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-24.

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