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History of the CIA
-Opened in 1946 as the New Haven Restaurant Institute, with an enrollment of 50 students and a faculty consisting of a chef, baker, and a dietician, located in New Haven, CT.
-The Institute started out as a vocational training school for WWII veterans.
-The founders of the school were Frances Roth and Katherine Angell.
-When the food industry grew, so did enrollment, necessitating a move in 1947 to a mansion adjacent to Yale University. The name of the school was then changed to the Restaurant Institute of Connecticut.
-In 1951, the name was changed to the Culinary Institute of America, reflecting the diversity of the students.
-In 1969, when enrollment strained the maximum allowed, the school's administration searched for a new home. They found that home in St. Andrew-on-Hudson, an 80 acre former Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, NY, overlooking the Hudson River.
-In 1972, the Board of Regents of the State of NY granted the CIA a charter to confer a Associate degree.
-In 1981, the school became the only school authorized to administer the America Culinary Federation's 10-day, grueling master chef examination.
-In 1992, the CIA purchased 70 additional acres for its campus.
-In 1993, the college was approved by the NY Board of Regents to offer Bachelor degrees. Also in 1993, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation offered a gift of $1.5 million for the college to open its Conrad N. Hilton Library.
-The CIA opened its Student Recreation Center in 1998.
-This year the college will open a retail bakery cafe on the first floor of Roth Hall, and currently under construction is the Colavita Center, an educational center for Italian Food and Wine.