Hudson Valley Community College, a SUNY associated two-year college, is located in Troy in Rensselaer County, New York. The school was founded in 1953 as the Hudson Valley Technical Institute and currently offers programs in fifty areas of study. Although about eighty percent of the students are from the local area, the remainder are from other parts of New York and other states.

Locally referred to as HVCC, the school has over 50 active clubs and organizations and has recently completed renovations to the Siek Campus Center. In the near future, the school will also renovate The Marvin Library Resource Center.

Two extremely popular locations on campus are The Writing Center (on the upper level of the Library) and The Learning Assistance Center (on the lower level of the Library). The Writing Center offers assistance to students at any stage of the writing process, and The Learning Assistance Center offers help in math, study strategies, and other subjects such as biology, accounting, history, and sociology, among others.

The school's theatre was named after local resident Maureen Stapleton in 1981.

The school currently has an enrollment of over 12,000 students, and is currently suffering from a severe lack of parking, especially in the fall, when one can find most of the lawns covered with the vehicles of late-comers to class. The college currently ranks as the largest college in terms of enrollment in the Capital District and the second largest in size following SUNY Albany.

HVCC also has a stellar Distance Learning Program, and many degrees can be completed fully online.

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