Editing Cranford, New Jersey (section)

=== Union College ===
The main campus of [[Union College (New Jersey)|Union College]] is located in Cranford; the school opened in 1933 in [[Roselle, New Jersey|Roselle]] and has been located in Cranford since 1942.<ref>[https://www.ucc.edu/blog/2023/10/20/union-college-of-union-county-nj-celebrates-90th-years-makes-history/ "UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ Celebrates 90 Years & Makes History"], [[Union College (New Jersey)|Union College]]. Accessed May 20, 2024. "The College, then known as UCNJ County Junior College, was founded on October 16, 1933, with 243 students taking evening classes at Abraham Clark High School in Roselle."</ref><ref>Burks, Edward C. [https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/01/archives/union-college-at-40-is-still-growing-many-continue-education.html "Union College, at 40, Is Still Growing"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 1, 1973. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Forty years after a modest start as a Depression‐era W.P.A. project, Union College is completing a $4.5‐million expansion program that includes a new library and a humanities building with 17 classrooms. The two‐year junior college was established as an evening institution in Roselle High School in 1933, and became a private school two years later. It moved into an old Cranford public school building in 1942, and, finally, to its present 50‐acre site on Springfield Avenue in 1959."</ref> The school's Cranford campus, one of four county locations, covers {{convert|50|acres}} and was established in 1959.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108359739/fiftieth-anniversary-of-union-county/ "Union College celebrates its 50th anniversary"], ''[[Courier News]]'', October 17, 1983. Accessed August 26, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Lean salary years followed, then an enrollment crisis in 1944 when education-hungry GIs suddenly overwhelmed the small, deficit-ridden school. By that time, the college had a campus of its own the dilapidated Grant School in Cranford. The college received full accreditation in 1956 and moved to its current 50-acre campus in Cranford in 1959."</ref>