Esf, Inc. history

In 1912, the College opened its Ranger School in Wanakena, N.Y., in the Adirondacks.

The state purchased 12 acres of land adjacent to Syracuse University from the university in 1913.

While these were the first women to complete their degrees, the college had been enrolling women as early as 1915.

Faculty members and approximately 200 students volunteered their services and completed the move in just two days." Bray remained the only building on the ESF campus until Marshall Hall's completion in 1933.

With the formation of the State University of New York in 1948, the College became recognized as a specialized college within the state university system, having been state-supported from the very beginning.

In 1972, it published – in collaboration with the School for International Training (SIT) in Vermont – a Basic Esperanto Course.

In 1986 it sponsored the participation in the World Esperanto Congress in Beijing of a leading US journalist, James Fallows, and a noted specialist in creole linguistics, Albert Valdman.

Anthropologist Doctor David Jordan (University of California, San Diego) joined the board, and in 1991 the Foundation published the first issue of its newsletter, Esperantic Studies.

In 1995, ESF established an Advisory Board comprised of experts in such fields as linguistics, language policy and planning, and Esperanto.

In 2002, Doctor Ian Richmond, a French-language scholar with strong interests in international communication, joined the board, and, as the years passed, additional members joined or left, in most cases moving to the advisory board and staying in contact with the Foundation.

In 2003, one of ESF’s original founders, Doctor James Lieberman, retired after 34 years of dedicated service to the ESF board.

Doctor Timothy Reagan, long-time ESF collaborator and then Professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University, joined the board in 2004 and is now a member of ESF’s advisory board.

In 2005, the Foundation established a Post-Doctoral Research Support Program with the Center for Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

In 2006, the Foundation provided money to the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CED, based in Rotterdam) to establish the Interlinguistics Support Fund, a program of small grants for scholars working in the field of Esperanto and interlinguistics.

ESF opened its first residence hall, Centennial Hall, in 2011.

In 2012 Erin Piateski was named director of this new initiative and carried it to completion.

The Gateway Center, the LEED Platinum building that has become the hub of campus life, opened in 2013.

H.B. 903, 84th Leg., R.S. instructed the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal 2016, to invest a percentage of the fund balance in a state fiscal biennium that exceeds the amount of the sufficient balance adopted under Government Code, Section 316.092.

In 2017 they relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina, with Chuck Mays as Executive Director.

In 2019 ESF welcomed Rev.