Connecticut College
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Connecticut College is a liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1911, Connecticut College was a women's school until 1969. It is located just up Route 32 from the United States Coast Guard Academy. Across the Thames River which the college's crew and sailing teams practice on, is the city of Groton.
In the annual "America's Best Colleges 2005" by U.S. News and World Report, Connecticut College was ranked #35 among the country's 226 liberal arts colleges.
In 2004, Connecticut College published its strategic plan, which included the college's mission statement: Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society.
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About Connecticut College
Connecticut College's enrollment is 1,900 men and women from 45 states, Washington D.C., and 39 countries. Forty percent of students are men.
The college is particularly known for interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning.
Students live under the College's 83-year-old Honor Code and without a Greek system. The Honor Code, which distinguishes Connecticut College from its peers, underpins all academic and social interactions at the College and creates a palpable spirit of trust and cooperation between students and faculty. Other benefits of the Code include the tradition of shared governance among faculty and students and self-scheduled, unproctored final exams.
According to The Princeton Review 2005 and Campus Compact, Connecticut College has been cited as one of the nation’s best colleges for fostering social responsibility and public service.
Connecticut College is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Watson Foundation List, the Annapolis Group and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
Noted faculty include professor of government Alex Hybel.
Connecticut College Statistics
- The College offers more than 1000 courses in 30 academic departments and 7 interdisciplinary programs, and 55 traditional majors, plus opportunities for self-designed courses of study.
- Approximately 55 % of the student body studies abroad at some point during their four years.
- Connecticut College has 152 full-time professors; 89 percent hold a doctorate or equivalent. All classes are taught by professors. The student-faculty ratio is 11:1.
Highlights
- WCNI - the college radio station, billed as "Ground Zero Radio," based on the story that the station's transmitter was actually a target of Soviet ICBM's because it was the highest point in the area and close to the sub base. It has a variety of unique music unheard on most other stations including popular polka, blues, and celtic music shows.
- the Dance Department - Connecticut College has a very good dance department; there are always well respected visiting artists and professors in the department. Also, the students regularly perform during the year.
- The Connecticut College Arboretum- a fine 750 acre (3 km²) arboretum and botanical garden, and popular place for students to go and wander around and study. The arboretum is also open to the community.
- The Honor Code - signed by all students upon matriculation, allows a strong student voice in shared governance through the SGA (Student Government Association), the luxury of self-scheduled, unproctored exams. Because of the honor code, students are treated by faculty, staff, and the administration as mature adults. A student-run Judicial Board governs infractions of the Honor Code.
- Study Abroad - many opportunities for conventional study abroad are available, as well as the special programs CISLA (one of the academic centers), which allows students to "internationalize" their major, whatever it may be, and SATA (Study Away Teach Away), in which a Conn professor takes a small group of students on a trip to a country which that professor has experience with, and there the students take classes at a local university, and one with the Conn professor.
Programs
- Career Enhancing Life Skills (CELS) is a four-year program through which students explore career options, assess interests and skills, learn to consider lifetime goals when planning coursework and activities, look for a career-related junior-year internship, and get help with a job search as seniors.
- Unity House is the college's multicultural center. Unity House promotes, supports, educates, and implements multicultural awareness programs on campus. It also houses a library and group meeting room. It also hosts many intercultural organizations, including but not limited to Umoja (African Diaspora club), SOUL (Sexual Orientations United for Liberation), and CCASA (Conn. College Asian/Asian American Student Association).
- Office of Volunteer and Career Services (OVCS) helps students find volunteering opportunities in the community. Also provides a van service to drive students to their community service.
- Friday Nite Live The Student Activities Council hosts a series of weekly concerts performed by on-campus and off-campus bands. Some of the recent acts include: Virginia Coalition, ViV, Paranoid Social Club, and Ari Hest.
Academics at Connecticut College
The Four Interdisciplinary Centers:
- Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology Through the Ammerman Center, faculty and students can shape the study, use and creation of new technologies, probe the forefront of their fields and work in new markets with innovative products.
- Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA) The CISLA mission is to encourage students to become public intellectuals: those who are politically concerned, socially engaged, and culturally sensitive and informed. CISLA prepares them to internationalize their majors and become responsible citizens in a global community.
- Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy The Center orchestrates College and community resources to build on assets, respond to needs, and facilitate community revitalization and problem solving.
- Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies The Center is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program that builds on one of the nation's leading undergraduate environmental studies programs. The Center fosters research, education, and curriculum development aimed at understanding contemporary ecological challenges.
Student publications include
- Daily CONNtact (newsletter)
- Friends of CC Library
- Inside Information
- Propose It!
- The Source
- College Voice (newspaper)
- Ethos (magazine)
- Koine (yearbook)
- Menagerie (literary magazine)
- Wanderlust (travel magazine)
Past presidents
- 1913-1917: Frederick H. Sykes
- 1917-1928: Benjamin T. Marshall
- 1929-1943: Katharine Blunt
- 1943-1945: Dorothy Schaffter
- 1945-1946: Katharine Blunt
- 1947-1962: Rosemary Park
- 1962-1974: Charles E. Shain
- 1974-1988: Oakes Ames
- 1988-2001: Claire L. Gaudiani
- 2001-2006: Norman Fainstein
External link
- Connecticut College (http://www.conncoll.edu)
- Connecticut College Strategic Plan (http://www.conncoll.edu/advancement/sp/)