Emerson College a Nonprofit Educational Institution
Emerson College is a nonprofit educational institution in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to its primary site in Boston, the school has campuses in Los Angeles, California, and the Dutch municipality of Bergen in the Netherlands. The renowned College boasts a highly regarded roster of academic programs in communication and the arts in North America and Europe.
Bay State-based Emerson is an independent, nondenominational college. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies the College as a comprehensive educational institution. From L.A. to the Netherlands via Boston, it draws energized, engaged, and independent minds from diverse backgrounds to engage in daring, innovative, and rigorous academic programs.
The College is a founding member of the ProArts Consortium, a Boston association of institutions dedicated to collegiate-level arts education. It is also notable for its well-known namesake public opinion poll, Emerson Polling, and for its many successful alumni in the Communication and Entertainment industry.
History
Charles Wesley Emerson founded Emerson College in Boston's Pemberton Square in 1880 as the Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art. Since then, it has relocated its main Boston campus several times, ultimately settling in the city's famous Theater District, where it remains today.
Founder Charles Wesley Emerson established the institution after the closure of Boston University's School of Oratory. Twelve months after opening its doors, the Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art became the Monroe Conservatory of Oratory in honor of Professor Lewis B. Monroe in 1881.
Monroe was one of Charles Wesley Emerson's former teachers at Boston University's since-closed School of Oratory. A decade later, the institution became Emerson College of Oratory. The school then shortened its name to Emerson College in 1939, remaining known as such since.
Mission
This College's mission is to educate students to assume leadership positions within communication and the arts, after which they can deliver all-important creativity, depth, diversity, and innovation to these two disciplines in the U.S. and overseas. Three core liberal arts values inform the College's long-held mission.
These core values encourage ethical practices, foster respect for human diversity, and promote civic engagement. Adherence to these inspiring, non-negotiable
values ensures that students can create freely and communicate clearly with conviction and integrity.
The result is highly educated future generations of industry-leading arts and communication professionals who are emboldened and creatively inspired for life. The College's mission also inspires civic pride by championing strengthened cultural, political, and social landscapes in New England and elsewhere across North America and worldwide.
Leadership Emerson College is led by an accomplished group of administrators. These executive-level and academic administrators are all immensely passionate about the institution's mission and values. Each has a demonstrated background relevant to the school's main focus areas in communication and the arts.
At the heart of the College's leadership team is its President's Council. A dozenstrong team of executive-level leaders form the President's Council. These executive-level leaders are responsible for the independent, nondenominational, and strictly not-for-profit educational institution's overall governance and the resulting success of its students.
Elsewhere, four dedicated school deans represent the College's academic leaders, who are responsible for shaping its curriculum and further ensuring the success of its current and future student bodies.