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S O UT HE R N AT A GLANC E
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ACADEMICS 69 undergraduate, 45 graduate degree programs ACCREDITATION In 2012, Southern received its reaccreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges ALUMNI 87,500 ATHLETICS Ten national NCAA Division II team titles and 78 individual championships CAMPUS Nearly 172 acres DIVERSITY More than 650 students with disabilities. Minority students comprise nearly 30 percent of the total enrollment ENDOWMENT $19.3 million ENROLLMENT 10,825 FACULTY 439 full-time; 85 percent with doctoral and other terminal degrees GRADUATE STUDENTS 2,692 OPERATING BUDGET $200 million RESIDENCE LIFE More than 2,500 students live on campus in nine residence halls UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS 8,133, including 1,275 new full-time freshmen
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Dear Students,
elcome to Southern Connecticut State University. As the great American poet Mark Strand wrote, “The future is always beginning now,” and indeed your college career represents a big step towards your future. We – the administration, faculty and staff of Southern – are pleased to provide you with the support, the guidance and the inspiration to nourish your beginning and help launch you into your future beyond this campus. The university itself is also looking to the future, as extensive physical changes continue to take place on our campus. Our science programs will be greatly enhanced with the opening this summer of our new Academic and Laboratory Science Building, which will provide new opportunities for student research and experiential learning in the STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Meanwhile, the newly renovated Buley Library has become an academic and social hub for the university community – the heart of the university, as a library should be. But while the physical developments on campus are indeed exciting, the learning environment here is the cornerstone of a Southern education. You will meet and interact with students and faculty from across the nation and around the world, while exploring the myriad intellectual, social and creative opportunities before you. And beyond the classroom, you can broaden your perspective with lectures, plays, concerts, workshops and more. Off campus, discover New Haven, the cultural capital of the region, offering you the chance to take in the performing and visual arts, athletics and, of course, the most celebrated pizza in the state! At Southern, you will be exposed to a broad educational experience. Through workforce training and liberal education we will provide you with the practical and intellectual toolkit that you will need for a successful career in our new, knowledge-based economy. In short: a real-world education for the 21st century. Sincerely yours,
Mary A. Papazian, Ph.D. President SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM
ACADEMIC DEANS
Bette Bergeron Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Steven Breese Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Mark Rozewski Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration
Ellen D. Durnin Dean, School of Business
Jaye Bailey Chief of Staff/Vice President for Organizational Development
Robert L. Stamp Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Tracy Tyree Vice President for Student Affairs Robert Rennie Chief Information Officer
Sandra Bulmer Interim Dean, School of Health and Human Services Stephen Hegedus Dean, School of Education
Gregory J. Paveza Dean, School of Graduate Studies
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Helping to Build a Knowledge-Based Economy s Connecticut seeks to rebound from the recent economic downturn, Southern Connecticut State University is playing a key role in the recovery process, developing new programs that meet the needs of today’s marketplace and anticipate the trends of tomorrow. Under the leadership of President Mary A. Papazian, Southern prepares its 11,000
students to work in more than 91 percent of the occupations requiring at least a bachelor’s degree for employment, as identified by the state Department of Labor’s 2012 forecast. And, with more than 80 percent of its 2,300 annual graduates staying on to live and work in Connecticut, the 122-year-old university is a major contributor in building the state’s knowledge-based economy.
ADVANCING THE SCIENCES
Southern continues to seek new opportunities, in both growth and indemand fields of study, to build on its 114 offerings at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Recently, for example, the university was named as the host site for Connecticut’s first research center devoted solely to nanotechnology. The center, to be based in a new Academic and Laboratory Science Building that will open in spring 2015, prepares students for careers in this growth industry through hands-on experience with specialized equipment. Concurrent with the launching of the Southern-based center is the establishment of a graduate certificate program in nanotech that commenced at the four Connecticut State Universities in fall 2012. A master’s degree in applied physics is also
being offered, providing an educational pathway for individuals seeking applied research and management positions in the state’s high-tech industries, and a source of trained professionals for technology employers. Students and faculty at Southern and in New Haven schools are able to create and examine new materials at the atomic level thanks to a National Science Foundationsupported partnership with Yale University. The National Science Foundation recently allocated a six-year, $13 million grant to enhance the universities’ joint Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena, headed by Southern’s new Director of STEM Initiatives, Christine Broadbridge.
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DOCTORAL PROGRAMS MEET WORKFORCE NEEDS Southern’s second doctoral program – an Ed.D. in nursing education – is geared to help offset the state and national shortage of nurses and nursing faculty. This collaborative program – offered jointly with Western Connecticut State University in Danbury – is only the third of its type in the country. The 51-credit program, mainly offered online, is designed for individuals who work full-time, especially nurses who might want to teach in their current profession. The program complements other recent efforts by Southern to address the nursing shortage. These include an accelerated program enabling individuals with a bachelor’s degree in any discipline to change careers and earn a B.S.N. in one year, cutting in half the time it usually takes to earn such a degree. Southern began offering its first doctoral program, an Ed.D. in education, in 2002. This degree was developed to offset the shortage of qualified candidates
for top school administrative posts in the state and has been designed as an affordable, accessible option for Connecticut residents. The School of Education, which recently earned a 5-year national reaccreditation, produces more teachers than any other institution in the state. And it prepares the greatest number of principals and superintendents through its educational leadership programs. Other graduate programs are also being developed or enhanced to meet workforce needs and the time constraints of adult professional workers. A new accelerated M.B.A., for example, offers the opportunity to earn the degree in 17 months through a combination of Saturday and online courses. A fully online master’s program in sport and entertainment management is now offered, and new computer science graduate tracks are available in the growth fields of cybersecurity and software development – listed as the number one career field for 2014 by Forbes magazine.
• Above: The joint Ed.D. in nursing education, collaborative with WCSU,
will help increase the number of nursing faculty in the state. Barbara Aronson (center) is the program’s coordinator.
• Far left: Christine Broadbridge is the new Director of STEM Initiatives. • Left: The state’s first nanotechnology research center is based at Southern.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Southern is also committed to improving educational standards and opportunities at the grassroots level. As part of this effort, hundreds of Southern students and faculty are involved each year in dozens of community initiatives and partnerships: from internships and volunteer projects to unique collaborations with city schools and other organizations. For example, the Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science is helping to increase the number and quality of students in those fields by reaching out to local elementary schools with fun, handson engineering programs, and to high schools with scholarship opportunities for outstanding students. And the Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders provides current and future educators with best practices when teaching students on the autism spectrum.
In addition, thousands of youngsters and adults come to campus each year for educational workshops and seminars, cultural and sporting events, college preparation programs, and summer camps. For instance, Southern is one of three higher education institutions in the state to partner in a seven-year, $31.5 million Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) grant to improve college access and readiness for Connecticut’s students. The funding is being used to significantly increase the number of low-income students prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education, and to provide scholarships for eligible high school seniors. Southern is serving about 320 seventh graders from nine New Haven middle schools.
• Above Left: Ruth Eren, director of the Center of Excellence on Autism Spectrum Disorders, discusses with students how iPhones can be used to help those on the autism spectrum. • Above: New Haven teachers collaborate with Southern faculty through the Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science. • Left: Graduate students work with preschoolers at the West Haven Child Development Center.
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• Top: The Crescent Players’ fall 2014 production of Godspell. • Far left: The University Choir performs in Barcelona, Spain. • Left: Sarah Hill was a member of the 4 x 400 relay team that won the Owls’ fourth national title for women’s track, and second for the women’s indoor track and field program.
ARTS AND ATHLETICS
The visual and performing arts at Southern are vibrant components of university life, but the impact of the art, music and theater departments extends beyond campus, into the local community and around the world. For example, over New Year’s week 2014, the University Choir, directed by Music Professor Terese Gemme, traveled to Barcelona, Spain. It performed to full houses in several beautiful churches, and worked with Grammy-award winning director Craig Hella Johnson. The Theatre Department was invited to take its fall 2014 production of Godspell to the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Hyannis, Mass. The regional festival – encompassing all of New England and upstate New York – represents the very best of college theater, and Godspell was the only show from Connecticut to be invited. Southern has become an integral part of
the local arts community as well, having established partnerships with Long Wharf Theatre and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Campus events at the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts bring a wide range of affordable cultural activities to the general public, including the center’s acclaimed annual smooth jazz series. In athletics, Southern has one of the top NCAA Division II programs in the country, with 10 national team championships and 79 individual titles. The latest was earned by the women's 4x400 relay team of Crystle Hill, Georgette Nixon, Sarah Hill and Shatajah Wattely at the NCAA Div. II Indoor Track and Field Championship in March 2015. In 2014, the men’s basketball team also advanced to the Elite 8 in the national championships for just the second time in team history, on the back of a 30-3 record and a Northeast-10 Conference crown.
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GIVING BACK: IT’S WHO WE ARE
Service is woven into the fabric of Southern’s culture; it is part of the university’s mission to instill the qualities of public service in our students. Acts of service, big and small, take place every day, both on and off campus, and we have reason to be proud that, as an institution, we are making a difference. The university was named to the 2014 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, with recognition in two categories: General Community Service and Education Community Service. The honor roll annually highlights the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement by recognizing institutions that achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes in the communities they serve. Southern was previously on the honor roll in 2008 and 2009.
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SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
The School of Arts and Sciences challenges you to meet high standards of academic rigor and integrity. Our academic departments span the humanities, the physical sciences, the fine and performing arts, and the social sciences. You can study human remains in forensic anthropology, compose your own musical pieces in an electronic music lab, or conduct hands-on research on Long Island Sound. Southern was recently named as the host site for Connecticut’s first research center devoted solely to nanotechnology, preparing students for careers in this fast-growth industry. The center will be a feature of the new Academic and Laboratory Science building, to be completed in 2015 (rendering below). With 22 academic departments and more than 70 areas of specialization, the School of Arts and Sciences delivers a comprehensive range of exciting degree programs. Want more choices? Our distinctive Interdisciplinary Studies program allows you to design your own individualized course of study to efficiently achieve your educational goals. For a complete list of majors, please visit SouthernCT.edu/academics/schools/arts.
HONORS COLLEGE
If you thrive on ideas, Southern’s Honors College is for you. This four-year program replaces most university requirements with team-taught, interdisciplinary courses and a thesis requirement. The Honors College is open to students in all schools and majors, and provides excellent credentials for graduate school and career placement.
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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
At Southern’s School of Business, you can research, buy, and sell stocks on an on-campus “trading floor;” learn how to establish a brand and market a product; or delve into real estate law, entrepreneurship, and small business development. Our outstanding faculty and staff work together to provide high quality undergraduate programs to prepare students for careers in business, and advanced graduate study. Each program combines general education, business common core and major/ concentration requirements, delivering a wellrounded curriculum. Southern business students recently competed in a real-world simulation program along with some of the world’s most elite universities. The assignment was to stabilize a failing company. The exercise, which simulates teamwork, decision making, and quantitative and presentation skills, reinforced what it takes for a team to be successful. The Southern team scored higher than 99 percent of all schools taking part in the program. Southern’s School of Business has a new home — transformed from the former Student Center into a state-of-the-art facility for business study, including a Business Success Center, sponsored by Northeast Utilities Foundation, established to support our students’ professional development. The timing is perfect, since Southern’s business programs are in high demand to meet Connecticut’s workforce needs. For a complete list of majors, please visit SouthernCT.edu/academics/schools/business.
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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Southern’s School of Education prepares more teachers than any other institution in the state, as well as producing the greatest numbers of principals and superintendents through its educational leadership programs. As the statewide leader in graduating highly qualified special education teachers, Southern has been tapped by the state to address the growing challenge of how to better educate children with autism. Our Center of Excellence on Autism Spectrum Disorders, the first of its kind in the state, provides a distinctive resource to improve the educational and social experiences of students diagnosed with a form of this developmental disability. All students seeking their initial teaching certification will complete a series of clinical field experiences and student teaching to be eligible for certification. For a complete list of majors, please visit SouthernCT.edu/ academics/schools/education.
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SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
The School of Health and Human Services provides you with the opportunity to do clinical practice at local hospitals and community health centers, work at counseling centers and social service agencies, and intern at camps and recreation centers. The Connecticut Department of Labor predicts that Connecticut’s health care demands will increase 60 percent over the next 20 years. The latest occupational forecast data suggest a long-term demand for professionals in the nursing, public health, and therapy fields, among others. Southern offers an accelerated (ACE) program in nursing that allows those with a bachelor’s degree in any discipline to earn their R.N. The school’s yearly trip to Guatemala takes students out of the traditional classroom setting, to study public health in this developing country. For a complete list of majors, please visitSouthernCT.edu/academics/ schools/health.
A GR E E N AND GROWING C AMPUS
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Physical Transformation Moving Ahead
outhern continues its development as a thoroughly modern campus, with the recent opening of a new home for the School of Business and an expanded library and new science building nearing completion. The university’s revised master plan also calls for a campus recreation center, a new fine arts center and a central home for Southern’s health and services programs. o
Right: The renovated former Student Center has become a new home for the School of Business. Encompassing about 23,000 square feet, the building houses faculty offices, classrooms, conference and meeting rooms and a Wall Street-style trading room. Legislative support is also being sought to fund a business annex, which would include a Business Success Center, modern business high-tech classrooms, and conference space to host the offcampus corporate community. Below: Construction is nearing completion on a 98,332-square-foot science building that will house teaching and research laboratories for Southern’s growing programs in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines, which have seen enrollments increase by more than 17 percent in recent years. Embracing innovative, sustainable design the building will be home to nanotechnology, physics and optics, cancer research, astronomy and other sciences. It will also house the Werth Center for Coastal and Marine Studies, supported by a $1.5 million endowment from the Werth Family Foundation.
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Right: Following completion of a 135,000 square-foot addition that doubles the size of Buley Library, the original library has been completely renovated. Scheduled to open in spring 2015, the new Buley features the latest in information technology, with its computer labs, cyber cafe, tutorial centers and classrooms providing the best possible environment for teaching, learning and research. It houses an art gallery showcasing visiting exhibitions and the work of Southern students. And it will also provide a proper home for the magnificent Tiffany windows that link Buley to its past. Campus parking has been eased by the construction of a new 1,200-space parking garage on the site of Lot 7, at the side of Moore Fieldhouse on Wintergreen Avenue. The project has netted 800 parking spaces for students and employees and, in keeping with the university’s commitment to sustainability, includes energy-efficient LED lighting and recharging stations for electricity-powered vehicles.
Sustainability Efforts Earning National Recognition
Its school colors may be blue and white, but Southern has stamped itself as one of the up-and-coming green campuses in the nation, as highlighted in “The Princeton Review's Guide to 332 Green Colleges" 2014 edition. Most recently, the new School of Business received LEED Gold certification for environmental design, only the second building in the state to receive this recognition. Southern has also earned consecutive Power of Change Top State Building awards for energy efficiency. And the university recently placed fourth of 98 schools in the country in reducing its electricity use in the residence halls during the Campus Conservation Nationals, a competition among colleges and universities to reduce energy consumption. Other recent sustainability efforts at Southern include: • Becoming a charter signatory to the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which calls for schools to bolster their conservation efforts in pursuit of eventual carbon neutrality • Purchasing graduation caps and gowns made from recycled plastic bottles • Adopting a single-stream recycling program • Reducing pollutants by 50 percent through burning ultra-low sulfur fuel in the campus Energy Center • Introducing conservation measures such as placing energy misers on vending machines to reduce refrigeration costs, installing 3,000 motion detectors for more efficient lighting and adding devices on all computers that power down the monitors after 15 minutes of non-activity • Installing solar panels on Brownell Residence Hall and the new School of Business
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Southern Owls Soaring
outhern athletics has a time-honored tradition of excellence, and during the 2013-14 academic year, eight programs were represented in NCAA Division II championship action, resulting in two NCAA individual national champions, two NCAA individual runner-up marks, and 27 All-America selections. Southern had 337 selections to the Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll. Student-athletes must maintain a 3.0 semester grade point average (GPA) in order to earn recognition. The 2013-14 academic year saw a record-setting average by our student-athletes, who maintained a 3.03 overall GPA. In 2013, Amanda Thomas completed a storied four-year swimming career with 18 All-America titles and four NCAA individual crowns. On the back of a school-record 19-game winning streak, the men’s basketball team surged to the NE-10 title and into the NCAA Championships, reaching the Elite Eight for just the second time in the program’s history.
• Above: Amanda Thomas completed a storied four-year swimming career. • Right: The men’s basketball team reached the Elite Eight in the NCAA championships.
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Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award recipients
27 4 2 7 19 2 8 2 2 4 2 337 16 4 NCAA Participants
NCAA Individual National Runners-up in Swimming and Track and Field
NCAA Individual Champions in Men’s Swimming and Diving and Indoor Track and Field
Northeast-10 Conference Athletes of the Year/ Championship Honorees
All-Americans
Regional Athletes of the Year
2013-2014 ACCOLADES
Northeast-10 Conference Coaches of the Year
ECAC Rookies of the Year
Northeast-10 All-Academic Team selections
New England Championships in Men’s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field
Regional Coaches of the Year
Northeast-10 Conference Championships
Selections named to the Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor; singer John Legend; the New York Yankees’ Joe Torre and Mariano Rivera; the Crescent Players’ production of Shakespeare in Hollywood.
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• Clockwise, from far left:
Jay Leno; Crescent Players’ production of Bye Bye Birdie; autism activist Temple Grandin; Sierra Leonean author Ishmael Beah; humorist Garrison Keillor; musicians Peter White and Mindi Abair.
LYMAN CENTER OFFERS LECTURES, ENTERTAINMENT
The university’s John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts presents a number of cultural and entertainment events each year that are open to the public. Among them, the annual Mary and Louis Fusco Distinguished Lecture is a major intellectual event in the greater New Haven area, each year bringing a political, social or creative leader to campus. The latest installment features New York Yankees legends Mariano Rivera, the most dominant closer in the history of baseball, and Hall of Fame Manager Joe Torre. Proceeds from the event provide scholarship support for Southern students through the Endowed Awards of Excellence, a merit-based scholarship program that attracts and recognizes academically talented students. Lyman Center also offers an annual jazz concert series; speakers such as Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, Jane Pauley and Wally Lamb; art exhibits; stand-up comedy acts; student theater, music and dance performances and an array of other cultural events.
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