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Connecticut College
Seal of Connecticut College
Motto Tanquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum "Like a tree planted by rivers of waters" (that bringeth forth its fruit in its season.) (Psalm 1:3)
Established April 1911
Type Private
Endowment US$164.8 Million (FY 2005)
President Leo Higdon
Undergraduates 1,900
Postgraduates 10
Location New London, Connecticut, USA
Campus Suburban
Sports 34 varsity teams, 12 club teams
Mascot Camel
Website www.conncoll.edu

Connecticut College is a coeducational, highly selective private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. Chartered in 1911, it was a women's college until 1969. It is located on the Thames River, on which the college's crew and sailing teams regularly practice. Connecticut College's riverside location and its wooded campus are reflected in the College seal.

In fall 2004, Connecticut College published its fourth strategic plan, which included the college's new mission statement: Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society.

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[edit] About Connecticut College

Connecticut College's enrolls about 1,900 men and women from 41 states, Washington D.C., and 42 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.

Image:ConnecticutCollege.JPG Students live under the College's 84-year-old student-adjudicated 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 is one of the nation’s best colleges for fostering social responsibility and public service. A January 2006 ranking noted that Connecticut College is among the 25 top small colleges in terms of the number of graduates who serve in the Peace Corps.

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).

[edit] Connecticut College Statistics

  • In "America's Best Colleges 2006" published by U.S. News and World Report, Connecticut College was ranked 36th out of 215 national liberal arts colleges. In subcategories, ranked No. 27 for admission selectivity, No. 26 for graduation and retention rates, and No. 32 for alumni giving.
  • Connecticut College has 162 full-time professors in Academic Year 2005-06; 89 percent hold a doctorate or equivalent. All classes are taught by professors. The student-faculty ratio is 10:1.
  • For the 2005-06 academic year, domestic students of color accounted for about 16% of all full-time and part-time students. International students accounted for about another 2% of the student body. The countries from which the most international students come are Turkey, China, Bulgaria, and India.

[edit] Academics at Connecticut College

The College offers more than 1,000 courses in 29 academic departments and 7 interdisciplinary programs, and students can choose from 54 traditional majors plus opportunities for self-designed courses of study. The most common majors among graduates of the Class of 2005 were Government, Economics, English, Psychology, International Relations, Biological Sciences, Anthropology, and History. About 18-20% of Connecticut College students graduate with double majors (the most common combinations of which are Government/History, Economics/International Relations, and Economics/Government).

Connecticut College has four Interdisciplinary Centers that administer certificate programs, plus a fifth center that helps coordinate the teaching and researching of race and ethnicity across the curriculum. If accepted into one of the College's four certificate programs, students of any major complete a self-designed series of courses that relate to their academic interest, complete a College-funded summer internship, and complete an integrative project in their senior year. These four centers routinely attract the college's best students and are a model for the kinds of integrated educational pathways the college offers its students.

  • Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (CAT) 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 (PICA) The Holleran 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 (CCBES) The Goodwin-Niering 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. The Center is named in honor of Richard H. Goodwin, Katharine Blunt Professor Emeritus of Botany, and William A. Niering, Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of Botany. Professor Goodwin was among the early leaders of the Nature Conservancy, serving as its president from 1956-58 and 1964-66.

In addition, in spring 2005, the college established its Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, which will coordinate various college programs and speakers, faculty development opportunities, and curricular development.

Between 50 and 55% of the student body studies abroad at some point during their four years. Connecticut College offers several ways for students to study abroad, including traditional study away programs, semester-long Study Away, Teach Away (SATA) programs, and shorter Traveling Research and Immersion Programs (TRIPs) that are typically related to specific courses.

In addition to its five Interdisciplinary Centers, Connecticut College has a history of undergraduate research work and students are encouraged to publish while an undergraduate under the guidance of a professor.

[edit] Campus and facilities

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The main campus has three residential areas. North Campus (Morrisson, Wright, Lambdin, Park, Marshall, and Hamilton - collectively known as "The Plex") contains the newest residential halls, all of which are connected to each other and Harris Dining Hall. South Campus (Harkness, Addams, Freeman, and Knowlton) is along the side of the main green, across from the academic buildings. Central Campus (Burdick, Smith, Larrabee, Plant, Branford, Blackstone, Blunt, and Lazrus) contains the oldest res halls, and is the closest to the student center and the library. There are also several places where students can live in less traditional housing, including the 360 Apartments, River Ridge Apartments, Earth House, and Abbey House. A few students also live off-campus in New London or Waterford.

The College's science facilities include a rooftop observatory, lab for NMR spectroscopy, a digital transmission electron microscope, a scanning electron microscope, a greenhouse, a channel flow laboratory, and a GIS lab. Its computer facilities include standard UNIX and PC labs as well as specialized labs in robotics, networks, virtual reality and digital signal processing. The robotics lab is equipped with Sun workstations, PCs, robots, and overhead cameras. The virtual reality and signal processing lab (which is also part of the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology) has high-end graphics PCs, head-mounted displays, 3-D trackers, force feedback devices, spatialized audio devices, and software for producing high-end animations and graphics.

The departments of the fine arts are spread out in three places around campus. The Cummings Arts Center contains two concert halls, the Center for Electronic and Digital Sound, pianos, practice rooms, a pipe organ. The Art and Music departments and their classrooms and studios are also housed in Cummings. Surrounding the Arts Center are numerous sculptures, especially in the courtyard known as Castle Court. This lies between Cummings and the largest of the college's performance spaces, Palmer Auditorium. The Theater department has offices in Palmer, and has classes on the main stage, in a smaller classroom in Palmer, and in Tansill Theater, which is further north, near the main entrance. The Dance department is housed on the third floor of the student center, and includes 3 dance studios.

There are two libraries on the campus. Shain Library houses a collection of more than 500,000 books and bound periodicals, along with an extensive collection of microforms, computer files, audio and video tapes. The library is also home to the Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room, a space used for studying, public lectures, and receptions. In 2004, the "Blue Camel Cafe" opened in the library basement, selling coffee, tea, pastries and other items to studying and socializing students. The Greer Music Library in Cummings Arts Center holds books and periodicals about music and musicians, printed music, and numerous recordings on cassette, CD, and vinyl, as well as digital media.

  • The Connecticut College Arboretum is a 750-acre (3 km²) arboretum and botanical garden. Students frequently go to the Arboretum to walk, study, or otherwise enjoy nature. The arboretum is also open to the community, and its staff host frequent workshops, guided hikes, and other interpretive activities.
  • Harkness Chapel is a fine example of noted architect James Gamble Rogers' colonial Georgian style, with twelve stained glass windows by G. Owen Bonawit. The building is used for several denominational religious services each week, as well as for ceremonies, concerts and recitals, weddings, and other public functions.
  • The Lyman Allyn Art Museum[1] is located on campus, although it is not connected to the campus proper. The museum's web site describes it as follows: "Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, furniture and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18th through 20th centuries."

[edit] Notable Connecticut College graduates

[edit] Other highlights

  • Connecticut College has six collegiate a cappella groups. There are two all female groups (The Connchords and The Shwiffs), an all-male group (The Coco Beaux), and three co-ed groups (The ConnArtists, The Williams Street Mix, and Vox Cameli). The a cappella groups' concerts in the College's chapel are usually standing-room-only events.
  • 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. Despite 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 Connecticut College professor takes a small group of students for a semester 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.
  • Located in New London, Connecticut, a diverse, historic city which offsets the homogeneous campus of Connecticut College. Over the past year, several stories in the Connecticut section of the Sunday New York Times have highlighted New London's growing arts and live music scenes. New London attracted national attention in spring 2005 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the city's use of eminent domain to empower a private developer to seize private land as part of a waterfront urban redevelopment scheme involving the Pfizer Corporation.

[edit] Programs and Offices

  • 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, open to all. It also hosts many intercultural organizations, including but not limited to Umoja (African Diaspora club), SOUL (Sexual Orientations United for Liberation), and CCASA (Connecticut College Asian/Asian American Student Association).
  • Office of Volunteers for Community Service (OVCS) helps students find volunteering opportunities in the community. Also provides a student-staffed van service (the Camel Van) to drive students to their community service.
  • Friday Nites 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: Reel Big Fish, ViV, Paranoid Social Club, M-Dodger Unplugged, and Ari Hest.

[edit] Campus publications

  • Daily CONNtact (newsletter)
  • Friends of CC Library
  • Inside Information
  • Propose It! ***
  • Source, faculty/staff newsletter
  • College Voice (newspaper)
  • Confluence Magazine (only student-run literary, political, travel publication)
  • Ethos (magazine)- ***
  • Koiné (yearbook)
  • Menagerie (literary magazine) ***
  • Wanderlust (travel magazine) ***
  • Expose (interdisciplinary academic journal)
  • Speakleft! (campus radical publication. distributed at student center, library, and one other location)
      • NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION

[edit] Connecticut College presidents

[edit] External links


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