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Western Connecticut State Academy

Type	Public university
Established	1903
Parent establishment	Connecticut State Colleges & Universities
Endowment	$12.viii 1000000[one]
President	John B. Clark
Academic staff	223 full-time; 427 part-time; 91% of total-time faculty accept doctorates and other approved last degrees
Students	five,246 (Fall 2020)[2]
Undergraduates	4,640 (Fall 2020)[3]
Postgraduates	606 (Fall 2020)[4]
Location	Danbury , Connecticut , United States 41°24′00″N 73°26′37″W  /  41.399954°Due north 73.443584°West  / 41.399954; -73.443584 Coordinates: 41°24′00″N 73°26′37″Due west  /  41.399954°North 73.443584°W  / 41.399954; -73.443584
Campus	Urban, 398 acres (1.61 km2) on two campuses
Colors	Navy Blue and Orange[five]
Athletics	NCAA Division III – Niggling East, MASCAC
Affiliations	Connecticut State University System
Sports	14 varsity teams[6]
Website	world wide web.wcsu.edu

Western Connecticut State University (WCSU and WestConn) is a public university in Danbury, Connecticut. It was founded in 1903 as a instructor'south college and is role of the Connecticut State University System.

WCSU consists of four schools: the Ancell School of Concern, the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Professional Studies, and the School of Visual and Performing Arts. The university offers 38 Bachelor'south and one Acquaintance degree programs, fifteen Master's degree programs, and two doctoral programs. WCSU is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Instruction (NECHE).

WCSU is home to the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies, which is the result of a partnership between WCSU and the Jane Goodall Institute (a private non-profit organization that promotes research, educational activity and wildlife conservation). The university's Westside campus houses the Ives Concert Park, one of the premier functioning venues in the area.

Western Connecticut State University is part of the Little Due east Briefing and Massachusetts Land Collegiate Athletic Conference in NCAA Partitioning III. WCSU has 14 varsity sports

Students from New York and New Jersey residents pay in-state tuition; students from New England pay reduced rates considering of WCSU'due south participation in the New England Board of Higher Instruction'southward Regional Student Plan.

History [edit]

Founding and growth [edit]

The entrance gates of WCSU'southward Midtown campus, located in downtown Danbury.

WCSU was founded in 1903 as a teachers' college, training the chief and secondary school educators for Connecticut'due south Fairfield County and surrounding areas. The schoolhouse's name has changed over the years as it has focused on additional areas of written report. First named the Danbury Normal School (also known as the Danbury State Normal Schoolhouse), starting in 1937 information technology was called the Danbury Country Teachers College, a proper noun it retained until the tardily 1950s. The college was renamed Danbury State College in 1959, then Western Connecticut Land College in 1967, and finally, in 1983, Western Connecticut State University.^[7] In 2011, governance of the university was transferred to the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system.

In 1904, 41 students were enrolled in the beginning classes on campus, the number of enrollments climbing to 362 students past 1912.

WXCI and music publicization [edit]

In 1968, WCSU's radio station, WXCI (91.7 FM), and so going by the call sign WCST and broadcasting with AM transmission, was established.

In 1973 WCST was switched from AM to FM transmission, obtained an FCC license, was renamed WXCI, and went on air under that telephone call sign.

In the early 1980s, WXCI became ane of the first FM stations to focus on culling rock. Throughout the 80s the station was instrumental in promoting the work of a number of gimmicky bands and musicians. While the station is perhaps best known for popularizing the English band Duran Duran in the United states of america, it also helped to familiarize the American audience with other projects and musicians from Great U.k., such as Elvis Costello and Civilization Club. It popularized amid residents of the Northeastern U.S. the West Coast punk group Black Flag and the Georgia-based R.East.K., while also providing greater listenership to New York City'southward Talking Heads. Thurston Moore, a founding member of Sonic Youth, attended WCSU for a quarter during the autumn of 1976, though he left afterward.

Jane Goodall Institute and environmental projects [edit]

In 1995, the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies (JGC) was founded on campus. The Center is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organisation dedicated to environmental stewardship and conservation, and wildlife education and enquiry, being the result of a partnership between Western and the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). Since the Center's founding, its namesake, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, has visited Western on at least a dozen occasions to give lectures on the issue of environmental.

The Center has likewise hosted a number of seminars and public talks by other environmentalist speakers at the academy: Notably, Smithsonian ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin and veteran ecologist Thomas Lovejoy spoke at the academy in 1998, and in 2013 ocean conservationist Fabien Cousteau presented a public seminar on campus.

In 2005, Western was established past JGI as a "National Center for Academy Roots and Shoots"; this event resulted in the establishment of the eponymous educatee environmental club, a chapter of the international Roots & Shoots (also known every bit Jane Goodall'south Roots & Shoots), on campus. Roots & Shoots is a subsidiary organization of JGI, and its WCSU chapter is i of just several based in the The states. The society'south role, located in the Midtown campus'southward White Hall, remained the first of its kind between 2005 and 2012; subsequently, the organisation's international headquarters was established at JGI's head function in Washington, D.C.

Roots & Shoots serves every bit, co-ordinate to the academy and the JGC, "a regional and national function of excellence in preparation university students, faculty and administrators to develop programs for K-12 and college students in local, regional and global conservation."

Significant visitors and lectures [edit]

The university was visited past quondam President Pecker Clinton in 2005 and by the 14th Dalai Lama in 2012.

Structure [edit]

Schools [edit]

• Ancell School of Business organisation
• Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences
• School of Visual and Performing Arts
• Schoolhouse of Professional Studies
• Division of Graduate Studies

Campus [edit]

WCSU has two campuses, midtown and westside, both located in Danbury. The campuses are iii miles (v km) autonomously and connected by a academy shuttle service.

The midtown campus is the original campus, located on White Street near downtown Danbury and the Chief Street Celebrated District. Information technology is home to the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, Schoolhouse of Professional Studies, and nigh of the university's assistants. Dormitories on this campus include Fairfield Hall, Litchfield Hall, and Newbury Hall. The Midtown student center is located on this campus. In 2018, the fully renovated Higgins Hall reopened. Higgins Hall features the MSAS Dean's offices, state-of-the-art communication, media, and estimator technology.

The westside campus is located on country purchased in 1969 on the outskirts of Danbury. This 439-acre (1.78 km²) lot is home to the Ancell School of Business, the Schoolhouse of Visual and Performing Arts, the Westside Nature Preserve, an amphitheater and 3 residence halls. Westside besides houses athletic facilities, including the William O'Neill Athletic and Convocation Center (completed in 1995), and the Westside Athletic Complex (completed in 2003), as well as an observatory with a xx-inch Ritchy-Chretien telescope and a twenty-pes planetarium dome. On January 23, 2007, the Westside Campus Center was officially opened. This new facility serves as a student center, meeting and feast facility for the Westside campus. In August 2014, the Westside campus saw the opening of the new Visual and Performing Arts Center, a comprehensive arts building with Theatre Arts, Music and Visual Arts wings.

A major comeback plan was started in the mid-1990s to beautify the campus. Several parking lots became green space, and improvements were made to the landscaping.

In April 2013, startup of a newly installed fuel jail cell power unit for the Science Building on the university'due south Midtown campus began. The PureCell Organization, provided by ClearEdge Power, supports the university to reap significant energy cost savings and enhanced electricity and heating efficiencies. ^[8]

The Midtown campus Science Building was the showtime land-funded building projection to seek LEED Silvery certification from the U.S. Green Edifice Council. The Visual and Performing Arts Middle as well as Centennial Hall likewise obtained LEED certification. In 2014, WCSU installed iv EV (electrical vehicle) charging stations, two on each campus. These charging stations are available to both students and the public, free of accuse. The academy is a participant in EV Connecticut Electric Vehicle Charging Solutions program.

The "WestConn at Waterbury" program is located on the campus of Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Connecticut. The program offers completion courses for a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in management or a Bachelor of Scientific discipline in Nursing (BSN), as well as a Master of Health Administration (M.H.A.).^[9]

Buildings [edit]

Midtown Campus [edit]

• University Hall (Administrative Offices)
• White Hall (Classrooms & Faculty Offices)
• Warner Hall (Classrooms & Faculty Offices)
• Ruth A. Haas Library
• Berkshire Hall (Classrooms, Gymnasium, Wellness Center & Faculty Offices)
• Science Building (Classrooms, Laboratories, PureCell fuel cell & Faculty Offices)
• Quondam Main (Registrar, Fin. Aid, Cashier & Offices)
• Higgins Hall (Classrooms, Dean, & Faculty Offices)
• Fairfield Hall (Residence Hall)
• Newbury Hall (Residence Hall)
• Litchfield Hall (Residence Hall)
• Student Centre
• Alumni Hall (Child Intendance)
• Kathwari Honors House

Westside Campus [edit]

• Classroom Building (Classrooms, Robert Immature Library & Faculty Offices)
• Campus Centre (Educatee Center & Multi-use facility)
• Visual and Performing Arts Centre (Houses School of Visual and Performing Arts)
• O'Neill Centre (Feldman Arena, Sports Facilities)
• Football game Stadium (Westside Able-bodied Heart)
• Rugby Field
• Football Practice Field
• Softball Field
• Baseball game Stadium
• Tennis Facilities
• Pinney Hall (Residence Hall)
• Centennial Hall (Residence Hall)
• Grasso Hall (Residence Hall)
• Observatory
• Ives Concert Park

Educatee body [edit]

As of Fall 2020, WCSU has an enrollment of iii,849 full-time and 791 role-time undergraduate students and 68 total-fourth dimension and 538 part-time graduate students.

Most WCSU students come up from the Tri-State Area comprising Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Most all commuter students come from western Connecticut and Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester counties in New York.

According to the academy, students claiming Connecticut residency come from 99 of the state'due south 169 municipalities.

Women comprise 51.ii% of the entering course, and members of historically-underrepresented racial and indigenous groups comprise 44.2% of the inbound course.

The student-to-kinesthesia ratio as of Fall 2020 is 12 to ane (Total Pupil FTE divided by Total Faculty FTE).

Student life [edit]

The Roger Sherman Debate Guild participates in policy debate tournaments sanctioned past the Cross Test Contend Clan. The team competes in the North East Briefing likewise as the national circuit. WCSU is the merely academy in Connecticut that offers a policy contend team.^[ten]

Resource [edit]

Academic resources for students include the Academic Advisement Middle, Academic Testing Center, Career Success Center, Showtime Yr Plan, Student Technology Training Center, Libraries and various tutoring centers.

Resources for faculty include the Office of Sponsored Inquiry and Administrative Services, Instructional Applied science Services, Academic Planning Agenda and the Faculty Evolution & Research Funds.

Communications [edit]

Radio station [edit]

Main article: WXCI

The college'southward radio station, WXCI, broadcasts at 91.7 FM to Connecticut and New York at 3,000 watts. It also streams its broadcasts on the internet at WXCI.org. WXCI's radio transmitter is located on the westside campus, while its studio is in the main campus (midtown) student middle.

Student paper [edit]

The Echo is the university's student paper, founded in 1955, and subsidized past the students' activity fees. It has an editorial lath which makes strategic and operational decisions on behalf of the paper. The Echo is published weekly in tabloid format, though in the by information technology has been published in broadsheet format. The Echo launched a new website, echo.wcsu.edu, in 2012.^[11]

Athletics [edit]

Western Connecticut Country Academy competes at the NCAA Partition Three level, with the football team also competing in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC), and is a fellow member of the Eastern Higher Athletic Conference (ECAC) and the Little East Briefing (LEC). The university offers intercollegiate competition in 18 sports: men'south baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, lawn tennis, and swimming and diving; and women's basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, pond and diving, tennis and volleyball.

Through the able-bodied grooming staff and university physician, WCSU provides health intendance to educatee athletes participating in intercollegiate sports.

WCSU offers competition at the club level in six sports: cheerleading, dance team, ice hockey, men'south rugby, ultimate frisbee and powerlifting. The university also offers a variety of intramural activities depending on the semester as well as group do classes, a fitness zone and access to the O'Neill Centre pool.

Sports venues [edit]

Varsity

• Field Hockey: Westside Athletic Circuitous
• Baseball game: Able-bodied fields baseball stadium
• Basketball: Feldman Arena at the O'Neill Heart
• Cross-Counrty: Ives Concert Park and Westside Nature Preserve
• Football: Westside Athletic Complex (a.k.a. WAC), football stadium
• Lacrosse: Westside Athletic Circuitous
• Women'due south Lacrosse: Westside Able-bodied Circuitous
• Soccer: Westside Athletic Complex
• Softball: Athletic fields softball field
• Swimming: O'Neill Center
• Tennis: O'Neil Eye outdoor tennis courts
• Volleyball: Feldman Arena at the O'Neill Center
• Golf

Non-varsity

• Hockey: Danbury Ice Arena
• Rugby: Athletic practice fields

Mascot [edit]

The original Western Connecticut State mascot was an Indian. A mascot committee formed to find a less offensive name in 1974 recommended irresolute the proper name to Canners, "a name that our teams can comport with respect."^[12] From 1975 to 1978, the school adopted the nickname Canners to honor the region'south fish canneries, and in conjunction with a sponsorship with the Candlewood Canning Company of Connecticut. Simply once the sponsorship was deemed illegal by the NCAA, the official mascot became Chuck the Colonial, a human in a blue Tricorne lid. Following the murder of George Floyd and pressure level from alumni and students in June 2020, the university appear the formation of a committee to make up one's mind the fate of the mascot and the Colonials nickname and decided to no longer employ these.^[13] On April 19th, 2022 the University announced that they would be changing their mascot name to the Wolves. ^[14]

Notable people [edit]

Alumni [edit]

• Eric Bassriel, American producer, hip-hop artist, and host for IndieFeed, better known by his stage name Clay Eastward. Dutch
• Gorman Bechard, American film director and screenwriter
• Evan R. Bernstein, Community activist
• Marking D. Boughton, mayor of Danbury, Connecticut
• David Cappiello, former Connecticut Land Senator and businessman
• Jane K. Cleland, American mystery author
• James E. Dyer, Connecticut Country Representative (d. 2011)
• Fidelma Healy Eames, Irish pol
• Markus Gottschlich, Austrian jazz pianist^[15]
• EJ Harrison, professional person basketball histrion
• Paul LaPolice, coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
• Thurston Moore (attended, merely did not graduate), musician, Sonic Youth^[16]
• Dan L. Miller, Pennsylvania State Representative
• Merv Mosely, American football player
• Fred Norris, American radio personality and writer for The Howard Stern Show
• Paul L. Pasqualoni, defensive line coach for the Chicago Bears
• Alain J. Picard, American portrait, landscape, and figurative painter
• Lawrence Michael "Mike" Porzio, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jodi Rell (attended, just did non graduate), Governor of Connecticut (2004–11)
• Chris Rhodes, American trombone player and member of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Dana Sawyer, American professor of religion and philosophy and writer on religious studies and spirituality
• Don Stitt, American actor and playwright
• Scott Wright, American professional wrestler and bodybuilder, improve known by his stage names Mr. Scott Wright and Scotty Charisma

Faculty [edit]

• Patricia Due east. Cladis (d. 2017), Chinese-born Canadian American physicist and researcher, specialist in liquid crystal physics
  • Assistant professor of physics (taught 1963 – 1964)
• Jimmy Greene, jazz saxophonist, gospel musician, producer
  • Assistant professor of music (teaching 2012 – present)
  • Coordinator of jazz studies
• Sal Salvador (d. 1999), bebop and jazz guitarist, music educator and instructor
• Deborah Weisz, jazz composer, trombonist, and musician; performer alongside Frank Sinatra from 1987 to 1994 (teaching ? – ?)
  • Adjunct instructor of music

Meteorology program/Atmospheric condition Center [edit]

WCSU has the but available'southward degree program in meteorology in southern New England.^[17] It is part of the Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology. The program prepares students for graduate studies in meteorology and earth sciences and provides the necessary coursework for employment with the National Weather Service. It besides contains an selection in circulate meteorology. The Scientific discipline Building on the Midtown campus houses the Meteorological Studies and Weather Eye (MSWC), which provides forecasting services for industrial and media clients, and conducts forensic climatological and meteorological studies. The MSWC besides contains a TV studio, forecast heart, and enquiry area, supporting the meteorology plan.

Astronomical facilities [edit]

WCSU houses two observatories, i public and i for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. The Midtown observatory is located on the height of the Science Building. It is used for both students and on public viewing nights. The telescope has a half dozen-inch (150 mm) refractor and an 8-inch (200 mm) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. There is also a planetarium for educational activity and public star shows.

The W Side campus houses a large-format thermoelectrically cooled CCD photographic camera and is specifically used for astrophysical studies.^[eighteen]

Library archive collections [edit]

The Archives and Special Collections Library at WCSU is the archival repository for the historical records of the university and is a significant repository for collections relating to the history of the Danbury and greater western Connecticut area.^[19]

The mission of the Athenaeum is to collect and make accessible the WCSU administrative records, faculty papers, academy publications, theses, visual materials, and other media created by the University. It besides includes non-WCSU affiliated personal papers, local government and organizational records, visual materials, maps, journals and other media that document the history of this region. The archival holdings corporeality to approximately 750 linear anxiety.^[xx]

References [edit]

1. ^ As of June thirty, 2011. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2011 Endowment Marketplace Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2010 to FY 2011" (PDF). National Association of College and University Business Officers. January 17, 2012. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
2. ^ "Western Facts & Figures".
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5. ^ "Western Connecticut State Academy Official Colour Palette" (PDF). Western Connecticut Country University. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 25, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
6. ^ NCAA.com. NCAA.com (2011-02-25). Retrieved on 2013-07-15.
7. ^ Brown, Ray C. (December two, 2014), Connecticut Colleges that have Closed, Merged, Changed Names , retrieved Jan 8, 2015
8. ^ News - Power Engineering. Power-eng.com (2013-07-09). Retrieved on 2013-07-15.
9. ^ "Western at Waterbury". www.wcsu.edu/. Western Connecticut Land University. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
10. ^ Gadkar-Wilcox, Wynn (January 27, 2011), Testimony for Appropriations Commission Meeting on Higher Education (PDF), Connecticut General Assembly, retrieved Dec 17, 2012
11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on Apr 30, 2013. Retrieved Apr xix, 2013. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
12. ^ "Western CT State University Archives' Digital Collections". archives.library.wcsu.edu. Western Connecticut Country College. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
13. ^ Ericson, Scott (June 8, 2020). "Western Connecticut State will consider irresolute mascot". News Times.
14. ^ "WCSU announces new mascot identity". Western Connecticut State University. April xix, 2022.
15. ^ "Markus Gottschlich Joins Steinway & Sons Artists' Roster" (May 5, 2014). Steinway.com
16. ^ Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life. New York: Little, Chocolate-brown, 2001
17. ^ "Colleges & Universities". National Weather condition Association . Retrieved Baronial 21, 2020.
18. ^ "Astronomical Facilities". WCSU. December 15, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
19. ^ Janick, Herbert. A people's university : the centennial history of Western Connecticut Land Academy, 1903–2003. Danbury, Conn. : The Academy, 2002.
20. ^ "Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections – Documenting WestConn and its surrounding area". athenaeum-library.wcsu.edu.

External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Connecticut_State_University

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