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Connecticut College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. It is located on the Thames River, on which the College's crew and sailing teams practice. Connecticut College's riverside location and its wooded campus are reflected in the College seal. Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... Nickname: Motto: MARE LIBERUM Coordinates: , NECTA Norwich-New London Region Southeastern Connecticut Settled 1646 (Pequot Plantation) Named 1658 (New London) Incorporated (city) 1784 Government  - Type Council-manager  - City council Margaret Mary Curtin, Mayor Kevin J. Cavanagh, Dep. ... The Thames River, seen from the waterfront in New London, Connecticut The Thames River is a short river and tidal estuary in the U.S. state of Connecticut. ...

Connecticut College's fourth strategic plan (2004) introduced the College's new mission statement: Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society. Look up mission statement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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Connecticut College Statistics

• The College received an all-time high 4,741 applications for the Class of 2011 (the entering fall 2007 class). 34% of these applicants were accepted.

• In "America's Best Colleges 2008" published by U.S. News and World Report, Connecticut College was ranked 44th out of 215 national liberal arts colleges. In subcategories, the College was ranked No. 28 for graduation and retention rates, No. 41 for financial resources, and No. 55 for admission selectivity. In the Washington Monthly's 2007 rankings, Connecticut College ranked 33 out of 201 institutions.

• Connecticut College had 163 full-time professors in Academic Year 2006-07; 89 percent hold a doctorate or equivalent. All classes are taught by professors. The student-faculty ratio is below 10:1.

• For the 2006-07 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, Germany, and India.

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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 10 most common majors over the last five years have been English, Economics, Psychology, Government, History, Biological Sciences, International Relations, Anthropology, Human Development, and Art. About 30% of Connecticut College students graduate with double majors. The most common double-major combinations are Government/History, Economics/International Relations, and Economics/Government, but graduates in recent years have also chosen interdisciplinary combinations such as Art/Computer Science, Film Studies/Latin American Studies, Biological Sciences and Religious Studies, and Art History/Italian.

In fall 2005, the College inaugurated its First-Year Seminar Program, which provides student-faculty engagement in a small, intellectually stimulating setting in their first semester.

Connecticut College has four Interdisciplinary Centers that administer certificate programs, plus a fifth center that facilitates 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.

Students can also earn Connecticut teacher certification and certificates in the College's Museum Studies program. The Nature Conservancy is an environmental organization, founded in 1951. ...

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.

Students' classroom learning at Connecticut College is supplemented by a wide variety of service learning courses and volunteer work in the New London area. Many of these opportunities are coordinated by the Office of Volunteers for Community Service. OVCS facilitates student involvement in the community by running the Camel Van shuttle service, which transports students to and from sites in the area.

Connecticut College has a history of undergraduate research work and students are encouraged to make conference presentations and publish their work under the guidance of a professor.

Connecticut College graduating seniors are regularly awarded prestigious fellowships and grants such as the U.S. Student Fulbright Program grant and Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. In 2007, five Connecticut College students received Fulbright grants--four for travel and research and one for teaching. Fulbright redirects here. ... The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a grant that enables graduating seniors to pursue a year of independent study outside the United States. ...

Campus and facilities

Tourists in the Arboretum

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 (Windham, Warnshuis, Burdick, Smith, Larrabee, Plant, Branford, Blackstone, Blunt, and Lazrus) contains the oldest residence 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 369 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A group of nature-lovers enters the arboretum. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 369 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A group of nature-lovers enters the arboretum. ...

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. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy is the name given to the technique which exploits the magnetic properties of certain nuclei. ... Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is an imaging technique whereby a beam of electrons is focused onto a specimen causing an enlarged version to appear on a fluorescent screen or layer of photographic film (see electron microscope), or can be detected by a CCD camera. ... SEM Cambridge S150 at Geological Institute, University Kiel, 1980 SEM opened sample chamber The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope capable of producing high-resolution images of a sample surface. ... A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for managing data that has a spatial specialized form of an information system. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... A stylised illustration of a modern personal computer A personal computer (PC) is a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. ... The Shadow robot hand system holding a lightbulb. ... This article is about the simulation technology. ...

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 College has a variety of indoor and outdoor athletic facilities.

• 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."

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Notable Connecticut College graduates

• David Gross ('90): Current Commissioner of Major League Lacrosse
• Amanda Clark ('06): member of U.S. sailing team
• Nikki Palmieri ('04): Winner of the 2004 Miss Connecticut pageant; competed for the title of Miss America 2005
• Christof Putzel ('02): Winner of a Student Academy Award, producer on Current TV
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah : indie rock band: Alec Ounsworth ('00), Tyler Sargent ('00), Robbie Guertin ('02), Lee Sargent ('00), Sean Greenhalgh ('01)
• Joshua Green ('94): senior editor of the Atlantic Monthly and a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly
• Hannah Tinti ('94): Author, runner-up for the 2005 Hemingway Foundation/PEN award
• Peter Som ('93): Fashion designer, winner of the 2002 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation prize
• Jeffrey Finn ('92): Broadway producer, nominated for 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for On Golden Pond
• Leslie King ('92): Executive Producer, CNN Headline News
• Tim Young ('92): Olympic silver medalist in quadruple sculling
• Charles Chun ('90): Hollywood film and television actor
• Karen Church ('90): Vice President for Talent and Casting, CBS Television
• Kimberly Williams ('90): Senior Vice President of Finance for the National Football League
• Martha Witt ('90): novelist
• Mark Stepper & David Stepper ('87): Sculptors and co-owners of Sculptures by Stepper
• Jeffrey Idelson ('86): Vice President of Communications and Education for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• David Dorfman ('81) Associate Professor of Dance since 2004 and noted choreographer of modern dance
• Ned Colt ('79): NBC News correspondent
• Vance Gilbert ('79): singer-songwriter folk musician
• Bill Davis ('79): President CEO of Ze-gen, Inc.
• David R. Foster ('77): Director of the Harvard Forest ecological research site, Harvard University
• Luanne Rice ('77): novelist
• Michael Collier ('76): Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2001-2004; Professor of English, University of Maryland
• Bruce Hoffman ('76): terrorism expert, Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, Director of the RAND Corporation's Washington Office
• Trish May ('75): "venture philanthropist" and founder of Athena Partners; former director of marketing and strategic planning at Microsoft
• James Berrien ('74): President and Publisher of Forbes Magazine Group
• Anita DeFrantz ('74): former Vice President of the International Olympic Committee, member of bronze medal U.S. women's eight-oared shell, 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.
• Allen Carroll ('73): chief cartographer, National Geographic magazine
• Drew Ketterer ('71): Attorney General of Maine, 1995-2000
• Dorcas Hardy ('68): former Commissioner of Social Security Administration, author, public policy expert
• Judy Irving ('68): Emmy and Sundance award-winning filmmaker
• Shelley Taylor ('68) Social psychologist, pioneer in health psychology, winner of Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from APA
• Kimba Wood ('66): Federal judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• Cecelia Holland ('65): novelist
• Mary Lake Polan ('65): Professor and Chair of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at Stanford University
• Ellen Vitetta ('64): Director, Cancer Immunobiology Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Amy Gross ('63): Editor-in-Chief, O, The Oprah Magazine
• Cynthia Enloe ('60): research professor of international relations and women's studies, Clark University
• Agnes Gund ('60): former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recipient of the 2005 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
• Marie L. Garibaldi ('56): first woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court (served from 1982-2000) or to serve as President of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
• Suzi Oppenheimer ('56): New York State Senator
• Joan Rivers: Actress, comedian; Attended CC briefly then transferred to Barnard College
• Estelle Parsons ('49): Stage, film, and television actor; winner of 1967 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde (film)
• Patricia McGowan Wald ('48): U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia judge; member of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; member of the Iraq Intelligence Commission

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Other highlights

• English professor William Meredith (taught at Connecticut College from 1955-83) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1988, the National Book Award for Poetry in 1997, and numerous other honors and prizes.[2]

• WCNI (90.9 FM), the college radio station, broadcasts a variety of music unheard on most other stations including polka, blues, and celtic music shows. A 2,000 watt transmitter installed in 2003 reaches much of Connecticut, parts of Rhode Island, and parts of southwest Massachusetts.

• The Honor Code is signed by all students upon matriculation. It allows a strong student voice in shared governance through the Student Government Association, and 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 adjudicates alleged infractions of the Honor Code.

• 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, and SATA (Study Away Teach Away), in which a Connecticut College professor takes a small group of students for a semester to a country that the professor has experience with, and there the students take classes at a local university, and one with the Conn professor.

• Through a gift by an alumnus, Connecticut College students may take music lessons during the semester at no charge.

• Connecticut College has six a cappella groups: two women's groups (the ConnChords and The Schwiffs), one men's group (Co Co Beaux), and three coed groups (Conn Artists, Vox Cameli, and Williams Street Mix).

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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 Nights 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, Paranoid Social Club, OK Go, Land of Talk, Langhorn Slim, Girl Talk, Locksley, Stephen Kellogg, Girlyman, Winterpills, Blackalicious and Ari Hest.

• Floralia The annual spring concert festival on the library green, with musical performances and socializing. See Floralia.

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Campus publications

• Daily CONNtact (newsletter)
• Friends of CC Library
• Inside Information
• Source (faculty/staff newsletter)
• College Voice (newspaper)
• Confluence Magazine (student-run literary, political, travel publication)
• Koiné (yearbook)
• Expose (interdisciplinary academic journal)
• Speakleft! (campus radical publication. distributed at student center, library, and one other location)
• Underexposed (black-and-white photography magazine)

Connecticut College 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
• 7/1/2006-  : Leo I. Higdon, Jr.

Frederick Henry Sykes (1863- ) was an American college president, born at Queensville, Ontario, in Canada. ... Leo I. Higdon, Jr. ...

External links

• Connecticut College
• Connecticut College Strategic Plan
• ConnWiki