quarterly newsletter • volume 4 • July 2002 (Continued on back page) College Takes on College Takes Albertus Magnus Statewide Presence The first 12 women to graduate from received their Bachelor’s degrees in 1928. The Class of 2002—more than 600 women and men— received their undergraduate and graduate degrees from this thriving liberal arts college. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs, the College opened in September 1925 financial aid to help students financial aid to help and their families understand their financial aid opportuni- Once eligibility. ties and down students have narrowed their campus choices and decide to apply for admission, online provides CTMentor.org admissions and financial aid applications for them to quickly and easily complete and submit over the Internet. Designed to make college accessible for all students who want to fully explore the educational opportunities available to them, CTMentor.org gives students and their families yet another tool to succeed in their pursuit of quality higher education.• Student Success Statewide Student How can we can How income is actually less today income is actually less 1980s. than it was in the late better It is only marginally for the middle 20% of Yet, families. this 60% of our workforce serves as the backbone of our economy. afford not to invest in their futures? Applying to College? Internet- a free CtMentor.org, based information system helps prospective students prepare for college admission, seek information about higher education opportuni- ties in Connecticut, and find the best college choice among the many colleges and universities in this state. prospec- takes CTMentor.org tive students on multimedia virtual campus tours, helps them match their needs and interests with specific institutions, establishes direct e-mail communication with campus representatives, performs scholarship searches, and provides a host of other features, including a comprehensive section on As noted in a recent article by As noted in a recent National Kristin Conklin of the Center Governors Association’s must for Best Practices, states higher “continue to invest in education in the short run for a long-term productivity payoff… The wisest states will invest for the long term in education at all levels, including early childhood education, K-12, adult and postsecondary, education. They will avoid cutting higher education to protect spending on other levels of education.” that all sure make must We future and current workforce participants can get the education that they need in order to be productive contributors to Connecticut’s and their own economic success. This type of access requires both vital academic programming and financial support for those in need. One without the other will not allow us to meet the chal- tomorrow. of lenges work must we Accordingly, together to ensure proper funding of need-based aid programs at both the federal and state levels. For the poorest 40% of Connecticut families, inflation adjusted Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges... Colleges... of Independent Conference Connecticut An Investment in Knowledge Pays the Best Interest Pays in Knowledge An Investment Conference of Independent Colleges Judith B. Greiman, President, Connecticut All agree, however, on the however, All agree, fact that Connecticut’s recovery and future growth depend on a strong and educated workforce that can meet the demands of the global marketplace. Because our state is relatively small and is not expecting the kind of population growth projected for other states, we must make sure that all of our residents are adequately prepared to meet the challenges before us. The 2002 Connecticut legislative session was difficult for all participants due to a growing budget gap caused by declining revenues and the ever-increasing needs of Connecticut residents. In fact, as of this writing, legislative leaders have yet to agree on a revised budget for the coming fiscal year as the debate about increasing taxes or decreasing expenditures is heard throughout the Capitol. The Journey Continues the state’s 5,800 miles of streams. This partnership on campus. Last year, enroll- Just as students grow and liberal arts. Our commitment to provides students with an ment was up 14 percent. develop throughout their excellence is strengthened by opportunity to learn about Mitchell experienced the most college years, a small college in these latest program achieve- benthic macroinvertebrates growth of any institution of New London, Connecticut has ments.” (animals without backbones higher learning in the state also recently undergone a that live in the bottom of of Connecticut. significant change. Mitchell streams) and their use in

College, long known as New biomonitoring. England’s top two-year liberal Now, Mitchell finds itself in competition with larger four- arts institution, began confer- Project SEARCH trains high year liberal arts colleges and ring bachelor’s degrees in May school science teachers on universities. To address its 2000. This spring, Mitchell water quality monitoring changing role in the College gained the unanimous procedures and data analysis education marketplace, approval of the Connecticut and then assists with integra- State Department of Higher Mitchell created a marketing Students enjoy having classes outside on tion of the monitoring into campaign entitled ‘Begin Your Education for programs in Mitchell’s picturesque waterfront campus existing courses at the school. Journey.’ “Regardless of where Psychology and Sport Manage- After deciding how best to students come from or where ment. Mitchell currently offers Initially, the decision to add integrate the program within a they’re headed, Mitchell can baccalaureate programs in baccalaureate programs was school’s science curriculum, a provide them with the tools and Human Development and motivated by student requests. local river or stream is selected direction to chart their course Family Studies, Liberal and Students at Mitchell expressed for the students to monitor. and become academically Professional Studies, Early dismay at having discovered a Students then collect biological, successful,” stated Kevin Childhood Education, Business small, personal institution that chemical, and physical site Mayne, vice president for Administration and Criminal provided for their specific data, which is compiled by the enrollment management and Justice. These bachelor degree academic and extracurricular students and prepared by marketing. Symbols of the additions to the College’s needs, yet limited their options SEARCH staff for an Annual campaign include a compass already diverse array of to an associate degree. Mitchell’s Report on Water Quality. Used and nautical references, which academic offerings reflects the proactive philosophy has always as baseline data for each are used to reinforce the tireless efforts of faculty and been to put students’ needs at sampled stream, the collected ‘Journey’ theme of direction, staff alike to continue Mitchell’s the forefront. data also is included in DEP while also capitalizing upon transition from a two-year to a water quality reports sent to Mitchell’s unique location. four-year institution of higher “A significant number of students Congress.

education. who had earned an associate’s At Mitchell, the journey degree at Mitchell This spring, Project SEARCH continues...for students and for “The whole Mitchell community requested that the College staff held a special training the College itself.• is excited about this latest consider offering bachelor’s session at the DEP Training approval. It represents the degrees,” said President Mary Teikyo Post and Facility in Bethany to teach culmination of several years of Ellen Jukoski. “Given this Project SEARCH Team TPU students about work in developing a total of student request and interest, Up to Test the Waters biomonitoring, utilizing seven bachelor degree pro- Mitchell responded to an macroinvertebrates as indicator grams,” stated Dr. Jane important educational need. We Students from Teikyo Post species to help characterize Friederichs, vice president for were founded to meet the needs University’s Biological Sciences stream or river quality. Students p2 academic affairs and dean of of the community. Expanding and Environmental Theories from TPU’s Environmental the College. “We have a our degree offerings was a and Applications Programs have Impact Assessment, Zoology commitment to delivering natural progression in the recently joined Project SEARCH. and General Biology classes academic programs which are College’s growth and journey.” Project SEARCH, a collaboration learned about collecting and current, innovative and prepare between the Department of sampling aquatic invertebrates our students for excellent Mitchell College’s new baccalau- Environmental Protection (DEP) and identifying employment opportunities, as reate programs have done more and the Science Center of macroinvertebrates using well as for lifelong learning than accommodate students Connecticut, uses volunteers to and an appreciation of the wishing to continue their studies gather water quality data from (See TPU page 3) TPU (from page 2) The Trinity College Field Station at Church Farm training manuals and identifica- Trinity College in Hartford, organizations, and individual In terms of scientific research tion keys. Students gained Conn. has embarked on a bird banders in North America planning, Smedley, along with practical experience and a precedent-setting effort in to operate a network of Morrison, and other professors greater understanding of Ashford, Conn. to preserve and constant-effort mist netting prepared a grant proposal to the science in the field that should renovate a historical site that and banding stations during National Science Foundation assist them in several class has become home to the Trinity the summer breeding season. (NSF) to fund the development projects, including an impact College Field Station at Church The second program is the of a site plan for the TCFS at assessment project of the Farm (TCFS). North American Butterfly Church Farm. Based on this culvert at the intersection of Association (NABA) butterfly proposal, the NSF awarded a Country Club Road and Route The TCFS was established in count. This past summer, $25,000 planning grant to the 63, animal diversity assess- late 1999 when Joseph and Assistant Professor of Biology College last September. This ment, evolutionary patterns in Dorothy Zaring donated Scott Smedley and his students seed money will fund the insects, and freshwater portions of their historic conducted inventory of various development of the station’s productivity analysis. property to the College. The butterfly species to attain a strategic plan through a series site includes a historic home preliminary assessment of the of site visits to established field Student reaction to the training that dates as far back as the species diversity at the site. stations. and river assessment was 1700s and a barn that was built overwhelmingly positive. TPU in 1895. Both structures are on Once the comprehensive sophomore Zasha Soto enjoyed the National Historic Registry. strategic plan for the site is her participation in Project The field station comprises 152 finished, the College will apply search and said she would like acres held by the College. for a $500,000 matching grant to do it again. “It was designed Another 104 acres are held by from the NSF. These funds for us to learn more about what the Joshua’s Trust, a land trust would aid the construction of an lives in and beneath the lakes dedicated to the preservation of environmental teaching and and streams, so it was both fun open space in northeastern The goal is to develop long- research facility at the TCFS and educational,” she re- Connecticut. The Joshua’s Trust term databases to study these enabling Trinity to integrate the marked. has made its holdings available insect populations over time. property into more academic for the College’s research use. Trinity is one of only three offerings, as well as have it “The project was really colleges or universities in become a key asset to the new interesting, looking at struc- During the site’s first full year Southern New England that environmental science major. tures of the organisms,” said of operation in 2000, the TCFS has a field station affiliated “This clearly is an asset for the freshman David Huang. “It was at Church Farm hosted six with the Organization of entire Northeast academic nice to understand what lies Trinity science courses and two Biological Field Stations community,” says Smedley. “ beneath the sand and gravel of secondary school-level courses (OBFS). Despite its concentra- “We’re looking forward to the lakes – micro-organisms from The Greater Hartford tion of over 140 colleges and collaboration with other that are unable to be seen with Academy of Math and Science universities, the region institutions on programming, the naked eye.” in the Learning Corridor in remains lacking in field learning and instruction.”• Hartford. That same year, eight stations—a circumstance Future collaboration between faculty research projects were Trinity hopes to alleviate by DATCO Supports CCIC TPU’s science programs, the DEP launched at the site. providing outreach to other 70th Anniversary and Project Search will open TCFS’s biodiversity is so academic institutions and opportunities for TPU students extensive that two national experts from a variety of fields. CCIC wishes to thank to gain field and work experi- monitoring programs have been In the coming months, the Datco Motorcoach for p3 ence. Additionally, by assisting implemented. Joan Morrison, College will explore the use of donating bus service to local high schools in Project assistant professor of biology, is the Church Farm buildings to support CCIC’s 70th Search work, TPU science leading Trinity’s participation in support programs in the fine anniversary festivities. faculty and the student-run the Monitoring Avian Productiv- arts, which may include artist Datco’s kind contribution Science Club will be able to ity and Survival (MAPS) retreats and classroom helped to make our day at increase awareness of biological program—a cooperative effort meetings. the Capitol a success. and environmental science in among public agencies, private www.datco.com the community. • Albertus (from page 1) pre-planned, logical course ment of a comprehensive with 44 students and one sequences in a compressed business plan. All courses magnificent mansion, named timeframe; all study materials have been designed to Rosary Hall, on New Haven’s are delivered to class sites; develop competencies in elegant Prospect Hill. Today and there is personalized leadership, team building, 2,400 students study at educational counseling. conflict resolution and The Independent Voice is a publication of the Connecticut Conference of Albertus and that one all- Students attend class once a process improvement. Independent Colleges, a public policy week with their professor and purpose mansion has become association representing Connecticut’s a dozen buildings spread meet once a week with their The College’s Master of Arts nonprofit independent higher education institutions. across a 50-acre main campus. study group/work team. in Liberal Studies, its first graduate program, is a broad, Chair In recent years, Albertus Two of the College’s four cross-disciplinary approach to Dr. Lawrence J. DeNardis Magnus has established a graduate programs, the Master knowledge. Whereas President, Vice Chair of Science in Management and graduate studies typically statewide presence through Dr. Winifred E. Coleman its New Dimensions Program, the Master of Business lead to an ever-narrowing President, Saint Joseph College which has Educational Centers Administration, follow the New focus and specialization, the President Judith B. Greiman Dimensions design. Intro- M.A.L.S. degree offers a in New Haven, East Hartford Connecticut Conference of and Stratford, and ten other duced in 1995, the M.S.M. unified perspective and the Independent Colleges sites from Stamford to emphasizes both the theoreti- freedom to explore themes ph: 860.236.0900 fax: 860.236.0910 cal approach to management across traditional course Waterbury to Danbury and e: [email protected] New London. issues and the opportunity to boundaries. www.theccic.org With New Dimensions, as well learn from practical work- Membership related experience through Albertus offers the only as the Accelerated Degree Albertus Magnus College Program in the Continuing intensive student/faculty Master of Arts in Art Therapy Education Division, the interaction. The M.B.A. degree program in the state Mitchell College program, introduced last of Connecticut. The degree College has established a leadership role in the September in New Haven, has is considered essential for education of the non- as its hallmark a cutting edge advancement in this Saint Joseph College curriculum with a major ethical burgeoning profession, but traditional adult student, Saint Vincent’s College while continuing to offer a focus crafted to meet the previously students had to go Teikyo strong program for the challenges of today’s business out of state for their graduate Trinity College environment. Courses are study. traditional day student. scheduled in lock-step University of New Haven The New Dimensions format sequence from business ethics The search for truth in all its appeals to the busy adult and change strategy progress- dimensions, the bedrock of because it is totally focused ing through, for example, e- the College at its founding 77 The Independent Voice follows a regular rotation schedule featuring four on students’ needs: classes commerce and a capstone years ago, continues to of the sixteen member institutions in course in entrepreneurship, support all its endeavors are scheduled at convenient each quarterly issue. times and locations; there are which includes the develop- today. •

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