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Annual Report 2019-2020 from the President Annual Report 2019-2020 From the President t is diffcult to imagine an academic year with All-College Symposium, the culminating event starker contrasts than 2019-20. Last fall, we of Connections, where members of the Class of welcomed one of our strongest and most 2020 showcased the impressive results of their Idiverse classes in history, selected from a record work in courses, research, and jobs in the local number of applications. We opened the beautiful community and around the world. This annual new Hale Center for Career Development on report offers a closer look at how Connections the ground foor of Fanning Hall and celebrated has transformed teaching and learning for a groundbreaking for the renovation of Palmer students and faculty over the past four years. Auditorium into the Nancy Athey ’72 and Life on campus, of course, changed abruptly Preston Athey Center for Performance and in the spring of 2020, as the U.S. dealt with Research. With a generous gift from Agnes Gund a global pandemic. At Conn, that meant ’60, we launched the Gund Dialogue Project, a sending nearly all our students home, while key initiative of our strategic plan that promotes also redirecting faculty and staff resources to critical theory and experiential learning to teach shift our semester online, up to and including students how to broker courageous conversations Commencement. Many of you gave generously across political, social, racial, and socioeconomic to help both the College and our students differences. Finally, we hosted our inaugural achieve their goals. Thank you! Katherine Bergeron, President But that was only the beginning. Over the the College continued to fulfll its mission of summer, faculty, staff, students, and alumni educating students to “put the liberal arts into worked even harder to address the triple action as citizens of a global society.” challenge of an ongoing public health crisis, In short, the past year presented a series an economic downturn, and renewed calls for of real-world problems that required the racial justice. To reopen the College safely, we same kind of integrative thinking across redesigned our academic calendar to offer a departments and disciplines that we promote fexible mix of in-person, remote, and hybrid through Connections, our bold new approach classes Monday through Sunday. We created to the liberal arts at Conn. Connections takes new COVID-19 protocols with the support the traditional academic major and makes it of alumni experts and opened our own testing more powerful by linking it to a personally center to test everyone on campus twice per meaningful pathway of interdisciplinary week. And, very importantly, we convened a study, off-campus learning, internships, and series of online summits for students, faculty, professional development. The idea is to staff, and alumni, led by Dean John McKnight, unleash curiosity, to teach complex thinking, to advance our commitment to full participation and, ultimately, to ensure successful lives and and anti-racist education. In all these ways, careers beyond college. The following pages 1 CONNECTIONS is foundational to our goal of full participation at Conn, with its vision of an environment where all people can thrive, reach their full potential, and contribute to the flourishing of others. present stories of individual students and faculty event, held in November, included 160 student mentors who are making the most of this unique presentations, a thrilling display of intellectual four-year program. and creative energy. It featured students like Ken In year one, for example, students take Colombe ’20, a basketball player who majored specially engineered courses that foreground in economics, minored in fnance, and joined interdisciplinary ways of thinking. Looking back our Entrepreneurship Pathway. He integrated his on his frst year at Conn, Admirabilis Kalolella ’23 interest in sports and business, and interned with describes how his frst ConnCourse, Power and two professional basketball teams, the Indiana Inequality, gave him insight into how he can bring Pacers and the Connecticut Sun, in order to study new medicines to his home country of Tanzania. the entrepreneurial mindset required for robust Film studies major Bri Goolsby ’22 tells us about team rosters. Ken went from Conn into a position her animating question that draws together her at Priority Sports and Entertainment, a top NBA interests in animation and the fght for equality. agency in Chicago. The critical importance of the Integrative Pathway, To support Connections, the College has the central element of Connections, is made clear received a total of $3.7 million in grant support by Sarah Van Deusen ’21 as she discusses her own since 2016 from The Andrew W. Mellon inquiry into the relevance of the liberal arts in Foundation, The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor contemporary society. Foundation, The Conservation and Research Connections culminates each fall in a major Foundation, and the National Endowment for the student conference, our All-College Symposium, Humanities. We have also seen student interest in where seniors present the results of their studies the program rise each year. Ninety-two percent of through talks, poster sessions, performances, the Class of 2024 cited Connections as one of the screenings, and exhibitions. Last year’s inaugural main reasons they chose to enroll at Conn. Central to our strategic priority of enhancing brain and hand and heart,” in the words of the academic excellence, Connections is also frst president Frederick Sykes, to build a new foundational to our goal of full participation at College where there once was none. Our faculty, Conn, with its vision of an environment where all students, and staff did the same thing this past people can thrive, reach their full potential, and year as they leveraged new technologies to contribute to the fourishing of others. Both are build a safe, fexible, and effective environment being supported by the most ambitious campaign for our current challenging moment. In the in the College’s history, a campaign that over the process, they, too, created new practices that will past three years has raised a total of $128 million transform our future. dollars. Even with the economic stress brought Above all, I want to thank you for on by COVID-19, and against all odds, your supporting our students in this time of need support allowed the College to raise a record $6.4 and for your desire to make your alma mater million for our annual fund last year and $14 always more beautiful, more just, and more million overall in new gifts and commitments. excellent. Excellence is a continual striving for We include an honor roll of giving at the greater achievement and impact. You are the back of this report. It is another way for us to embodiment of the excellence that Connecticut acknowledge your generosity while also saying College has been committed to for the whole of thank you. Because of you, Conn was able to its hundred-year history. Thank you for helping weather the trials of this unparalleled year with us carry on with this great unfnished project and grace and determination—which, of course, has for helping our students achieve their dreams. been our story from the very beginning. I often think about that frst year in 1915, when 17 Katherine Bergeron faculty and 125 students gave “all they had of President 4 CONNECTIONS percent of students in the Class of 2024 who said that Connections was one of the main reasons they chose to 92 attend Conn percent of the Class of 2024 who said the College’s unique career program, integrated into Connections, was a 93 deciding factor in their choice percent of current students who are now enrolled in the 53 innovative pathways and certificate programs that define the Connections program number of Integrative Pathways developed by the faculty since 2016, ranging from Public Health to Entrepreneurship 14 to Creativity to Communications number of seniors who presented their work in the 160 inaugural All-College Symposium in 2019 CAREER ENGAGEMENT number of current sophomores who have already 260 completed the College’s new one-credit career preparation course, introduced in Spring 2020 amount of dollars available to students who, having completed the career course, are seeking career-related 3000 internships or research opportunities number of parents and alumni who contributed to career 100 engagement events in 2019-20 percent of Conn graduates who are employed or in 95 graduate school within a year of their commencement percent of graduates who say Conn’s nationally recognized 90 career program helped them get their first job 5 Connections: Year One FROM THE OUTSET OF THEIR FIRST YEAR, STUDENTS PURSUE INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSEWORK GUIDED BY A TEAM OF ADVISERS DEDICATED TO THEIR SUCCESS. dmirabilis Kalolella ’23 hopes to one “We want students to make human day develop new medicines to treat connections, to fnd the people they can go to the diseases that impact his home for help navigating social situations, for advice Acountry of Tanzania. Because of this clear on classes and career options, or just to have career goal, the promise of an interdisciplinary someone to talk to,” said Dean of First-Year liberal arts education drew him to Conn. Students Emily Morash. “Team advising gives “Connections appealed to me because of each student multiple connections.” the diverse topics I could study that would Kalolella actually had the opportunity to prepare me for my career and allow me to meet one of his student advisers, a fellow make a difference in my community,” he said, international student, in his hometown of Dar while looking back on his frst year at Conn. es Salaam before he arrived at Conn. Tihut As it does for all Conn students, Kalolella’s Getabicha ’22, who is from Ethiopia, was Connections experience began at Orientation, completing an internship in Tanzania.
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