Connecticut College
From Connwiki
Connecticut College is a small liberal-arts school located in New London, Connecticut and nestled on the banks of the Thames River. Founded in 1911, the college was intially an all-women's school. This ended in the year 1969, with the introduction of the first co-educational class.
The college has always maintained some of the highest academic standards in the nation, despite its small stature. There is a broad range of majors, ranging from Computer Science to Behavioral Neuroscience to Gender and Women's Studies and Hispanic Studies. Connecticut College also allows students to self-design majors. Students are known for taking advantage of the opportunities given to them, and the faculty are always more than happy to allow students in on their research. Over 80% of the faculty hold PhD's or the highest terminal degree in their field (e.g., an MFA) and several are awarded national grants for research every year.
There are five specialized Learning Centers at the college which enable students to integrate their majors into some other field: the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts, the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies, and the newly formed Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. In addition, there is the Center for Teaching and Learning, a faculty resource focused on many aspects of teaching.
The College Mascot is the Camel.
The College Motto is "Tanquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum" and means "Like a tree planted by rivers of waters", which is a passage from First Psalm.
The College Seal is displayed on the top left of all pages of the official Connecticut College web site http://www.conncoll.edu. The words of the motto surround an elm tree, which is drawing life from the water, an image that suggests the College's location on the banks of the Thames River. Displayed on the top left of all pages of Connwiki, is a combination of the outer ring of the College Seal and the logo taken from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. To download the the colleges seal from your computer on campus go to http://graphics.conncoll.edu.
The Support Staff as well as College Services can be found at http://connwiki.conncoll.edu/index.php?title=Category:College_Services
Connecticut College trivia and noteworthy facts
- Connecticut College professor William Meredith won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1988 for his work Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems. He was professor of English at the College from 1965 to 1983, and also won the National Book Award and numerous other honors and prizes.
- The opening scenes of the 1966 film "The Group" (featuring Candice Bergen), were filmed at Connecticut College. The film is based on a book about a private women's college.
- Christof Putzel '02 won a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002 for his AIDS orphan documentary "Left Behind." The film was shot as part of his College-funded internship through the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy and was produced with guidance from Film Studies professor David Tetzlaff.
- In printed brochures and other materials, what we know as "Connecticut College blue" is actually the ink color Pantone 286.
- Comedian Joan Rivers attended Connecticut College for a year (1954) but tranferred to Barnard College, from which she graduated.
- Nikki Palmieri '04 competed in the 2004 Miss America Pageant as Miss Connecticut.
