Cleveland State University
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Cleveland State University (abbr. CSU) is a public university located in Cleveland, Ohio. The current President is Michael Schwartz, who was previously president emeritus and a professor at Kent State University. The Provost is Chin Kuo, who has announced his resignation effective June 30th, 2006. Traditionally known as a commuter school that focused on affordable access to education for Cleveland-area high school graduates, Cleveland State has recently begun the process of transforming itself into a major research and teaching university with a more national focus.
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History
Cleveland State traces its historical roots to 1870, when the Cleveland YMCA began to offer free classes. The YMCA program was formalized in 1881, reorganized in 1906 as the Association Institute, and became the Cleveland School of Technology, later renamed Fenn College. Fenn College expanded, taking over several buildings in the area, including an automobile dealership in what is now Stillwell Hall. In 1964 Cleveland State appropriated the buildings, faculty, staff, and programs of Fenn College, a private institution of 2,500 students, and became a public university. Industrialist James J. Nance served as the first Board of Trustees Chairperson.
CSU has focused on providing access to education for all since its inception, and the consequences of this open admissions policy includes a perception of the school as commuter-oriented. Since the appointment of Dr. Michael Schwartz as University President, Cleveland State has begun the process of rethinking its role in the community and the region, in paticular its potential as an economic development engine. Schwartz and the Provost have laid out a vision for the school moving from its current state as an overall fourth tier university in the US News and World Report rankings, to that of a second tier university with strong research programs. As part of this change, CSU has ended its policy of open admissions, instituted an honors program, begun the process of seeking funding to boost its faculty size and prestige, and created a master plan for the campus, rebuilding the university as a residential campus in the heart of downtown.
Colleges and Academics
CSU offers many disciplines and research facilities, with 70 academic majors, 27 master's degree programs, two post-master's degrees, six doctoral degrees, and two law degrees. It also has research cooperation agreements with the nearby NASA Glenn Research Center.
The University is organized around eight academic colleges:
- Fenn College of Engineering
- Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
- College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
- College of Science
- James J. Nance College of Business Administration
- College of Education
- Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
- Graduate Studies
Additionally, the Division of University Studies focuses on academic support services, and the Division of Continuing Education extends existing academic services beyond the campus.
Notable programs at Cleveland State include the urban affairs programs housed in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, whose city management and urban policy program is currently ranked 2nd in the country overall by U.S. News and World Report, as well as the recently-formed School of Communication, ranked 8th in research productivity. Additionally, CSU is the only university in the state of Ohio to offer a master's degree in software engineering.
Until recently, the university maintained a policy of open admission for all undergraduate programs; however, the university has ended this policy in favor of basic admission standards for full-time and most part-time students, allowing others to begin basic coursework or shifting them to local community colleges.
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 as the first evening law school in the state and one of the first to admit women and minorities. In 1946, Cleveland Law School merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Cleveland-Marshall became part of Cleveland State University in 1969.
One of the most famous alumni of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is Tim Russert, host of television program Meet the Press.
Academic term
Historically, the university divided its school year into trimesters; in 1997, CSU changed the academic term to division by semesters.
Location
CSU's main campus in downtown Cleveland is bounded on the east and west by Interstate 90 and 18th Street, respectively; and by Chester Avenue to the north and Euclid Avenue on the south. It also has satellite campuses in Westlake, Ohio and Solon, Ohio, both of which lie in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area in Cuyahoga County.
Campus and community
Faculty and Student Body
In 2002, the student body consisted of 10,356 undergraduates and 5,618 graduate students. At this time the university employed 490 full-time and 420 part-time faculty. The university is oriented toward commuters, with only 500 students living on campus (the maximum number of on-campus students living in Viking Hall, the school's sole dormitory). Over 90% of CSU's students work full or part time, and a great percentage of the students are transfer students - the school's junior class is consistently larger then its freshman class.
Expansion Plans
CSU recently unveiled a long-term plan to make the campus more amenable to residence and increase the number of students living on campus by building thousands of housing units, anchored by a new dormitory, Fenn Tower, a reuse of the school's most historic building that is now under construction. The university will work with private developers and the City of Cleveland to develop large amounts of housing, retail, and "collegetown" amenities in the off campus area around Fenn Tower, paticularly the main throughfare of Euclid Avenue, scheduled to be completely rebuilt and upgraded as part of the Eucild Corridor Project, bringing bus rapid transit to the university and city.
The University also plans to construct a new student recreation center, as well as two new buildings for the Colleges of Graduate Studies and Education; there are longer-term plans to create a "Varsity Village" incorporating athletic fields and student housing into a green, residential area.
Fenn Tower currently houses what was at one time the longest Foucault pendulum in the world; however, the pendulum has been inoperational since 1980.
Student Media
The campus' student-run radio station, 89.3 WCSB-FM, has a 630-Watt transmitter on top of Rhodes Tower (formerly called University Tower). Additionally, Cleveland State is served in print by The Caludron, an independent student newspaper, The Cleveland Stater, a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication, and The Vindicator. There is no student television station at this time, though the university offers a film production and video production major with courses through its Digital Video Communication Center.
Information technology
CSU is a member of the OneCommunity (formerly OneCleveland) computer network, an initiative of Case Western Reserve University that connects nonprofit institutions throughout Northeast Ohio, allowing large scale collaborations over a high-speed fiberoptic network.
Intercollegiate Athletics
The sports teams' nickname is the Vikings. The school colors are green and white. Cleveland State fields varsity teams in seventeen sports, including cheerleading, but most notably, does not have a football team. Most of the teams compete in the Horizon League. The men's basketball team achieved the greatest notoriety in 1986 when seeded 14th in the NCAA tournament, it upset heavily favored 3-seed Indiana and St. Joseph's before being beaten by Navy by one point, an unprecedented achievement for such a low seed.
See also
Bert and Iris S. Wolstein Center
External links
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