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Trine University
Motto: Focus on your future![1]
Established: 1884
Type: private coeducational
Endowment: $27 million[2]
President: Earl D. Brooks II
Faculty: 83[3]
Students: 1249
Undergraduates: 1240
Location: Angola, IN, USA
Campus: small town: 400 acres (1.6 km²)
Athletics: Division III NCAA teams,
called The Trine Thunder
Colors: Navy Blue, White, and Taupe
Mascot: Thor, Norse god of thunder
Website: www.tristate.edu

Trine University is a private U.S. Midwest university with its main campus located in Angola, Indiana, along with branch campuses for the School of Professional Studies in South Bend, Merrillville, northern Angola, and Fort Wayne.

Founded in 1884 as Tri-State Normal College, the university has been traditionally noted for its engineering program; however, it also offers degrees in arts & sciences, teaching, areas of business, entrepreneurship, and golf management. Trine University has also begun a masters program in engineering technology, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering.[1] The School of Professional Studies also offers a masters of science in criminal justince at its Fort Wayne branch campus. For many years, its mascot was the Trojans, however TSU changed their mascot to the TSU Thunder in 1990.

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[edit] Student life

Students at Trine come from many different parts of the country, though most typically hail from the Midwest states of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. Trine University also hosts a small-sized population international students, primarily from the South Pacific, the PRC, South America, and India. The University requires that all students not living with a legal guardian and under the class standing of junior to live in one of its on-campus resident halls (Fabiani, Stewart, Alwood, Cameron, Platt, and Conrad). TSU also has recently built the Trine and Ingledue Villas, apartment-style housing for juniors and seniors meeting academic standards on campus. Also, since the fall semester of 2007, students have three new apartment-style dorms to live in. These new dorms feature suite-style living. Each apartment has two or three bedrooms, with two students in each room. Freshmen are permitted to have cars on campus. National fraternities on the campus include Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Chi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Theta, Sigma Phi Epsilon,Tau Kappa Epsilon, Triangle Fraternity, and Sigma Phi Delta. Sororities on campus include the local organizations Gamma Phi Epsilon, Zeta Theta Epsilon, Kappa Sigma Alpha, Alpha Theta Pi and Phi Sigma, and a national colony of Alpha Sigma Tau. The school features a very active Christian Campus House ministry.

[edit] Academics

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Trine University prides itself in providing its focus to undergraduate education. With small class sizes, students typically find it easy to interact with and personally receive help from their instructors (as of 2004, there is a 14:1 student-faculty ratio). As stated by TSU's Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. David Finley: "The school's faculty is dedicated to undergraduate teaching; student success is their top priority. There are no teaching assistants in any of the programs. And small class sizes offer students the opportunity to interact in an intellectually stimulating, interactive, exciting learning environment."

However, little to no serious research takes place on the campus, due to both the lack of a developed graduate school and the focus of professors on education. Although, plans and a vision for the future do include research facilities on the main campus. Students at Trine receive a pragmatic education, with all professors required to have at least some professional practice experience prior to teaching at Trine.

The following schools currently operate at Trine University: Allen School of Engineering & Technology (ABET accredited), Franks School of Education (NCATE accredited), Jannen School of Arts & Sciences, Ketner School of Business, and School of Professional Studies.

[edit] Athletics

Trine University belongs to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III, as a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Currently, the school offers 21 sports for men and women, including American football, men's and women's basketball, soccer, track, and cross-country. The school also features the Zollner Golf Course, three-time host of the National Collegiate Golf Championships. Trine has recently added men's and women's lacrosse for the 2008 spring season.

[edit] Future

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Trine University has recently seen a surge in building and renovation across the campus, including a complete remodel of a previously vacated building, a new student coffee shop, and the construction of a University Center, which opened in Fall 2007. The University Center is one of the most significant building project in the university's history. The 73,000 sq. ft. center includes many features designed to meet the growing tastes and interests of students, including a 325-seat theater, dining hall, bookstore, bakery, coffee shop, and a rock climbing wall.

The University Center is also home to the new Center for Technology and Online Resources. The online research facility acts as the library and also includes a bean bag bunker, digital group training spaces, and study areas.

Other projects include a multipurpose Thunder sports complex, updated housing facilities intended to eventually replace traditional dormitories, and a tennis pavilion.

Some credit the school's President, Dr. Earl D. Brooks II, with the school's success in fund-raising.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Tri-State University-Graduate Programs-About

[edit] Notes

  1. 1 motto  webpage masthead. Trine University. Retrieved on January 16, 2006.
  2. 2 endowment  America's Best Colleges 2006. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved on January 16, 2006.
  3. 3 full-time_instructional_faculty  About TSU > Faculty and Staff. Trine University. Retrieved on January 16, 2006.
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