| Saginaw Valley State University | |
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| Motto | Something More. Something Better. |
| Established | November 13, 1963 (charter granted) |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | $37.0 million[1] |
| President | Eric R. Gilbertson |
| Provost | Donald Bachand |
| Chairman of the Board of Control | K.P. Karunakaran, M.D. |
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| Students | 10,790 [2] |
| Undergraduates | 8,190 [3] |
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| Location | University Center, Michigan, USA |
| Campus | Suburban/Rural |
| Colors |
Red and White [4] |
| Mascot | Cardinals |
| Website | www.svsu.edu |
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Saginaw Valley State University, commonly known as SVSU, is a state university in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the middle of Michigan's lower peninsula in the Saginaw Valley region. The university is located in Kochville Township, Saginaw County. However, its official address places it in University Center, Michigan, which it shares with Delta College (which is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) to the north-northwest, in Bay County's Frankenlust Township). It is the youngest of Michigan's 15 public colleges and universities.
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SVSU has five academic Colleges. The original College is the College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences.
Buildings are listed in order of their date of occupation.
Not all buildings on campus are listed.
| Name | Occupied | Notes |
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| '66 Building | January 1967 | First building completed on campus |
| Instructional Facility #1: Wickes Hall |
September 1969 | Administrative offices Crystal M. Lange College of Health and Human Services Named for Harvey Randall Wickes |
| Doan Center | September 1969 | Main dining hall Student Life Center Named for Leland I. Doan |
| Cardinal Gymnasium | September 1971 | |
| Pioneer Hall of Engineering and Technology | January 1978 | Recently underwent renovation (2007). The building has been "certified green" by the U.S. Green Building Council, the first building in mid-Michigan to do so. |
| Instructional Facility #2: Brown Hall, Zahnow Library, Dow Doan Science Building West |
September 1986 | Brown Hall named for Maurice E. Brown Zahnow Library named for Melvin J. Zahnow Dow Doan Science Building named for Herbert Dow Doan |
| Arbury Fine Arts Center | September 1988 | Home to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Named for Ned and Dorothy Arbury |
| Ryder Center | September 1989 | Main athletic facility Named for second President Jack Ryder |
| Wickes Memorial Stadium | September 1991 | Named for Harvey Randall Wickes |
| Founders Hall | December 1995 | Small hall for presentations and lectures. |
| Curtiss Hall/Groening Commons | August 1996 | Originally called "West Complex" Curtiss Hall named for Charles B. Curtiss III Groening Commons named for William Groening |
| Instructional Facility #3: Dow Doan Science Building East |
August 2001 | Named for Herbert Dow Doan. Contains numerous classrooms and chemistry labs. |
| Regional Education Center | August 2003 | Home to the College of Education Auditorium named for Alan W. Ott |
| Student Center | August 2003 | Features large stained glass and tile floor versions of the SVSU seal |
| Saginaw Valley HealthCare | July 2009 | A 10,000-square-foot (930 m2), $2.6 million clinic open to SVSU students and the public. Part of a partnership with Covenant Healthcare. Has X-ray and lab facilities. |
| Health & Human Services | August 2010 | A 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2), $28 million building that will house the Crystal M. Lange College of Health and Human Services. The building will incorporate the largest aqua-thermal heating/cooling system in the state of Michigan to reduce energy costs by over 35%. |
3-D PDF map of the SVSU campus
(In order of construction)
2004 data puts the General Fund at $67 million. The sources include: state appropriations (42%, or $28.1 million), tuition & fees (55.2%, or $36.8 million) and "other sources" (2.8%, or $1.9 million).
SVSU's 2004 'self study' provides detail concerning the university's financials and other miscellaneous information.
The 2004 budget includes a cut of $1.3 million from the 2003 budget. Attempts have been made to avoid future budget cuts by means of raising tuition costs. This has sparked controversy, as SVSU has always prided itself on being a university with a very high quality/cost ratio; i.e. the quality of education has ostensibly and historically been more than commensurate with the price of attending the university. The university's mission statement reflects this belief.
As of Winter 2010, per credit hour charges for in-state students is $229.00. Out of state and non-resident aliens pay $557.30 per hour. [5]
The Saginaw Valley State University fields 16 varsity teams at The NCAA Division II level as members of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). The Cardinals compete in the following sports:
Men's
Women's
National Championships:
National Runners-up:
Basketball Final Four:
Famous graduates of SVSU include the following:
Saginaw Valley State University is one of the fastest growing universities in Michigan, and has continued to grow year after year. For the Fall 2009 semester, SVSU saw its largest incoming freshman class to date with 1,740 arriving and over 75% of them living on campus. The overall enrollment now stands at 10,498 students: a record level for SVSU. Saginaw Valley State University is also continuing to build on to its campus, both in new housing developments for students and in new buildings to help further the academic achievement of the students. Pioneer Hall of Engineering was completed in 2007, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held in March 2009 for the new Health & Human Services building, which was opened for the Fall Semester of 2010. SVSU also recently opened Saginaw Valley HealthCare, a clinic for SVSU students and the public to use, and Living Center Southwest, the fourth large dormitory. With the completion of the new dorms, the number of students living on campus has risen to 2,700. SVSU news is covered by both the Valley Vanguard and The Saginaw Valley Journal.
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