| St. Cloud State University | |
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| Established | 1869 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | $21,000,000[1] |
| President | Dr. Earl H. Potter III |
| Academic staff | 904 |
| Admin. staff | 845 |
| Students | 17,231 (Fall 2011) |
| Undergraduates | 15,536 |
| Postgraduates | 1,695 |
| Location | St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States |
| Campus | Urban 100 acres (40 ha) campus |
| Colors |
Cardinal Red and Black |
| Athletics | NSIC (NCAA Division II) Men's and women's ice hockey WCHA NCAA Division I |
| Nickname | Huskies |
| Mascot | Blizzard |
| Website | http://stcloudstate.edu and http://m.stcloudstate.edu |
St. Cloud State University is a four-year public university founded in 1869 on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. The university is the largest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system which is the largest single provider of higher education in the state of Minnesota.[2] With more than 18,000 students, St. Cloud State has Minnesota's second-highest university enrollment.[3] St. Cloud State has more than 100,000 alumni worldwide; Notable alumni include John Stumpf, president and CEO of Wells Fargo & Company,[4] and James B. Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.[5]
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St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students in 1869, under the name Third State Normal School. The school consisted of one building, the Stearns House, a renovated hotel purchased by the state Legislature for $46,000. Classrooms were on the first floor, the "model school" was on second floor and a women's dormitory was housed on the third floor. The five-member faculty was headed by Principal Ira Moore. Of the 53 original students, 43 were women. In 1898, the school began offering a junior college curriculum.
In 1914, the school dropped its secondary education program entirely. The legislature authorized a name change in 1921, allowing the school to adopt the name St. Cloud State Teachers College (the word "teachers" was deleted in 1957). The first bachelor's degrees were awarded in 1925, with master's degree programs offered beginning in 1953.
In 1975, St. Cloud State became a university, comprising five colleges and a graduate school. The G.R. Herberger Business School is recognized as one of the top business colleges in the country and is one of only four in the state that is nationally accredited. Within the past decade, the College of Science and Engineering established and gained full accreditation for its Computer Engineering program. It is the only university in Minnesota that offers an ABET accredited Manufacturing Engineering Program. It also offers ABET accredited Electrical and Mechanical Engineering programs, along with Computer Science.[6] St. Cloud State University's Master of Engineering Management is the only program in Minnesota that is certified by the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM).
In 1987, men's hockey became an NCAA Division I program. Two years later the team moved into a new two-rink arena called the National Hockey Center. In 1998, the university added a women's hockey team at the Division I level.
In 2010, the university teamed with the private sector to build a welcome center and student housing complex adjacent to campus. The university leases the Welcome Center and Coborn Plaza Apartments.
The university was created as a Normal school, then developed college-level programs for teachers. Today it offers more than 200 majors, minors and pre-professional programs in five academic colleges. The School of Graduate Studies offers more than 60 graduate programs and certificates leading to specialist, Master of Arts, Master of Business Administration, Master of Engineering Management, Master of Music, Master of Science degrees and an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration.[7] A new graduate program of note is the master's in regulatory affairs & services, one of five programs offering classes at the university's Twin Cities Graduate Center in Maple Grove, Minn.[8]
St. Cloud State has about 20 education-abroad programs, including a year-around program at Alnwick Castle in northern England.[9]
St. Cloud State offers more than 200 undergraduate and more than 60 graduate programs of study through two colleges and six schools. The academic structure described below takes effect July 1, 2011.
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At the beginning of each academic year students are invited to "Mainstreet," an event held on campus, to peruse student organizations and groups as well as those offered by the community.
Nearly 20 percent of St. Cloud State students live in one of the eight traditional residence halls or in an apartment-style hall on campus.[10] In August 2010, as a part of Fifth Avenue Live, St. Cloud State opened the Coborn Plaza Apartments, a new residence hall that is capable of housing 455 students in high-amenity apartments with underground parking.
Traditional residence halls:
Apartment-style residence halls:
St. Cloud State allows students to join an array of 250 student organizations.[11] Click on the following link to access a list of the organizations at St. Cloud State.
Students can also join one of the nine houses that represent the Greek population at St. Cloud State.[12]
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KVSC-FM is a public radio station licensed to St. Cloud State University. The station first started on May 10, 1967 and expanded broadcasting times in September 1994.[13]
The University Chronicle is the student newspaper and is published twice a week. It has been published since 1921.[14]
University Television Station (UTVS) is a student-run television station, which airs live newscasts and other programming. The station is broadcast on Charter Communications' cable channel 21 in the greater St. Cloud area. Broadcasts of sporting events, including men's hockey, are also aired on other Charter franchises.[15]
In the spring of 2009, student-run media outlets received awards from five different competitions that garner national, regional, and state recognition. Husky Productions received the Global Media Award for College Sports "Best Live Game or Live Event" for its telecast of a November hockey game between Wisconsin and St. Cloud State.[16] At the Broadcast Educators Association Awards in Las Vegas, UTVS, Husky Mag, and Husky Productions received three out of the 17 awards recognized. Husky Mag took first place in the studio competition, two students received first place in the music video category, and Husky Productions took second place in the studio production category.[17] In March 2009, KVSC-FM received four awards from the Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters for work done in 2008. The honorees were: Aaron Bjokrstrand's "Rage Against Abuse", received Best in show; "Husky Hockey Review", first in Sports Reporting; Jenna Wundrow's "SCSU Recycling Program: Green or Guilt?"; first in documentary/investigative; and Peter Tomala and Patrick Sullivan's "Husky Sports Friday"; honorable mention in sports reporting.[18] Students with the University Chronicle received 11 Better Newspaper Contest awards for their work in 2008 from the Minnesota Newspaper Association; the University Chronicle received second place for its typography and design.[19]
Each student attending St. Cloud State University pays a .43 cent per credit fee to fund the Minnesota State University Student Association, a student-led non-profit that advocates on behalf of all Minnesota state university students.
The university currently sponsors 21 Division II teams and is a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The St. Cloud State's men's and women's ice hockey teams also compete in Division I as a member of the WCHA division. The mascot is the Husky.[20]
St. Cloud State University provides free admission to all sports for students (including football and hockey). This is possible through an athletic fee [21]
The school operates a radio station, KVSC 88.1 FM. Students publish a newspaper, the University Chronicle. Students also run a television station known as UTVS, which recently won first place for best student news and productions from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as honorable mention at a New York competition in 2004.[22]
The school operates a theatre called Theatre L'homme Dieu. The theatre produces a ten-week season of plays and musicals each summer. The theatre employs professional actors, directors, and designers usually from the Twin Cities theatre community. The theatre also employs a resident intern company of twenty student apprentices. Most of the student apprentices are theatre majors from SCSU and other Midwestern universities.[23]
Construction of a St. Cloud State welcome center and 455-student housing complex at Coborn Plaza was completed in August 2010. The welcome center and apartment-style housing are part of the first phase of Fifth Avenue Live, a private development adjacent to campus. Student apartments will be on the upper floors of the north and south buildings. Retail will be on the ground floor of the north building. The welcome center is slated for the ground floor of the south building. The university is leasing the apartments and welcome center from the J.A. Wedum Foundation.The two buildings combined are called Coborn Plaza in honor of the community contributions of the Coborn family, whose grocery chain formerly had a store on that site.[24]
In July 2009, St. Cloud State added a presence in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area with a graduate center in Maple Grove, MN. The Twin Cities Graduate Center uses the cohort instructional model of learning, in which small groups of student proceed through the program together. Classes from programs such as business administration, higher education administration, counseling and regulatory affairs and services are offered.[25]
Riverview Renovated
After an extensive restoration project in 2002 and 2003, St. Cloud State reopened the doors to historic Lawrence Hall to host a cultural melting pot of international and American Students studying foreign languages. The hall was first built in 1895 housing women students and later housing men for a few years. After originally being touted as fireproof, the building burned beyond repair and a new Lawrence Hall was built in 1905. It once again served as housing until it was retired in 1974 with exception to the basement floor which was used to facilitate a Math Skills Center. The Math Skills Center was forced out of the hall in 1999 after the structure was deemed unfit. After being distinguished as a campus eyesore efforts began to start a restoration campaign of the hall with funding for the project coming from the state's Legislation's bonding bill in 2000.[26]
In the 1986-1987 season, Herb Brooks, the 1980 USA men's Olympic hockey coach, became the coach of the Huskies and helped St. Cloud State hockey team achieve Division I status. He also helped lead efforts to build the National Hockey Center. A small street near the National Hockey Center was named for Brooks shortly after his death.[27]
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