Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Seal of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture
Motto "Give Your Best To Dear Old Stockbridge. Body, heart, soul."
Established 1870 Short Courses
1892 First Official Two-Year Courses[1]
1918 Separate Institution
Type Public
Director William L. Mitchell
Colors Blue and Gold school, unofficial
         
Maroon and White university
         
Website http://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/

The Stockbridge School of Agriculture is a fully accredited, two–year agricultural school that is part of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus. It was founded as part of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts, Amherst) in 1918. The following Associate of Science degrees are available at Stockbridge:

The school's main facility and school symbol is Stockbridge Hall, named after Levi Stockbridge, a founder of Massachusetts Agricultural College and its first professor of agriculture. Stockbridge is considered a separate school within the University of Massachusetts system, but it is a unique institution because, while it uses many UMass facilities and professors, it also maintains its own faculty and facilities and holds its own classes (which are also available to UMass students). Stockbridge students can live in UMass dormitories, use the library, and eat at the dining commons.

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Athletics

Stockbridge has two National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) teams: basketball and golf. As a two–year school, its students are not allowed by the NCAA to play on varsity teams. Stockbridge teams compete against small four-year schools, preparatory schools, and community colleges. Stockbridge students may try out for the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association equestrian team and Intercollegiate Dressage Association team. These teams compete throughout the year with other colleges in the Northeast. Students may also take advantage of many noncompetitive recreational opportunities or participate in the University of Massachusetts' intramural program, one of the largest in the East.

Greek life

Alpha Tau Gamma is its fraternity

Stockbridge Alumni are also part of the National Fraternity named Theta Chi Fraternity and have a chapter on campus near the Newman Center (Church/Cafe).

Notable alumni

Accreditation

Stockbridge is accredited through the New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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References

  1. ^ Cary, Harold Whiting (1962). "Chapter 5: Recovery and Advance under Goodell". The University of Massachusetts: a History of One Hundred Years. Springfield, Massachusetts: Walter Whittum, Inc. p. 77. OCLC 1029116. http://www.archive.org/stream/universityofmass00cary#page/n7/mode/2up. Retrieved 2011-08. "A further innovation which was announced by President Goodell in 1892, one which proved to be in advance of its time was the introduction of a two-year, non-degree course in practical agriculture. This also was not entirely new, for it had been preceded as early as the 1870's by the admission of special students for the purpose of taking short courses, particularly in the winter terms....The course was continued for three years with a total enrollment of sixty-five, of whom twenty-five completed the requirements fro a diploma. It was then suspended, to be replaced by a series of ten short winter courses in several branches of practical work. When it was revived twenty years later, the two-year program met with greater success." 

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