| Susquehanna University | |
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| Motto | Achievement, Leadership, Service |
| Established | 1858 |
| Type | Private, Lutheran-affiliated university |
| Endowment | $91.8 million[1] |
| President | L. Jay Lemons |
| Academic staff | 120 |
| Undergraduates | 2,200 |
| Location | Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Campus | small town, 306 acres (124 ha) |
| Athletics | 24 varsity teams |
| Colors | Orange and Maroon |
| Nickname | Crusaders |
| Website | www.susqu.edu |
Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, 50 miles (80 km) north of the state capital, Harrisburg.
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Founded in 1858 as the Missionary Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Susquehanna Female College, the university enrolls approximately 2,000 students in three schools: the School of Arts, Humanities and Communications; the School of Natural and Social Sciences; and the Sigmund Weis School of Business. Degrees offered include the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science. Susquehanna offers about 50 major emphases,[2] with a student-faculty ratio of 13-to-1.[3]
All Susquehanna students go off-campus for cross-cultural learning at some point during their four years. This requirement was added under the central curriculum adopted in 2009. Semester-length (GO Long) opportunities include destinations around the globe. Sites in South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia are popular among Susquehanna students.
GO Short programs include SU CASA, an award-winning[4] program that takes students to Costa Rica and Nicaragua to serve congregations, clinics, hospitals, and refugee and immigrant communities. The Hurricane Response Team remains closer to home, coordinating service trips to the Gulf Coast to aid in the post-Katrina rebuilding efforts.
Susquehanna offers summer programs for high school students in partnership with Blueprint Summer Programs. In summer 2011, the program begins on June 26 with four courses available: Advertising and Public Relations, Ecology, Graphic Design and Psychology. Students live and study on campus and go on field trips to NYC, D.C., Hershey Park and Philadelphia.
Susquehanna University has a strong reputation for civic engagement in the community, with an average of 20,000 hours of service logged every academic year. The Center for Civic Engagement runs a first-year student service event titled SU GIVE, or Get Into Volunteer Experiences, during the fall orientation. Additionally, Susquehanna offers three trips to the Gulf Coast region each year to assist with hurricane relief efforts.
The Susquehanna University campus spans 306 acres (124 ha) in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. There are more than 50 buildings on campus, two of which, Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[5] The architecture is primarily Georgian in style.
Students are guaranteed housing all four years. 80% of students live on campus with off- campus students comprising some juniors and about half the senior class. Students can choose from traditional, corridor-style halls, suites, townhouses, apartments and family-style houses, each requiring no more than a 10- minute walk to class.
The newest addition to the Susquehanna campus is a $32-million complex that will house Susquehanna’s biology, chemistry and earth and environmental science programs. The building has been designed to meet or exceed Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification standards. The 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) building was dedicated on October 23, 2010.[6]
Susquehanna University offers more than 100 student organizations, including a variety of religious life organizations and cultural interest groups. Examples would include such international organizations such as Habitat for Humanity to the Disaster Response Team (DiRT), SU Paranormal, and GeoClub. The performing arts are represented through several theater, dance and music programs. The theater department also hosts a student-run play each semester.
The university's student-run newspaper, The Crusader, covers campus events, activities and athletics, and provides a forum for the opinions of members of the campus community.
WQSU, The Pulse, is the college's 12,000-watt station, making it the third most powerful college station and the tenth most powerful non-commercial station in Pennsylvania. Broadcasts can be heard at a 70-mile radius, which is approximately one-third of the state of Pennsylvania. The station is operated by students, faculty and staff as well as community volunteers, and features a wide variety of music and talk programs including regularly scheduled Associated Press news broadcasts.
Susquehanna's on-campus, student-run night club is Trax, which offers a stage for live bands, comedians and other performers as well as a dance floor, bar, pool tables, an outside patio and a DJ booth. Trax also hosts benefit concerts for different philanthropies and Greek organizations.
Susquehanna University also has a student-run Charlie's Coffeehouse which is located on campus and named after the university's benefactor, Charles Degenstein. The management team is made up of five students who are responsible for the coffee shop's finances, marketing, programming, stocking, and managerial duties, and the baristas are made up of students on campus. This non-alcoholic venue to students offers different sorts of programming every night of the week. Programming is aimed towards the students and student organizations and hosts a variety of open mic nights and other student performances. Charlie's also works in partnership with the student activities committee to bring in outside entertainers and host movies before they are released to the public.
American School Search gives Susquehanna University a grade of D- for safety.[7] The small campus had seven forcible sex offences as well as 18 assaults and two hate crimes reported between the years 2006 and 2008.[8]
Susquehanna competes in 23 varsity sports in Division III of the NCAA. Most sports compete as part of the Landmark Conference with other Northeastern colleges. Susquehanna competes in the Centennial Conference for football and women's golf and the Empire 8 for men's golf. Cheerleading is Susquehanna's 24th varsity team.
Susquehanna offers 14 intramural sports which are free of charge to all students. Both flag football and basketball league winners advance to national tournaments. Students may also join several club sports — including men's and women's rugby, men's ice hockey, ultimate Frisbee, men's volleyball and men's and women's crew — that compete against other colleges.
The Goal Post Trophy goes to the winner of the annual football game with rival Juniata College. It is a section of goal post from the post that was torn down after the 1952 Juniata-Susquehanna game. The visiting Indians (now Eagles) upset the Crusaders in Selinsgrove, and Juniata fans tore down the goal post after the game. At roughly 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, it is one of the tallest trophies in college football.
Susquehanna also plays Lycoming College for the Amos Alonzo Stagg's hat (bronzed) trophy.[9]
Nearly 20 percent of the undergraduate student population is active in Greek life on campus. There are four NPC sororities (Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Delta, Sigma Kappa and Zeta Tau Alpha), five NIC fraternities (Phi Mu Delta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi, Phi Mu Alpha and Pi Kappa Phi), and two NPHC organizations (Sigma Gamma Rho and Phi Beta Sigma). There is also a professional women's music organization (Sigma Alpha Iota and one co-ed service fraternity (Alpha Phi Omega).
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