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Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University Logo
Former names
Cleveland Y.M.C.A. School of Technology
Fenn College
The Cleveland State University
TypePublic (state university)
Established1881 (Fenn College)
December 18, 1964 (Cleveland State)[1]
Endowment$37.3 million[2]
PresidentRonald M. Berkman
ProvostGeoffrey S. Mearns
(interim provost)
Academic staff
572
Undergraduates9,847
Postgraduates5,859
Location
Cleveland
,
Ohio
,
USA
CampusUrban, 85 acres (0.344 km²)
Athletics17 varsity teams
ColorsForest Green and White   
NicknameVikings
AffiliationsHorizon League
Eastern Wrestling League
Websitewww.csuohio.edu

This place has lots of candy come here pleez. Cleveland State University (abbr. CSU) is a public university in Cleveland, Ohio. It is part of University System of Ohio which was formed in 2007. The University System of Ohio has classified Cleveland State University as one of seven "Urban Research Universities" while the Carnegie Foundation has designated it as "Doctoral/Research University".[4]

History

Fenn College Seal

Cleveland State University traces its historical roots to 1870, when the Cleveland YMCA began to offer free classes. The YMCA program was formalized in 1881, reorganized in 1906 as the Association Institute, and later became the Cleveland Y.M.C.A. School of Technology. The Cleveland School of Technology was renamed Fenn College in 1929. Fenn College is named after Sereno Peck Fenn[1]. Fenn College expanded over the years, taking over several buildings in the area including Fenn Tower, Stilwell Hall, and Foster Hall. On December 18, 1964[1] the state of Ohio founded The Cleveland State University. After months of negotiations The Cleveland State University took over the faculty, staff, and programs of Fenn College on September 1, 1965[1]. Industrialist James J. Nance served as the first Board of Trustees Chairperson. The name would later be changed to simply Cleveland State University.

Beginning largely with the appointment of Dr. Michael Schwartz as President, Cleveland State transformed its role as an economic development engine in the region. Schwartz began implementing their vision to move the university from an overall fourth tier university in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, to a second tier university with world class research. CSU ended its policy of open admissions, instituted an honors program, began seeking funding to boost its faculty size and prestige, and created a campus master plan, rebuilding the university as a residential metropolitan campus in downtown Cleveland.

Administration

The President of Cleveland State University is Ronald M. Berkman, who was previously provost, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Florida International University in Miami. The Interim Provost is Geoffrey Mearns, former dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He replaces Mary Jane Saunders who resigned in winter of 2010. A national search is underway to find a permanent provost.

Presidents

Presidents
Person Years Person Years
Dr. Harry Newburn
Interim President
1965-1966
Dr. John Flower
President
1988-1992
Dr. Harold Enarson
President
1966-1972
Dr. Claire Van Ummersen
President
1993-2001
Dr. Harry Newburn
Interim President
1972-1973
Dr. Michael Schwartz
President
2002-2009[5]
Dr. Walter Waetjen
President
1973-1988
Dr. Ronald M. Berkman
President
2009-

On April 26, 2009, Ronald M. Berkman Named Sixth President of Cleveland State University.

"The Board of Trustees of Cleveland State University voted unanimously on Sunday to appoint Ronald M. Berkman as the sixth president of the University, succeeding Michael Schwartz who will retire from CSU’s top post on June 30.

In making the announcement, Ronald Weinberg, Chairman of the CSU Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Presidential Search Committee, said, “I am delighted that after a diligent and thoughtful national search, we have come up with the best choice for our institution’s next president. The fact that we have been able to attract a very special individual of Ron Berkman’s caliber is testimony to the achievements of Michael Schwartz as President for the last eight years. It speaks well for Cleveland State University, the Greater Cleveland Region and the opportunities we can pursue. I am confident we have been able to attract the finest person to be our next president, and I look forward to working with him, as I am sure we all do.”

Dr. Berkman, 62, is currently Provost and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Florida International University in Miami, where he has been since 1997. He has also served as Executive Dean of the College of Health and Urban Affairs at FIU. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1977.[6]

Colleges and academics

Nance College of Business Administration

CSU offers many disciplines and research facilities, with 70 academic majors, 27 master's degree programs, two post-master's degrees, six doctoral degrees, and two law degrees. It also has research cooperation agreements with the nearby NASA Glenn Research Center.

The University is organized around eight academic colleges:

School of Music and Communication

Additionally, the Division of University Studies focuses on academic support services, and the Division of Continuing Education extends existing academic services beyond the campus.

Notable programs include the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, whose city management and urban policy program is ranked 2nd in the country by U.S. News and World Report, as well as the recently-formed School of Communication, ranked 8th in research productivity and as the top terminal MA-granting program in the United States overall[7]. The Nance college of Business Administration is also highly regarded and is ranked in the top ten nationwide in performance of its Certified Public Accountant graduate students. Additionally, CSU is the only university in Ohio to offer a master's degree in software engineering.

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Main article: Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 as the first evening law school in the state and one of the first in Ohio (and one of the earliest in the U.S.) to admit women and minorities. In 1946, Cleveland Law School merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Cleveland-Marshall became part of Cleveland State University in 1969.

One of the most famous alumni of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law was Tim Russert, host of television program Meet the Press. The college has also educated numerous highly esteemed judges and founders of prestigious private law firms. Due to its long tradition of providing evening education, the college has a large number of business and community leaders who are non-practicing attorneys as well.

Research

Cleveland State maintains a variety of research links with the Cleveland community. The following are the University's featured research collaborations:[8]

Science and Research Center
  • Bio Ohio
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
  • Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center
  • Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholar Program)
  • NASA Glenn Research Center
  • Great Lakes Science Center
  • Museum of Natural History
  • International Space University
  • Internet2
  • Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine
  • Ohio Department of Education
  • Ohio Instrumentation, Controls & Electronics (ICE)
  • Ohio Supercomputer Center

Notable faculty and alumni

Faculty

Staff

Alumni

Location

Rhodes Tower

CSU's main campus in downtown Cleveland is bounded on the east and west by Interstate 90 and 17th Street, respectively; and by Payne Avenue to the north and Carnegie Avenue on the south. It also has satellite campuses in Westlake, Ohio and Solon, Ohio, both in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area in Cuyahoga County.

Campus and community

Faculty and student

In 2002, the student body consisted of 10,356 undergraduates and 5,618 graduate students.

Expansion plans

CSU recently unveiled a long-term plan to make the campus more amenable to residence and increase the number of students living on campus by building thousands of housing units, anchored by a new dormitory, Fenn Tower, a reuse of the school's most historic building. The university is working with private developers and the City of Cleveland to develop housing, retail, and "collegetown" amenities around Fenn Tower, particularly the main thoroughfare of Euclid Avenue, scheduled to be destroyed and upgraded as part of the Euclid Corridor Project, bringing bus rapid transit to the university and city.

The University has also recently completed a new state of the art student recreation center, as well as two new buildings for the Colleges of Graduate Studies and Education; there are longer-term plans to create a "Varsity Village" incorporating athletic fields and student housing into a green, residential area.

Fenn Tower formerly housed what was at one time the longest Foucault pendulum in the world; however, the pendulum has been inoperational since 1980 and was removed during the residence hall renovation in 2006. The pendulum currently resides in the Cleveland State University archives.

The Dramatic Arts Program is in the process of transitioning into the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square Center in collaboration with the Cleveland Play House.[10]

In 2009, Cleveland State University announced their plan to begin work on $65 million construction project, this project will transform the campus from a commuter school into a residential campus.[11]

Student media

The campus' student-run radio station, 89.3 WCSB-FM, has a 630-Watt transmitter on top of Rhodes Tower (formerly called University Tower). Additionally, Cleveland State is served in print by The Cauldron, an independent student newspaper, The Cleveland Stater, a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication, The Vindicator, and The Gavel which won the 2005 American Bar Association's -Student Division's first prize for the best law school newspaper in the country. There is no student television station at this time, though the university offers a film production and video production major with courses through its Digital Video Communication Center.

Information technology

CSU is a member of the OneCommunity (formerly OneCleveland) computer network, an initiative of Case Western Reserve University that connects nonprofit institutions throughout Northeast Ohio, allowing large scale collaborations over a high-speed fiber optic network.

Intercollegiate athletics

Main article: Cleveland State Vikings

The sports teams' nickname is the Vikings. The school colors are forest green and white. For many years the school mascot was the comic strip character Hägar the Horrible along with his wife Helga, and the couple appeared at sporting events as well as on University literature. A new mascot, "Vike" was introduced in 1997 and Hagar was gradually phased out by 1998. Another new mascot was introduced in August 2007. He was to be named either Magnus, Victor E., Vic Torious, or Vike. The winning name, which was announced on November 24, 2007 was Magnus.

Cleveland State fields varsity teams in seventeen sports. Most of the teams compete in the Horizon League. The men's basketball team was noteworthy in 1986 when seeded 14th in the NCAA tournament, it upset heavily favored 3-seed Indiana and St. Joseph's before being beaten by Navy by one point, an unprecedented achievement for such a low seed.The Vikes made yet another NCAA tournament appearance in 2009, upsetting the highly favored 4th seeded Wake Forest Demon Deacons before falling to the University of Arizona Wildcats in the second round.

Football

On October 14, 2008 CSU President Michael Schwartz stated "he wants a blue ribbon panel to give him a recommendation on the football team before July 1, 2009, when he is scheduled to retire. He also said the program will have to be structured to pay for itself."[12]

In April 2010, students will be asked by the Cleveland State University Student Government Association if they would be willing to support a football program, by paying about $4.00 more per credit hour. This vote will just be an assessment of the student body’s interest in a football program. The decision will be ultimately in the hands of the CSU Board of Trustees. [13]

School songs

See also

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File:Sanborn-CSU.jpg
Adam Smith's Spinning Top #2, sculpture by Jim Sanborn at CSU

References

  1. ^ a b c d Cleveland State University (2007-11-19). "A Brief History of Cleveland State University". Cleveland State University. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  2. ^ As of June 30, 2009. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009" (PDF). 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  3. ^ "Cleveland State at a Glance". Cleveland State University. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  4. ^ Carnegie Foundation: Cleveland State University
  5. ^ On 23 June 2008, Dr. Schwartz announced his resignation as president effective after the 2008-09 academic year
  6. ^ See Cleveland State University website
  7. ^ [1] About the School of Communication. Accessed June 13, 2006.
  8. ^ Partnerships and Community
  9. ^ http://www.martindale.com/Richard-G-Lillie/1435417-lawyer.htm
  10. ^ http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/03/cleveland_state_universitys_dr.html
  11. ^ http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1251102766197460.xml&coll=2
  12. ^ [2] Cleveland State considers a new name and a new football team. Accessed October 25, 2008.
  13. ^ [3] A pop football quiz: Cleveland State students will be asked whether they'd help pay for new program. Accessed March 23, 2010.
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