CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

'Cleveland State University' (abbr. 'CSU') is a public university located in Cleveland, Ohio. The current President is Michael Schwartz, who was previously president emeritus and a professor at Kent State University. The Provost is Mary Jane Saunders, formerly the founding Dean of the College of Science at Cleveland State University.

Contents

History

Colleges and Academics

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Academic term

Location

Campus and community

Faculty and Student Body

Expansion Plans

Student Media

Information technology

Intercollegiate Athletics

School songs

See also

References

External links

History

Cleveland State 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 School of Technology. It became Fenn College in 1929. Fenn College is named after Sereno Peck Fenn^[3]. Fenn College expanded over the years, taking over several buildings in the area. In 1964 the state of Ohio founded Cleveland State University and took over the faculty, staff, and programs of Fenn College. Industrialist James J. Nance served as the first Board of Trustees Chairperson.
Since the appointment of Dr. Michael Schwartz as University President, Cleveland State has transformed its role in the community and the region, in particular as an economic development engine. Schwartz and the Provost have begun implementing their vision for the school to move it from an overall fourth tier university in the US News and World Report rankings, to that of a second tier university with world class research programs. As part of this change, CSU has ended its policy of open admissions, instituted an honors program, begun the process of seeking funding to boost its faculty size and prestige, and created a master plan for the campus, rebuilding the university as a residential metropolitan campus in the heart of downtown Cleveland.

Colleges and Academics

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:

★ Fenn College of Engineering

★ Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

★ College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

★ College of Science

★ Nance College of Business Administration

★ College of Education & Human Services

★ Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

★ Graduate Studies
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 at Cleveland State include the urban affairs programs housed in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, whose city management and urban policy program is currently ranked 2nd in the country overall 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 ^[4]. 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 the state of Ohio to offer a master's degree in software engineering.

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Main articles: 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 is 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.

Academic term

Historically, the university divided its school year into quarters; in 1998, CSU changed the academic term to division by semesters.

Location

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 of which lie in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area in Cuyahoga County.

Campus and community

Faculty and Student Body

In 2002, the student body consisted of 10,356 undergraduates and 5,618 graduate students. At this time the university employed 490 full-time and 420 part-time faculty.

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 that has recently been completed. Additionally the university is working with private developers and the City of Cleveland to develop large amounts of housing, retail, and "collegetown" amenities in the off campus area around Fenn Tower, particularly the main thoroughfare of Euclid Avenue, scheduled to be completely 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.

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 articles: Cleveland State Vikings


The sports teams' nickname is the Vikings. The school colors are 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 1996 and Hagar was gradually phased out by 1998.
Cleveland State fields varsity teams in seventeen sports, including cheerleading. Most of the teams compete in the Horizon League. The men's basketball team achieved the greatest notoriety 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.

School songs

'Fight song' ''O hail the Green and White;'' ''For our great colors we shall fight!'' ''To battle, Vikings all;'' ''We'll sound the Viking Trumpet Call!'' ''We always will defend'' ''The Pride of Cleveland faithfully;'' ''For Cleveland State we'll fight on to a victory!''

'Alma mater' ''Near the shores of great Lake Erie, grand for all to view'' ''Proudly stands our Alma Mater noble CSU'' ''Lift your voices, join the chorus 'til our work is through.'' ''Hail to thee our Alma Mater hail, hail all, CSU!'' ''To educate, for future's sake, truth through knowledge is our goal,'' ''Steadfast remains our Alma Mater, whatever the future holds.'' ''Lift your voices, join the chorus 'til our work is through.'' ''Hail to thee our Alma Mater hail, hail all, CSU!''

See also

★ Bert and Iris S. Wolstein Center

★ Krenzler Soccer Field Krenzler Field

★ Cleveland State Vikings

References

1. CLEVELAND STATE AT A GLANCE
2. 2006 National Association of College and University Business Officers Endowment Study (PDF ''2006 National Association of College and University Business Officers Endowment Study (PDF'' 19 May 2007.
3. [1] A Brief History of Cleveland State University. Accessed March 20, 2007.
4. [2] About the School of Communication. Accessed June 13 2006.

External links

★ Official Cleveland State University Website

★ Official student newspaper site

★ Official CSU athletics site

★ 89.3 FM WCSB