FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY

'Franklin Pierce University' is a four-year liberal-arts university in rural Rindge, New Hampshire, founded in 1962 and named after Franklin Pierce, the New Hampshire-born 14th President of the United States. The university has an enrollment of 1,608 [1] students, and is located a few miles from Mount Monadnock, overlooking Pearly Pond. The area was bought in 1854 by sea Captain Asa Brewer. Rindge tradition has it that the estate was a stop in the Underground Railroad. In the past the land has also been owned by a wealthy horse enthusiast, the Boy Scouts of America, and silent movie actress Alma Monaco. The campus today is composed of about 1,200 acres.
The College at Rindge houses three institutes:

★ Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication—named for Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush

★ Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place, and Culture

★ New England Center for Civic Life
The university also operates Graduate & Professional Studies centers in Concord, Keene, Lebanon, Manchester, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Many courses are offered online.
The current president of 'Franklin Pierce University' is Dr. George Hagerty.

Contents

Facilities

Academic

Administrative

Housing

Recreational

Pierce Media Group

Student Government Association

Noted alumni

External links

Facilities

Academic

★ Library (books, serials, DVDs, etc.)

★ Crestview (Graphic Communications, Social Sciences, classrooms)

★ Edgewood (Humanities faculty)

★ Marlin Fitzwater Center (Mass Communication)

★ Marcucella (Sciences/Misc)

★ Monadnock (Fine Arts)

★ Petrocelli (''under construction'')

Administrative

★ Emily Flint Student Center (student life)

★ DiGregorio (HR, Registrar, Finance)

★ Peterson Hall (President, Academic Affairs, GPS, College Relations)

★ Rindge Hall (Admissions, Student Financial Services)

Housing

★ A-Frame

★ Cheshire Hall

★ Edgewood Hall

★ Granite Hall

★ Lakeview Townhouses

★ Monadnock Hall

★ Mountain View Apartments

★ Mt. Washington Hall

★ New Hampshire Hall

★ Northwoods Apartments

★ Pierce Village

★ Sawmill Apartments

Recreational

★ Emily Flint Student Center

★ Dr. Arthur & Martha Pappas Field

★ Field House

★ North Fields Activity Center

★ Sodexho Field

Pierce Media Group

The Pierce Media Group, or PMG, is the campus media group that consists of the Pierce Arrow, [PMG News Center],FPC TV 25, 105.3 WFPC-LP and Four Corners Marketing.
All the media outlets are a part of the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication. Any student can easily participate in any facet of the PMG, even if they have no experience in marketing, advertising or journalism.
Franklin Pierce University holds an FCC broadcast license for 105.3 WFPC-LP. The station features hourly news briefs that consist of information from the Associated Press news feed and student sources.
The Pierce Arrow, the student newspaper, is the oldest student group on campus and recently launched an online version that features podcasts, an email edition and other new media technologies.
FPC-TV 25 offers both student created content and studio produced feature length films.
The PMG News Center provides all of the media sources with up-to-date news
Connections provides all of the media sources with up-to-date political coverage.

Student Government Association

The student body of Franklin Pierce University approved a new constitution for the Student Government Association (SGA), as of Spring 2006. The new structure has a bicameral legislature (like the U.S. Congress) and an executive board.
One of the two legislative bodies is the Association of Club (AOC), which represents the clubs at Franklin Pierce University and is headed by the Coordinator of Clubs. The Association of Clubs meets every other Wednesday at 5:30PM in Marcucella Hall 102.
The other body is the Senate. The Senate represents the classes and is headed by the Vice President. Each class elects a President, a Vice President, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and six Senators. They meet Mondays at 6:30PM in Marcucella Hall 102 on the same weeks as the AOC.
All members of both the Senate and the Association of Club serve on a committee. Committee night is held when there is no Association of Clubs or Senate meeting, on Mondays at 6:30PM in Marcucella Hall 102.
The executive board consists of the President of the SGA, the Vice President of the SGA, the AOC Coordinator of Clubs, the Senate Secretary, the AOC Secretary, the SGA Treasurer, and the SGA Parliamentarian.
A bus stop, a raven statue and a clock are a few of the class gifts conceived by the senior SGA members.
The Franklin Pierce SGA was the first in the United States to vote against joining the Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform, after 500 members of the student body had signed a petition to join the coalition. One month after this vote the Franklin Pierce chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy returned once again with the legislation and it passed. For their efforts FPU SSDP won Outstanding Chapter of the Year in November 2006.

Noted alumni

★ Felix Brillant, Canadian soccer midfielder

★ Temple Grandin, animal behavior researcher

★ Henry Simmons, actor (''NYPD Blue'')

★ Christopher Joyce, forward Norwegian Tippeligaen

★ Jeff Bailey, second winningest active coach (women's soccer) in all NCAA divisions

External links

★ Franklin Pierce University Website

★ History of FPC