ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY

'St. Cloud State University' is a four year university and part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, located in St. Cloud, Minnesota on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The university started out as a teachers college. It has since grown and now awards bachelors degrees in over 60 programs, including anthropology, aviation, biology, business, chemistry, computer engineering, computer science, criminal justice, computer engineering, education, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, social science, and theatre.^[1] It also awards Masters degrees in over 40 programs, including electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and applied statistics[1]. The university, along with Minnesota State University-Mankato, will be the first state university to offer PhD programs.
The university currently sponsors 17 Division II teams and is a member of the North Central Conference. St. Cloud State's hockey team also competes in Division I for ice hockey as a member of the WCHA division. Their mascot is the Husky.
The school operates a radio station, KVSC 88.1 FM. Students also publish a newspaper, the ''University Chronicle''. Students also run a television station known as UTVS, which recently won first place for best student news and productions from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as honorable mention at a New York competition in 2004.
The University maintains an overseas facility at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England.

Contents

Colleges and schools

Notable events

Past names of school

Presidents of SCSU

Notable alumni

Notable faculty and staff

References

External links

Colleges and schools

★ G.R. Herberger College of Business

★ College of Education

★ College of Fine Arts and Humanities

★ College of Science and Engineering

★ College of Social Sciences

★ Center for Continuing Studies

★ School of Graduate Studies

★ Center for International Studies

Notable events

★ In 1970-1973, mass rioting and protests against the Vietnam War became violent on campus, with a number of standoffs between protesters and the National Guard.

★ In 1986-87, Herb Brooks, the 1980 USA men's Olympic hockey coach, became the coach of the Huskies and helped St. Cloud State University (SCSU) to achieve Division I status. He also helped to lead efforts to build the National Hockey center (Many of the hockey scenes in the Mighty Ducks were filmed there). A small street was renamed after Brooks near the National Hockey Center in 2004 shortly after his death.

★ In 1988 minor riots erupted over 2 days at the University during their Homecoming week. According to Margaret Vos, the (then) University's Communications Director students were throwing empty beer cans into the Sousaphones as the band marched along the parade route. National Guard troops were called out to quell student unrest over police handling of house parties. As a result, the University cancelled Homecoming parades. No lives were lost or threatened, but furniture and cars were burned. Subsequently, homecoming week was scheduled later in the year with the hope that the cold would reduce the risk of future riots.

★ In 1990 students created T-shirts depicting their Husky mascot sodomizing the Gopher mascot of their ice hockey rival the University of Minnesota doggy style. The producers of the shirt were eventually forced to conceal the Gopher due to copyright laws, so they put a goalie mask on Goldy Gopher.

★ Saint Cloud State was covered in season 3, episode 6 of . Penn and Teller used Saint Cloud State to illustrate the absurd lengths to which political correctness and diversity have been taken on American college campuses.

Past names of school

★ 1869-1921 St. Cloud State Normal School

★ 1921-1957 St. Cloud State Teachers College

★ 1957-1975 St. Cloud State College

★ 1975-present St. Cloud State University

Presidents of SCSU

★ 1869-1875 Ira Moore

★ 1875-1881 David L. Kiehle

★ 1881-1884 Jerome Allen

★ 1884-1890 Thomas J. Gray

★ 1890-1895 Joseph Carhart

★ 1895-1902 George R. Kleeberger

★ 1902-1915 Waite A. Shoemaker

★ 1915-1916 Isabel Lawrence, Interim President

★ 1916-1927 Joseph C. Brown

★ 1927-1943 George A. Selke

★ 1943-1947 Dudley S. Brainard

★ 1947-1952 John W. Headley

★ 1952-1965 George F. Budd

★ 1965-1971 Robert H. Wick

★ 1971-1981 Charles J. Graham

★ 1981-1982 Lowell R. Gillette, Interim President

★ 1982-1992 Brendan J. McDonald

★ 1992-1995 Robert O. Bess, Interim President

★ 1995-1999 Bruce F. Grube

★ 1999-2000 Suzanne R. Williams, Interim President

★ 2000-2007 Roy H. Saigo

★ 2007-present Earl H. Potter III

Notable alumni

★ John Stumpf - Chief Executive Officer of Wells Fargo

★ Richard Dean Anderson - Actor

★ Tyler Arnason - Professional Hockey player

★ Todd Bouman - NFL Quarterback 1997-present

★ Dick Bremer - Minnesota Twins Television play-by-play

★ Matt Cullen - Professional Hockey player, Stanley Cup winner

★ Jim Eisenreich - Former MLB outfielder/first baseman with Tourette syndrome

★ Mark Hartigan - Professional Hockey player

★ Lawrence Heinemi - Professional wrestler who competed as Lars Anderson

★ Bret Hedican - Professional Hockey player, Stanley Cup winner

★ Leo Kottke - Musician

★ Nicole Linkletter - Model winner on UPN's America's Next Top Model

★ Ryan Malone - Professional Hockey player

★ Mark Parrish - Professional Hockey player

★ Jeff Passolt - News Anchor KMSP-TV^[2]

★ Reggie Perkins - Harlem Globetrotters 1993-1996

★ Sven Sundgaard - Meteorologist, KARE 11 television^[3]

★ Duvie Westcott - Professional Hockey player

★ Darrin Bradley - Chief Meteorologist WNEM Saginaw, MI

★ Jill Riley - DJ for The Current.

Notable faculty and staff

★ Abbas Mehdi, Professor of Sociology, Advisor to the US Agency for International Development

★ Herb Brooks, former Hockey Coach

★ Paul Douglas (real name Doug Kruhoeffer), Meteorologist, TV Weatherman for WCCO, and former SCSU professor^[4]

★ Bruce Hyde, actor who played Lt. Kevin Reilly on two episodes of

References

1. http://bulletin.stcloudstate.edu/ugb/programs.asp
2. http://www.stcloudstate.edu/profiles/alumni/passolt-jeffrey.asp
3. http://www.kare11.com/company/bios/talent_article.aspx?storyid=126844
4. http://wcco.com/bios/local_bio_160105334.html

External links

★ Official website

★ University Chronicle, SCSU's University Paper

★ 88.1 FM KVSC. A student-run educational public radio station licensed to SCSU.