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Quinnipiac University
Motto"Challenging Students to Meet the Challenges of the Future."[1]
TypePrivate
Established1929
Endowment$242 million[2]
PresidentJohn L. Lahey
Academic staff
295 full-time
Students7,758
Undergraduates5,971
Postgraduates1,787
Location
Hamden, Connecticut
North Haven, Connecticut
,
USA
CampusSuburban
ColorsBlue and Gold    
NicknameBobcats
MascotBoomer the Bobcat
Websitewww.quinnipiac.edu

Quinnipiac University (/[invalid input: 'icon']ˈkwɪn[invalid input: 'ɨ']piːæk/) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in Hamden, Connecticut, United States at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees through its College of Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communications; School of Health Sciences; School of Law; and School of Education. U.S. News & World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges issue has ranked Quinnipiac University first among northern universities with master's degree programs as having made the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, campus or facilities. Quinnipiac is home to a well-known Polling Institute.

History

The Mount Carmel campus, from atop Sleeping Giant, April 2009.

Quinnipiac University was founded in 1929 by Samuel W. Tator, a business professor and politician. Judge Phillip Troup, a Yale College graduate, and Tator's wife, Irmagarde Tator, a Mount Holyoke College graduate, also played major roles in the fledgling institution's founding and nurturing;the former became its first president until his death in 1939; the latter, its first bursar.

Quinnipiac was conceived in reaction to Northeastern University's abandonment of its New Haven, Connecticut program at the onset of the Great Depression. Originally, Quinnipiac was located in New Haven and called Connecticut College of Commerce. On opening its doors in 1929, it enrolled under 200, and its first graduating class featured only eight students. At the time, it awarded only associate's degrees. In 1935, the college changed its name to Junior College of Commerce.

From 1943-1945, the college closed; nearly its entire student body was drafted into World War II. Upon re-opening, the college's enrollment nearly quadrupled to approximately 800 students.

In 1951, the institution was renamed Quinnipiac College, in honor of the Quinnipiac Indian tribe that once inhabited Greater New Haven. That same year, Quinnipiac began to confer bachelor's degrees. In 1952, Quinnipiac expanded rapidly, both physically and in terms of curriculum, relocating to a larger campus in New Haven, and also assuming administrative control of Larson College, a private women's college.

In 1966, after having outgrown its campus in New Haven, Quinnipiac moved to its current campus in Hamden, Connecticut's Mount Carmel section, at the foot of Sleeping Giant Park. Quinnipiac's relatively uniform red-brick architecture results from much of it being built at (or around) that time. During the 1970s, Quinnipiac began to offer master's degrees in a variety of disciplines.

Until the 1990s, Quinnipiac remained primarily a commuter college with only a regional reputation; however, that changed during the next decade. In 1995, the University of Bridgeport's law school migrated to Quinnipiac. That same year, the American Bar Association accredited Quinnipiac to award the Juris Doctor degree. The Quinnipiac School of Law Center was dedicated later that year as well. Also, during the mid-1990s, Quinnipiac's communication and business programs, respectively, built state-of-the-art facilities and attracted nationally-known professors. Quinnipiac's Polling Institute was noted for excellence by several prominent journalistic outlets, and often cited during the 1998 and 2000 election campaigns.

Quinnipiac's Arnold Bernhard Library and clock tower, focus of main campus quadrangle, August 2008.

On July 1, 2000, the school officially changed its name to Quinnipiac University—to reflect its relatively new breadth in academic offerings. That same year, Quinnipiac University received accreditation by AACSB.

Currently, Quinnipiac offers 52 undergraduate majors, 20 graduate programs, and a JD program. Its new medical school plans to admit students starting in 2013.[4] Quinnipiac's Polling Institute often garners the university national media attention.

The university operates several media outlets, including a professionally-run, commercial radio station WQUN, founded by journalist and Quinnipiac professor Lou Adler. The university also operates a student-run FM radio station WQAQ, which concurrently streams on the Internet. A student-run television station, Q30, can be viewed only on campus. Also, a student-produced newspaper, The Chronicle, established in 1929, publishes 2,500 copies every Wednesday.

Quinnipiac is home to one of the world's largest collections of art commemorating the Great Irish Famine. The collection is contained in the Lender Family Special Collection room located in the Arnold Bernhard library.

Campuses

Quinnipiac University consists of three campuses, all within the Hamden and North Haven areas, just north of New Haven, Connecticut.

The oldest of these campuses is the Mount Carmel campus, at the foot of the Sleeping Giant State Park. The Arnold Bernhard Library, Carl Hansen Student Center, university administration, and many of the student residences may be found on this campus.

York Hill, located on a hill about a half-mile from the Mount Carmel campus, began with the development of the TD Bank Sports Center. In 2010 this was joined by a new student center as well as expanded parking and residence facilities as part of a $300 million expansion of the 250-acre (1.0 km2) campus.[5] York Hill is a "green" campus, making use of renewable energy and environmentally-friendly resources, including one of the first major wind farms integrated into a university campus.[6]

In 2007, Quinnipiac acquired a 100-acre (0.40 km2) campus in North Haven, Connecticut from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, and has been gradually converting it for use by graduate programs at the university.[7]

Admissions

Class of 2013 For the undergraduate class of 2013, Quinnipiac admitted 6,223 (45%) of the 13,828 total applicants who applied. 1,640 (26%) of the admitted enrolled for the Fall 2009 semester. 22% ranked in the top tenth of their high school class; 55% in the top quarter and 90% in the top half. The majority of this class hail from the American Northeast with 26% from New York State, 21% from Connecticut, 20% from New Jersey and 19% from Massachusetts. One percent (1%) of the 2013 class is international. About 78% consider themselves to be Caucasian and 12% are minorities. The remaining 10% did not declare a race or are multi-racial. The female count is 62% and 38% for male. 70% received some form of financial aid.

The average undergraduate incoming freshman had a combined SAT score of 1680/2400.[8]

Class of 2012 For the undergraduate class of 2012, 14,990 applications were reviewed, and 6,715 offers were sent out, which is a 45% admittance rate. 1,480 (22%) students enrolled into the freshman class. 22% were in the top tenth of their high school class, 55% were in the top quarter, and 90% were in the top half. 61% of the class is female, and 39% is male. 78% of the students consider themselves Caucasian.

Class of 2011 For the undergraduate class of 2011, Quinnipiac admitted 5,669 of the 12,049 applicants who applied (47%). 1,350 (24%) of those admitted enrolled. 62% of the class is female; 38% is male. 90% of the Quinnipiac's class of 2011 ranked in the top half of their high school class; 55% ranked in the top quarter; 22% ranked in the top tenth. Most students hail from the American Northeast: New York (29%), Connecticut (21%), New Jersey (19%), and Massachusetts (18%). One percent (1%) of the class of 2011 is international. 70% receive financial aid. 93% were white with 7% being minorities.

Generally, Quinnipiac's Office of Admissions seeks the following characteristics in undergraduate applicants: a 3.4/4.0 GPA and a combined SAT score of approximately 1150/1600.[citation needed]

Quinnipiac Polling Institute

Main article: Quinnipiac University Poll

Quinnipiac's Polling Institute receives national recognition for its independent surveys of residents throughout the United States. It conducts public opinion polls on politics and public policy as a public service as well as for academic research.[9] The poll has been cited by major news outlets throughout North America and Europe, including The Washington Post,[10] Fox News,[11] USA Today,[12] The New York Times,[13] CNN,[14] and Reuters.[15]

The polling operation began informally in 1988 in conjunction with a marketing class.[9] It became serious in 1994 when the university hired a CBS News analyst to assess the data being gained.[9] It subsequently focused on the Northeastern states, gradually expanding during presidential elections to cover swing states as well.[9] The institute receives funding from the university,[9] with its phone callers generally being work study students or local residents. The polls have been rated highly by Fivethirtyeight.com for accuracy in predicting primary and general elections.[16] To many, Quinnipiac University is best known for its polls.[17]

Greek life

Quinnipiac is home to four fraternities and six sororities.[18]

Fraternities

Sororities

Campus buildings and landmarks

Campus and Lender School of Business Center, with Sleeping Giant in background, April 2005.

Alumni Hall - Located in the Carl Hansen Student Center, this multipurpose room has hosted bands, comedians, debates and an Alumni Social during Winter Homecoming.

Carl Hansen Student Center – Commonly called "The Student Center," it serves as the home to Student Government, WQAQ-FM, The Chronicle and many student organizations. The student bookstore, main dining hall, U.S. Post Office, and a branch of TD Bank are located here as well.

Arnold Bernhard Library – The library is named for Arnold Bernhard, the founder and former chief executive officer of Value Line, Inc. Bernhard's son made the library renovation project possible by donating $1 million for the library project and an additional $3 million for the University's endowment in 1997. The donation was the largest in University history. The signature clock tower was replaced during the renovation which changed the icon of the school, which was a futuristic looking rocket ship spire, to a more conservative, modern tower. The Computer Help Desk has recently been relocated to the library.

Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center – The Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center is a media production facility equipped with up-to-date technology for hands-on training in all aspects of radio, television, journalism and multimedia production. The HDTV studio provides students with a professional environment for creating quality television programming.

Clarice L. Buckman Center and Theater

Echlin Health Sciences Center

Lender School of Business Center - Fully accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the longest standing, accrediting agency for business programs in the world. The School of Business was also included in the 2011 edition of Princeton Review's "Best 300 Business Schools" and in Bloomberg Businessweek's "Top 100 Undergraduate Business Schools" for 2011. Quinnipiac has the added distinction of being ranked first among northern universities with master's degree programs as having made the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, campus or facilities. The ranking appeared in U.S. News & World Report's annual America's Best Colleges issue.

Tator Hall - Part of the Student Center and has multiple classrooms and labs. The Learning Center, a student tutoring program to help fellow peers in a variety of subjects is located here.

Athletics

File:Quinnipiac Bobcats.svg
Quinnipiac Bobcats logo
See also: Quinnipiac Bobcats men's ice hockey and Quinnipiac Bobcats women's ice hockey

The Quinnipiac Bobcats, previously the Quinnipiac Braves, comprise the school's athletic teams. They play in NCAA Division I in the Northeast Conference, except for the men's and women's ice hockey teams, which are part of ECAC Hockey.

There are seven men's varsity sports and 14 women's varsity sports.[19] There is no football team.[19] The team with the largest following on campus and in the area is the men's ice hockey team under established coach Rand Pecknold,[17] which has been nationally ranked at times; during the 2009–2010 season they entered the top ten of the national polls for the first time.[20] The Quinnipiac women's ice hockey program had their most successful season in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season. Quinnipiac University added a women's golf and women's rugby team in the 2010-11 academic year.[19]

In the late 2000s the men's basketball team gained a greater following than before under new head coach Tom Moore, a disciple of UConn Huskies men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun.[17] Both men's and women's ice hockey and basketball teams play at the $52 million, 2007-opened TD Bank Sports Center.[17] The women's lacrosse team has also been quite strong. The athletics program has been under pressures common to other universities, and at the close of the 2008–2009 academic year, men's golf, men's outdoor track and women's volleyball were dropped as a cost-cutting measure, although the last of these was restored (as a result of a Title IX suit[21]).

Title IX discrimination case

On July 21, 2010, a federal judge ruled that Quinnipiac violated Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to provide equal treatment to women's athletic teams. The judge determined that Quinnipiac's decision to eliminate the women's volleyball team, its attempt to treat cheerleading as a competitive sport, and its manipulation of its reporting with regard to the numbers of male and female athletes amounted to unlawful discrimination against female students.[22]

Student journalism controversy

Quinnipiac has been at the center of controversy over the university's control over student publications and students' speech. The conflict has drawn national attention.

The problems began in the Fall 2007 semester, when junior Jason Braff, then editor of the Quinnipiac Chronicle, the official newspaper of the school, openly criticized a university policy that forbade the Chronicle from publishing news online before the content was published in the weekly print edition. Braff wrote an editorial about the policy and also gave an interview to the Republican-American criticizing it. Manuel Carreiro, Quinnipiac's vice president and dean of students, then sent a letter to Braff in November, telling him that his public disagreement with school policies "will seriously place your position and organization at risk with the university." Braff received an $8,000 annual stipend for his position, and the university said that its employees have more of a responsibility than other students to uphold policies. But Lynn Bushnell, QU's vice president for public affairs, denied threatening to fire Braff for disagreeing with school policies. Braff and the Chronicle staff were also openly critical of a public relations policy requiring all news media inquiries and questions (including those from the Chronicle) for administrators to be sent, via e-mail, to the university's public relations department.[23]

Quinnipiac officials agreed to discuss the policies with students, and eventually decided that making the Chronicle independent from the university would be the best idea. The school set forth a plan of action, which included the university appointing editors for the 2008-2009 academic year. Angry with this plan, Braff and other staff agreed to leave the Chronicle at the end of the spring 2008 semester, and all applicants for the editor positions withdrew their applications.

Former Chronicle staffers came back in Fall 2008 with Quad News, an independent newspaper with only a website and no print edition. Plans are to incorporate Quad News as its own business venture run on advertising revenue. Quad News immediately faced opposition from the university. Staffers learned in September that university officials had instructed all varsity coaches, staff and athletes not to speak to Quad News reporters. Shortly after, officials threatened to shut down the university's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), claiming that they violated school policy by using their meetings as a cover for Quad News meetings. The Quad News staff had used two SPJ meetings to meet,[24] after the university took away Quad News meeting reservation, citing the fact that the organization was not a university-recognized club. Quad News promptly stopped their meetings with SPJ.[25] The move prompted a public letter from national SPJ leaders, expressing concern over the university's actions. Both staffs recognize the other publication as legitimate and have wished each other luck in their friendly competition.[26]

Notable alumni

Accolades

  • Featured in 2009 edition of "Best 296 Business Schools" by Princeton Review.
  • U.S. News & World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges issue has ranked Quinnipiac University first among northern universities with master's degree programs as having made the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, campus or facilities.[29]
  • U.S. News & World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges issue has, for the thirteenth consecutive year, named Quinnipiac as one of the best master's universities in the region.[29]
  • Quinnipiac is featured in the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review guide "Best 368 Colleges."[30]
  • 2008 – U.S. News & World Report has ranked Quinnipiac 12th in the northern universities master’s region.[31]
  • Featured in 2008 edition of "Best 290 Business Schools" by Princeton Review.[32]
  • Quinnipiac's School of Business[33] is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.[34]
  • PC Magazine[35] and the Princeton Review[30] to rate Quinnipiac as number nine in 2007's Top 20 Wired Colleges.
  • The School of Law[36] was ranked 108 in the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings.[37]
  • President John Lahey receives a salary ($1.8 million in 2008) among the top 10 highest in the US for university professors, and the highest in Connecticut.[38]

References

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  4. ^ John H. Palmer, A Higher-Ed Boon in Bad Times, Conntact.com,
  5. ^ York Hill Campus Expansion, McGraw-Hill Construction, June, 2009.
  6. ^ Lisa Prevost, School Colors: Green and Greener, New York Times, November 6, 2009
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  8. ^ http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x64.xml
  9. ^ a b c d e Lapidos, Juliet (2008-10-16). "What's With All the "Quinnipiac University" Polls? How an obscure school in Connecticut turned into a major opinion research center". Slate.
  10. ^ "Polls: Menendez Leads Kean in N.J. Race". The Washington Post. 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  11. ^ "Poll: Lieberman Leads Challenger Lamont in Connecticut Senate Race". Fox News. 2006-08-17.
  12. ^ USA Today http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/05/giuliani_still_.html. Retrieved 2010-04-12. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) [dead link]
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  16. ^ Silver, Nate (2008-05-28). "Pollster Ratings". Fivethirtyeight.com. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
  17. ^ a b c d Weinreb, Michael (2007-12-26). "New Quinnipiac Coach Is Expected to Build a Winner". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-24. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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  19. ^ a b c QuinnipiacBobcats.com. "Quinnipiac University's Official Athletics Site". Quinnipiac University. Retrieved November 24, 2009. Cite error: The named reference "qbcmain" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  20. ^ QuinnipiacBobcats.com (November 23, 2009). "Men's Ice Hockey Ranked In Top 10 Nationally For First Time In Program History" (Press release). Quinnipiac University.
  21. ^ ACLU, Elimination of women's volleyball team intensifies title IX failures
  22. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_on_sp_ot/vol_title_ix_cheerleading
  23. ^ Holtz, Jeff (2007-12-02). "A Student Editor Finds Himself at the Center of the News". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
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  27. ^ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Academy
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  34. ^ http://www.aacsb.edu/General/InstLists.asp?lid=2
  35. ^ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2073580,00.asp
  36. ^ http://law.quinnipiac.edu/
  37. ^ http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/law/search
  38. ^ http://www.quchronicle.com/2010/11/lahey’s-1-8m-tops-in-connecticut

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