The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford,Connecticut. Its 350-acre (1.4 km2) main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. The university attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries. The university and its degree programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET),the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB),and the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford,Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823,it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" DeNardis was an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for the state of Connecticut. He was also president of the University of New Haven.
Philip E. Austin is an American economist who served as the 13th President of the University of Connecticut from October 1,1996 to September 14,2007. He returned to serve as interim president in May 2010 following the abrupt departure of Michael J. Hogan. Prior to UConn,Austin served as president of Colorado State University (1984–1989) and chancellor of the University of Alabama System (1989–1996).
Douglas Joseph Bennet Jr. was an American political official and college president. He was the fifteenth president of Wesleyan University,in Middletown,Connecticut,from 1995 to 2007. Before that,he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the Clinton Administration (1993–95) and Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in the Carter administration (1977–79),was the President and CEO of National Public Radio (1983–93),and ran the United States Agency for International Development under President Carter (1979–81).
The Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) is a private,non-profit organization that serves as the official statewide historical society of Connecticut. Established in Hartford in 1825,the CHS is one of the oldest historical societies in the US.
Daniel Edward Jessee was an American professional baseball player and coach of college football and college baseball. He appeared in one Major League Baseball game as a pinch runner for the Cleveland Indians on August 14 during the 1929 Cleveland Indians season. Jessee served as the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford,Connecticut from 1932 to 1966,compiling a record of 150–76–7. He also had two stints as Trinity's head baseball coach,from 1935 to 1961 and 1963,to 1967,tallying a mark of 239–170–5. Jessee/Miller Field,the home stadium of the Trinity Bantams football team was named for Jessee in 1966 and now also honors his successor as head football coach,Don Miller.
Stanley Fred Battle is an American educator,author,civic activist and former leader of Coppin State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Currently,Battle serves as the director of the Master of Social Work program and as a professor of social work at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford,Connecticut.
Homer Daniels Babbidge Jr. was an American historian who served as president of the University of Connecticut (1962–1972) and the Hartford Graduate Center (1976–1984). At age 37,he was the youngest state university president in the United States.
Shawn T. Wooden is an American attorney and politician who has been serving as the state treasurer of Connecticut since January 2019. Wooden previously served as a member of the Hartford City Council. He is not seeking reelection as state treasurer in 2022.
Gordon Bismarck Cross was an American professor and academic administrator who notably served as president of Nichols College from 1966 to 1973.
Joanne E. Berger-Sweeney is an American neuroscientist and the 22nd president of Trinity College,Hartford,Connecticut. She is the first African-American and the first woman to serve in the position. Earlier in her career,Berger-Sweeney did proof-of-concept work on galantamine,the second-most used drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.
George Safford Torrey was an American botanist who taught at the University of Connecticut for forty-one years (1915-1956) and chaired the botany department for twenty-four of those years (1929-1953). Dedicated in 1980,UConn's George Safford Torrey Life Sciences Building was named in his honor. So is the George Safford Torrey Herbarium.
Albert Nels Jorgensen was an American academic administrator who served as the seventh president of the University of Connecticut (1935–1962). Its longest-serving president and its youngest at age 36 at the time of his appointment,Jorgensen led UConn's transformation from a sleepy,unaccredited agricultural college to a major modern university. UConn came into existence via the renaming of Connecticut State College in 1939. Student enrollment rose from 844 in 1935 to 11,877 in 1962—an increase of over 1400%. Opened in 1955,the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on the university's Storrs campus was named in Jorgensen's honor. The Harriet Jorgensen Theatre is named after his wife.
Charles Chester McCracken (1882–1957) was an American academic administrator who served as the sixth president of the University of Connecticut (1930–1935). Prior to assuming the presidency at UConn,he taught as a professor of school administration at Ohio State University from 1917 to 1930. President McCracken oversaw the changing of the college's name from Connecticut Agricultural College to Connecticut State College in 1933,following a long campaign by students,faculty,and alumni. During McCracken's tenure,the college shifted toward a more comprehensive liberal arts curriculum,doubling graduate studies and establishing the departments of music,government,philosophy,agricultural engineering,and psychology. The college joined the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Association of State Universities in 1930 and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1931. Enrollment grew and finances improved despite the economic impact of the Great Depression. Despite these accomplishments,McCracken quickly proved unpopular with faculty and lost the trust of the college's trustees and state legislators. He resigned in 1935 to become director of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1828–1900) was an American librarian and historian who served as State Librarian and director of the Connecticut State Library from 1855 to 1900. He insisted on spelling his surname as "Hoadly," though most of his extended family spelled it "Hoadley."
Harleigh Bradley Trecker (1911–1986) was an American social work academic and administrator who served as the dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut from 1951 to 1968. UConn's campus library in Hartford was named in his honor until it closed in 2017.
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley High School is a public secondary school on the south side of Hartford,Connecticut. It was founded in 1926 and is part of the Hartford Public Schools district. The school has an academic focus on teacher preparation and humanities,as well as a computer science track. The school also has language classes in Arabic and Spanish.
Eileen Shanley Kraus was an American business executive who broke the glass ceiling to be the first woman to run a major bank in Connecticut. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2002.
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