DEI Strategic Plan Sets Example for Local Schools
Inspired by Southern’s new DEI Priorities and Recommendations 2021-2025 draft document, unveiled at a campus forum on November 30, the East Lyme school district’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...
View ArticleNaval Historian Receives Faculty Scholar Award
It’s not often that historians find a new way of looking at things. But History Professor Jason Smith’s book, To Master of the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography...
View ArticleCollege of Education Recognized for National Excellence
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) has announced that Southern’s College of Education is one of 39 providers from 16 states and Puerto Rico to receive accreditation for...
View ArticleSchool of Business Adds Three to Advisory Council
School of Business Dean Jennifer Robin has announced the addition of three new members – Jerry Brennan, Franklyn D. Reynolds, and Lisa M. Todd – to the School’s Business Advisory Council (“the...
View ArticleSoft Skills and Hard Hats
Among his various activities to promote the School of Business’s MBA program, MBA Recruiter Mark Zampino offers a series of free soft skills seminars featuring communications-based themes to...
View ArticlePrehistoric Glaciers May Provide Key to Contemporary Climate Change
It’s hard to imagine what Earth was like 360 million years ago when the late Paleozoic ice age began. It’s hard to visualize that, during that period, there were only two massive continents and that...
View ArticleEnvironmental Psychology is Focus of Honors Thesis
Senior Keegan Smith recently defended his honors thesis about climate change for Southern’s Honors College and was profiled as “Person of the Week” on East Haven’s Zip06 local news website. Smith’s...
View ArticleCongressional Internship Awaits Rosana Duarte, ’23
Rosana Duarte, ’23, has been interested in politics since she was a teenager. Growing up in Bogota, Colombia, she sought to understand why her home country found itself in the challenging social and...
View ArticleTeaching and Learning with Digitized Source Materials
The New Haven Mayoral Archive, housed at Southern near the Special Collections section in Buley Library and accessible online, includes material from former New Haven mayors Biagio DiLieto...
View ArticleCommunications Director Named Practitioner of the Year
Patrick Dilger, director of Southern’s Integrated Marketing & Communications Department has been named 2021 Practitioner of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America Greater Connecticut...
View ArticleStaying Fit and Healthy Over the Holidays
Staying fit and eating healthy is always a challenge around the holiday season, but even more so with the resurgence of COVID-19 during the winter months. Kristie Rupp, assistant professor of health...
View Article“Following the Opportunity” in the Public Utilities Industry
Muhaymina Plair, ’21, was working her way towards a business administration degree with a concentration in management at Southern when Amy Grotzke, assistant director of external relations at the SCSU...
View ArticleFrom the SCSU Photography Team: A Year in Review
Happy New Year! While ushering in a new year, let’s also reflect on 2021, a year of challenge and success. Our community faced the ongoing pandemic with resilience. Look back over the year in...
View ArticlePresident Bertolino’s Holiday Message: Gratitude and Inspiration
When President Joe Bertolino sent out his annual holiday video to the university community in December, it took on a life of its own. In the video, Bertolino performs on his accordion a piece entitled...
View ArticleDean’s List for Fall 2021
Students at Southern are recognized for their high academic achievement by being placed on the dean’s list of their respective schools. In order for an undergraduate student to qualify, they must...
View ArticleBurrell is One of “The Greatest”
Southern men’s basketball Head Coach Scott Burrell was recently highlighted in an article in the Chicago Tribune titled “The 21 Greatest Two-Sport Stars Ever.” The article placed the Owls’ head coach...
View ArticleRutledge Named AVP for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Dr. Kelvin Rutledge has been named Associate Vice President for Institutional Inclusive Strategies and Change Management, the first person to hold this new position, which reports to Dr. Diane Ariza,...
View ArticleSchool of Business Beam Signing Commemoration
Construction is well under way on the next home for the School of Business, an environmentally sustainable structure that will provide a launching pad for expanding the school’s offerings and...
View ArticleAlumnus Named Connecticut Sportswriter of the Year
Southern alumnus Dom Amore, ’85, has been selected as the 2021 Connecticut Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. The NSMA announced the honor for Hartford Courant senior...
View Article“Topping” of New Business Building Symbolizes Forward Progress
Bearing a small tree, the Stars and Stripes and a toy version of Southern’s mascot, Otus the Owl, the final steel beam for the new home for the School of Business swung up and into the building’s...
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