Do you tend to ask questions that can’t be answered while sitting down?
Ones that inspire you to get up, open doors and connect your best ideas to the world that lies in wait?
Camels do.
Are you curious, resilient, audacious, intrepid? Creative, insightful and kind?
Camels are known to …
… put learning into action, page 4 Global focus Four-year career preparation Alumni impact
… chart their own paths, page 22 One-of-a-kind curriculum All-hands-on-deck advising World-class enrichment offerings
Hungry to discover? Fierce in your convictions? And persistently stubborn in pursuit of shared solutions?
Camels are. (And unapologetically so.)
… be collectively unique, page 36 Who we are How we make each other better What inspires us
Applying/visiting/ financial aid, page 56 3
Put Learning into Action
Camels
m obiliz
g d e e l w o n k e
with our hands and our feet. We curate and create. We remake the world, one steady step at a time. (It’s how you know we’re Camels.)
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Encountering Difference
We’re here because we almost weren’t— a college conceived to right a wrong, to inspire an alternative, to light a better path forward. Chartered in 1911 in response to a local university’s decision to close its doors to women, Conn has consistently championed justice and action for the good of the world.
Gender.
Race.
Culture.
Let’s talk about it. IT’S COMPLICATED. IT’S MESSY. IT’S OUR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY. The shape of the future (yours, and that of the world) hinges on your ability to hold (and lead) conversations with others, listen respectfully and find common ground. When we’re able to speak each other’s languages (metaphorically and literally), we’re able to access a wider range of perspectives, reach smarter solutions and inch closer to a just world.
Difference.
Equity.
As it turns out, our greatest strength lies in the scope of our differences. From a landmark intercultural dialogue program to a research center focused on race and ethnicity to coursework examining inequity, power and difference, Conn students grapple with issues of social justice on many fronts. (Learn more on page 55. )
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Global Engagement
The world is shrinking. As it does, your reach keeps growing, day by day. From social innovations to community action, change begins and history is made at the grassroots level. Conn students lend their unique voices, willing hands and restless feet to a multitude of big ideas that each unfold with a single, purposeful step.
Tapping the programs and resources of the Otto and Fran Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement, YOU’LL ADVANCE GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE BY:
Creating or joining research or partnerships with communities around the world (including the one that’s just across the street)
Building intercultural awareness through courses that connect you with distant communities (using our Global Learning Lab)
Adding context to your academic studies by traveling, living and studying in another part of the world (choosing among more than 100 programs in approximately 40 countries)
Exploring one or more world languages (For a list of the 11 we offer, see the bottom right corner of page 55.) 9
Camels Do
Camels prefer the active tense.
You’ll start with a question and proceed with your hands and feet, exiting the classroom and heading out into the world.
Internships that help you build your resume while mapping passions to professions.
Research and Scholarship that carve pathways into the previously unimagined.
Ideas aren’t much without corresponding action. We imagine and enact. We dream and deploy. Because ideas should never be islands. Because concepts gain meaning in context. Because the world’s big problems aren’t going to solve themselves.
Social Justice Initiatives
Creative Endeavors
that address inequity and promote equality on campus and throughout the world.
that upend assumptions and defy boundaries.
For examples of each of these ways (and many others) that Conn students channel learning into action, turn to page 54.
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Career Development
All roads lead to reality. Don’t look now, but here comes life, with its endless surprises and varied demands. We want you to be ready. In fact, we insist.
Which is why every Conn student completes a comprehensive career track that runs in steady parallel to the life of the mind.
Guided by your career adviser, you’ll build a personalized professional development plan—exploring opportunities that relate to your interests and pressurechecking potential career paths through internships, job shadowing, professional development courses and other activities that equip you with the fundamentals of postgraduate success.
You won’t sacrifice a bit of your intellectual journey as you forge the foundations of professional life, magnifying the value of your Conn education by developing the tools and experiences you’ll need to maximize your impact.
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Career Development
WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU imagine, explore, prepare and transform your bold ideas into meaningful pursuits— from day one until the day you graduate.
PREPARE: SELF-ASSESSMENT
(What excites me? What am I best at? What career aligns best with my interests and values?)
Built-in career plan
Get one-on-one guidance from your career adviser
Create a personalized career development plan
ENGAGE: CAREER AND JOB SEARCH PREPARATION (What set of experiences will best prepare me for my chosen path?)
ACTIVATE: LAUNCH YOUR CAREER
(How do I use what I’ve learned for maximum impact?)
Identify opportunities by leveraging your growing professional network
Take Career Preparation Course (learn the basics of interviewing, networking and professionalism )
Participate in Advanced Career Engagements, cementing expertise through hands-on experience
Use flexible Career Action Funds (up to $3,000) for such experiential learning opportunities as internships or research with a Conn professor
Explore opportunities to build cultural competency by using world languages in professional settings
Identify, apply and interview for jobs
Apply to graduate or professional school
Take a Career Informed Learning course (with alumni industry experts)
Do an independent creative or social change project
Apply for a fellowship to amplify your expertise and deepen your impact on the world
We put our money where your future is, offering up to $3,000 in flexible Career Action Funds to support your professional development (including a $500 career exploration award for eligible firstyears) by promoting experiences that build skills and connections while channeling learning into action. 15
Outcomes
Fortune favors the prepared. Equipped with knowledge and experience, purpose and a practical plan, Camels are ready for what comes next.
EACH PROUDLY UNIQUE, OUR GRADUATES ARE KNOWN AND VALUED AS: Purpose-driven individuals— committed to marshaling ideas into action
Engaged global citizens— aware of the world’s challenges and prepared to address them
Expansive thinkers— defying traditional approaches and assumptions in pursuit of creative solutions
Empathetic humans— open-minded, respectful and able to communicate with confidence across differences of culture and perspective
Willing collaborators— inclined to harness the strength of complementary forces
These attributes distinguish Conn alumni as leaders and innovators, prized colleagues, community anchors and fundamentally decent people.
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Outcomes
LIVES WELL LIVED ARE CENTERED IN PURPOSE.
Over the past three years, seven Conn alumni have been listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30. As much as we might enjoy bragging about them, we prefer to let their accomplishments speak for themselves.
Ipek Bakir ’12 Program Analyst, Overdeck Family Foundation
Emily Callahan Hazelwood ’11 Marine Conservation Biologist
CONN MAJORS: Political Science and Urban Studies
CONN MAJOR: Environmental Studies
Sources and supports organizations for the Innovative Schools Portfolio that has awarded more than $5 million in grants to more than 200 schools and 75,000 students
Co-founded Blue Latitudes, an organization that works with oil companies to transform offshore oil platforms into artificial reefs
Founding member of the Technology for Education Consortium, a major nonprofit that screens edtech products
Conducts ongoing studies of ecological, socioeconomic and advocacy issues surrounding the Rigs-to-Reefs program
Earned a Master’s degree in Education and Economics from Teachers College at Columbia
James Finucane ’13 and Daniel Shoukimas ’13 Co-founders of mPharma CONN MAJORS: Mathematics (James), Art History (Daniel) Together, James (Chief Technology Officer) and Daniel (Chief Product Officer) are building Africa’s largest network of community pharmacies by providing supplies and interest-free payment plans mPharma partners with more than 300 pharmacies serving 30,000+ patients in five countries
Molly Hayward ’10 Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Cora Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Blood and Milk CONN MAJORS: Political Science, International Development, Economics Founded organization (Cora) that provides free menstrual products to women across the world (allowing them to stay in school when they otherwise might not) Founded online community and resource (Blood and Milk) that offers information and support to promote women’s physical, emotional and spiritual health
Jazmine Hughes ’12 Associate Editor at The New York Times
Aditi Juneja ’12 Communications at Protect Democracy
CONN MAJORS: Government and Creative Writing
CONN MAJOR: Economics
Writes for The New York Times Magazine and Metro section
Co-founded the Resistance Manual, an open-source platform that crowd sources content on legislative and policy issues
Created Writers of Color, a database that connects editors with diverse writers Has edited interviews with Representative Maxine Waters, Dylan Marron, Billie Jean King and Tiffany Haddish
Created and hosts podcast (Self Care Sundays) Worked on housing issues as an Excelsior Service Fellow Graduated from NYU School of Law
Conn has been named one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright scholars—a highly prestigious grant that supports post-graduate education. This year’s Conn winners will be teaching and conducting research in Malaysia, Vietnam, Germany, Spain and Cote d’Ivoire.
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CHALLENGE #1
Perhaps you have an idea or a dream?
o r w l d e h a t b l l out e T
A pivot or upheaval you hope to set in motion? A something or other you want to create, improve, invent or engineer?
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What is the question that drives you, the goal that inspires you, the shape of the shadow you plan to cast upon the world? Take out your phone and state your intention. (Right now.)
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How We Do It
Camels
l e ad wit h curiosity
guided by mentors and friends. We ask bold questions that spark constant connections. (And that point us to meaningful action.)
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Connections
Don’t just ask about
(That’s an old question for a disappearing world.)
our major.
ALSO ASK ABOUT THE QUESTIONS THAT DRIVE US, and we’ll draw you a map of emerging possibilities. This is how we’ve learned to think— in the spaces where ideas meet outcomes. Because the future is unfolding in many dimensions.
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Connections, cont.
HERE, AT A GLANCE, IS A SKETCH OF HOW CONNECTIONS WORKS.
Four-Year Career Track
A comprehensive sequence of courses, opportunities to learn on the job and one-on-one advising designed to parallel your academic journey. (See pages 12–15 for more detail)
Making connect Personal Advising Team Five (5!) F.I.V.E. dedicated advisers, each with a different way to help.
Workshops, tutoring and enrichment; the ARC helps every Conn student find ways to power up.
Pathways
Academic Resource Center
An inquiry-based, experience-enhanced, cross-disciplinary deep-dive into a topic of personal interest.
So. Much. More.
ions. Centers
Conn’s version of an honors college offers focus, support and funding for targeted exploration of a project of your choosing.
From world language study to broad exploration of modes of inquiry to an emphasis on writing mastery, Connections aims to broaden, deepen, extend and inspire.
THROUGH OUR SIGNATURE ACADEMIC PROGRAM, CONNECTIONS, you’ll pose provocative questions while assembling a personalized portfolio of knowledge and related experience. Carefully guided by mentors and peers, you’ll hone your analytical and creative capacity while building the foundation of your professional life—one that emerges from your genuine interests. The bottom line: there is a plan with a beginning and an end. The vast, exciting in-between is up to you. 27
Advising Team
Camels have five legs. It’s what makes them so hard to knock down.
The truth behind the metaphor is this: EVERY CONN STUDENT HAS AN ADVISING TEAM. Not an adviser. A team of five separate human individuals, each one dedicated, present and well-informed. (This is how it should be.) Your team is there for you. To show you the ropes. To connect you with resources. To help you map a plan for your studies—and life.
PERSONAL ADVISING TEAM:
YOUR ADVISING TEAM WILL HELP YOU: Assemble a customized academic experience, drawing on the staggering possibilities of this place.
Career Adviser (there to offer guidance from day one)
Professor (who is also your FirstYear Seminar teacher)
Student (a sophomore who has been carefully selected and extensively trained)
Staff Member (representing a key campus resource and able to connect you with other resources)
Build a long-term career plan that relates directly to your studies and deepest interests. Get you over the hump, if and whenever you need a nudge or a lift (pause here for pun appreciation).
Student (another sophomore there to mentor, guide and drink coffee with you)
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Pathways and Centers
Prefer thorny questions to easy answers? ANY CONN STUDENT MAY CHOOSE TO PURSUE A “PATHWAY,” a set of interdisciplinary courses organized around a central theme and a cluster of related experiences that unfold across four years of exploration, engagement and discovery.
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CONN’S VERSION OF THE HONORS COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, Centers combine interdisciplinary coursework, scholarship, research, internships and community-based learning. They offer a dedicated staff and endowed funding to support student projects.
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While bolstering your intellectual toolkit, you’ll explore culture and identity, grapple with complexity and give back to your community—while preparing for your future in ways that reach far beyond what’s written on the syllabus.
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The point: to build an academic plan that emerges from your interests, direct your own education and log experiences that best prepare you for your future. (Solving problems while you’re at it.)
• Bodies/Embodiment • Creativity • Data, Information and Society • Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Value and Change • Eye of the Mind: Interrogating the Liberal Arts • Food • Global Capitalism • Media, Rhetoric and Communication • Migrants and Refugees in a Bordered World • Peace and Conflict • Power, Knowledge and Practice • Public Health • Social Justice and Sustainability: Developing Resilient Communities Locally and Globally
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Choose among five Centers • Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology • Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity • Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment • Holleran Center for Community Action • Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts
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Academic Resource Center
Camels take care of their own. You can charge harder and lean out further when someone has your back.
THE NATION’S BEST-FUNDED ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER serves the entire Conn community, supporting students who seek targeted assistance with a specific subject as well as those looking to elevate their overall toolkit. The sharper your skills, the greater your impact. Wherever you stand, we’ll help you reach higher.
A non-exhaustive accounting of ARC resources and offerings: Peer tutors (well-trained and free-of-charge) help you raise your game through subject-based or course-specific support. Academic Success Workshops help any and every Conn student improve their academic performance and long-term skillset. Faculty partnerships create open avenues for ARC staff and tutors to proactively support students in intro courses. Thesis Fridays offer support, community, strategies (and snacks) for students working on or considering a thesis.
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CHALLENGE #2
There isn’t much that rhymes with “camel.” The only rhymes we can think of are “trammel,” “mammal,” “enamel” and “Mark Hamill.” But, truth be told, this just serves to back up our sense that camels are a rare breed, content to be their remarkable selves, even while gathered with others of their kind. That said, this does make it somewhat more difficult to write a sonnet about the Conn experience.
Do you have the “hump” to give it a go? We’d really (really) like to read it. In throwing down the gauntlet, we’ve taken a stab at one of our own.
#camelsonnetchallenge
How to Spot a Camel
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ou know a camel by the smile it sheds As it formulates a thorny question, Gathering fragments, connecting the threads, Fearlessly channeling thoughts into action. Camels contemplate, ponder and wonder, Creating, conceiving, and seeking caffeine, Living with honor, bringing the thunder, Becoming the changes that they have foreseen. The Camel greets a world of possibility Then gathers friends to form a motley herd; Many perspectives, joined in civility, Form better solutions when each voice is heard. A Camel states a dream then sees it through From tip to tail, ’cause that’s what Camels Do.
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How We Do It
Camels
s . d r e g at h e r i n h Because life is a team sport. Because we have so much to learn from each other. (Because it’s far less fun to cheer for yourself.)
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AACommunity of Camels COMMUNITY OF CAMELS
Camels are
surprisingly similar
Bringing tireless curiosity, a winning balance of gumption and know-how and a habit of knocking down walls for the good of the world.
Like ninjas training in the dojo, you’ll make each other better.
They’ll be your thinking partners, sidekicks and surrogate siblings.
and
wondrously unique. They’ll be your foil and counterpoint, your exponent, your magnifying glass. Like elements combining, you’ll give and gain and gradually emerge as something wholly new.
Each contributes to a dynamic array of talents, opinions, beliefs, points of view, distant dreams and secret superpowers.
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Honor and Ownership
Honor leads to ownership. AMONG THE BEST BELOVED ASPECTS OF CONN CULTURE IS OUR HONOR CODE, one that governs both academic and community conduct. In brief: students sign a pledge to be honest, ethical and civil—in our academic work and in our dealings with others. The resulting trust and mutual respect are the glue that binds this unbreakable community. OUR OTHER GREAT TRADITION IS SHARED GOVERNANCE, which means working together to imagine and chart our path as a community. Because Conn students are smart, self-possessed and capable, they are invited to the table as voting members of many major campus committees—including those concerning budgets, curriculum and campus improvements. Student ownership makes a real difference in how our college is run. And it leads to the development of individual agency and personal responsibility.
You’ll leave here confident that your voice matters and that you are capable of making an impact—because you will have already.
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Student Life
Camels LIKE MOST COLLEGES, WE HAVE A LONG AND VARIED ROSTER OF STUDENT-RUN CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES to fuel and sate and amplify the sprawling range of interests, causes and curiosities of our campus community. What’s different here is the volume of applause.
Do what you do. (Perform, promote, compete, invent, expound, etc.) People will show up.
The result is a domino effect of enthusiasm and support that propels you to greater heights and amplifies your impact.
And that makes life much more fun.
do …
and do and do and do.
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Creative Mindset
Small ideas never changed the world. TO CREATE IS TO DEFY, UPEND, DISLODGE OR SURPRISE. To thwart inertia. To shed light on the previously impossible.
Whether or not you ever take an art class or step on stage, your fellow Camels (professors and peers) will challenge you to develop a creative mindset.
You’ll connect and recombine existing elements. You’ll subject your assumptions to new sets of conditions. You’re here (at Conn and in the world) to make an impact. YOUR CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE EVERY BIT AS UNIQUE AS YOUR FINGERPRINTS. Let them be heard.
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Fine and Performing Arts
Think outside the lines.
WHATEVER YOUR CREATIVE STREAK, here you’ll find the space, resources and fellow makers you need to create your masterpiece and get it out into the world.
Theater: Study acting, directing, design, tech, playwriting, dramaturgy and dramatic literature; perform in or help mount the many productions staged each year in one of three campus performance spaces; intern with New York or regional theaters; study theater abroad; learn from visiting artists.
Dance: Encounter and perform modern, Afro-Caribbean, West African, improvisation and ballet in a program shaped by 30 years of hosting the American Dance Festival; contribute to (at least) six dance productions each year; intern with a dance company; study dance abroad; collaborate with our company-in-residence.
Music: Combine the best of conservatory and liberal arts education by studying performance, theory, composition and musicology from world-class musicians; take free, private lessons; perform in a wide variety of ensembles; study abroad; record in state-of-the-art studios.
Fine Art: Explore and experiment with ceramics, graphic design, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture with devoted faculty and practicing artists; as a senior, have 24-7 access to a personal studio for your thesis project; collaborate with faculty; learn from prominent global artists-in-residence.
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Athletics
You don’t want to mess with a Camel. HERE’S THE THING:
You’re never going to catch us on an off day. When we take the field, we go all in. Fighting and tireless. United and savvy. Adaptive and highly intelligent. Proud members of the NESCAC conference and fielding 28 varsity teams in NCAA’s Division III, our legacy is written in the storied accomplishments of our All-Americans, individual national champions, Olympic medalists and championship-caliber teams.
When we play, we play to win. When we represent the Camels, we take it personally.
(For a list of varsity and club sports, see page 55.)
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CHALLENGE #3
Have
strong opinions about coffee?
Camels do.
FOR YOUR FINAL CHALLENGE:
Describe your perfect caffeinated beverage. Give it a name, snap a glamor shot, describe it with a suite of winning adjectives and then share it with your future friends. (The generous among you will include the recipe.)
#camelcoffeechallenge
To ensure you’re NEVER MORE THAN A MODEST SPRINT FROM YOUR NEXT CUP OF COFFEE, we offer five cafés, each with its own offerings, atmosphere and resident Camels. Oasis Centrally located and abundantly provisioned with sushi, ice cream and salads (all of which pair well with coffee).
The Blue Camel Café Library-based, with soups, baked goods and (wait for it ...) coffee; open 24-7 as a study space.
Coffee Grounds Comfy couches, many windows, an unending torrent of caffeinated bliss.
The Coffee Closet Small (as the name suggests) but well-stocked with the world’s most vital liquid.
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Campus
Destination education. The only member of NESCAC with a waterfront location, Conn is home to a 750-acre arboretum, a stunning central quad and a commanding view of Long Island Sound. We’re minutes from I-95 (without feeling like we’re anywhere close to a highway) and an easy drive to Hartford, Providence, Boston or New York City—where many students do internships and build professional networks that lead to quick starts after Conn.
Here you’ll find the ideal residential college experience (welcoming, intimate, supportive) connected to the spinal cord of the wider world.
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(A non-exhaustive accounting of things that)
Camels Do.
You’re busy, and we have only so much ink. As such, we have (so far) painted with a broad brush. But for the sufficiently intrigued and motivated, here’s some nitty-gritty.
OUTCOMES Sampling of institutions Conn alums have attended within five years of graduation: Berklee College of Music Boston College Brown University Columbia University Cornell University Duke University School of Law Georgetown University Harvard University London School of Economics New York University Northwestern University School of the Art Institute of Chicago Simmons College Tufts University University of California - Berkeley University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Virginia Vanderbilt University Wesleyan University Yale University
Lincoln School
Mt. Sinai Hospital
McKinsey & Company
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Morgan Stanley
National Park Service
Naval Nuclear Laboratory
NBC
Penguin Random House
Pfizer
Pfizer
Salesforce
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Science Club for Girls Square STEM Women Sierra Leone Tesla Toast Travelers Twitch United Healthcare Vogue Weill Cornell Medicine Yale University School of Medicine
LEARNING INTO ACTION Companies and organizations where students have recently interned AMC TV Archaeological Conservation Institute Brigham & Women’s Hospital
A few current employers of recent Conn alumni:
Brown Brothers Harriman
AECOM
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Amazon
Children’s Defense Fund
Bain & Company
Children’s Hospital of New York
Banani International School
China General Chamber of Commerce
Booz Allen Hamilton Buzzfeed Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Circus Place Citi
Christie’s Columbia University Medical Center Dana Farber Cancer Institute
SpaceX Time Inc. UBS United Nations Relief and Works Program (UNRWA)
The College Voice (newspaper) The Experience (student-written blog) Her Campus online magazine (written by and focused on empowering women) theLOOK (student-created fashion magazine) WCNI-FM (radio) Performance Eclipse Multicultural Dance Show Jazz Ensemble
Names of research papers/presentations from last year’s All-College Symposium The Politics of Black Women’s Fashion Opioid Dependence in Pregnant Women: A Neurological, Socioeconomic and Policy Based Approach
Musicians Organized for Band Rights on Campus (MOBROC) N2O Improv Comedy RefleXion (poetry, rap and spoken word) Vox Cameli (co-ed a cappella) Wig and Candle (student-run theater group)
Sustainable Agriculture in New London
Pre-Professional Law Society
The Role of Trade in Peace and Conflict
Pre-Health
Religious and Spiritual Life Behind a Screen: How Technology is Changing the World Hillel Muslim Student Association
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS Our 80+
STUDENT-RUN OFFERINGS
include:
Culture and Identity Umoja: The Black Student Union Asian and Asian American Students in Action (ASIA)
Flavorlab
Delegation of the European Union to the United States
GLAAD
Environmental Defense Fund
International Student Association
Fidelity Investments
Korean Language Club
Hubspot
La Voz Latin
ICAP
Ground Floor @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Movimiento Estudiantil
JPMorgan Chase
Media Cadenza Magazine (art and literary)
Eclipse
Chicano de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A.)
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Special Interest Best Buddies Outdoors Club Peggotty Investment Club Sprout! Organic Garden Students Organized Against Racism TEDx Women in STEM Student Governance Honor Council Student Government Association Don’t see a club that interests you? Start your own!
ATHLETICS Number of
DIVISION III COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES: 442 Varsity Athletic Teams: Basketball (M/W) Cross Country (M/W) Field Hockey (W) Ice Hockey (M/W) Lacrosse (M/W) Rowing (M/W) Sailing (M/W) Soccer (M/W) Squash (M/W) Swimming & Diving (M/W) Tennis (M/W) Track & Field (M/W) Volleyball (W) Water Polo (M/W)
FACTS Number who
SUFFER THE CEASELESS INDIGNITY of not
having a Camel for a mascot: 441 Club and Intramural Sports: Baseball
Founded in 1911 750 acres of campus/arboretum rising above Long Island Sound and the New London seaport 1,865 undergraduates
Class of 2023 516 students from 29 states and 40 countries
Film Studies French Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies German Studies Global Islamic Studies Government
Domestic students of color: 22%
International Relations
Equestrian Team
International: 13%
Hispanic Studies
Figure Skating
First generation: 15%
History
Basketball Dance Team
Human Development
Golf Ice Hockey Kickball Lacrosse Rugby Ski Team Soccer Ultimate Frisbee Volleyball
SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES
HONOR AND OWNERSHIP
Accessibility in Education Through workshops and other programming, the Conn community learns about the importance of understanding and promoting accessibility in education, including Universal Design for Learning.
Every first-year signs a pledge to be a respectful and honest member of the Conn community:
Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Conn’s hub for the study of comparative race and ethnic studies spurs exploration of such topics as immigration, globalization, indigenous histories and historical traumas.
Environmental Studies
Students of color: 31%
Faculty 183 full-time faculty members, 95% of whom hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree 54% of the class of 2020 worked with a professor on an independent study or honors thesis 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio
Agnes Gund ’60 Dialogue Project Offers workshops, interactive classes and cultural immersion experiences that promote enlarging conversations about political, social, racial and socioeconomic differences.
Environmental Engineering Studies
Music Music and Technology Philosophy Psychology
After Conn
Sociology
96% of alumni are employed or pursuing advanced degrees within one year of graduation
Partial list of campus committees on which students serve:
Architectural Studies
Priorities, Planning and Budget Committee
98% of first-year students engage with our career office 90% of recent alumni report that our career program helped them find jobs
Slavic Studies Student-Designed Interdisciplinary Theater
Minors Most majors, plus: Applied Statistics Arabic Studies Astronomy Cognitive Science
Majors
Finance
Africana Studies
Geology
American Studies
Jewish Studies
Anthropology
Linguistics
Art
Language Studies
Art History
Arabic
Behavioral Neuroscience
French
Biological Sciences
German
Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Greek
One Book, One Region Each summer, incoming first-years—along with the campus and local communities— read a book in common, setting the stage for critical conversations in the fall.
Community Partnerships Committee
Social Difference and Power Courses Each Conn student takes two courses that help establish an informed understanding of systemic inequality, power structures, social identity and difference.
Physical Plant Committee
Computer Science
Athletic Advisory Committee
Dance
Educational Planning Committee
Mathematics
Religious Studies
50% of graduates earn advanced degrees
Campus Safety Committee
Latin American and Latino Studies
17 average class size
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