Keene State College
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Keene State College is a liberal arts college
in Keene, New Hampshire
. It is a member of the University System of New Hampshire
and of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
.
Founded in 1909 as a teacher's college (originally, Keene Normal School; later, Keene Teachers College), Keene State College has around 5,400 students.
website, are English
, Psychology
, Art
(including Graphic Design
), Biology
, History
, Computer Science
, Music
, Management
, Sociology
and Mathematics
.
Keene State College offers nearly 40 majors in the liberal arts and sciences, professional programs, and selected graduate degrees.
According to the KSC Course Catalog other notable majors include Architecture
, Education
, Environmental Studies
, Film Studies
, Communication
, Journalism
, and Theater & Dance
. Keene's Factbook 2010-2011 [www.keene.edu/ir/factbook2010.pdf] reports that Film Studies
and Communication
are even more popular majors than in years past.
The Education major at Keene State College is a respected teacher education program. The college hosts major annual seminars in children's literature
.
The Film Studies program hosts an annual student film festival
.
Keene State College recently became the first accredited university in the nation to offer a four year degree in Genocide and Holocaust Studies.
Keene State is an NCAA Division III school, in the Little East Conference
. Current programs include cross-country
(men's and women's), basketball
(men's and women's), soccer (men's and women's), volleyball
, baseball
, softball
, track
(indoor and outdoor, men's and women's), lacrosse
(men's and women's), swimming
and diving
(men's and women's), as well as three club sports: men's and women's rugby
, and ice hockey
. The college's mascot
is the owl
.
that The Princeton Review profiles in its 2006 edition of The Best Northeastern Colleges. With the most popular majors being Education, Occupational Safety, and Health Sciences. Keene State was listed as one of the best colleges in the Northeast.
The library is named for Wallace Edward (Daddy) Mason, who was the President of Keene Normal School from 1911 until 1939. (Striving, James G. Smart,Phoenix Publishing 1984)
Liberal arts college
A liberal arts college is one with a primary emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.Students in the liberal arts generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional...
in Keene, New Hampshire
Keene, New Hampshire
Keene is a city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 23,409 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Cheshire County.Keene is home to Keene State College and Antioch University New England, and hosts the annual Pumpkin Fest...
. It is a member of the University System of New Hampshire
University System of New Hampshire
The University System of New Hampshire , established in 1963, is responsible for overseeing the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Keene State College, and Granite State College. The University System is the largest provider of post-secondary education in New Hampshire...
and of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
The Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges or COPLAC is a consortium of 26 public colleges and universities in 24 states and one Canadian province...
.
Founded in 1909 as a teacher's college (originally, Keene Normal School; later, Keene Teachers College), Keene State College has around 5,400 students.
Academics
Keene's ten largest academic programs, according to the Keene page of the USNHUniversity System of New Hampshire
The University System of New Hampshire , established in 1963, is responsible for overseeing the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Keene State College, and Granite State College. The University System is the largest provider of post-secondary education in New Hampshire...
website, are English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
(including Graphic Design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
), Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
and Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
.
Keene State College offers nearly 40 majors in the liberal arts and sciences, professional programs, and selected graduate degrees.
According to the KSC Course Catalog other notable majors include Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, Environmental Studies
Environmental studies
Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them...
, Film Studies
Film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...
, Communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
, Journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
, and Theater & Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
. Keene's Factbook 2010-2011 [www.keene.edu/ir/factbook2010.pdf] reports that Film Studies
Film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...
and Communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
are even more popular majors than in years past.
The Education major at Keene State College is a respected teacher education program. The college hosts major annual seminars in children's literature
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
.
The Film Studies program hosts an annual student film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
.
Keene State College recently became the first accredited university in the nation to offer a four year degree in Genocide and Holocaust Studies.
Athletics
Little East Conference
The Little East Conference is an NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletic conference. The member institutions are located in the U.S...
. Current programs include cross-country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
(men's and women's), basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(men's and women's), soccer (men's and women's), volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
(indoor and outdoor, men's and women's), lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
(men's and women's), swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
and diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
(men's and women's), as well as three club sports: men's and women's rugby
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, and ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
. The college's mascot
Mascot
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
is the owl
Owl
Owls are a group of birds that belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 bird of prey species. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions . Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish...
.
Rankings
Keene State is one of 224 select colleges and universities in the NortheastNortheastern United States
The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau.-Composition:The region comprises nine states: the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; and the Mid-Atlantic states of New...
that The Princeton Review profiles in its 2006 edition of The Best Northeastern Colleges. With the most popular majors being Education, Occupational Safety, and Health Sciences. Keene State was listed as one of the best colleges in the Northeast.
Intrafraternal Council
- Intra Fraternal Council website Keene State College Greek Life
Fraternities
- Phi Mu Delta (ΦΜMu- Language :* Mu , Μ or μ, a letter in the Greek alphabet* Mu , represented by the Japanese kana む or ム* 無, Mu , a Japanese and Korean word important in Zen practice...
Δ) - Sigma Pi (ΣΠ) (formerly Sigma Lambda Chi (ΣΛΧChiChi may refer to:Chinese chi is an energy or form of life*Chi , a traditional Chinese unit of length , approximately 1/3 of a meter*Chi , a dragon in Chinese mythology...
)) - Tau Kappa Epsilon (ΤTauTau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300.The name in English is pronounced , but in modern Greek it is...
ΚKappaKappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the voiceless velar stop, or "k", sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph...
ΕEpsilonEpsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 5. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He...
) (re-established in 2008) - Psi Upsilon (ΨΥ) (formerly Delta Nu Psi (ΔNNuNu or NU may refer to:* Nu , a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν* Nu , the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ* Nu , the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet...
Ψ); one of the only co-ed Social Greek organizations in the nation) - Alpha Pi Tau (formerly http://www.chiphi.org Chi Phi] (ΧΦ)) (formerly Alpha Pi Tau (AAlphaAlpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:-Science:*Alpha , the highest ranking individuals in a community of social animals...
ΠTTauTau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300.The name in English is pronounced , but in modern Greek it is...
))
Sororities
- Delta Phi Epsilon (ΔΦΕ) International Sorority Phi Psi Chapter
- Delta Xi Phi (ΔΞΦ)
- Kappa Delta Phi (ΚKappaKappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the voiceless velar stop, or "k", sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph...
ΔΦ) - Kappa Beta Gamma (ΚKappaKappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the voiceless velar stop, or "k", sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph...
ΒBetaBeta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. Beta or BETA may also refer to:-Biology:*Beta , a genus of flowering plants, mostly referred to as beets*Beta, a rank in a community of social animals...
Γ) (formerly Tau Phi Xi) (ΤTauTau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300.The name in English is pronounced , but in modern Greek it is...
ΦΞ) - Phi Sigma Sigma (ΦΣΣ)
Adams Technology
This building is used for the architecture department as well as the product design students. It is probably one of the lesser-known buildings on campus because of its location, but architecture students will become very familiar with it. In 2011 Adams was knocked down to make way for the top of the line TDS building expected to be completed in the fall of 2012.Butterfield Hall
This building was established for the use of the Keene Safety and Technology department. The increase in number of majors for the Safety Program at Keene has allowed it to grow into a Masters program.Elliot Hall
Elliot Hall is home to on-campus services, including Admissions, the Bursar's office, Health Services, and the office of Alumni & Parent Relations. The Education Department's Child Development Center is located within this facility.Fiske Hall
The oldest building on the campus, Fiske Hall has been a part of the college since its founding in 1909. It underwent renovations during the spring semester of 2007 following the opening of new residence halls elsewhere on campus, and reopened for the Fall 2007 semester.Holloway Hall
A first-year residence hall that consists of three co-ed floors with a kitchen on each one. Each suite consists of two main rooms with shared bathroom located between them. Each room houses three residents, totaling six people per suite. Floors are broken up into parliaments by common interest.Huntress Hall
A co-ed residence hall (formerly a girls-only hall) situated on the main quad. It is one of the oldest dorms on campus and is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of its namesake, Harriett Huntress, a former administrator in the New Hampshire Department of Education. The ghost was briefly mentioned on a show on the Travel Channel.Media Arts Center
The newest academic facility on campus, the Media Arts Center opened in the fall of 2006. It contains offices, classroom space, and lab space for the Film, Graphic Design, Communications, and Journalism departments. It was constructed in the former Zorn dining commons building following the completion of the New Zorn Dining Commons.Mason Library
The Mason Library is home to the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies. This facility also houses KSC's reference collection, as well as a periodicals collection, a newspaper archive, and a video and DVD collection, which is surpassed by the collection held by the film department in the Media Arts Center.The library is named for Wallace Edward (Daddy) Mason, who was the President of Keene Normal School from 1911 until 1939. (Striving, James G. Smart,Phoenix Publishing 1984)
Putnam Science Center
The David F. Putnam Science Center was recently renovated and is home to the Computer Science department and other major science fields. The KSC Science center includes several computer labs containing 440 computers in total. All computers dual boot Windows/FreeBSD and have access to the wireless network.Redfern Arts Center
The Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond is home to the performing arts and visual arts on campus. It has three performance venues: the Alumni Recital Hall, home to musical performances and the annual KSC Film Festival; the Main Theater, which sometimes hosts touring performances and can seat five hundred seventy-two; and the Wright theatre, a black box theatre used for small performances and Theatre department classes. The building also houses fine arts classes including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking.Spaulding Gymnasium
The Spaulding Gymnasium and Recreation Center is open to all KSC students and faculty free of charge, and to the general public for a fee. In addition to the large main gym, it includes a pool, a suspended track, and a weight room and aerobics room.Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery
The Thorne-Sagendorph art gallery displays student work from the various traditional arts. It is occasionally host to touring exhibits and is open daily for viewing.Young Student Center
The Young Student Center was named for Lloyd P. Young, who served as the school's president from 1939-1964. It is one of the tallest buildings on campus and is home to the campus bookstore, campus convenience store, several food vendors, the campus mailroom, the Mabel Brown auditorium, and student organization offices.Zorn Dining Commons
The Zorn dining commons was formerly located in the building now known as Media Arts Center. Keene State built a much larger facility that opened in the fall of 2005. It features a variety of dining options. Within the Zorn building but outside the dining area proper is the Hoot-N-Scoot, a take-out facility with prepackaged meals.Administration
- President: Dr. Helen Giles-Gee
- Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs: Dr. Emile Netzhammer III
- Vice President for Finance & Planning: Dr. Jay Kahn
- Vice President of Student Affairs: Dr. Andrew Robinson
- Vice President for Advancement: Maryann LaCroix Lindberg, CFRE