Susquehanna University
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Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
, United States
, 50 miles (80.5 km) north of the state capital, Harrisburg
.
GO Short programs include SU CASA, an award-winning program that takes students to Costa Rica and Nicaragua to serve congregations, clinics, hospitals, and refugee and immigrant communities. The Hurricane Response Team remains closer to home, coordinating service trips to the Gulf Coast to aid in the post-Katrina rebuilding efforts.
, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1979. The architecture is primarily Georgian in style.
Students are guaranteed housing all four years. 80% of students live on campus with off- campus students comprising some juniors and about half the senior class. Students can choose from traditional, corridor-style halls, suites, townhouses, apartments and family-style houses, each requiring no more than a 10- minute walk to class.
(LEED) certification standards. The 75000 square feet (6,967.7 m²) building was dedicated on October 23, 2010.
The university's student-run newspaper, The Crusader, covers campus events, activities and athletics, and provides a forum for the opinions of members of the campus community.
WQSU
, The Pulse, is the college's 12,000-watt station, making it the third most powerful college station and the tenth most powerful non-commercial station in Pennsylvania. Broadcasts can be heard at a 70-mile radius, which is approximately one-third of the state of Pennsylvania. The station is operated by students, faculty and staff as well as community volunteers, and features a wide variety of music and talk programs including regularly scheduled Associated Press news broadcasts.
Susquehanna's on-campus, student-run night club is Trax, which offers a stage for live bands, comedians and other performers as well as a dance floor, bar, pool tables, an outside patio and a DJ booth. Trax also hosts benefit concerts for different philanthropies.
Susquehanna University also has a student-run Charlie's Coffeehouse which is located on campus and named after the university's benefactor, Charles Degenstein. The management team is made up of five students who are responsible for the coffee shop's finances, marketing, programming, stocking, and managerial duties, and the baristas are made up of students on campus. This non-alcoholic venue to students offers different sorts of programming every night of the week. Programming is aimed towards the students and student organizations and hosts a variety of open mic nights and other student performances. Charlie's also works in partnership with the student activities committee to bring in outside entertainers and host movies before they are released to the public.
with other Northeastern colleges. Susquehanna competes in the Centennial Conference
for football and women's golf and the Empire 8
for men's golf. Cheerleading is Susquehanna's 24th varsity team.
Susquehanna offers 14 intramural sports which are free of charge to all students. Both flag football and basketball league winners advance to national tournaments. Students may also join several club sports — including men's and women's rugby, men's ice hockey, ultimate Frisbee, men's volleyball and men's and women's crew — that compete against other colleges.
The Goal Post Trophy goes to the winner of the annual football game with rival Juniata College. It is a section of goal post from the post that was torn down after the 1952 Juniata-Susquehanna game. The visiting Indians (now Eagles) upset the Crusaders in Selinsgrove, and Juniata fans tore down the goal post after the game. At roughly 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, it is one of the tallest trophies in college football.
Susquehanna also plays Lycoming College
for the Amos Alonzo Stagg's hat (bronzed) trophy.
sororities (Alpha Delta Pi
, Kappa Delta
, Sigma Kappa
and Zeta Tau Alpha
), five NIC
fraternities (Phi Mu Delta
, Tau Kappa Epsilon
, Theta Chi
, Phi Mu Alpha and Pi Kappa Phi
), and two NPHC
organizations (Sigma Gamma Rho
and Phi Beta Sigma
). There is also a professional women's music organization (Sigma Alpha Iota
and one co-ed service fraternity (Alpha Phi Omega
).
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Selinsgrove is a borough in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1787 by Captain Anthony Selin, who fought with Washington in the Revolutionary War....
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, 50 miles (80.5 km) north of the state capital, Harrisburg
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...
.
Academics
Founded in 1858 as the Missionary Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Susquehanna Female College, the university enrolls approximately 2,000 students in three schools: the School of Arts, Humanities and Communications; the School of Natural and Social Sciences; and the Sigmund Weis School of Business. Degrees offered include the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science. Susquehanna offers about 50 major emphases, with a student-faculty ratio of 13-to-1.GO Program
All Susquehanna students go off-campus for cross-cultural learning at some point during their four years. This requirement was added under the central curriculum adopted in 2009. Semester-length (GO Long) opportunities include destinations around the globe. Sites in South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia are popular among Susquehanna students.GO Short programs include SU CASA, an award-winning program that takes students to Costa Rica and Nicaragua to serve congregations, clinics, hospitals, and refugee and immigrant communities. The Hurricane Response Team remains closer to home, coordinating service trips to the Gulf Coast to aid in the post-Katrina rebuilding efforts.
Summer Programs
Susquehanna offers summer programs for high school students in partnership with Blueprint Summer Programs. In summer 2011, the program begins on June 26 with four courses available: Advertising and Public Relations, Ecology, Graphic Design and Psychology. Students live and study on campus and go on field trips to NYC, D.C., Hershey Park and Philadelphia.Volunteer programs
Susquehanna University has a strong reputation for civic engagement in the community, with an average of 20,000 hours of service logged every academic year. The Center for Civic Engagement runs a first-year student service event titled SU GIVE, or Get Into Volunteer Experiences, during the fall orientation. Additionally, Susquehanna offers three trips to the Gulf Coast region each year to assist with hurricane relief efforts.Campus
The Susquehanna University campus spans 306 acres (123.8 ha) in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. There are more than 50 buildings on campus, two of which, Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert HallSelinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall
Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall are two historic educational buildings located on the campus of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. Selinsgrove Hall is a -story brick structure constructed in 1858 in the Italianate style. The roof features a wooden cupola and the...
, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1979. The architecture is primarily Georgian in style.
Students are guaranteed housing all four years. 80% of students live on campus with off- campus students comprising some juniors and about half the senior class. Students can choose from traditional, corridor-style halls, suites, townhouses, apartments and family-style houses, each requiring no more than a 10- minute walk to class.
New science building
The newest addition to the Susquehanna campus is a $32-million complex that will house Susquehanna’s biology, chemistry and earth and environmental science programs. The building has been designed to meet or exceed Leadership in Energy and Environmental DesignLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
(LEED) certification standards. The 75000 square feet (6,967.7 m²) building was dedicated on October 23, 2010.
Student Life
Susquehanna University offers more than 100 student organizations, including a variety of religious life organizations and cultural interest groups. Examples would include such international organizations such as Habitat for Humanity to the Disaster Response Team (DiRT), SU Paranormal, and GeoClub. The performing arts are represented through several theater, dance and music programs. The theater department also hosts a student-run play each semester.The university's student-run newspaper, The Crusader, covers campus events, activities and athletics, and provides a forum for the opinions of members of the campus community.
WQSU
WQSU
WQSU is a college radio station licensed to serve Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. The station is owned and operated by Susquehanna University.-Schedule:The station operates on two different schedules: The regular schedule, which runs...
, The Pulse, is the college's 12,000-watt station, making it the third most powerful college station and the tenth most powerful non-commercial station in Pennsylvania. Broadcasts can be heard at a 70-mile radius, which is approximately one-third of the state of Pennsylvania. The station is operated by students, faculty and staff as well as community volunteers, and features a wide variety of music and talk programs including regularly scheduled Associated Press news broadcasts.
Susquehanna's on-campus, student-run night club is Trax, which offers a stage for live bands, comedians and other performers as well as a dance floor, bar, pool tables, an outside patio and a DJ booth. Trax also hosts benefit concerts for different philanthropies.
Susquehanna University also has a student-run Charlie's Coffeehouse which is located on campus and named after the university's benefactor, Charles Degenstein. The management team is made up of five students who are responsible for the coffee shop's finances, marketing, programming, stocking, and managerial duties, and the baristas are made up of students on campus. This non-alcoholic venue to students offers different sorts of programming every night of the week. Programming is aimed towards the students and student organizations and hosts a variety of open mic nights and other student performances. Charlie's also works in partnership with the student activities committee to bring in outside entertainers and host movies before they are released to the public.
Safety
American School Search gives Susquehanna University a grade of D- for safety. The small campus had seven forcible sex offences as well as 18 assaults and two hate crimes reported between the years 2006 and 2008.Athletics
Susquehanna competes in 23 varsity sports in Division III of the NCAA. Most sports compete as part of the Landmark ConferenceLandmark Conference
The Landmark Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the eastern United States in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C....
with other Northeastern colleges. Susquehanna competes in the Centennial Conference
Centennial Conference
The Centennial Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania....
for football and women's golf and the Empire 8
Empire 8
The Empire 8 is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III.-Members:Full member institutions include:-Football affiliation:*Springfield College...
for men's golf. Cheerleading is Susquehanna's 24th varsity team.
Susquehanna offers 14 intramural sports which are free of charge to all students. Both flag football and basketball league winners advance to national tournaments. Students may also join several club sports — including men's and women's rugby, men's ice hockey, ultimate Frisbee, men's volleyball and men's and women's crew — that compete against other colleges.
The Goal Post Trophy goes to the winner of the annual football game with rival Juniata College. It is a section of goal post from the post that was torn down after the 1952 Juniata-Susquehanna game. The visiting Indians (now Eagles) upset the Crusaders in Selinsgrove, and Juniata fans tore down the goal post after the game. At roughly 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, it is one of the tallest trophies in college football.
Susquehanna also plays Lycoming College
Lycoming College
Founded in 1812, Lycoming College is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. One of the 50 oldest colleges in America, Lycoming enrolls 1400 undergraduate students from over 28 states and 12 foreign countries. Eighty percent of the college's students live on campus...
for the Amos Alonzo Stagg's hat (bronzed) trophy.
Greek life
Nearly 20 percent of the undergraduate student population is active in Greek life on campus. There are four NPCNational Panhellenic Conference
The National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae...
sororities (Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi is a fraternity founded on May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The Executive office for this sorority is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Alpha Delta Pi is one of the two "Macon Magnolias," a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Phi Mu...
, Kappa Delta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the university...
, Sigma Kappa
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Kappa is a sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Sigma Kappa was founded by five women: Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Mabel Fuller Pierce, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn...
and Zeta Tau Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha is a women's fraternity, founded October 15, 1898 at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. The Executive office is located in Indianapolis, Indiana...
), five NIC
North-American Interfraternity Conference
The North-American Interfraternity Conference , is an association of collegiate men's fraternities that was formally organized in 1910, although it began on November 27, 1909. The power of the organization rests in a House of Delegates where each member fraternity is represented by a single delegate...
fraternities (Phi Mu Delta
Phi Mu Delta
Phi Mu Delta is a small, national fraternity founded on March 1, 1918 at the Universities of Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The fraternity is focused on the three ideals of democracy, service, and brotherhood.-Founders' Creed:...
, Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...
, Theta Chi
Theta Chi
Theta Chi Fraternity is an international college fraternity. It was founded on April 10, 1856 as the Theta Chi Society, at Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont, U.S., and was the 21st of the 71 North-American Interfraternity Conference men's fraternities.-Founding and early years at Norwich:Theta...
, Phi Mu Alpha and Pi Kappa Phi
Pi Kappa Phi
Pi Kappa Phi is an American social fraternity. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr. on December 10, 1904 at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
), and two NPHC
National Pan-Hellenic Council
The National Pan-Hellenic Council is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities. The nine NPHC organizations are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Divine Nine"...
organizations (Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana...
and Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
). There is also a professional women's music organization (Sigma Alpha Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota , International Music Fraternity for Women. Formed to "uphold the highest standards of music" and "to further the development of music in America and throughout the world", it continues to provide musical and educational resources to its members and the general public...
and one co-ed service fraternity (Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...
).
Notable alumni
- Bob MosherBob MosherRobert "Bob" Mosher was a television and radio scriptwriter born in Auburn, New York. He was best known for his work on Amos and Andy, Meet Mr. McNutley, Leave It To Beaver, Ichabod and Me, Bringing Up Buddy, and The Munsters, along with his co-writer Joe Connelly who is buried in Culver City's...
- Television and radio script writer - Jay FeasterJay FeasterHarry Jay Feaster is a National Hockey League executive. He is currently the general manager of the Calgary Flames, appointed on May 16, 2011, after serving as acting general manager since December 28, 2010, following Darryl Sutter's resignation...
– Former general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning - Malcolm DerkMalcolm DerkMalcolm L. Derk, III is a Republican Commissioner of Snyder County, Pennsylvania. He is the youngest person ever elected to this position. Snyder County is located in Central Pennsylvania and has a population of approximately 38,200 people....
- Snyder County Commissioner - John StrangfeldJohn StrangfeldJohn R. Strangfeld is an American businessman. He is the current Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Prudential Financial. He has been with Prudential since July 1977, serving in various management positions, including the executive in charge of Prudential's Global Asset Management...
- CEO of Prudential FinancialPrudential FinancialThe Prudential Insurance Company of America , also known as Prudential Financial, Inc., is a Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the...
Global Asset Management - James JordanJames Jordan (conductor)Dr. James Jordan is a writer, conductor, and professor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey where he is currently the Senior Conductor and directs the select touring ensemble Williamson Voices and the Sophomore choir, Schola Cantorum...
- writer and conductor - Rep. Merle PhillipsMerle PhillipsMerle H. Phillips is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 108th District since 1980.-Career:Prior to his election to the State House, Phillips was the president of Irish Valley Food Processing...
- 108th District, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1980–2010 - Alan M. Bennett - President and CEO of H&R BlockH&R BlockH&R Block is a tax preparation company in the United States, claiming more than 22 million customers worldwide, with offices in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The Kansas City-based company also offers banking, personal finance and business consulting services.Founded in 1955 by brothers...
- Rep. Adam HarrisAdam HarrisC. Adam Harris is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 82nd District and was elected in 2002.-Career:After graduating from college, Harris joined the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee as a research analyst. He ran for the House in 2002 with the...
- 82nd District, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 2003–present - Tommy DempseyTommy DempseyTommy Dempsey is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Rider University.-References:...
- Head Men's basketball coach, Rider University