The University of Hartford is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 located in West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The town was incorporated in 1854. Prior to that date, the town was a parish of Hartford....

. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highest levels of accreditation available in the US, including 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 Association of Schools and Colleges-Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (NEASC-CIHE) and is nationally ranked as a Tier 1 University by US News and World Report. The University attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries. Its 350 acres (1.4 km²) main campus touches portions of three municipalities: Hartford, West Hartford, and Bloomfield. The mailing address is 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117.

Academics

The University of Hartford has more than 7,000 full-time and part-time graduate and undergraduate students. The University offers 82 bachelor's degree programs, 10 associate's degrees, 28 graduate degrees, and 7 certificates or diplomas. The student-faculty ratio is nearly 14:1. The departments in each of the seven schools are listed below.

• Barney School of Business
  • Department of Accounting & Taxation
  • Department of Economics, Finance & Insurance
  • Department of Management & Marketing
  • Business Application Center
  • R.C. Knox Center for Insurance Studies
• College of Arts and Sciences
  • Program of African American Studies
  • Department of Art History
  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Cinema
  • School of Communication
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Program of Drama
  • Department of English
  • Department of History
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Modern Languages & Cultures
  • Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Politics and Government
  • Department of Psychology / Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology
  • Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing
  • Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice Program
• College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Department of Civil, Environmental, and Biomedical Engineering
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Department of Architecture

• Hartford Art School
  • Department of Ceramics
  • Department of Illustration
  • Department of Painting/Drawing
  • Department of Photography
  • Department of Printmaking
  • Department of Sculpture
  • Department of Media Arts
  • Department of Visual Communication Design
• College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions
  • Department of Education and Human Services
  • Department of Educational Leadership
  • Department of Nursing
  • Department of Health Professions
  • Department of Physical Therapy
• The Hartt School
  • Instrumental Studies Division
  • Vocal Studies Division
  • Dance Division
  • Theatre Division (Actor Training & Music Theatre)
  • Music Education Division
  • Academic Studies Division
  • Community Division
• Hillyer College/College of Basic Studies
  • American studies
  • Business studies
  • Education studies
  • Environmental studies
  • Global studies
  • Science and health science studies
  • Liberal Studies

History

The University of Hartford was chartered through the joining of the Hartford Art School, Hillyer College, and The Hartt School in 1957. Prior to the charter, the University of Hartford does not exist as an independent entity rather in the chronicles of Hillyer College, The Hartford Art School, and The Hartt School.

The Hartford Art School, which commenced operation in 1877, was founded by a group of women in Hartford

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

, including Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

's wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens

Olivia Langdon Clemens

Olivia Langdon Clemens was the wife of the famous American author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.-Early life:...

, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom...

, as the Hartford Society for Decorative Art. Its original location was at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Wadsworth Atheneum

The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...

, the first public art museum in the United States. It is still associated with the museum today.

Hillyer College, which was named for the U.S. Civil War General Charles Hillyer, was created as a part of the Hartford YMCA

YMCA

The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...

 in 1879. Originally, it provided instruction in automotive technology at a time when Hartford was a center for the infant automobile industry. In 1947, it was formally separated from the YMCA and the educational home to large numbers of World War II veterans who were afforded an education under the G.I. Bill. Since the 1957 merger of the three schools Hillyer College, is the major contributor to the body of the university, from the original Hillyer College, came the College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, Barney School of Business, College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences and the contemporary Hillyer College, formerly known as The college of Basic Studies

The Hartt School, which was founded in 1920 by Julius Hartt and Moshe Paranov, is among the most recognized schools for music, dance, and theatre in the United States. The Miami String Quartet recently concluded a six-year teaching and performing residency at Hartt.
Athletically, the University of Hartford's "Hartford Hawks

Hartford Hawks

The Hartford Hawks are the athletic teams of the University of Hartford. The school sponsors 18 varsity sports , all of which compete in the Division I America East Conference. The Hawks' colors are scarlet and white.-Teams:...

" play in the America East Conference

America East Conference

The America East Conference is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located mainly in the northeastern United States. The conference was known as the ECAC North from 1979 to 1988 and the North Atlantic Conference from the fall semester of 1988 to the end of the spring...

. In 1984, the University elevated its athletics program to Division I status, the highest level of intercollegiate competition.

Since 1988, the University has been a lead institution for the Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium

Space grant colleges

The space-grant colleges compose a network of 52 consortia, based at universities across the United States, for outer space-related research. Each consortium is based in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico and consists of multiple independent institutions, with one of the...

.

In the 1990s, pledging its commitment to women's education, the University bought the financially struggling Hartford College for Women (HCW). Since the University itself was in a difficult financial position, several years later HCW was closed.

Although a private institution, the University hosts two magnet schools that serve students from Hartford and its surrounding suburbs: University of Hartford Magnet School [serving grades K-5] and University High School of Science and Engineering

University High School of Science and Engineering

University High School of Science and Engineering is a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math magnet high school located in Hartford, Connecticut. University High School of Science and Engineering is affiliated with the University of Hartford through a partnership...

 (serving grades 9-12).

In the last decade, the University completed several ambitious building projects, including a new residence hall, Hawk Hall; the $34 million Integrated Science, Engineering, and Technology (ISET) complex; the Renée Samuels Center; the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center; and a new University High School building.

In the summer of 2008, the bridge over the Park River, connecting the academic and residential sides of campus, was rebuilt.

Campus

The main campus, located on Bloomfield Avenue, is 350 acres (141.6 ha). Some of the most prominent features and buildings of the main campus include:

• The Village Lawn

Situated between the residential apartments. It plays host to university-sponsored spring fling events including food and entertainment. Past entertainment has included: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...

, Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice

Robert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, extreme athlete and home improvement television personality...

, Gym Class Heroes

Gym Class Heroes

Gym Class Heroes is an American hip hop rock band from Geneva, New York. They have collaborated with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump on numerous occasions, notably for providing backing vocals on the song "Cupid's Chokehold." Stump also produced the majority of their album The Quilt.The group formed...

, T-Pain

T-Pain

Faheem Rasheed Najm , better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor, currently signed to Young Money Entertainment. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. In 2007, T-Pain released his second studio album Epiphany,...

, The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...

, Ying Yang Twins

Ying Yang Twins

The Ying Yang Twins is an Atlanta-based American crunk rap duo consisting of Kaine and D-Roc . The group debuted in 2000 and rose to mainstream popularity in 2003 collaborating with Lil Jon in his single "Get Low"...

, Method Man

Method Man

Clifford Smith , better known by his stage name Method Man is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man...

, Common

Common (rapper)

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. , better known by his stage name Common , is an American hip-hop artist and actor....

, and Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...

.

• Gengras Student Union

Houses the student government; the university post office; student organizations, including the student newspaper The Informer and the Student Television Network (STN); Bank of America

Bank of America

Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

; a cafeteria; a convenience store; and the Gengras food court, featuring Einstein Bros. Bagels and Extreme Pita.

• The Harry Jack Gray Center

Centrally located on campus, the Harry Jack Gray Center houses the Mortensen Library and the Allen Memorial Library. Also located within the building are the Joseloff Gallery, the university bookstore, the School of Communications, the Visual Communication Design Department, the Department of Architecture, WWUH

WWUH

WWUH is a non-commercial radio station licensed to the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. The station was started on July 15, 1968 and has a Public Alternative Radio format....

(91.3 MHz FM) radio station, the Gray Conference Center, and the 1877 Club restaurant. It was the former home of the Museum of American Political Life, which housed the second largest collection of political memorabilia in the United States after the Smithsonian. The museum was closed in 2003 and the space now houses the Department of Architecture.

• Alfred C. Fuller Music Center

The main Hartt School Complex, The center is composed of Millard Auditorium, Paranov Hall- a four story building, and O'Connell Hall- a one story extension of to the first floor of Paronov Hall. Originally Abrahms hall was included in the Fuller Complex

• Beatrice Fox Auerbach Hall

One of the largest academic buildings, it is home to the Barney School of Business as well as the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.

• Hillyer Hall

Houses Hillyer College, the Auerbach Auditorium, the Esphyr Slobodkina Urquhart Children's Reading Room, and most classes in the College of Arts and Sciences.

• Integrated Science, Engineering, and Technology Complex (ISET)

This complex houses the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, also known as CETA. It consists of three buildings, including United Technologies Hall, Charles A. Dana Hall, which is the largest building of the complex, and a 37000 sq ft (3,437.4 m²) building housing biology and chemistry facilities.

• The University of Hartford Magnet School

Public magnet

Magnet school

In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...

 elementary school located on the University of Hartford campus. Many education majors complete fieldwork/practicum/student teaching at this school.

• The University High School of Science and Engineering

Public magnet

Magnet school

In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...

 high school, formerly located on the University's Albany Avenue campus, is now located on east side of campus. The University High School was established in 2004 as a partnership of the Hartford Public Schools, the University of Hartford, and the Capitol Region Education Council. It is based on the early college initiative mode: University High School students will be able to earn college credits while they attend high school. The high school enrolls two hundred students, seventy percent of whom are from Hartford. The other thirty percent come from towns in central Connecticut. Students are selected through a lottery from a pool of applicants, as required by the state of Connecticut.

• Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center

The performing arts center is located at the corner of Albany Avenue and Westbourne Parkway in Hartford. The 55000 square feet (5,109.7 m²) state-of-the-art facility is the instructional home for collegiate and Community Division students at The Hartt School. The center was completed and dedicated in 2008. It contains five dance studios, four theatre rehearsal studios, three vocal studios, and two black box theatres as well as faculty offices, a community room, bank, and cafe.

• University Commons

A residential dining hall, it is in the center of the freshmen living area. Located in the ground floor is the Hawk's Nest, which offers food as well as pool

Billiards

Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...

, and several large-screen TVs. The Hawk's Nest hosts Friday-night music performances, which include local and national acts, as well as student performances.

• The University Residences

There are four different styles of on-campus housing. All provide students with access to the university's T-3

T-carrier

In telecommunications, T-carrier, sometimes abbreviated as T-CXR, is the generic designator for any of several digitally multiplexed telecommunications carrier systems originally developed by Bell Labs and used in North America, Japan, and South Korea....

 Broadband Internet network, cable television, and telephones.

• Six residential suite-style complexes, each capable of housing 312 students. All complexes feature study lounges, laundry facilities, and activity rooms.

• Regent's Park consists of suite-style independent living for juniors and seniors. It is a large building of four wings containing suites typically outfitted with a living room and partial kitchen. There are four wings: north, south, east, and west.

• The Village Apartments, consisting of seven quads (four grouping of apartments forming a rectangular area), are an independent-living apartment area for upperclassmen. Each apartment has a kitchen and can house two to six students.

• Park River Apartments consist of apartment-style independent living for third- or fourth-year students. Each unit is a full apartment complete with a full-size bathroom and a kitchen (including a full-size refrigerator, dishwasher, sink, cabinets, etc).

• Hawk Hall houses 204 freshmen and eight resident assistants. Hawk Hall features Residential Learning Communities (RLC), which are grouped by wings on each floors. Some RLC themes (past and present) include Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (WISET), Wellness, Leadership, Destinations, Environmental Awareness, the Adult Journey, Honors: Making a Difference in The World, Community Service and Hawk Spirit. The five-story residence hall has lounges with floor-to-ceiling windows. The first floor includes a spacious lounge that has a flat-screen TV, two SMART classrooms, and a kitchen.

• Konover Campus Center

Includes a market, coffee shop, an outside deck, and an indoor eating area.

• The Sports Center

This large, modern structure contains the Chase Family Arena, the Reich Family Pavilion, Hawk Cafe, the Student Health Center, the campus gym, and the Mary Baker Stanley Pool. The Hartford University Department of Athletics sponsors men's intercollegiate baseball, basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, golf, tennis, and track & field along with women's intercollegiate softball, basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, lacrosse, track & field, and volleyball.

• Asylum Avenue Campus

Located 2 miles (3 km) west of downtown Hartford. Once home to the Hartford College for Women, it now includes academic classrooms and graduate student campus housing in fourteen townhouses and Johnson House. It also contains its own cafeteria, computer lab, and studio space.

A Cappella Groups

Such groups at the University of Hartford are governed by the A Cappella Coalition and hold joint auditions at the beginning of each year for new members.

• L'shir – formed in 2000.
• Hawkapella – formed in 2001
• Uharmonies – formed in 2008
• HartAttack – formed in 2010
• Coalition

Music for a Change

Launched in the spring of 2000, The MUSIC for a CHANGE benefit concert series raises money for Greater Hartford charities and nonprofit organizations. Headliners have included Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie

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, Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss

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 and Union Station, Art Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...

, Aztec Two-Step

Aztec Two-Step

Aztec Two-Step is an American folk-rock band formed by Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman at a chance meeting on open stage at a Boston coffee house, the Stone Phoenix, in 1971. The band was named after a line from a poem that appeared in A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

, Citizen Cope

Citizen Cope

Clarence Greenwood is an American songwriter and producer. His eclectic mix of blues, laid-back rock, soul, and folk has a large and profoundly dedicated following, built over the past decade of touring due to solid word of mouth....

, Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick

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, George Winston

George Winston

George Winston is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Miles City, Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Cruz, California.-Background:...

, Jonathan Edwards, Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

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, Marc Cohn

Marc Cohn

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, Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

, Richie Havens

Richie Havens

Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...

, Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...

, Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi is an American blues and soul musician, who has received multiple Grammy Award nominations, and is well-known for her singing voice, guitar playing, stage presence, and marriage to blues guitarist Derek Trucks...

, Tom Paxton

Tom Paxton

Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...

, Tom Rush

Tom Rush

Tom Rush is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.- Life and career :Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after...

, The Wailers, and Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

.

Greek Organizations

• Alpha Epsilon Pi
  Alpha Epsilon Pi
  Alpha Epsilon Pi , the Global Jewish college fraternity, has 155 active chapters in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Israel with a membership of over 9,000 undergraduates...
  
   Fraternity
• Alpha Sigma Phi
  Alpha Sigma Phi
  Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is a social fraternity with 71 active chapters and 9 colonies. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 10th oldest fraternity in the United States....
  
   Fraternity
• Alpha Xi Delta
  Alpha Xi Delta
  Alpha Xi Delta is a women's fraternity founded on April 17, 1893 at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois. Alpha Xi Delta is one of the oldest women's fraternities as well as one of the ten founding fraternities of the National Panhellenic Conference...
  
   Sorority
• Delta Sigma Phi
  Delta Sigma Phi
  Delta Sigma Phi is a fraternity established at the City College of New York in 1899 and is a charter member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference. The headquarters of the fraternity is the Taggart Mansion located in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
   Fraternity
• Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma is one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio.-History:...
  
  
• Delta Zeta
  Delta Zeta
  Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...
  
   Sorority
• Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta , also known as Phi Delt, is an international fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. The fraternity has about 169 active chapters and colonies in over 43 U.S...
  
   Fraternity
• Phi Mu
  Phi Mu
  Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The organization was founded as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same year...
  
   Sorority (Psi Beta Chapter)
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South...
  
   Fraternity
• Sigma Delta Tau
  Sigma Delta Tau
  Sigma Delta Tau is a national sorority and member of the National Panhellenic Conference, was founded March 25, 1917 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The original name, Sigma Delta Phi, was changed after the women discovered a sorority with the same name already existed...
  
   Sorority
• 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...
  
   Sorority
• Sigma Nu
  Sigma Nu
  Sigma Nu is an undergraduate, college fraternity with chapters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia...
  
   Fraternity
• Tau Epsilon Phi
  Tau Epsilon Phi
  Tau Epsilon Phi is an American fraternity with 14 active chapters, chiefly located at universities and colleges on the East Coast of the United States...
  
   Fraternity
• 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...
  
   Fraternity
• Zeta Beta Tau
  Zeta Beta Tau
  Zeta Beta Tau was founded in 1898 as the nation's first Jewish fraternity, although it is no longer sectarian. Today the merged Zeta Beta Tau Brotherhood is one of the largest, numbering over 140,000 initiated Brothers, and over 90 chapter locations.-Founding:The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was...
  
   Fraternity

Student Clubs and Organizations

• A Cappella Coalition
• Aerie Undergraduate Literary Magazine
• African Students Organization
• American Marketing Association
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American String Teachers Association (ASTA)
• Asian Students Association (ASA)
• Audio Engineering Society
• Ballroom Club
• Brothers and Sisters United
• CASA The Caribbean American Student Association
• Chabad Chevra
• Channel 2 News
• Clean Up Public Spaces (CUPS)
• Dance Team
• Hartt MENC Chapter 227
• HartBeat Student Magazine (Undergraduate Student Magazine)
• Habitat for Humanity University of Hartford Chapter
• Hawk's Nest Programming Management
• Hillel
• Honors Residential College
• EKTA Indian Student Association

• Informer (Student Newspaper)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
  
   (IEEE)
• Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
• Music and Entertainment Industry Student Association (MEISA)
• Malaysian Students Association
• Muslim Students Association
• National Society of Black Engineers
  National Society of Black Engineers
  National Society of Black Engineers , founded in 1975 at Purdue University, is one of the largest student-run organizations in the US, centered on improving the recruitment and retention of African-American engineering students.-History:...
  
   (NSBE)
• Network Peer Educators
• Newman Club
• Outing Club
• Program Council (KAT-Kampus Activities Team)
• Psi Chi
  Psi Chi
  Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. With over 1,050 chapters, Psi Chi is one of the largest honor societies in the United States...
  
  
• Residence Hall Association
• Science Fiction Society (The Guild)
• 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...
  
  
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• Society for Experimental Mechanics
• Spectrum
• Student Government Association
• Student Television Network
• Turkish Student Association
• WQTQ (Weaver High - 89.9 WQTQ FM)
• WSAM Alternative Radio 105.3

Athletics

Campus media

• WWUH
  WWUH
  WWUH is a non-commercial radio station licensed to the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. The station was started on July 15, 1968 and has a Public Alternative Radio format....
  
   91.3 FM and webcast at wwuh.org

WWUH operates as a community service of the University of Hartford with an all-volunteer staff of University alumni, faculty, and staff as well as members of the community. Operating live 24/7 for the last 30 years, WWUH came on the air on July 15, 1968, as the first stereo public station in the state. WWUH, also known as "UH-FM" offers both music and spoken-word programming that is an alternative to what is heard on other area stations. The station has won the Best Radio Station and Best College Station category in a local newspaper readers poll numerous times in the last 20 years. WWUH welcomes student volunteers and offers a comprehensive on-air and leadership training program. WWUH's programming can also be heard on WAPJ, 89.9 in Torrington, Connecticut; WDJW, 89.7 in Somers, Connecticut; and WWEB, 89.9 in Wallingford, Connecticut and on the web at wwuh.org.

• WSAM Radio (Sam105) 105.3FM

Founded on February 2, 1974, WSAM is the University's student-run radio station that operates year-round. The station is found online at the WSAM Website, on the air on-campus only at 105.3FM, or on the campus' TV channel 5.

• The Informer - Student Newspaper

With a legacy from The Hillyer Callboard, the student newspaper of Hillyer College, dating from the 1920s, The Informer is the official student newspaper of the University of Hartford. The Informer became the student newspaper during a constitutional debate with the prior Since 1976, The Student-run Informer publishes 24 times every academic year, coming out every Thursday. Circulation is 3,000 and the paper is distributed all over campus.

• Student Television Network (STN2)

The Student Television Network is a TV station that is completely student run. It is broadcast on the university's cable system on channel 2. STN started its weekly news program broadcast, "STN Channel 2 News", on February 9, 1993. Currently, new broadcasts are live every Friday at 5 p.m. and recorded to then be played throughout the week at 5, 11, and 12 AM and PM. STN is also a host of other student created programs, such as The Afterparty (an entertainment news show) and The Red Zone (a sports show).

Faculty

• Glen Adsit
  Glen Adsit
  Glen Adsit is an American conductor and music educator.Born in Michigan, he was educated at Plymouth High School in Canton, Michigan and received a bachelor's degree in music education and trombone performance and a masters degree in wind conducting from the University of Michigan, where he studied...
  
  
• Walter Bishop, Jr.
  Walter Bishop, Jr.
  Walter Bishop, Jr. was an American bop and hard bop jazz pianist.He was the son of composer Walter Bishop, Sr.. In high school his friends included Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor...
  
  , former
• Miguel Campaneria
  Miguel Campaneria
  -Life:He started his ballet training at the National Ballet Academy of Cuba under Alicia Alonso and Azari Plisetski. He joined the National Ballet of Cuba where he became a soloist. Later on, he won the bronze medal in the junior category at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria...
  
  
• Robert Carl
  Robert Carl
  Robert Carl is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.-Music:...
  
  
• Rabbi David G. Dalin
  David G. Dalin
  David G. Dalin is an American Conservative rabbi and historian, is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books on American Jewish history and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations. He is currently a professor of history and politics at Ave Maria University, in Florida...
  
  , former
• Steve Davis
  Steve Davis (trombonist)
  Steve Davis is an American jazz trombonist who plays hard bop, post-bop, and standards. His primary influences are J. J. Johnson, Curtis Fuller, Slide Hampton, Jackie McLean, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane.Davis was raised in...
  
  
• Eddie Henderson
  Eddie Henderson (musician)
  Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. Henderson's influences include Booker Little, Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw and Miles Davis.-Family influence and early music history:...
  
  
• Hotep Idris Galeta
  Hotep Idris Galeta
  Hotep Idris Galeta was a South African jazz pianist and educator. His legal name at birth was Cecil Galeta, but according to local custom he was more commonly known as a child and young man as Cecil Barnard, his father's first name being used instead of a last name.In his teens he played with...
  
  
• Randy Johnston
  Randy Johnston
  Randy Johnston is an American jazz guitarist.Johnston moved to Richmond, Virginia at age thirteen, and played rock music as a teenager. He studied at the University of Miami late in the 1970s and switched focus to jazz music, playing there with Ira Sullivan. He moved to New York City in 1981, and...
  
  
• Andy LaVerne
  Andy LaVerne
  Andy LaVerne is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.LaVerne studied at Juilliard School of Music, Berklee College, and the New England Conservatory, and took private lessons from legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans...
  
  
• Jackie McLean
  Jackie McLean
  John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
  
  , former
• René McLean
  René McLean
  René McLean is a hard bop saxophonist and flutist. He was born in New York City. He started playing guitar later received his alto saxophone, also had instruction from his father, noted alto saxophonist Jackie McLean....
  
  
• Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader
  Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
  
  , former
• Lynn Pasquerella
  Lynn Pasquerella
  Lynn Pasquerella became the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 2010. She was a professor at the University of Rhode Island for 19 years before becoming URI's Associate Dean of the Graduate School. From 2006 to 2008 she was vice provost for research and dean of...
  
  
• Nat Reeves
  Nat Reeves
  Nat Reeves is an American jazz bassist. He currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut and teaches at the University of Hartford. He also performs internationally with a number of Jazz artists.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jonathan Rosenbaum
  Jonathan Rosenbaum (scholar)
  Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American scholar, college administrator and rabbi; president of Gratz College. from 1998 to 2009; president emeritus of Gratz College and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, since 2009...
  
  , former
• Sandy Skoglund
  Sandy Skoglund
  Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist.Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected small children and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set,...
  
  , former
• Humphrey Tonkin
  Humphrey Tonkin
  Humphrey R. Tonkin is professor of English, president emeritus of the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and a dedicated Esperantist. Born in Truro, UK, Tonkin is a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S. He earned his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and his PhD from Harvard...
  
  
• Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
  Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
  Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was the 15th President of George Washington University, serving from 1988 to 2007. On August 1, 2007, he retired from the presidency and became President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service.- Background :...
  
  , former

Alumni

• Jeff Bagwell
  Jeff Bagwell
  Jeffrey Robert Bagwell , is a former American professional baseball player and coach. He played his entire fifteen-year Major League Baseball career as a first baseman for the Houston Astros and was a four-time All-Star...
  
  , former MLB
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   player for the Houston Astros
  Houston Astros
  The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...
  
  
• Vin Baker
  Vin Baker
  Vincent Lamont Baker is a former American professional basketball player who played in the NBA. He appeared in four consecutive All-Star Games before his career was halted due to alcoholism....
  
  , former NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   All-Star
• Amy Bennett, artist
• Alex Briley
  Alex Briley
  Alexander "Alex" Briley performed the "G.I." role in the disco era music group, Village People. Briley was born and raised in Harlem, New York and later Mount Vernon, New York. A minister's son, he sang in church from an early age and studied voice at the University of Hartford...
  
  , 'G.I./Military Man' from the band Village People
  Village People
  Village People is a concept disco group that formed in the United States in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American cultural stereotypes, as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics....
  
  
• Leo Brouwer
  Leo Brouwer
  Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.-Biography:...
  
  , musician
• Javier Colon, (Hartt School
  Hartt School
  The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford located in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre...
  
  ) winner of TV series The Voice
  The Voice (U.S. TV series)
  The Voice is an American reality talent show that premiered on April 26, 2011 on the NBC television network. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series...
  
  
• Steve Davis
  Steve Davis (trombonist)
  Steve Davis is an American jazz trombonist who plays hard bop, post-bop, and standards. His primary influences are J. J. Johnson, Curtis Fuller, Slide Hampton, Jackie McLean, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane.Davis was raised in...
  
  , jazz trombonist
• Mark Dion
  Mark Dion
  Mark Dion is an American fine artist best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. Dion has exhibited his art works internationally including at the Tate Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, and the PBS series art:21...
  
  , artist
• Christine Dwyer, actress, Rent
  Rent (musical)
  Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
  
  touring company
• Jim Ford
  Jim Ford (actor)
  Jim Ford is an American film and television actor, stuntman, screenwriter and film director. He wrote and directed the short films Reconnaissance , Gotta Go , Wiffle Ball , Timmy Text Message , and White Zin .-Background:Ford was born in Worcester, Massachusetts...
  
  , actor and stuntman
• Joxel García
  Joxel García
  Joxel García is a Puerto Rican physician and a former four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He served as the thirteenth Assistant Secretary for Health , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from March 13, 2008 to January 20, 2009...
  
  , US Assistant Secretary for Health
  United States Assistant Secretary for Health
  The United States Assistant Secretary for Health serves as the Secretary of Health and Human Services's primary advisor on matters involving the nation's public health and, if serving as an active member in the regular corps, is the highest ranking uniformed officer in the Public Health Service...
  
  , four-star admiral
  Admiral (United States)
  In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, admiral is a four-star flag officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below Fleet Admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health...
  
   in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
• A. J. Hammer
  A. J. Hammer
  A. J. Hammer is a television and radio personality who, as of now, hosts CNN Headline News evening show, Showbiz Tonight....
  
  , television host of Showbiz Tonight
  Showbiz Tonight
  Showbiz Tonight is an American entertainment news program on HLN .Showbiz Tonight is hosted by A.J. Hammer at CNN New York. The show reports and debates celebrity entertainment news stories and controversies, along with social networking segments involving viewer interaction via social networks and...
  
   on CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
  , radio personality
• Liane Hansen
  Liane Hansen
  Liane Hansen is an American journalist and radio personality who was senior host of the National Public Radio newsmagazine Weekend Edition Sunday until her retirement in May 2011...
  
  , National Public Radio host of Weekend Edition Sunday
• Jack Hardy
  Jack Hardy (singer-songwriter)
  John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy was an American lyrical singer-songwriter and playwright based in Greenwich Village, who was influential as a writer, performer, and mentor in the North American and European folk music scenes for decades...
  
  , singer and songwriter
• John Harris
  John Harris (author)
  John Harris is the author of Numerican Nation: A Self Portrait, in which he chronicles the first thirty years of his life and his views on United States politics from the perspective of the descendants of slavery. He moved to Mount Vernon, New York in 1958...
  
  , historian, author, former President and CEO of Quality Time Video, Inc.
• Marin Ireland
  Marin Ireland
  Marin Ireland is an American film, stage and television actress.She won the 2009 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in reasons to be pretty.-Education:...
  
  , actress, winner of the Theatre World Award
  Theatre World Award
  The Theatre World Award, first awarded for the 1945-46 season, is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway.-History:...
  
   and Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -nominee for reasons to be pretty
  Reasons to be pretty
  reasons to be pretty is a play by Neil LaBute, his first to be staged on Broadway. The plot centers on four young working class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other...
  
  
• Seymour Itzkoff
  Seymour Itzkoff
  Seymour William Itzkoff is an American professor known for his research into intelligence. He has taught at Smith College since 1965 where he is currently professor emeritus of education and child study.-Life and career:...
  
  , professor, researcher in intelligence
• Johnathan Lee Iverson
  Johnathan Lee Iverson
  Johnathan Lee Iverson became the first African-American ringmaster of a major U.S. circus in 1999 at the age of 22 when he won the position at Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.-Biography:...
  
  , first black ringmaster of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
• Jerry Kelly
  Jerry Kelly
  Jerome Patrick Kelly is an American professional golfer.Kelly was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Hartford in 1989 and turned professional later that year, but didn't make it onto the PGA Tour until 1996. This followed a successful 1995 season on the second tier...
  
  , professional golfer, PGA Tour
  PGA Tour
  The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
  
  
• Erik Mariñelarena
  Erik Mariñelarena
  Erik Mariñelarena Herrera is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.He is the founder of E Corp Studio, a production company he established in 2001, alongside his wife Liz Ortiz, later joining his producing partner Carlos Hernández Vázquez.-Personal life:Mariñelarena was born in Mexico...
  
  , filmmaker
• Richard Neal
  Richard Neal
  Richard Edmund Neal is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1989. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is a former city councilor and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts....
  
  , U.S. House of Representatives (D-MA)
• Peter Niedmann
  Peter Niedmann
  Peter Niedmann is an American composer of predominantly choral and organ music.Niedmann studied at the University of Hartford's Hartt School of Music and University of Connecticut, and held a conducting fellowship with Sir David Willcocks...
  
  , composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
  
• Tim Petrovic
  Tim Petrovic
  Tim Petrovic is an American professional golfer.Petrovic was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has won one PGA Tour tournament, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in 2005....
  
  , professional golfer, PGA Tour
  PGA Tour
  The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
  
  
• Pedro Segarra
  Pedro Segarra
  Pedro E. Segarra is an American politician of Puerto Rican origin and Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to becoming mayor, Segarra was president of Hartford's City Council. He succeeded former Mayor Eddie Perez who resigned in disgrace after he was convicted by a state Superior Court jury of...
  
  , Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut
• Jack Swigert
  Jack Swigert
  He later became staff director of the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives.Swigert was elected as a Republican to Colorado's newly created 6th congressional district in November 1982. He defeated Democrat Steve Hogan, 98,909 votes to 56,518...
  
  , Apollo 13
  Apollo 13
  Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST. The landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command...
  
   astronaut
  Astronaut
  An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
  
  
• Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  , singer

External links

• Official website
• Hartford Hawks
• Hartt Community Division
• The Informer Student Newspaper
• STN 2, The University of Hartford's Student Television Network
• WWUH Public Radio
• University of Hartford on U.S. News and World Report