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Cleveland State University
Former names
Cleveland YMCA School of Technology (1921–1929)
Fenn College (1929–1964)
Cleveland Law School (1897–1946)
Marshall School of Law (1916–1946)
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law (1946–1967)
TypePublicresearch university
EstablishedDecember 18, 1964;59 years ago(1964-12-18)[1]
Parent institution
University System of Ohio
AccreditationHLC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$89.88 million[2]
PresidentLaura J. Bloomberg[3]
ProvostNigamanth Sridhar
Academic staff
511
Administrative staff
1,000[4]
Students14,118[5]
Location
Cleveland
,
Ohio
,
United States
CampusLarge city,85 acres (34 ha)[6]
NewspaperThe Cauldron
ColorsUniversity green, fresh green[7]
NicknameVikings
Sporting affiliations
MascotMagnus
Websitewww.csuohio.edu

Cleveland State University(CSU) is apublicresearch universityinCleveland, Ohio,United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. CSU absorbed theCleveland-Marshall School of Lawin 1969.[1]Today it is part of theUniversity System of Ohio,has more than 120,000 alumni, and offers over 200 academic programs amongst eight colleges.[4]It isclassifiedamong "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[8]

History

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Public education in Cleveland was first started in 1870, whenCleveland YMCAbegan to offer free classes. By 1921, the program had grown enough to become separate fromYMCA,being renamed Cleveland YMCA School of Technology. Two years later, the school offered courses towards a bachelor's degree for the first time. This is now regarded as Fenn College's founding date, although the college would not be formally renamed until 1929.[9][1]Fenn College took over several buildings in the area includingFenn Tower,Stilwell Hall, and Foster Hall.[1]

In 1964, the State of Ohio purchased the entirety of Fenn College's campus in downtown Cleveland and established a commuter college that targeted area residents. This new institution became known as Cleveland State University.[1][10]IndustrialistJames J. Nanceserved as Chair of the first Board of Trustees. Over the next several decades, Cleveland State University quickly grew in size, and claimed over 15,000 students in 1997. However, only six hundred students resided in University housing.[11]

In the mid 2000s, President Michael Schwartz endedopen admissionsand implemented a vision to move from aU.S. News & World Reportfourth tier university to a second tier university.

On March 11, 2020, an email was sent to Cleveland State students regarding the changes made due to the coronavirus pandemic. Classes were all switched to remote learning.[12]

Campus

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Rhodes Tower

CSU's main campus indowntown Clevelandis bounded on the east and west byInterstate 90and East 17th Street, respectively; and by Payne Avenue to the north and Carnegie Avenue on the south. It also has a satellite campus inWestlake, Ohiowhich is in theGreater Clevelandmetropolitan areainCuyahoga County.As of spring 2013, the combined student body (undergraduate and graduate students) totaled over 17,000.

Campus expansion

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In 2006, Cleveland State University completed its state-of-the-art student Recreation Center, and a renovation of Parker Hannifan Hall for the College of Graduate Studies.

To make the campus more amenable to residence and increase the number of students living on campus thousands of housing units were built, anchored by a new dormitory,Fenn Tower,a reuse of the school's most historic building. Fenn Tower housed what was the world's longestFoucault pendulum,but the pendulum was removed during the residence hall renovation in 2006 and is now in the Cleveland State University archives.[citation needed]

The university worked with private developers and the City of Cleveland to develop housing, retail, and "collegetown" amenities around Fenn Tower, particularly along the main thoroughfare ofEuclid Avenue.In 2010, Euclid Avenue was upgraded as part of theEuclid Corridor Projectwhich broughtbus rapid transitto the university and connectedPublic Squarein downtown Cleveland toUniversity Circle,approximately four miles to the east.[13]Cleveland State University's $65 million construction project, intended to transform the campus from a mostly commuter school into a residential campus,[14]included the new Student Center and Julka Hull, which houses the College of Education and School of Nursing. Both projects were finished in 2010.[citation needed]

In 2011, the new Euclid Commons dorms complex, which features apartment-style living for CSU students, opened. That same year, the university's Dramatic Arts Program moved into the renovated Middough Building andAllen TheatreatPlayhouse Square Centerin collaboration with theCleveland Play House.[15]

In 2012, CSU opened the Galleries At CSU on Euclid Avenue. Also in 2012, Cleveland State University partnered with theSouth China University of Technologyallowing students to complete their education and receive joint degrees.[16]During the fall semester of 2012, the first phase of the private Langston apartment and retail complex opened along Chester Avenue across from Rhodes Tower. In the spring semester of 2013, the former Viking Hall dormitory was torn down to make way for the university's new Center for Health Professions. This was opened in the fall of 2015. The university is partnering withNortheast Ohio Medical Universityor NEOMED to train future health care professionals to specifically work in urban settings.[17]They are working on adding a new physics department onto the campus and starting to build a better physics department.[citation needed]

In 2018, CSU established the CSU School of Film and Media Arts, having used a $7.5 million appropriation from the State of Ohio to renovate an entire floor of the IdeaStream Center at Playhouse Square. It is the first standalone film school in the State of Ohio.[18]

Administration

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The Cleveland State University Board consists of nine trustees, a Secretary to the Board, two faculty representatives, and two student representatives.[19]The board members, along with the University President, are charged with fulfilling the goals set forth in the University Mission Statement as well as acting as the governing body in all policy matters of the university requiring attention. In January 2006 the Board of Trustees amended their bylaws so they could restructure board committees as well as include Community members on the Board. Community members serve as non-voting advisers and are appointed by the Board Chairman for a term approved by the Board.

Presidents

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Seal of Fenn College, 1923-1964

Fenn College[9]

  • Cecil V. Thomas,1934–1947
  • Joseph C. Nichols, 1947–1948
  • Edward Hodnett, 1948–1951
  • Alec Schatzel & Ryan Skaruppa, 1952–1965

Cleveland State University[20]

Academics

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Monte Ahuja College of Business

CSU offers many disciplines and research facilities, with 70academic majors,27master's degreeprograms, two post-master's degrees, sixdoctoraldegrees, and twolaw degrees.It also has research cooperation agreements with the nearbyNASAGlenn Research Center.[24]

In 1965, when The Cleveland State University was formed, it consisted of the Fenn College of Engineering (now the Washkewicz College of Engineering),[25]the colleges of business administration, arts and sciences, and education.[26]In 2022, the university reorganized around eight colleges as part of its CSU 2.0 initiative:[27]

The School of Communication is located in The Music and Communication Building

The Division of University Studies focuses on academic support services, and the Division of Continuing Education extends academic services beyond the campus.

Notable programs include theMaxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs,whichU.S. News & World Report2019 ranking of graduate public affairs programs placed Levin College fourth in the Urban Policy specialty and 13th in the Local Government Management specialty, as well as the recently formed School of Communication, ranked 8th in research productivity and as the top terminal MA-granting program in the United States overall.[28]The Monte Ahuja College of Business is also highly regarded and is ranked in the top ten nationwide in performance of its Certified Public Accountant graduate students. Additionally, CSU is the first university in Ohio to offer a master's degree in software engineering.

College of Law

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Main article:Cleveland State University College of Law
College of Law

The College of Law traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897. One of the most famous alumni of the College of Law wasTim Russert,host oftelevision programMeet the Press,who graduated in 1976. It was formerly known as the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law, until the school dropped Marshall's name from the school in 2022.[29]

Research

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Cleveland State maintains a variety of research links within Ohio, especially the Cleveland community. These research collaborations include:[30]

Pseudoscience allegations

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In 2022The Chronicle of Higher Educationreported on a researcher at Cleveland State University whose "home institution was essentially providing a soapbox for racist pseudoscience.[...] Despite nearly a dozen publications over more than a decade arguing for the intellectual inferiority of Black people," the professor was judged to have meritorious research and was promoted and given tenure. In 2022 he was fired following an investigation by theNational Institutes of Healththat found that he had violated regulations concerning the handling of medical data.[31]

Student life

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Student media

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The campus' student-run radio station, 89.3WCSB,has a 630-Watttransmitteron top ofRhodes Tower(formerly called University Tower). Additionally, Cleveland State is served in print by The Cauldron, an independent student newspaper,[32]The Cleveland Stater,[33]a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication, The Vindicator,[34]Cleveland State University's art and culture magazine, and The Gavel which won the 2005 American Bar Association's -Student Division's first prize for the best law school newspaper in the country. There is nostudent television stationat this time, though the university offers a film production and video production major with courses through its Digital Video Communication Center and a variety of related majors through the School of Film and Media Arts.

Information technology

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CSU is a member of the OneCommunity (formerly OneCleveland)computer network,an initiative ofCase Western Reserve Universitythat connects nonprofit institutions throughout Northeast Ohio, allowing large scale collaborations over a high-speed fiber optic network.

Greek organizations

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Cleveland State University is home to 4 NIC fraternities,Delta Sigma Phi,Sigma Phi Epsilon,Sigma Tau Gamma,andTau Kappa Epsilon.There are 3 NPC sororities,Delta Zeta,Phi Mu,andTheta Phi Alphaand all 9 NPHC organizations have a chapter affiliated with the campus.

Athletics

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Main article:Cleveland State Vikings
ACleveland State Vikings men's basketballgame at theWolstein Center.

When the school was still known as Fenn College, thesports teams'nicknamewas theFoxes.When the university was renamed Cleveland State, the nickname changed as well, and CSU's sports teams became the "Vikings". That nickname stands to this day. Theschool colorsare university green and fresh green. For many years the school mascot was thecomic stripcharacterHägar the Horriblealong with his wife Helga, and the couple appeared at sporting events as well as on University literature. A new mascot, "Vike" was introduced in 1997 and Hagar was phased out by 1998. Another new mascot named "Magnus" was introduced in August 2007.

Cleveland State fieldsvarsityteams in 17 sports, with most teams competing in theHorizon League.Themen's basketball teamwas noteworthy in1986when seeded 14th in the East Region of theNCAAtournament,it upset heavily favored 3-seedIndianaandSaint Joseph'sbefore a one-point loss to aNavyteam led by futureHall of FamerDavid Robinson,an unprecedented achievement for such a low seed. The Vikes made yet another NCAA tournamentappearancein2009,upsetting the highly favored 4 seedWake Forestbefore falling toArizonain the second round.[35]The school fields two teams that compete outside the Horizon League; wrestling competes in theMid-American Conferenceand men's lacrosse in theASUN Conference.

Fielding a football team

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On October 14, 2008, CSU President Michael Schwartz stated "he wants a blue ribbon panel to give him a recommendation on thefootballteam before July 1, 2009, when he was scheduled to retire. He also said the program will have to be structured to pay for itself. "[36]

The establishment of a football team became an official item on the student government election ballot. Although over two-thirds of the voters favored establishment of a football team over half of them were not willing to pay a fee for Division I non-scholarship football in addition to any potential future tuition increases that may be instituted by the university.[37]

Notable alumni and faculty

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Main article:List of Cleveland State University people

See also

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References

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  2. ^"CSUFY Report 2018"(PDF).Csuohio.edu.Retrieved2019-11-28.
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  14. ^David I. Andersen, The Plain Dealer (2009-08-24)."Cleveland State University to begin work on $65 million construction project this week".Cleveland. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-06-07.Retrieved2011-07-24.
  15. ^Marvin Fong / Plain Dealer (2010-03-06)."Cleveland State University's drama program is booming under director Michael Mauldin".cleveland.Retrieved2011-07-24.
  16. ^"Cleveland State University partners with Chinese university, which will send students to CSU".cleveland.2012-10-16.
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  19. ^"Board of Trustees - Cleveland State University".Csuohio.edu. 2006-01-20.Retrieved2011-07-24.
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  25. ^"DONALD AND PAMELA WASHKEWICZ, AND THE PARKER HANNIFIN FOUNDATION give transformative gift to CSU".
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  28. ^About the School of CommunicationArchived2006-04-20 at theWayback Machine.Accessed June 13, 2006.
  29. ^"CSU TO REMOVE CLEVELAND-MARSHALL NAME FROM COLLEGE OF LAW".
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  31. ^Standifer, Cid (13 October 2022)."Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty: A professor's research flew under the radar for years. What finally got him fired?".The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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  33. ^"The Cleveland Stater".The Cleveland Stater.Retrieved2011-07-24.
  34. ^"About Us".
  35. ^"Cleveland State Shocks Wake Forest".Fox News.March 21, 2009.
  36. ^Turner, Karl (2008-10-14)."Cleveland State considers a new name and a new football team".cleveland.Retrieved2019-10-31.
  37. ^Question 1: Are you interested in having Cleveland State University add a Division I non-scholarship football team (e.g. University of Dayton, Butler University) to its intercollegiate athletic program? 1. YES 1,214 Votes 68.7% of the voteArchived2010-05-27 at theWayback Machine,Question 2: Are you willing to pay a fee for Division I non-scholarship football in addition to any potential, future tuition increases that may be instituted by the University? 2. NO 977 Votes 55.6% of the vote.
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