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104-559: Doyle and Taylor met in the 1960s while students at the University of Connecticut , she an undergraduate in English literature, he working on a PhD in literature, with a special interest in Scandinavian writing. “We were both pretty involved in the antiwar and Civil Rights movement,” Doyle said. A friendship based on their shared political activism developed into love, marriage, and the founding of

208-492: A $ 1.1 billion genomic medicine laboratory on the campus of UConn Health. The laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine . According to the agreement, Jackson Laboratory will enter into a collaborative research agreement with UConn Health and will create at least 300 positions within 10 years, 30 percent of total employees being senior scientist positions. Once fully developed,

312-536: A Certificate Entry into Nursing (CEIN/BS), an accelerated pre-licensure program. At the graduate level, Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Masters of Business Analytics and Project Management (MSBAPM) and an MS in Financial Risk Management are offered. In August 2017, UConn's first-ever permanent residence hall for students outside the Storrs campus was opened at Stamford. The six-story, 116 unit building

416-472: A fuel cell power plant at its Depot Campus that will supply the campus with clean and efficiency energy, cooling and heating. The installation of a ClearEdge Power , formerly UTC Power, PureCell System was made possible through a federal stimulus grant from Connecticut's Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (now the Connecticut GreenBank). The University of Connecticut Police Department

520-759: A high-tech approach to learning with internet access in classrooms, laboratories, student amenities and public spaces. Design for the new UConn building was led by Aaron Schwarz , then of Perkins Eastman . The Stamford Campus of the University of Connecticut offers complete undergraduate degree programs in thirteen majors as well as the Bachelor of General Studies Degree Program. Majors are American Studies, Business Administration (BSBA), Business Data Analytics (BSBDA), Financial Management (BSFM), Digital Media and Design (BA) and (BFA), Economics, English, Human Development and Family Sciences, History, Political Science, Psychology, and

624-505: A postseason tournament was held; the first recorded season of full league play was 1993, with Boston College, UConn, Georgetown, Providence, Syracuse , and Villanova participating. Georgetown left Big East field hockey after the 1994 season, and was replaced by incoming Big East member Rutgers. The next change in field hockey membership came in 2005, when BC left for the ACC and was replaced by Louisville. Georgetown returned its field hockey program to

728-476: A result, both leagues agreed that only the "new" Big East would sponsor the sport, and that all American members with field hockey programs would become associates. Accordingly, the Big East field hockey conference would now be made up of Big East full members Georgetown, Providence, and Villanova; American members UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, and Temple; and Old Dominion, otherwise a member of Conference USA . Following

832-466: A separate library building was added in 1974. Also in the mid-1970s, the academic program was expanded to provide a four-year degree in several fields of study. In 1990, planning began for a new UConn Stamford Campus in the heart of downtown Stamford. One of the first UConn 2000 building projects, the new campus opened in 1998, offering a variety of academic programs including undergraduate and graduate degrees. The contemporary glass-enclosed campus features

936-554: A state-funded program called UConn 2000 was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly and signed into law by then- Governor John G. Rowland . This 10-year program set aside $ 1 billion to upgrade campus facilities, add faculty, and otherwise improve the university. An additional $ 1.3 billion was pledged by the State of Connecticut in 2002 as part of a new ten-year improvement plan known as 21st Century UConn . An agreement

1040-633: A total of 17 Big East Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Championships. Out of the current members, Xavier has won a total of six Big East Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Championships, Georgetown has won three, while Seton Hall and Villanova have each won two. Villanova men's cross country team won three straight NCAA National Championships in 1966, 1967 and 1968, as well as a fourth in 1970. They also finished 2nd in 1962 and 1969. Providence men's cross country team have also finished in second in 1981 and 1982. The Big East began sponsoring field hockey in 1989, but conference records only indicate that

1144-747: A wide range of liberal arts and sciences courses and degrees to over 1,400 undergraduate and more than 600 graduate students. Due to the UConn Hartford's proximity to the State Capitol and legislative offices, the university's School of Public Policy is based at the Hartford campus. The University of Connecticut's School of Social Work, established in 1948, sits alongside the University’s Hartford Campus. Located at Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford, UConn's Graduate Business Learning Center

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1248-537: Is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut , United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School , named after two benefactors. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, then took its current name in 1939. Over the following decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programs were established. During the 1960s, UConn Health

1352-530: Is a fully functional police agency with the same statutory authority as any municipal police department in the State of Connecticut. State and internationally accredited, the department is responsible for protecting lives and property at the University of Connecticut and all adjacent areas within the jurisdiction of the UConn Police Department. This includes the main campus in Storrs and the regional campuses. The UConn Division of Public Safety also includes

1456-654: Is also home to the university's Music and Pharmacy libraries, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center , home to the university's archives and special collections. Each of the regional campuses also have their own libraries. These libraries are tied into the Babbidge library through a shared catalogue. The Babbidge-based collection places UConn among the top 30 universities in the nation for library holdings and funding, containing more than 2.5 million print volumes, approximately 2,500 current print periodicals, more than 35,000 journals through

1560-475: Is designed for academically qualified students who are attending a Connecticut community college and who are planning to transfer to the University of Connecticut in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Agriculture, Health & Natural Resources , Business, or Engineering. Each year, more than 1,000 transfer students are admitted to the university. As of 2017 , of the entering freshman at the main campus, 54% ranked in

1664-669: Is home to the UConn School of Business. In 1942, the University of Connecticut was invited to Waterbury at the request of a group of citizens, headed by the Waterbury YMCA. Named the Waterbury Extension Center, it offered primarily certificate-granting technical courses taught at the YMCA for 253 students who were mostly of returning veterans looking for an affordable and easily accessible means of earning and education. Gradually, as

1768-538: Is intended to house 290 students. In August 2017, UConn formally opened its new campus in downtown Hartford, after nearly 40 years in neighboring West Hartford. The new campus is located within Hartford's Front Street neighborhood—a portion of the Adriaen's Landing project. The centerpiece of the new campus is the historic Beaux-Arts , which had been the former headquarters of the Hartford Times . UConn Hartford offers

1872-586: Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Its gothic-style buildings, constructed in 1925 (except for the new library, which was completed in 1996), housed the Hartford Seminary until 1981. The law school has approximately 325 students and a student:faculty ratio of 4.1:1. UConn Law has repeatedly been ranked the top public law school in New England by U.S. News & World Report , and

1976-487: Is made up of charter members Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, and Villanova, as well as Denver . NCAA regulations state that there must be six teams for a league to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and since Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Seton Hall, and Xavier only field club teams, the Big East had to look elsewhere. Both Denver and Johns Hopkins were rumored as targets for potential invitation and Denver

2080-484: Is steam, and where possible sidewalks were laid over the underground connectors to keep the snow off. In 2005, a cogeneration plant was activated, which generates most of the electricity for the campus, and uses the exhaust steam for the campus central heating system. The university owns its own public water system and waste water treatment facility. With the support of local industry, UConn is also developing and using fuel cell technology. In April 2012, UConn commissioned

2184-509: The 2016–17 season , seven of the ten schools (70%) received bids to that year's NCAA Tournament , a record for the highest percentage of members ever sent to one tournament from a single conference. Since realignment, Big East schools have combined for a total of 50 NCAA Tournament bids, five Final Four appearances, and four national championships. As of 2023–24 season All full Big East member schools field men's soccer teams. Akron became an associate member in 2023. Big East men's lacrosse

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2288-577: The Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art. The campus has undergone a transformation in recent years, including new Marine Science and Project Oceanology buildings, a new research vessel, and renovations of the Branford House, the gymnasium, and the main Academic Building. The campus was formerly the summer home of Morton Freeman Plant , a 19th-century railroad, steamship, and hotel magnate. Branford House

2392-485: The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten Conference . The other named schools stayed in Big East women's lacrosse until The American began a women's lacrosse league in 2018–19. Full members (non-football) Assoc. member (Other sports) Other Conference Despite the reconfiguration of the conference, the Big East has still been widely considered as one of the "Power 6" basketball conferences. Beginning with

2496-743: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences , College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources , the Graduate School, the Neag School of Education , the School of Nursing, the School of Business , the School of Dental Medicine , the School of Medicine , the School of Engineering , the School of Social Work, the Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Law and

2600-470: The International Goodwill Games ; and University of Pittsburgh 's Trees Pool , which hosted a total of 17 Big East Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. Out of the current members, Villanova has won a total of 16 Big East Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. All full members of the Big East sponsor women's volleyball. However, during the first season of

2704-547: The New England Board of Higher Education 's Regional Student Program (NERSP), allowing students from the five other New England states to enroll at the university at a reduced out-of-state tuition rate if their intended major is not offered by one of their in-state universities. The university also participates in a special guaranteed admissions program with the Connecticut Community Colleges (CCC) that

2808-520: The UCLA Bruins men's basketball team ) and a women's record four in a row (2013–2016), in addition to over 40 conference regular season and tournament championships. UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs , brothers who donated the land for the school as well as initial funding. The Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

2912-417: The "Catholic 7" due to their common religious background, and were motivated in part by a desire to return to Gavitt's original vision of a strong, Northeast -based and basketball-focused conference, and by prospects of a better television deal than they would have received by remaining with the football schools. The move occurred during a limited window in which these non-FBS schools held a voting majority in

3016-554: The 2001 season with Boston College, UConn, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Virginia Tech. The original lineup stayed in place until Virginia Tech and BC left for the ACC, respectively in 2004 and 2005. The conference replaced BC with Loyola (Maryland) for the 2006 season, and the Greyhounds remained an associate member until the school joined the Patriot League , which already sponsored women's lacrosse, in 2013. Originally,

3120-411: The 2010 season. As in the case of field hockey, the 2013 conference split left the Big East and The American with too few lacrosse teams for an automatic NCAA bid. Also in a parallel with field hockey, the two conferences agreed that only the reconfigured Big East would sponsor the sport, with all women's lacrosse teams from The American becoming associate members. The first season of women's lacrosse in

3224-479: The 2014 departure of Louisville and Rutgers for all-sports membership in conferences that sponsored field hockey (respectively the ACC and Big Ten), Big East field hockey operated with six members until Liberty and Quinnipiac joined as associate members in 2016. The only honors listed here are those earned by Big East field hockey members while playing the sport in the conference. In addition to these: Nine Big East members sponsor softball, with Marquette and Xavier as

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3328-559: The 2017 season, Butler added varsity women's lacrosse and Denver brought its women's lacrosse team into the league, giving the Big East 10 members in the sport. However, after the 2018 season, the Big East lost all of its women's lacrosse associate members except Denver to the new women's lacrosse conference of The American. The Big East retained its automatic NCAA tournament bid for the 2019 season and beyond by adding Old Dominion, already an associate member in field hockey. On April 16, 2020, Old Dominion announced its women's lacrosse would join

3432-675: The 241-seat Nafe Katter Theatre, and the 116-seat Studio Theatre. CRT is a member of the Theatre Communications Group , the national service organization for the professional theatre . The Storrs campus also houses the J. Louis von der Mehden Recital Hall, the William Benton Museum of Art , and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry . In the 1960s, drama students from UConn participated in Theatre on Tour, which

3536-487: The AAC for the Big East, pending a decision on the future of the school's football program . Many news stories described UConn as "rejoining" the Big East, because UConn was a founding member of the original Big East, but remained with the football-playing members when the conference reorganized as the AAC in 2013. By 2018 however, UConn had seen a dramatic decline in athletic department revenues. Mutual interest between UConn and

3640-512: The American Athletic Conference in the 2021 season (2020–21 school year), essentially swapping places with incoming full member UConn. Both conferences thus maintained the six members required for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Xavier added women's lacrosse in the 2023 season, playing as an independent for its first season before starting full Big East play in 2024. This list includes NCAA championships won by members of

3744-441: The Big East as associate members in that sport. The next changes to Big East associate membership came during the 2015–16 school year. First, on December 8, 2015, the conference announced that Liberty and Quinnipiac would become associate members in field hockey effective with the 2016 season. Then, on May 3, 2016, the Big East announced that Denver, already an affiliate in men's lacrosse, would move its women's lacrosse team into

3848-458: The Big East for the AAC, essentially swapping places with UConn, so both conferences maintained the six members required for an automatic bid. The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1979 The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report as of 2023. Also indicated is membership in the Association of American Universities . Nine of

3952-511: The Big East invited the University of Connecticut (UConn) to "re-join" the conference from the AAC, which they did on July 1, 2020. Football is not a sponsored sport, and UConn is the only member with a varsity football team in the top-level Division I FBS . Butler , Georgetown , and Villanova do operate football programs in the second-level Division I FCS . The conference also has four associate members in field hockey, and one in men's and women's lacrosse. The original Big East Conference

4056-421: The Big East the next year, after which the conference's field hockey membership remained unchanged until the 2013 conference split. Shortly before the split, Old Dominion was set to join the original Big East as a field hockey associate. The conference split left both successor leagues—the reconfigured Big East and The American—with too few field hockey members to qualify for an automatic NCAA tournament berth. As

4160-479: The Big East's first commissioner, and Villanova and Pittsburgh joined the conference shortly thereafter. PR firm Duffy & Shanley is credited with the initial branding and naming work for the conference. The "high point" of the original conference is widely considered to be the 1985 NCAA tournament, in which Georgetown, St. Johns, and Villanova all made the Final Four, and Villanova defeated Georgetown to win

4264-446: The Big East. Excluded from this list are all national championships earned outside the scope of NCAA competition , including ICSA sailing championships (14 by Georgetown), women's AIAW championships (2 by Old Dominion), equestrian titles (0), and retroactive Helms Athletic Foundation titles (1 by St. John's). Associate members, indicated in italics , are listed with NCAA championships won in their Big East sports while competing in

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4368-540: The Central YMCA allocated some space in their building for evening classes. The enrollment during this period increased to 662 students in the fall of 1947 and the establishment of an accredited, full-time undergraduate program, at the newly designated Waterbury Branch of the University of Connecticut. In August 2003, the Waterbury campus moved to a new 95,000 square foot downtown campus. The U-shaped, three-story building at

4472-505: The Connecticut General Assembly and was signed into law by Governor Dannel Malloy in 2013. The funds will be used over a 10-year period to hire 250+ new faculty, increase undergraduate enrollment by 6,580 students, and upgrade aging campus infrastructure. Money has also been allocated to build new STEM facilities, construct new STEM teaching laboratories and to create a premier STEM honors college. NextGenCT will also allow for

4576-750: The Curbstone Press, which "served as a model for activist literary publishing on the small press scene." Taylor stated that they founded Curbstone because they "wanted to present literature that promoted human rights and civil liberties and promoted cultural understanding." They founded Curbstone in the basement of their home in Willimantic, CT in 1975 and continued in active operation through 2005. Authors published by Curbstone include Luis Rodríguez , Martín Espada , Claribel Alegria , Salah Al Hamdani , Ana Castillo , Wayne Karlin , E. Ethelbert Miller , Sergio Ramírez , and Le Clézio . In 2001, Curbstone founded

4680-570: The Graduate School was established after the reorganization of the schools in 1940, as well as the Doctoral Program for graduates which was authorized in 1943. PhDs have been awarded since 1949. The schools of law and pharmacy were also absorbed into the university. In 1958, the School of Education established the first high school in the town of Mansfield, E. O. Smith High School , as a laboratory school for teacher training and education research. The high school, which lies adjacent to campus,

4784-677: The Julia de Burgos Poetry Park at the south corner of Jackson Street and Terry Avenue near the Curbstone offices in honor of Puerto Rican poet and independence advocate Julia de Burgos García. In acquiring the press in 2010, Northwestern University Press cited Curbstone's "emphasis on creative literature that promotes human rights and intercultural understanding," which complemented Northwestern's longstanding commitments to writing from underrepresented communities and literature in translation. Curbstone earned numerous national and regional awards, including

4888-850: The New England Booksellers Association for Publishing Excellence, the National Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Sciences for Achievement in Publishing, the ALTA Award for Dedication to Translation, the PEN New England “Friends to Writers” Award, and the PEN Gregory Kolovakos Award for commitment to Hispanic Literature. Works published by Curbstone have won the ALTA Outstanding Translation of

4992-783: The New England Law Library Consortium and the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium. The Dodd Research Center has also formed a partnership with the African National Congress to share materials with South African scholars. The UConn campus at Storrs is home to the Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) run by the Department of Dramatic Arts. The theatre complex has three venues, the 486-seat Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre,

5096-731: The School of Fine Arts. Founded in 1921, the University of Connecticut School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The campus is located just outside the downtown core of Hartford, minutes away from the Connecticut State Capitol , state courts and agencies, and the offices of Hartford's law firms and corporations. Law students have ready access to all of these institutions for study, externships , clinical education, practice, and employment. The campus

5200-464: The Storrs campus during their term of office, Bill Clinton in 1995 and Joe Biden in 2021, to dedicate the first and second iterations of the Dodd Center for Human Rights , respectively. The Dodd Center has brought an array of other world figures to the campus including Madeleine Albright , Elie Wiesel , Oscar Arias , and Mikhail Gorbachev . Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush visited

5304-571: The UConn Fire Department, and Office of the Fire Marshal and Building Inspectors. UConn campuses are equipped with a blue-light system which allows students to press an emergency button which will notify the police to come to that location. Next Generation Connecticut is a multi-faceted $ 1.5 billion plan to build the state's economic future through strategic investments in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines (STEM). It passed

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5408-589: The University of Connecticut began offering extension courses at the former Stamford High School to provide education for GIs returning from the Korean War. In the fall of 1952, the university formally established a regional campus in Stamford. Upon inception, UConn's Stamford Campus offered five courses — English, Mathematics, History, Speech, and Sociology, and enrolled 21 part-time students. A newly constructed UConn Stamford Campus opened in 1962 on Scofield Town Road, and

5512-904: The Year Award, the American Book Award, the Critics Choice Award, Foreword’s Book of the Year Award, Independent Publishers Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, the PEN/Revson Award, Premio Atzlán, and the Pushcart Prize. In October 2020, the town council of Willimantic voted to memorialize the publishing house by renaming the street where the press was located "Curbstone Way." University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut ( UConn )

5616-615: The basement of Beech Hall in 1929. The university's first librarian was Edwina Whitney , who served from 1900 to 1934. The library then moved to the Wilbur Cross Building and remained there until the 1970s. The current main library, Homer Babbidge, was formerly known as the Nathan Hale Library. It underwent renovations completed in 1998; at the time it was the largest public research library in New England. The Storrs campus

5720-517: The bill that allowed Connecticut State College to have its name changed to the University of Connecticut. The following year, trustees organized and developed a plan to divide the university into separate schools and colleges in Business, Education, Home Economics, Colleges of Arts and Sciences, and College of Agriculture . This was also the year the School of Social Work and School of Nursing were established. Master's degrees had been awarded since 1920, but

5824-500: The building was named in honor of the former head of the botany department. The Torrey Life Sciences Building houses offices for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, and Biology Central Services. Because it is situated in a fairly rural area, the UConn campus has facilities that allow it to be virtually self-sufficient. All heat on campus

5928-500: The bulk of the Big East. There is still uncertainty to whether or not Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Seton Hall, UConn, or Xavier will elevate their programs from the club level, or if any other programs will receive lacrosse-only invitations. Big East full member schools Butler, Creighton, Georgetown, Seton Hall, St. John's, UConn, Villanova and Xavier all field men's baseball teams. DePaul and Marquette have never fielded Big East baseball teams, while Providence fielded one until 1999 when it

6032-580: The campus after leaving office. The primary and original UConn campus is in Storrs, a division of the Town of Mansfield , 22 miles (35 km) east of Hartford , Connecticut's capital, and bordered by the towns of Ashford , Coventry , Willington , and Windham . The campus is easily accessible from nearby thoroughfares US Route 6 in Windham and Interstate 84 in Tolland. The University of Connecticut Libraries form

6136-429: The conference championship was decided solely by league play; a postseason tournament was added starting in the 2007 season with the top four teams qualifying, a format that exists to this day. The next changes in women's lacrosse membership came in the 2009 season, when Cincinnati and Louisville (both of which had only added varsity lacrosse for the 2008 season) brought their teams into the Big East. Villanova followed in

6240-407: The conference—after the defection of certain FBS schools to the ACC but before the effective inclusion of candidate FBS schools to replace them. Negotiations with the other member schools continued in early 2013, and in March, it was reported that the "Catholic 7" schools would leave the conference on June 30, 2013, but that they would retain the Big East Conference name, logos, $ 10 million from

6344-411: The construction of student housing and a digital media center at the Stamford campus, and allow for the relocation of the Greater Hartford campus back to downtown Hartford. UConn's Avery Point campus overlooks Long Island Sound in the town of Groton . It is home to the National Undersea Research Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant College , Project Oceanology, the Long Island Sound Resource Center, and

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6448-426: The demand for courses grew, and enrollment increased, certain facilities at Leavenworth High School were used. Each semester about a dozen undergraduate courses were offered and a sizeable non-credit program was added. Four years later in the fall of 1946, the local Advisory Committee, working with the local Board of Education, secured the Begnal School on Charles Street. In addition to the facilities on Charles Street,

6552-441: The departure of all then-current Big East women's lacrosse associates except Denver. On that same date, the Big East announced that field hockey member Old Dominion would also become a Big East women's lacrosse member in the 2019 season, maintaining Big East women's lacrosse membership at 6 teams and preserving its automatic berth to the NCAA women's tournament. In June 2019, various news outlets reported that UConn would soon leave

6656-468: The eJournal locator, 2.8 million units of microfilm, 180,000 maps at the Map and Geographic Information Center (New England's largest public map collection), millions of electronic books, and an array of free electronic information sources. The UCL also license approximately 265 electronic search databases, many of which contain the full-text of research journals, monographs, and historic documents. The Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, housed at UConn Health,

6760-413: The eleven members of the Big East are private , Catholic institutions. The exceptions are Butler, which is nonsectarian (although it was founded by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) ) and UConn, which is the only public institution. Because the American Athletic Conference did not sponsor lacrosse or field hockey immediately after the Big East split, several schools from The American joined

6864-653: The exceptions. The original Big East first sponsored the sport in the 1990 season. Big East women's swimming & diving is made up of charter members Butler, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, UConn, Villanova and Xavier (UConn was a charter member of the original Big East, but not of its 2013 version). St. John's cut women's swimming & diving in 2003 due to Title IX , when they also cut men's swimming & diving, football , men's cross country, men's indoor track & field, and men's outdoor track & field and added men's lacrosse. The Big East Conference originally started sponsoring women's swimming & diving in 1981–82,

6968-662: The facility is projected to employ 600 scientists and technicians. The state of Connecticut has approved $ 291 million of the total capital and research budget; Jackson Laboratory will raise the balance of $ 860 million through federal research grants, philanthropy, and service income. The University of Connecticut is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education . Students at UConn can pursue over 100 majors, eight undergraduate degrees, 17 graduate degrees and five professional degree programs. Students choose from 87 different minors at UConn, including areas of study not offered as formalized majors. UConn participates in

7072-428: The football-playing members of the old Big East, who formed the American Athletic Conference (AAC), which is the old conference's legal successor. Both conferences share 1979 as their founding date, when the original conference was founded by Dave Gavitt , and the same history through 2013. Three more schools, Butler , Creighton , and Xavier , joined the conference on its July 1, 2013, launch date. In June 2019,

7176-430: The football-playing schools in order to start a new conference focused on basketball. These schools ( DePaul , Georgetown , Marquette , Providence , Seton Hall , St. John's , and Villanova ) had announced their decision in December 2012. In March 2013, the new conference purchased the Big East Conference name, logos, basketball records, and the rights to the men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden from

7280-415: The football-sponsoring and non-football schools that eventually led to the split of the conference in 2013. On December 15, 2012, the Big East's seven non-FBS schools – DePaul , Georgetown , Marquette , Providence , St. John's , Seton Hall , and Villanova – announced that they had voted unanimously to separate from the Big East football-playing schools. The schools splitting away were referred to as

7384-453: The fourth floor of the building serving as both a classroom and event space. The University of Connecticut's Waterbury campus serves more than 1,000 students annually and offers nine four-year undergraduate degrees. The University of Connecticut at Torrington , founded in 1957, was closed in May 2016 due to low enrollment numbers. In January 2012, Gov. Malloy announced that Jackson Laboratory (JAX) had reached an agreement to launch

7488-467: The inaugural 2013–14 season , the conference signed a 12-year deal with Fox Sports to televise Big East Conference games, with CBS Sports also sublicensing select games from Fox. In 2014–15 , the Big East had four schools ranked in the top-20 and six schools in the top-30 recruiting classes nationally according to ESPN, Scout, and Rivals rankings. Villanova won the conference's first national championship since realignment in 2016 . One year later, in

7592-590: The intersection of East Main Street and Phoenix Avenue was designed to serve more than 1,200 students, faculty and staff, replacing the collection of buildings and houses that has served the Waterbury campus for decades. The new facility was dedicated on October 9, 2003. In January 2016, UConn Waterbury dedicated the newly renovated St. Patrick's Hall also known as the Rectory as the newest addition to its campus. The Rectory Building added two floors of classroom and office space with

7696-555: The largest public research collection in the state. The main library is the Homer D. Babbidge Library , on Fairfield Way in the center of campus. In 1882, Charles Storrs donated the first volumes to the university library collection (specifically, of the agriculture school). The university formerly housed its primary library collections in the Old Whitney building, one of the first agriculture school buildings. The library migrated from Old Main to

7800-412: The league in the 2016–17 school year (2017 season). In addition to the new associate members, full member Butler announced on October 21, 2015, that it would elevate its club team in women's lacrosse to full varsity status in the 2017 season and immediately begin Big East competition. The American Athletic Conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse in the 2019 season (2018–19 school year), which led to

7904-549: The most prestigious pools in the United States. These pools include: Indiana University Natatorium , which has hosted multiple NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships and multiple United States Olympic Swimming Trials and United States Olympic Diving Trials ; Nassau County Aquatic Center , which has hosted NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships and the International Goodwill Games ; and University of Pittsburgh 's Trees Pool , which hosted

8008-567: The nation. In 2005, UConn ranked 64th in terms of R&D expenditure. Big East Conference The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in 10 men's sports and 12 women's sports. Headquartered in New York City, the 11 full-member schools are primarily located in Northeast and Midwest metropolitan areas. The conference

8112-437: The national championship. The conference remained largely unchanged until 1991, when it began to sponsor football, adding Miami as a full member, and Rutgers, Temple , Virginia Tech , and West Virginia as football-only members. Rutgers and West Virginia upgraded to full Big East membership in 1995, while Virginia Tech did the same in 2000. Notre Dame also joined as a non-football member effective in 1995. Temple football

8216-584: The new Big East for women's lacrosse and field hockey, while Cincinnati joined the women's lacrosse league, Denver joined the men's lacrosse league, and Old Dominion joined the field hockey league. The launch of a women's lacrosse league in the Big Ten for the 2015 season caused the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC) to dissolve after the 2014 season; two Southeastern Conference teams that had been ALC members, Florida and Vanderbilt , joined

8320-426: The new Big East had been reported by several sources starting in 2016. On June 24, 2019, the Big East formally approved an invitation for UConn to join the conference. The UConn Board of Trustees accepted the invitation two days later, thus reuniting UConn with several of the schools against whom it competed for 34 years in the old Big East. UConn and the AAC reached a buyout agreement the following month, clearing

8424-425: The new league at its launch. Additional announcements confirmed their headquarters in New York City, and a 12-year, $ 500 million television contract with Fox Sports and its networks , and a 6-year television contract with CBS and its CBS Sports Network . On June 26, 2013, the new conference hired Val Ackerman , former WNBA president, as the conference's first commissioner. The remaining members of

8528-545: The old conference later announced they would continue as the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Several AAC and former Big East schools however continued playing lacrosse and field hockey with the new Big East Conference in 2013, including Rutgers and Louisville , before moving their programs to the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conferences respectively in 2014–15. AAC members UConn and Temple also both joined

8632-554: The old conference's treasury, and the right to hold their men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden . At a March 20 news conference in New York City, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia , representing this new conference, announced that Butler University and Xavier University , both then members of the Atlantic 10 Conference , as well as Creighton University in the Missouri Valley Conference would also join

8736-439: The reconfigured Big East as associate members in those sports. UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, and Temple joined in both women's lacrosse and field hockey, with Rutgers also joining in men's lacrosse, while Cincinnati joined only in women's lacrosse. Among these schools, Louisville and Rutgers were associates only for one season, as both became full members of conferences that sponsored their remaining Big East sports in 2014—respectively

8840-951: The reconfigured Big East in 2013, Providence was an affiliate member of the America East Conference . The Friars joined Big East volleyball in 2014 after completing their contractual obligation to the America East. The Providence women's cross country team have been crowned NCAA National Champions in 1995 and 2013, as well as finishing 2nd in 1990 and 2012. The Villanova women's cross country team won two straight NCAA National Championships in 2009 and 2010 and six straight NCAA National Championships in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994. Villanova runners also won an individual NCAA National Championship in 1998, as well as placing 3rd in 1995, 2nd in 1996 and 3rd in 2011. The Georgetown women's cross country team were NCAA National Champions in 2011. The Big East began sponsoring women's lacrosse in

8944-410: The reconfigured league in 2014 would thus include Cincinnati, UConn, Georgetown, Louisville, new varsity team Marquette, Rutgers, Temple, and Villanova. The Big East would lose Louisville and Rutgers after that season, respectively to the ACC and Big Ten, replacing them with Florida and Vanderbilt (the only two SEC schools sponsoring the sport) after the demise of the American Lacrosse Conference . For

9048-564: The same season in which the NCAA began sponsoring women's sports. The Big East Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships have been held at some of the most prestigious pools in the United States. These pools include: Indiana University Natatorium , which has hosted multiple NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships and multiple United States Olympic Swimming Trials and United States Olympic Diving Trials ; Nassau County Aquatic Center , which has hosted NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships and

9152-453: The top tenth of their high school class and 89% in the top quarter. UConn's retention rate is among the best for public universities in the nation, with 93% of students returning for their sophomore year. UConn ranks third out of 58 public research universities on basis of graduation time, with the average time to graduate being 4.2 years among those who graduate within 6 years. Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through

9256-483: The way for UConn to become a member of the Big East on July 1, 2020. At the time the buyout agreement was reported, UConn announced that its football team would become an FBS independent upon its arrival in the Big East, leaving Temple as the only AAC member in the northeast. UConn's men's & women's hockey teams remain a member of the Hockey East Association . In 2020, Old Dominion's women's lacrosse left

9360-508: Was an initiative to bring dramatic performances to "bring live drama to grass-roots theatre fans" across New England. They performed Lady Windemere's Fan , for instance, at Hotchkiss School in 1968. UConn is the only institution in the United States that offers a master's degree in puppetry. Among the research facilities on campus is the George Safford Torrey Life Sciences Building. Built in 1961, in 1980

9464-1091: Was dropped and later replaced with lacrosse. Big East men's swimming & diving is made up entirely of charter conference members, with UConn being a charter member of the 1979 incarnation, Xavier a charter member of the 2013 incarnation, and Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, and Villanova being charter members of both versions. However, UConn announced shortly before rejoining the Big East that it would cut men's swimming & diving along with men's cross country, men's tennis, and women's rowing effective in July 2021. Butler cut men's swimming & diving in 2007, when they also cut lacrosse. St. John's cut men's swimming & diving in 2003 due to Title IX , when they also cut women's swimming & diving, football , men's cross country, men's indoor track & field, and men's outdoor track & field and added men's lacrosse. The Big East Conference originally started sponsoring men's swimming & diving in 1979. The Big East Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Championships have been held at some of

9568-690: Was established for new medical and dental schools. UConn is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education . With more than 32,000 students, the University of Connecticut is the largest university in Connecticut by enrollment. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". UConn is one of the founding institutions of the Hartford - Springfield regional economic and cultural partnership alliance known as New England 's Knowledge Corridor . UConn

9672-491: Was founded in 1887. Women began attending classes in 1891 and were officially admitted in 1893, the same year that it became Connecticut's land-grant college and was renamed Storrs Agricultural College. In 1899, the name changed again to Connecticut Agricultural College, and, in 1933, to Connecticut State College. In its current form, the College of Agriculture is the oldest of the university's colleges and professional schools. On May 26, 1939, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin signed

9776-490: Was founded in 1979, when Providence College basketball coach Dave Gavitt spearheaded an effort to assemble an east coast basketball-centric collegiate athletic conference. The core of the Big East formed when Providence , St. John's , Georgetown , and Syracuse invited Seton Hall , Connecticut (UConn) , Holy Cross , Rutgers , and Boston College (BC) . Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, and UConn accepted. Gavitt became

9880-674: Was his mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, completed in 1904. The estate included what is now the Shennecossett Public Golf Course, which was turned over to the State of Connecticut in the 1930s. During World War II, the remaining portion of the Plant estate was leased to the Coast Guard as a training center, and the Avery Point Light was built. It was later converted into the University of Connecticut at Avery Point. In 1951,

9984-424: Was kicked out after the 2004 season due to what was deemed by the other football-playing members a failure to make a strong effort to field a competitive team, but rejoined in 2012 after seriously upgrading its football program and intended to become a full Big East member in 2013. The unusual structure of the Big East, with the "football" and "non-football" schools, led to instability in the conference. The Big East

10088-770: Was most recently in 2020 ranked 52nd of American law schools. There are four scholarly journals edited on campus: the Connecticut Law Review , the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal , the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal , and the Connecticut Journal of International Law . According to the National Science Foundation , UConn spent $ 269 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 88th in

10192-407: Was officially recognized as a Division I multi-sport conference on August 1, 2013, and since then conference members have won NCAA national championships in men's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, men's lacrosse, and men's soccer. Val Ackerman is the commissioner. The conference was formed after the "Catholic Seven" members of the original Big East Conference elected to split from

10296-485: Was one of eight federally funded National Network of Libraries of Medicine libraries from 1991 to 2001. The University of Connecticut School of Law houses the School of Law Library at its campus in Hartford. The Stowe and Law libraries have catalogues separate from the Babbidge system, making the total library holdings of the University of Connecticut much higher than the 2.5 million print volumes of Babbidge. UConn participates in several outside library consortia, including

10400-495: Was one of the most severely impacted conferences during conference realignment of 2005 and the early 2010s . In all, 14 member schools announced their departure for other conferences, and 15 other schools announced plans to join the conference (eight as all-sports members, and four for football only). Three of the latter group later backed out of their plans to join (one for all sports, and the other two for football only). These waves of defection and replacement revealed tension between

10504-597: Was operated by the University of Connecticut until 1987, when it became the regional public high school. E.O. Smith has maintained an Agricultural Science education program since its time as a part of UConn, and junior and senior high school students may take classes for credit on UConn's campus. During the 1970s, UConn Health was established in Farmington as a home for the new School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975 and has been operated by UConn ever since. In 1995,

10608-565: Was reached in 2012 to launch Jackson Laboratory's $ 1.1 billion genomic medicine lab on the Farmington UConn Health campus as part of the Bioscience Connecticut initiative. In 2013, Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed into law Next Generation Connecticut, committing $ 1.7 billion in funding over a decade to enhance UConn's infrastructure, hire additional faculty, and upgrade STEM initiatives. Two U.S. presidents have visited

10712-565: Was the second U.S. university invited into Universitas 21 , an international network of research-intensive universities. Competing in the Big East Conference as the Huskies , UConn has gained recognition for its women's and men's basketball programs. The Huskies have won 23 NCAA championships. The UConn Huskies are the top women's basketball program in the nation, having won a record 11 NCAA Division I National Championships (tied with

10816-623: Was ultimately invited to join the Big East as a lacrosse-only member. Denver joined the Big East as one of the hottest teams in the country; at the time of the relaunch of the Big East in July 2013, the Pioneers had made six NCAA Tournament appearances in the previous eight seasons and had appeared in two Final Fours in the previous three seasons. The University of Denver houses most of its other sports in The Summit League ; most of that league's other teams are closer to that school's Denver campus than

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