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Public, residential, liberal arts college in U.S.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Seal.png

Onetime names

 North Adams State College (1960-1997)
State Teachers College of North Adams (1932-1960)
Northward Adams Normal School (1894-1932)[1]
Type Public liberal arts higher
Established 1894; 128 years agone  (1894)
Accreditation NECHE

Bookish affiliations

 Quango of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
Endowment $xiv.7 million (2020)[2]
President James F. "Jaimie" Birge

Academic staff

 87 full-time
42 part-time
Students ane,202 (Fall 2020)[iii]
Undergraduates i,076 (Fall 2020)[3]
Postgraduates 126 (Fall 2020)[3]
Location

North Adams

,

Massachusetts

,

U.S.


42°41′30″North 73°06′14″W  /  42.6917°Due north 73.1039°West  / 42.6917; -73.1039 Coordinates: 42°41′xxx″N 73°06′14″W  /  42.6917°Northward 73.1039°West  / 42.6917; -73.1039
Campus Rural, 105 acres (42 ha)
Colors Navy and lime green (for academics)
Navy and gold (for athletics)
Nickname Trailblazers

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Division III, Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Briefing, North Atlantic Conference
Mascot Murdock the Mount Lion
Website world wide web.mcla.edu
MCLA North Adams Logo.png

The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) is a public liberal arts college in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is part of the state academy organization of Massachusetts.[4] It is a fellow member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Originally established as part of the state's normal school system for preparation teachers, it at present offers a wide multifariousness of programs leading to Bachelor of Scientific discipline and Available of Arts degrees, as well as a Primary of Pedagogy rail.

History [edit]

Murdock Hall, one of the college' south classroom buildings.

MCLA was founded in 1894 as North Adams Normal School, and information technology offered first instruction at post-secondary level 3 years later. By 1897, the Normal School enrolled 32 students (29 women, 3 men) and employed four teachers. In 1932, North Adams Normal School became State Teachers Higher of North Adams, added an upper-division curriculum, and started awarding bachelor's degrees. In 1936, information technology instituted graduate program. In 1960, information technology changed its name to N Adams State College and, in 1997, to Massachusetts Higher of Liberal Arts, reflecting its position as the public liberal arts higher within the Massachusetts state university system.[i]

In 2004, President Mary Grant led in the creation of the Berkshire Compact for Higher Education and MCLA Gallery 51.[5] MCLA also is the pb partner in the Berkshire STEM (Science, Applied science, Engineering and Math) Pipeline Network.

In 2008, the Massachusetts College Education Bond Bill included $54.v 1000000 for a new Middle for Scientific discipline and Innovation at MCLA. It opened in 2013 every bit the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation.[six]

In 2014, Grant left the college and Cynthia F. Brown was appointed Interim President. Although Greg Summers was initially named the new president, he later withdrew his acceptance, citing family health concerns.[7] On December 9, 2015, Jamie Birge was named every bit president.[viii]

Academics [edit]

Academic rankings
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & Globe Written report [nine] 149

MCLA has a rolling admissions program. It requires graduation from an accredited secondary school or a GED. MCLA uses SAT or Human action composite scores for entrance consideration. MCLA accepts transfer students with grade-betoken average requirements or with an associate caste. MCLA is accredited past the New England Commission of College Instruction.[10]

MCLA awards the Available of Arts and a Bachelor of Scientific discipline on the undergraduate level and likewise confers primary's degrees in both teaching and concern administration, every bit well as a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Written report (CAGS). MCLA offers 19 major programs of study and 35 minors. On average, MCLA offers 300 academic courses each semester. Graduation from MCLA requires completing 120 credits of academic work. Of these, about xl must in the college-wide core curriculum. Another 40 credits are required for a major. At least 40 upper-division credits are required. At least 45 credits must be earned while the educatee is in residence at the college. Students must earn at least a ii.0 grade point average overall and a 2.0 in their major.

Distinctive educational programs [edit]

MCLA offers internships for undergraduates through the Berkshire Hills Internship Program. It also offers undergraduates coursework in other countries through its travel abroad program. MCLA belongs to the Massachusetts Council for International Educational activity (MaCIE), College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS), and the National Student Commutation (NSE). Through these associations and connections, students are sent on semester- or yr-long programs to colleges around the earth.

The college Honors Program[11] includes ten percent of the educatee body for whom it offers special interdisciplinary courses in such topics as "The Mathematics of Fairness," "Ethics and Animals" or "The Romantic Movement." The college is authorized past the country to grant the distinction "Commonwealth Scholar" to students who consummate the honors program with a capstone thesis.

Athletics [edit]

MCLA has xiii varsity sports. The higher's varsity teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the NCAA Division III level in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC). Agile intercollegiate female teams are basketball, volleyball, tennis, cross land, soccer, softball, and lacrosse; while active intercollegiate male person teams are baseball game, basketball game, golf game, cross state, lawn tennis and soccer. The college too has NERFU club rugby which was re-activated in 2011.

From 1963, the higher's athletic teams were known equally the Mohawks, after the Mohawk Trail which runs forth Massachusetts Route two. In response to concerns over using a Native American name (Francis Boots, cultural-preservation officer of the Mohawk tribe, has told college officials that his people were not honored past the name[12]), the mascot was changed to the Trailblazers in 2002. In 2013, a new mascot, the Mountain King of beasts, was adopted while in April 2019, the Trailblazer community named the Mascot "Murdock" after a vote of the campus community, alumni, and customs members.[xiii]

The well-nigh successful squad in the college'due south history was the men's water ice hockey team, which was cut in 2003.

Organization and administration [edit]

Smith House, previously the residence of the sitting college president, currently serves as administrative offices.

MCLA is governed by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Educational activity. Beyond that, MCLA has actress-institutional representation of xi voting members and the Board of Trustees, whose members are appointed by the governor which has 11 voting members. A student representative to the board of trustees is elected every bound by the student body to sit for one academic year. Assistants positions include 12 men and 24 women. Academic affairs is headed past the vice president for bookish affairs. Business and finances is headed past the vice president for administration and finance. Student affairs is headed by the vice president of pupil diplomacy. The total-time instructional faculty has 52 men and 36 women. The bookish governance body, All Higher Committee, meets an boilerplate of nine times each year.

Publications [edit]

The school has two student publications: The Buoy,[14] a weekly newspaper, and Spires, a literary mag published each year. Radio Station WJJW broadcasts for 140 hours each week, and episodes of the student-run college Television news program, Beacon Web News, are produced in one case a week. MCLA also has one faculty publication: The Mind's Eye,[fifteen] and one alumni publication, Beacons & Seeds,[xvi] which comes out twice a yr.

Notable alumni [edit]

  • Daniel E. Bosley - member emeritus of the Mass. Business firm of Representatives (served 1986 - 2011)
  • Thomas Calter- member emeritus of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 2007 - 2018)
  • Mary Grant - former president of MCLA and the kickoff alumna to serve every bit president.[17]
  • Ken Hill - retired MLB thespian.[18]
  • Anton Strout - urban fantasy novelist.[xix]
  • John Barrett III - state legislator, mayor of North Adams for 26 years[20]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "MCLA History".
  2. ^ As of June 30, 2020. U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Financial Twelvemonth 2020 Endowment Marketplace Value and Modify in Endowment Marketplace Value from FY19 to FY20 (Report). National Association of Higher and University Concern Officers and TIAA. Feb 19, 2021. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/mcla-2187[ bare URL ]
  4. ^ "Nigh MCLA".
  5. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on 2010-xi-23. Retrieved 2010-12-05 . {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived re-create equally title (link)
  6. ^ "Feigenbaum Center For Science and Innovation".
  7. ^ Damon, Edward (31 March 2015). "MCLA presidential choice Greg Summers bows out, citing family health bug". Berkshire Eagle.
  8. ^ "MCLA selects Jaimie Birge, higher education veteran and former Lee resident, every bit next president". Berkshire Eagle. 10 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Best Colleges 2021: National Liberal Arts Colleges". U.S. News & Globe Report . Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  10. ^ Massachusetts Institutions – NECHE, New England Committee of Higher Education, retrieved May 26, 2021
  11. ^ "Honors Program". Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved 2010-12-05 .
  12. ^ Flores, Christopher (10 May 2002). "Mascot Watch". The Relate of Higher Didactics. 48 (35): A8. ProQuest 214690218.
  13. ^ "MCLA Mascot - MCLA".
  14. ^ "TheBeacon_MCLA - MCLA's Student Paper".
  15. ^ "Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Eugene 50. Freel Library : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive".
  16. ^ "Home - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts". alumni.mcla.edu.
  17. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-07-27 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived re-create every bit title (link)
  18. ^ 1992 Topps baseball carte du jour # 664
  19. ^ Anton Strout. Anton Strout's official Facebook page, accessed June 6, 2011.
  20. ^ "MCLA Announces Appointments to Board of Trustees", MCLA, Apr 2016 (accessed 2018-03-08).

External links [edit]

  • Official website

bridgesdithe1960.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_College_of_Liberal_Arts