Clarkson University

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Clarkson University, formerly Clarkson College of Technology, is a private university located in Potsdam of St. Lawrence County, New York. Clarkson was founded in 1896 and has an enrollment of about 3,000 students. Clarkson offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in each of its three schools, the School of Business, School of Arts & Sciences, as well as the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.

Clarkson participates in student exchange programs with many schools in Europe and Australia. One example is the University of Leicester in the UK where students who are studying engineering come to Clarkson for a year as part of one of the exchange programs.

Clarkson has two distinct campuses. A downtown campus and a hill campus. During the last 20 years Clarkson has been developing and growing on the hill campus. Most students never need to visit the downtown campus since everything a student needs is contained on the hill. The last student dormitory (Congdon) located on the downtown campus closed in May 2006. The only buildings remaining in Clarkson’s service at the downtown campus are a few administration buildings. Most other downtown campus buildings have been leased or sold.

Contents

1 Programs
2 The Clarkson School
3 Student Activities

3.1 Athletics
3.2 Clubs
3.3 Publications and Media

4 See also
5 External links

Programs

Clarkson University is home to the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP). CAMP at Clarkson University is dedicated to developing Clarkson's research and educational programs in high-technology materials processing. CAMP's mandate is to develop innovations in advanced materials processing and to transfer this technology to business and industry. The center receives support from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research for research and operating expenses as one of 14 Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs). In addition, CAMP-related work receives several million dollars each year from the federal government and private industry.

Clarkson University is broken down into three schools

The School of Arts & Sciences
School of Business
Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering

Clarkson's 16 [SPEED] (Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design) teams allow students across all majors to participate in hands on, extracurricular projects. These speed teams attend competitions all over the globe with other universities to test their designs and push the bounds of engineering design.

The Clarkson School

The Clarkson School, a special division of Clarkson University, was founded in 1978 as an innovative educational opportunity. The School offers students an early entrance opportunity into college, replacing the typical senior year of high school with a challenging first year of college. It is one of the few college early admission programs in the country that provides a real community living/learning experience on a university campus.

Students in The Clarkson School are fully matriculated undergraduates with freshman status at the University. They take classes with other University students and usually carry a course load of 15 to 18 credits per semester for two semesters. College credits may also be given for college and Advanced Placement courses taken before entering The Clarkson School. Cross-registration at neighboring area colleges and universities can provide additional college credits, particularly in art, music and languages. These credits also appear on your official Clarkson University transcript.

Student Activities

Athletics

Clarkson University’s NCAA Division I [Golden Knights] compete in Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey. Other Division III varsity teams include Men’s Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Lacrosse, Soccer and Tennis, Women’s Basketball, Lacrosse, Soccer, and Volleyball, as well as combined Men’s and Women’s Alpine Skiing, Cross Country, Nordic Skiing and Swimming.

Other non-varsity clubs include Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey, Men’s and Women’s Rugby, Men’s Soccer, and combined Men’s and Women’s Crew.

Clubs

[Clarkson University’s Student Association (CUSA)] sponsors over 80 [clubs], the largest of which being the [Outing Club], [Ski Club], [The Pep Band] and the [Clarkson Union Board]. All CUSA sponsored clubs are entirely student run and both undergrad and grad students are welcome to join any time.

Publications and Media

[The Integrator] A weekly student run newspaper which is distributed to the four associated colleges (Clarkson University, St. Lawrence University, SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton) as well as the towns of Potsdam and Canton.

[WCKN Television] A student run television station and is also the local cable systems public access station. In-house programming includes hockey games, news, talk shows, comedy shows, game shows, and various other Clarkson sporting events.

[WTSC/WNTC Clarkson Radio] A student run radio station that gives students the opportunity to produce their own weekly radio programs, and consequently serve the community by offering entertainment, news and weather, and special programming via the radio.

External links

[Clarkson University]
[Clarkson Athletics]
[Clarkson Open Source Institute (COSI)]
[Clarkson DailyJolt] - NOT an Official University Web site.
[The Clarkson School]
[Do You Defy?] - New Website to attract future students.
[The Knight] - A site about humor that is common to students at Clarkson University. Also NOT an Official University Web site.
[The Brandon Show]- College survival television program filmed at Clarkson University's WCKN

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