Elms College
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The College of Our Lady of the Elms, often called Elms College, is a
History
The Sisters of St. Joseph and the Diocese of Springfield co-founded Elms College as a preparatory academy for women in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Academy of Our Lady of the Elms, in 1897.[1] In 1899, Rev. John McCoy and Bishop Thomas Beaven of the Springfield diocese purchased property in Chicopee and it became St. Joseph's Normal College.
In 1927, the
To meet the needs of the surrounding community, Elms developed undergraduate programs in nursing, business management, and communication sciences and disorders during the 1960s and 1970s. In the late 1980s, Weekend College, paralegal studies and legal studies, and a Master of Arts degree program in teaching were instituted.
The Elms College board of trustees voted 23–5 to begin admitting men, starting with the 1998–1999 school year, on October 7, 1997.
Campus
The campus is about two miles north of Metro Center Springfield, Massachusetts. It is focused on the Keating Quadrangle, which lies at its center, and has 14 buildings.[2] In 2014, Elms College completed construction on the Center for Natural and Health Sciences, its first academic building in more than 30 years.
Academics
Elms offers thirty-three
Academically, the college is divided into the division of business, division of communication sciences and disorders, division of education, division of humanities and fine arts, division of natural sciences, mathematics and technology, and division of social sciences.
In 2013, the division of nursing became the school of nursing. On August 9 2023, Julie Beck was announced as the new dean of the School of Nursing (SON).[3]
Student body
In 2020 the school had about 1,100 students at the undergraduate level, with about 40% eligible for
Student life
Athletics
The Elms College teams participate at the
- Baseball
- Men's Basketball
- Men's Cross Country
- Men's Golf
- Men's Lacrosse
- Men's Soccer
- Men's Swimming
- Men's Volleyball
- Softball
- Women's Basketball
- Women's Cross Country
- Women's Field Hockey
- Women's Lacrosse
- Women's Soccer
- Women's Swimming
- Women's Volleyball
Facilities
The majority of athletics at Elms College are based out of The Maguire Center, which features a physical therapy and training center, gym and weight room, six-lane swimming pool (Natatorium), 100-meter track, and the Picknelly Arena basketball court.[6] In June of 2007, the college announced an athletic fields renovation project involving the soccer specific Leary Field being transformed into a multi-use artificial surface field and the construction of a new NCAA-compliant softball field.[7] The baseball team travels to Mackenzie Stadium in Holyoke, Mass.
Cheryl R. Condon Field
The new softball field was built in for the 2008 season, it featured newly-added covered dugouts and a batting cage and extended the homerun wall a few feet. The field was dedicated to longtime winningest coach Cheryl R. Condon on April 23 2008.[8][9]
Notable people
Alumni
- Joan Hartley, Connecticut politician, Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut State Senate[10]
Faculty
- Paul Jenkins, professor of poetry
- Thomas Michael O'Leary, co-founder and first president of Elms College
- John Elder Robison, adjunct professor, autistic author of two books, brother of Augusten Burroughs
- Christopher Joseph Weldon, president of Elms College from 1958 to 1977
References
- ISBN 0810811375.
- ^ Elms College Campus Map
- ^ "Elms College Names Julie Beck Dean of School of Nursing". BusinessWest. 2023-08-09. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- WBUR. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- ^ Elms College Athletics
- ^ http://athletics.elms.edu/information/facilities/index Archived 2010-06-08 at the Wayback Machine Maguire Center
- ^ "Elms College building 2 new athletic fields". masslive. 2007-06-05. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Lightman, Andrew. "Elms College names softball field for Rockland High School grad". Enterprise News. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ "Cheryl Condon, Jennifer LeDoux, Kristin Tassey headed to Elms College Athletics Hall of Fame". 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Senator Hartley". senatedems.ct.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-20.