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44 n e w h a v e n B I Z | N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 8 n e w h a v e n b i z . c o m F E T E S > S outhern Connecticut State University celebrated its 125th birthday October 10 with a reception for the business community hosted by the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce. Life for what is now SCSU began on September 11, 1893, when three teachers and 84 students met at the old Skinner School in New Haven to create a two-year teacher training program, New Haven State Normal School. By 1937, Southern had grown into a four-year college with the power to grant bachelor's degrees. It became a full-fledged university in 1983, fueling Connecticut's economy with graduates from its schools of Arts & Sciences, business, education, health and human services and graduate studies. Today SCSU is a vibrant in- stitution with more than 10,200 students (and some 85,000 alumni) that is a keystone of the economy and vitality of greater New Haven and Connecticut. n T H E L O O P Southern Exposure Southern President Joe Bartolino told guests the theme of SCSU's birthday was 'building communities, empowering lives.' Steve Ho of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, Carrie Pettit of SCSU's Division of Institutional Advancement and Quinnipiac University industrial engineering professor Corey Kiassat. SCSU's Jermaine Wright (left), associate vice president for student affairs, and Colleen Bielitz, associate vice president for strategic initiatives and outreach. Dan Noonan and Nicole Prete of Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. in New Haven and Shelton.

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