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Information About University Of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut is the state's flagship institution of higher learning. Founded in 1881, the University of Connecticut has grown to include 13 Schools and Colleges at its main campus in Storrs, separate Schools of Law and Social Work in Hartford, five regional campuses throughout the state and Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at the UConn Health Center in Farmington.
UConn is a Land Grant and Sea Grant College and a Space Grant Consortium institution. The University spans 4,104 acres at its main campus and five regional campuses, and an additional 162 acres at the UConn Health Center in Farmington.
Under the leadership of President Philip E. Austin, the University is undergoing an amazing transformation. UConn is renewing, rebuilding and enhancing its campuses through an unprecedented $2.3 billion, 20-year state investment in the University’s infrastructure. State-of-the-art facilities grace every campus.
The University of Connecticut is a school of choice for academically talented students. UConn has stood as the top public university in New England, for the sixth consecutive year. Since 1995, freshman applications have increased 79 percent and the University recently welcomed nearly 100 high school valedictorians and salutatorians to UConn’s Class of 2008.
Designated a Carnegie Foundation Research University-Extensive, a distinction shared by fewer than four percent of America’s higher education institutions, UConn has more than 70 focused research centers where faculty, graduate students and undergraduates explore everything from improving human health to enhancing public education and protecting the country’s natural resources.
UConn’s strides in higher education stretch throughout the state of Connecticut and beyond. The University of Connecticut began with a gift. Late in 1880, brothers Charles and Augustus Storrs offered the state of Connecticut 170 acres of farmland, a former Civil War orphanage and barns to establish an agricultural school for boys. The gift, which included $5,000 to purchase equipment and supplies, was accepted by the General Assembly. On April 21, 1881 they voted to establish the Storrs Agricultural School. It opened five months later on September 28, 1881, with three faculty members and 12 students.
The first six students graduated in 1883 with two-year certificates in agriculture. It would not be until 1914 that four-year college degrees were conferred by what was then Connecticut Agricultural College. When Storrs Agricultural School became Storrs Agricultural College in 1893, Benjamin Franklin Koons was named the first president of the college. A Civil War veteran and college graduate, Koons opened classes to women in 1891 and oversaw its first decade of growth. The School became Connecticut’s land-grant college in 1893.
Storrs Agricultural College became Connecticut Agricultural College in 1899. The name Connecticut State College followed in 1933. The University officially became the University of Connecticut in 1939.
For more on UConn history, see the series "A Piece of UConn History" which appears in the UConn Advance.