The Proof of Excellence Is in the Details
The Proof of Excellence Is in the Details |
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Trinity students:
making a difference on campus, in our community, and in the world.
Since 1969, when national competitions for prestigious Watson Fellowships began, Trinity students have won an impressive 46 Watsons, which support a year of international travel and independent postgraduate study.
Annually, at least 10 percent of Trinity students are elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the most distinguished national honor society.
Nearly 30 percent of recent graduating classes collaborated with faculty in conducting research; many made joint presentations at international, national, or local symposia or published jointly prepared papers.
Each year, nearly 100 students present the results of their independent research at the College’s Annual Symposium on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences.
More than 300 students each year reach out to those less fortunate in the community through the College’s community service and outreach programs.
Over 200 students annually are involved in internships at more than 70 different organizations in greater Hartford, earning academic credit for hands-on learning experiences in the “real world.”
Trinity students each academic year stage three full-scale musical theater productions, more than 40 theater and dance productions, and numerous student or music department–sponsored choral and instrumental performances.
Trinity College students study 11 foreign languages, from Greek and Latin to Japanese and Russian. Thanks to the College’s Self-Instructional Programs in Modern Languages (SILP), Trinity students have the opportunity to study a vast array of other languages with professionally qualified native speakers in the community.
Almost half of Trinity’s students study abroad in more than 40 countries on five continents.
More than half of the student body participates in intercollegiate athletics; nearly as many participate in Trinity’s intramural athletic programs.
Trinity students have access to 1,000,000 books, more than 572,000 microform and other nonprint items, as well as almost unlimited information via electronic resources through the Trinity library.
Within five years of graduation, more than 60 percent of Trinity graduates pursue their educations at some of the finest graduate and professional schools in the nation and world. Trinity graduates have had their graduate work supported by such prestigious scholarships and fellowships as the Beinecke Memorial Scholarships, Fulbright Fellowships, and Luce Scholars in Asia.
During the last decade Trinity students have won more national essay contests sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency in Washington, DC, than students from any other college or university in the nation.
Trinity faculty:
excellent teachers teaching excellence.
The scholarly excellence of Trinity’s faculty has earned such academic honors as the Pulitzer Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Recognized by the national American Studies Association (ASA) for its advanced use of electronic technology, Trinity’s American studies program is one of only six national test sites for the American Studies Crossroads Project, an international Internet and curriculum innovation project sponsored by ASA. Trinity serves as a model for the implementation of new technologies in teaching and learning American studies and acts as an important regional hub for promoting instructional information.
The faculty has earned numerous research awards from such federal agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, and — rare for an undergraduate institution — NASA.
The Institute for Scientific Information recently ranked Trinity as one of the top five liberal arts colleges in the nation in the number of scholarly publications by faculty in the biomedical sciences, sixth in engineering, and sixteenth in the natural sciences.
In addition to their extraordinary work with student actors at Trinity, professors in the theater and dance department also serve as dramaturges and directors for professional theaters in Hartford, Washington, DC, New York City, and Moscow. In fact, a Trinity professor has directed more plays in Moscow than any other living American director.
Faculty members in the creative writing program stand out as writers who have won coveted international and national awards from Granta magazine, the Pushcart Press, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The National Science Foundation cited Trinity as an “exemplar institution” for the faculty’s innovative and extensive use of computing in teaching. Faculty and students have compiled image banks of artwork, maps, and historical photographs; students and faculty continue class discussions through electronic bulletin boards, explore the fundamental building blocks of life on CD-ROMs, participate in multicollege discussions on important topics, take virtual tours of museums and archives, and explore a world of information over the Internet and through e-mail. Trinity’s faculty has been recognized by The New York Times and educational journals for its pathbreaking development of community learning programs that redefine community service as a mutual educational enterprise.
Trinity College is one of only two leading liberal arts colleges whose Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree enjoys full professional certification by the national Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Thirty percent of Trinity’s recent engineering majors are female, compared to a national average of 25 percent.
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