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St. Cloud State University is a four year university and part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, located in St. Cloud, Minnesota on the banks of the Mississippi River.

While the university has traditionally offered mainly teaching licensures, it now awards mostly social sciences and business degrees. Marketing, political sciences, and management are among the most popular programs offered. The university, along with Minnesota State University-Mankato, will be the first university to offer PhD programs.

The university currently sponsors 17 Division II teams and is a member of the North Central Conference. St. Cloud State's hockey team also competes in Division I for ice hockey as a member of the WCHA. Their mascot is the Husky.

The school operates a radio station, KVSC 88.1 FM. Students also publish a newspaper, the University Chronicle. Students also run a television station known as UTVS, which recently won first place for best student news and productions from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as honorable mention at a New York competition in 2004.

The University maintains an overseas facility at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England.

SCSU sits along the banks of the Mississippi River, across from the historic Munsinger and Clemens gardens, making it an aesthetically pleasing place to study.

Colleges and schools

  • G.R. Herberger College of Business
  • College of Education
  • College of Fine Arts and Humanities
  • College of Science and Engineering
  • College of Social Sciences
  • Center for Continuing Studies
  • School of Graduate Studies
  • Center for International Studies

Notable Events

  • In 1970-1973, mass rioting and protests against the Vietnam War became violent on campus, with a number of standoffs between protesters and the National Guard.

  • In 1986-87, Herb Brooks, the 1980 USA mens olympic hockey coach, became the coach of the Huskies and helped SCSU to achieve Division I status. He also helped to lead efforts to build the National Hockey center (Many of the hockey scenes in the Mighty Ducks was filmed there). A small street was renamed after Brooks near the National Hockey Center in 2004 shortly after his death.

  • In 1988 minor riots erupted over 2 days at the University during their Homecoming week. According to Margaret Vos, the (then) University's Communications Director students were throwing empty beer cans into the Sousaphones as the band marched along the parade route. National Guard troops were called out to quell student unrest over police handling of house parties. As a result, the University cancelled Homecoming parades. No lives were lost or threatened, but furniture and cars were burned.

  • In 1990 students created T-shirts depicting their Husky mascot sodomizing the Gopher mascot of their ice hockey rival the University of Minnesota. The producers of the shirt were eventually forced to conceal the Gopher due to copyright laws, so they put a goalie mask on Goldie Gopher.

  • In 2004 the student body elected a man as Homecoming Queen. As a result the University changed the elected positions to Homecoming Royalty instead of Kings and Queens.

Notable alumni

External links

Universities and colleges in Minnesota | Stearns County, Minnesota

 

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