When it came time to select a caterer for the recent celebration of the life of the President Emeritus Jack Miller, event organizers didn’t have to go too far to find one. Chef Jay, a food entrepreneur, cookbook author, and CCSU philosophy major, was happy to help serve up a smokehouse barbecue spread in Miller’s...
In her three years at CCSU, Rosemarie Ayala-Soto ’19 has been busy — very busy. The East Hartford resident and Latin American Studies major has a long list of accomplishments and leadership roles to her credit. They include Legislative Intern with the state Commission for Equity and Opportunity,...
When Edward Ford Jr. declared his intention to run for the Middletown Board of Education, he knew it was an unprecedented move. He is, after all, a junior in college. Still, the 20-year-old Psychology major took to the campaign trail, knocking on doors, attending marches, visiting churches, and cheering at football games in an...
A peer mentoring initiative aimed at improving graduation and retention rates among students of color is producing encouraging results. On average, 46 percent of the African-American and Latinx students participating in Success Central from 2014-2015, the first full year of the program, have graduated. That’s more than twice...
Rebecca George was looking for an elective to take in her final semester at CCSU when she noticed a course called Peace Studies 210: Introduction to Philanthropy. The senior sociology major knew nothing about philanthropy and wasn’t even sure what it meant. “So I looked up the word and thought ‘this might be...
Central Connecticut State University’s Nursing program is in great health and, in at least one case, is better than the national average. The percentage of CCSU students in the nursing bachelor’s program who passed the 2017 national R.N. licensing exam in the first round — 90.24 percent — surpassed the...
