Announcing Project Blue Devil Direct

CCSU leadership welcomed the first cohort of Project Blue Devil Direct students at a reception at Alumni Hall on Dec. 5. The project is a collaboration between the School of Education and Professional Studies and the West Hartford Public Schools that will give high school students who are interested in becoming teachers access to...

Another first for Ebenezer Bassett

In 1853, Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett became the first African American student to graduate from CCSU, then known as the New Britain Normal School. He went on to become a well-respected educator, a prominent leader in the abolitionist movement, and the country’s first African American Diplomatic Minister/Ambassador to...

By Amy J. Barry