Cleveland State University
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Cleveland State University (also known as Cleveland State or CSU) is a public university
located in downtown
Cleveland, Ohio
. It was established in 1964 when the state of Ohio assumed control of Fenn College, and it absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
in 1969. Today it is part of the University System of Ohio
and has approximately 16,000 students and over 100,000 alumni. Its mission is to "encourage excellence, diversity, and engaged learning by providing a contemporary and accessible education in the arts, sciences, humanities and professions, and by conducting research, scholarship, and creative activity across these branches of knowledge."
Industrialist James J. Nance
served as the first Board of Trustees Chairperson. The name would later be changed to Cleveland State University.
President Michael Schwartz ended open admissions and implemented a vision to move from a U.S. News & World Report
fourth tier university to a second tier university.
is the current president. Geoffrey Mearns, former dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, was named provost
, as permanent replacement for Mary Jane Saunders, who resigned in 2010.
On April 26, 2009, Dr. Ronald M. Berkman was named as the sixth President of Cleveland State University.
Board of Trustees Member Listing
CSU offers many disciplines and research facilities, with 70 academic major
s, 27 master's degree
programs, two post-master's degrees, six doctoral
degrees, and two law degree
s. It also has research cooperation agreements with the nearby NASA
Glenn Research Center
.
The University is organized around eight academic colleges:
Additionally, the Division of University Studies focuses on academic support services, and the Division of Continuing Education extends existing academic services beyond the campus.
Notable programs include the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, whose city management and urban policy program is ranked 2nd in the country by U.S. News and World Report, as well as the recently-formed School of Communication, ranked 8th in research productivity and as the top terminal MA-granting program in the United States overall. The Monte Ahuja College of Business is also highly regarded and is ranked in the top ten nationwide in performance of its Certified Public Accountant graduate students. Additionally, CSU is the first university in Ohio to offer a master's degree in software engineering.
The Cleveland–Marshall College of Law traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 as the first evening law school in the state and one of the first in Ohio (and one of the earliest in the U.S.) to admit women and minorities. In 1946, Cleveland Law School merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. Cleveland–Marshall became part of Cleveland State University in 1969.
One of the most famous alumni of the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law was Tim Russert
, host of television program
Meet the Press
, who graduated in 1976. The college has also educated numerous highly esteemed judges and founders of prestigious private law firms. Due to its long tradition of providing evening education, the college has a large number of business and community leaders who are non-practicing attorneys as well.
CSU's main campus in downtown Cleveland
is bounded on the east and west by Interstate 90
and East 17th Street, respectively; and by Payne Avenue to the north and Carnegie Avenue on the south. It also has satellite campuses in Westlake, Ohio
and Solon, Ohio
, both in the Greater Cleveland
metropolitan area
in Cuyahoga County. As of fall 2010, the student body totaled 17,204.
, a reuse of the school's most historic building. The university is working with private developers and the City of Cleveland to develop housing, retail, and "collegetown" amenities around Fenn Tower, particularly along the main thoroughfare of Euclid Avenue, which was upgraded in 2010 as part of the Euclid Corridor Project
, bringing bus rapid transit
to the university and connecting Public Square
in downtown Cleveland to University Circle
, approximately four miles east.
The University has also recently completed a new state of the art student recreation center, as well as two new buildings for the Colleges of Graduate Studies and Education; there are longer-term plans to create a "Varsity Village" incorporating athletic fields and student housing into a green, residential area.
Fenn Tower formerly housed what was at one time the longest Foucault pendulum
in the world; however, the pendulum has been inoperational since 1980 and was removed during the residence hall renovation in 2006. The pendulum currently resides in the Cleveland State University archives.
The Dramatic Arts Program is in the process of transitioning into the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square Center
in collaboration with the Cleveland Play House
.
In 2009, Cleveland State University announced their plan to begin work on $65 million construction project, this project will transform the campus from a commuter school into a residential campus. The construction plans include the new Student Center and Julka Hull, completed in 2010, and more residential areas in Euclid Commons, which are still under construction.
-FM, has a 630-Watt
transmitter on top of Rhodes Tower
(formerly called University Tower). Additionally, Cleveland State is served in print by The Cauldron, an independent student newspaper, The Cleveland Stater, a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication, The Vindicator, and The Gavel which won the 2005 American Bar Association's -Student Division's first prize for the best law school newspaper in the country. There is no student television station
at this time, though the university offers a film production and video production major with courses through its Digital Video Communication Center.
, an initiative of Case Western Reserve University
that connects nonprofit institutions throughout Northeast Ohio, allowing large scale collaborations over a high-speed fiber optic network.
and poetry outreach organization operated by the the English Department. It publishes primarily original works of poetry
by contemporary writers, though it has previously also published novella
and occasional works of criticism or translated poetry collections. It was founded in 1962 by poet Lewis Turco
at what was then Fenn College, attained its present name two years later when Fenn College was absorbed into the newly founded Cleveland State University, and began publishing books in 1971. Its current Director and Series Editor is poet and professor Michael Dumanis
.
In its history, the poetry center has published more than 150 titles, including works by David Baker
, Scott Cairns
, Jared Carter
, Chrystos
, Martha Collins
, David Graham
, Richard Hague
, Mark Jarman
, Claudia Keelan
, David Kirby
, Thomas Lux
, Thylias Moss
, Amy Newman
, Mwatabu S. Okantah
, Carol Potter
, Claudia Rankine
, Tim Seibles
, Larry R. Smith
, Judith Vollmer
, Jeanne Murray Walker
, Sam Witt
, and Franz Wright
. Authors featured by the center have won the Dylan Thomas Prize
, a Ruth Lilly
Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation
(awarded to Dora Malech
), and a Whiting Writers' Award
(awarded to Shane McCrae
).
was the Foxes. When the University was renamed Cleveland State, the nickname changed as well, and CSU's sports teams became the "Vikings". That nickname stands to this day. The school colors
are forest green and white. For many years the school mascot was the comic strip
character Hägar the Horrible
along with his wife Helga, and the couple appeared at sporting events as well as on University literature. A new mascot, "Vike" was introduced in 1997 and Hagar was gradually phased out by 1998. Another new mascot named "Magnus" was introduced in August 2007.
Cleveland State fields varsity
teams in seventeen sports. Most of the teams compete in the Horizon League
. The men's basketball team
was noteworthy in 1986 when seeded 14th in the NCAA
tournament
, it upset heavily favored 3-seed Indiana
and St. Joseph's
before being beaten by Navy
by one point, an unprecedented achievement for such a low seed. The Vikes made yet another NCAA tournament appearance in 2009, upsetting the highly favored 4th seeded Wake Forest
before falling to the University of Arizona
in the second round.
team before July 1, 2009, when he is scheduled to retire. He also said the program will have to be structured to pay for itself."
The Football establishment issue became an official item on the Cleveland State University, Student Government Association election ballot. From Monday April 12 at 12:01 AM until Friday April 14 the student body voted on the issue. By the Friday evening, the results indicated that 68.7% of the student population favored establishment of a football team. Furthermore the student body was asked if they were willing to pay a fee for Division 1 non-scholarship football in addition to any potential, future tuition increases that may be instituted by the University. The student body responded 55.6% of the vote as no.
Currently, the university is studying the possibility of establishing a football team, Division I non-scholarship in the University and further reports will be released in the upcoming years.
O hail the Green and White;
For our great colors we shall fight!
To battle, Vikings all;
We'll sound the Viking Trumpet Call!
We always will defend
The Pride of Cleveland faithfully;
For Cleveland State we'll fight on to a victory!
Alma Mater
Near the shores of great Lake Erie, grand for all to view
Proudly stands our Alma Mater noble CSU
Lift your voices, join the chorus 'til our work is through.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater hail, hail all, CSU!
To educate, for future's sake, truth through knowledge is our goal,
Steadfast remains our Alma Mater, whatever the future holds.
Lift your voices, join the chorus 'til our work is through.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater hail, hail all, CSU!
Public university
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
located in downtown
Downtown Cleveland
Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reinvestment in the area in the mid-1990s spurred a rebirth that continues to this day, with over $2 billion in residential and commercial developments slated for the area over the next few years...
Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. It was established in 1964 when the state of Ohio assumed control of Fenn College, and it absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
The Cleveland–Marshall College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 which, in 1946, merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland–Marshall...
in 1969. Today it is part of the University System of Ohio
University System of Ohio
The University System of Ohio is the public university system of the state of Ohio. Legally unified under Governor Ted Strickland in 2007, the University System of Ohio is governed by the Ohio Board of Regents....
and has approximately 16,000 students and over 100,000 alumni. Its mission is to "encourage excellence, diversity, and engaged learning by providing a contemporary and accessible education in the arts, sciences, humanities and professions, and by conducting research, scholarship, and creative activity across these branches of knowledge."
History
- 1870: Cleveland YMCAYMCAThe Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
offered free classes - 1881: YMCA program formalized
- 1906: Reorganized as the Association Institute and later the Cleveland Y.M.C.A. School of Technology
- 1929: Renamed Fenn College after Sereno Peck FennSereno Peck FennSereno Peck Fenn was a paint magnate. He was one of three principal founders of the Sherwin-Williams Company. Fenn College was named after him in 1930. A bequest of $100,000 was left to Fenn College, which is now named Cleveland State University. Fenn is buried in the Lake View Cemetery...
. Fenn College took over several buildings in the area including Fenn TowerFenn TowerFenn Tower is a 22-story skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio. It is owned by Cleveland State University. It was built for the National Town and Country Club, but was only used for one event before closing. It was originally known as the National Town and Country Club before being sold. It was purchased...
, Stilwell Hall, and Foster Hall. - 1964: Ohio founded The Cleveland State University
- 1965: Assumed Fenn College.
Industrialist James J. Nance
James J. Nance
James J. Nance was an American industrialist who became president of Studebaker Packard. Later, he was chief executive of the Central National Bank of Cleveland, chairman of the executive committee of Montgomery Ward and chairman of the board of trustees of Cleveland State University and a major...
served as the first Board of Trustees Chairperson. The name would later be changed to Cleveland State University.
President Michael Schwartz ended open admissions and implemented a vision to move from a U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
fourth tier university to a second tier university.
Administration
Ronald M. BerkmanRonald M. Berkman
Ronald M. Berkman is currently serves as president of Cleveland State University , a position he assumed in 2009.Dr. Berkman, 62, was formerly Provost and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Florida International University in Miami, where he had been since 1997. Berkman began...
is the current president. Geoffrey Mearns, former dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, was named provost
Provost (education)
A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada and Australia, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland....
, as permanent replacement for Mary Jane Saunders, who resigned in 2010.
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On April 26, 2009, Dr. Ronald M. Berkman was named as the sixth President of Cleveland State University.
Board of Trustees
The Cleveland State University Board of Trustees consists of nine trustees, a Secretary to the Board, two faculty representatives, and two student representatives. The board members, along with the University President, are charged with fulfilling the goals set forth in the University Mission Statement as well as acting as the governing body in all policy matters of the University requiring attention. In January, 2006 the Board of Trustees amended their bylaws so that they could restructure board committees as well as include Community members on the Board. Community members serve as non-voting advisers and are appointed by the Board Chairman for a term approved by the Board.Board of Trustees Member Listing
- Ronald M. Berkman, President
- Ronald E. Weinberg, Chairman
- Robert H. Rawson, Vice Chairman
- Sonali B. Wilson, Secretary
- Stephanie McHenry, Treasurer
- Thomas W. Adler, Trustee
- Sally Florkiewicz, Trustee
- Morton Q. Levin, Trustee
- Rev. Dr. Marvin A. McMickle, Trustee
- Dan T. Moore III, Trustee
- Ernest Wilkerson, Trustee
- Richard A. BaroneRichard A. BaroneRichard A. Barone is an American stock investor, investment advisor, financial analyst and mutual fund manager. After working for a regional broker/dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, he founded Maxus Investment Group in 1973, which he sold to Fifth Third Bank in 2001...
, Community Board Member - Paul E. DiCorleto, PhD., Community Board Member
- Crystal M. Weymen, PhD., Faculty Representative
- Jerzy T. Sawicki, PhD., Faculty Representative
- Janet M. Pitchford, Student Trustee
- Heidi R. Vielhaber, Student Trustee
Colleges and academics
Academic major
In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....
s, 27 master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
programs, two post-master's degrees, six doctoral
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
degrees, and two law degree
Law degree
A Law degree is an academic degree conferred for studies in law. Such degrees are generally preparation for legal careers; but while their curricula may be reviewed by legal authority, they do not themselves confer a license...
s. It also has research cooperation agreements with the nearby NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
Glenn Research Center
Glenn Research Center
NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center, located within the cities of Brook Park, Cleveland and Fairview Park, Ohio between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Cleveland Metroparks's Rocky River Reservation, and has other subsidiary facilities in Ohio...
.
The University is organized around eight academic colleges:
- Fenn College of Engineering
- Cleveland-Marshall College of LawCleveland-Marshall College of LawThe Cleveland–Marshall College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 which, in 1946, merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland–Marshall...
- College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
- College of Science and Health Professions
- Monte Ahuja College of Business
- College of Education and Human Services
- Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
- College of Graduate Studies
Additionally, the Division of University Studies focuses on academic support services, and the Division of Continuing Education extends existing academic services beyond the campus.
Notable programs include the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, whose city management and urban policy program is ranked 2nd in the country by U.S. News and World Report, as well as the recently-formed School of Communication, ranked 8th in research productivity and as the top terminal MA-granting program in the United States overall. The Monte Ahuja College of Business is also highly regarded and is ranked in the top ten nationwide in performance of its Certified Public Accountant graduate students. Additionally, CSU is the first university in Ohio to offer a master's degree in software engineering.
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
One of the most famous alumni of the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law was Tim Russert
Tim Russert
Timothy John "Tim" Russert was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview...
, host of television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
Meet the Press
Meet the Press
Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program produced by NBC. It is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history, despite bearing little resemblance to the original format of the program seen in its television debut on November 6, 1947. It has been...
, who graduated in 1976. The college has also educated numerous highly esteemed judges and founders of prestigious private law firms. Due to its long tradition of providing evening education, the college has a large number of business and community leaders who are non-practicing attorneys as well.
Research
Cleveland State maintains a variety of research links with the Cleveland community. The following are the University's featured research collaborations:- Bio Ohio
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
- Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholar Program)
- NASA Glenn Research Center
- Great Lakes Science Center
- Museum of Natural History
- International Space University
- Internet2
- Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine
- Ohio Department of Education
- Ohio Instrumentation, Controls & Electronics (ICE)
- Ohio Supercomputer Center
Faculty
- Shuvo RoyShuvo RoyShuvo Roy is a Bangladeshi American scientist and inventor of artificial kidney. -Education:* BS : Graduated Magna Cum Laude, with General Honors for triple majors in Physics, Mathematics , and Computer Science, University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, 1992.* MS : Electrical Engineering and...
, Inventor of Artificial kidneyArtificial kidneyArtificial kidney is often a synonym for hemodialysis, but may also, more generally, refer to renal replacement therapies that are in use and/or in development... - Angelin ChangAngelin ChangAngelin Chang is a Grammy® Award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music program...
, Grammy-award winning classical pianist and professor of music, is also a graduate of the university's Cleveland-Marshall College of LawCleveland-Marshall College of LawThe Cleveland–Marshall College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 which, in 1946, merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland–Marshall... - Michael DumanisMichael DumanisMichael Dumanis is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry.-Works:Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, My Soviet Union , won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. Other works have appeared in literary journals, including Denver Quarterly, H.O.W...
, Russian-American poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center - Thomas W. HungerfordThomas W. HungerfordThomas William Hungerford is an American mathematician who works in algebra and mathematics education. He is the author or coauthor of several widely used and widely cited textbooks covering high-school to graduate-level mathematics. From 1963 until 1980 he taught at the University of Washington...
, mathematician and author of many textbooks including Abstract algebra: an introduction - Imad RahmanImad RahmanImad Rahman is a Pakistani American fiction writer whose first short story collection was published in 2004.-Biography:A native of Karachi, Pakistan who immigrated to the United States at age 18 to attend college, Rahman was an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University, and, as of...
, Pakistani-American writer and author of I Dream of Microwaves - Robert P Schumaker, creator of the AZFinTextAZFinTextArizona Financial Text System is a quantitative textual financial prediction system written by Robert P. Schumaker of Cleveland State University and Hsinchun Chen of the University of Arizona. This system differs from other quants because it uses financial text as one of its key means of...
system of stock market trading. - Chas SmithChas SmithChas Smith was an author, musician, radio personality, and a Cleveland State University music professor.-Biography:Smith taught and explored the cultural aspects of American Roots music for over twenty years...
(1957–2007), author, musician, radio personality, music professor. - Camilla StiversCamilla StiversCamilla Stivers is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Levin College of Cleveland State University.She received an MPA from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech....
, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration - Jearl WalkerJearl WalkerJearl Walker is a physicist noted for his book Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975; the second edition was published in June 2006...
, author of The Flying Circus of Physics and physics professor - Phillip J. Wanyerka, professor of Anthropology, Mayan hieroglyphics epigrapher, and leading expert in southern Belize Mayan texts.
- Peter Dunham, professor of Anthropology, Archaeologist, formed and headed the Maya Mountains Project.
Notable alumni
- Norris Cole, NBA Basketball player
- Cedric JacksonCedric JacksonCedric Jackson is an American professional basketball player with the New Zealand Breakers of the NBL. While playing for the Cleveland State University Vikings, he had a game-winning full court shot against the Syracuse University Orange...
, NBA basketball player - Jerry DybzinskiJerry DybzinskiJerome Matthew Dybzinski is a former Major League Baseball shortstop who played for three teams from 1980 to 1985. He attended Cleveland State University from 1974 to 1977, becoming the first of four Cleveland State alumni to play in the major leagues...
, former professional baseball player - Franklin EdwardsFranklin EdwardsFranklin Delano Edwards is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1st round of the 1981 NBA Draft. A 6'1" point guard from Cleveland State University, Edwards played in 7 NBA seasons from 1981 to 1988...
, former professional basketball player - Dick Lillie (J.D., 1979), U.S. District Attorney, Common Pleas JudgeJudgeA judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
, and partner Lillie and Holderman Law Firm - Ed FeighanEd FeighanEdward Farrell "Ed" Feighan is a former American politician. He served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and as a Democratic Party U.S. Representative from 1983 to 1993, serving Ohio's 19th congressional district.-Early life and education:Feighan graduated in 1965 from St...
(J.D., 1978), U.S. Congressman - Chris RonayneChris RonayneChris Ronayne is the President of University Circle Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio, a community development corporation responsible for the growth of the University Circle with a focus on health care, education, and arts & culture. , he is a candidate for Cuyahoga County Council.Ronanye was born in...
, President of University Circle Inc. - Tim RussertTim RussertTimothy John "Tim" Russert was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview...
, (J.D., 1976), Author, NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
Washington bureau chief, moderator of NBC's Meet the PressMeet the PressMeet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program produced by NBC. It is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history, despite bearing little resemblance to the original format of the program seen in its television debut on November 6, 1947. It has been... - Clinton SmithClinton SmithClinton Smith is a retired American basketball player in the NBA. A forward, he went to college at Cleveland State University where he helped lead the 1985–86 team to the Sweet Sixteen...
, former NBA basketball player - Manute BolManute BolManute Bol was a Sudanese-born basketball player and activist. At 7 feet, 7 inches , Bol was one of the tallest players ever to appear in the National Basketball Association, along with Gheorghe Mureşan. Unlike Mureşan, however, Bol was naturally tall and did not have a Pituitary disease...
, former NBA basketball player - J'Nathan BullockJ'Nathan BullockJ'Nathan Bullock is an American athlete. He was signed by the New York Jets of the National Football League as an undrafted free agent in 2009, and later played Australian Basketball for the Geelong Supercats. He was on the roster of Belgian basketball team Optima Gent. Bullock played college...
, professional basketball player - Frank G. JacksonFrank G. JacksonFrank George Jackson is an American attorney and politician. He is currently the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He was elected on November 8, 2005, unseating incumbent Jane Campbell and re-elected in 2009...
, Mayor of the City of Cleveland - Frank D. Celebrezze Jr.Frank D. Celebrezze Jr.Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. of Broadview Heights, Ohio, is an Ohio jurist who currently serves as an Ohio appeals court judge....
, Ohio Court of Appeals Judge - Donald C. NugentDonald C. NugentDonald C. Nugent is a United States federal judge.Nugent was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Xavier University in Ohio in 1970. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1970 to 1971 before being admitted to the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where...
, (J.D., 1974) Federal District Court Judge - Lesley B. WellsLesley B. WellsLesley Brooks Wells was appointed as a federal judge in 1994 and since February 2006 has continued to serve as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Wells earned a B.A...
(J.D., 1974), Federal District Court Judge - Cheryl L. WaiteCheryl L. WaiteJudge Cheryl L. Waite is one of four judges elected to the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals. She was first elected to the court in 1996, and re-elected to that bench in 2002. She served as presiding judge of this court starting in February 2003. She was the first woman elected to serve on...
, (J.D., 1985), Ohio Court of Appeals judge. - Francis E. Sweeney Sr.Francis E. SweeneyFrancis Edward Sweeney, Sr. was an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party. He served as a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1993 to 2004...
, (J.D., 1963), Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice. - Maureen O'ConnorMaureen O'ConnorMaureen O'Connor is an American jurist and the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Prior to this, O'Connor served as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio under Gov. Bob Taft...
, (J.D., 1980), Current Ohio Supreme Court Justice. - Terrence O'DonnellTerrence O'DonnellTerrence O'Donnell is an American Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Ohio.-Education:He graduated in 1964 from St. Edward High School, an all-boys catholic high school on Cleveland's west side. He did his undergraduate studies at Kent State University, graduating with a degree in...
, (J.D., 1971), Current Ohio Supreme Court Justice. - Carl B. StokesCarl B. StokesCarl Burton Stokes was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office on Jan 1, 1968, he was the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city. Fellow Ohioan Robert C. Henry was the first African...
, (J.D., 1956), first African American mayor of a major U.S. city (Cleveland) - Louis StokesLouis StokesLouis Stokes is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives....
, (J.D., 1953), 15-term Democratic CongressmanUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
. - Bert Wolstein, (J.D., 1953), real estate developer and philanthropist.
- Monte Ahuja(CEO of Transtar Industries)
Location, campus, and community
Downtown Cleveland
Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reinvestment in the area in the mid-1990s spurred a rebirth that continues to this day, with over $2 billion in residential and commercial developments slated for the area over the next few years...
is bounded on the east and west by Interstate 90
Interstate 90
Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate, and parallels US 20 for the most part. Its western terminus is in Seattle, at Edgar Martinez Drive S. near Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field, and its eastern terminus is in...
and East 17th Street, respectively; and by Payne Avenue to the north and Carnegie Avenue on the south. It also has satellite campuses in Westlake, Ohio
Westlake, Ohio
Westlake is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 32,729 at the 2010 census. It is an affluent suburb of Cleveland, Ohio and is located 12 miles from Cleveland's downtown.-Geography:Westlake is located at...
and Solon, Ohio
Solon, Ohio
Solon is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is an affluent suburb of Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region, the 14th largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 23,348...
, both in the Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland is a nickname for the metropolitan area surrounding Cleveland, Ohio and is part of what used to be the Connecticut Western Reserve.Northeast Ohio refers to a similar but substantially larger area as described below...
metropolitan area
Metropolitan area
The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...
in Cuyahoga County. As of fall 2010, the student body totaled 17,204.
Expansion plans
CSU recently unveiled a long-term plan to make the campus more amenable to residence and increase the number of students living on campus by building thousands of housing units, anchored by a new dormitory, Fenn TowerFenn Tower
Fenn Tower is a 22-story skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio. It is owned by Cleveland State University. It was built for the National Town and Country Club, but was only used for one event before closing. It was originally known as the National Town and Country Club before being sold. It was purchased...
, a reuse of the school's most historic building. The university is working with private developers and the City of Cleveland to develop housing, retail, and "collegetown" amenities around Fenn Tower, particularly along the main thoroughfare of Euclid Avenue, which was upgraded in 2010 as part of the Euclid Corridor Project
HealthLine
The HealthLine is a bus rapid transit line run by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The line runs along Euclid Avenue from Public Square in downtown Cleveland to the Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland...
, bringing bus rapid transit
Bus rapid transit
Bus rapid transit is a term applied to a variety of public transportation systems using buses to provide faster, more efficient service than an ordinary bus line. Often this is achieved by making improvements to existing infrastructure, vehicles and scheduling...
to the university and connecting Public Square
Public Square
Public Square is the central plaza in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It takes up four city blocks; Superior Avenue and Ontario Street cross through it. Cleveland's three tallest buildings, Key Tower, 200 Public Square and the Terminal Tower, face the square...
in downtown Cleveland to University Circle
University Circle
University Circle, is a neighborhood located on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is best known for its world-class cultural, educational and medical institutions, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Museum of Art, Lakeview Cemetery, and University...
, approximately four miles east.
The University has also recently completed a new state of the art student recreation center, as well as two new buildings for the Colleges of Graduate Studies and Education; there are longer-term plans to create a "Varsity Village" incorporating athletic fields and student housing into a green, residential area.
Fenn Tower formerly housed what was at one time the longest Foucault pendulum
Foucault pendulum
The Foucault pendulum , or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. While it had long been known that the Earth rotated, the introduction of the Foucault pendulum in 1851 was the...
in the world; however, the pendulum has been inoperational since 1980 and was removed during the residence hall renovation in 2006. The pendulum currently resides in the Cleveland State University archives.
The Dramatic Arts Program is in the process of transitioning into the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square Center
Playhouse Square Center
The Playhouse Square Center, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the second-largest theater complex in the United States . Constructed in a span of nineteen months in the early 1920s, the theaters were subsequently closed down, but were revived through a grass-roots effort...
in collaboration with the Cleveland Play House
Cleveland Play House
The Cleveland Play House is a professional regional theater company located in Cleveland, OH. As of 2005, the artistic director is Michael Bloom, the eighth artistic director since its inception. In 2011 they moved operations to the Allen Theatre in Playhouse Square Center.Founded in 1915,...
.
In 2009, Cleveland State University announced their plan to begin work on $65 million construction project, this project will transform the campus from a commuter school into a residential campus. The construction plans include the new Student Center and Julka Hull, completed in 2010, and more residential areas in Euclid Commons, which are still under construction.
Student media
The campus' student-run radio station, 89.3 WCSBWCSB
WCSB is the student operated college radio station of Cleveland State University. It began broadcasting in 1976 on the FM frequency 89.3 MHz....
-FM, has a 630-Watt
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
transmitter on top of Rhodes Tower
Rhodes Tower
The James A. Rhodes Tower is a 21-story 373-foot, skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Cleveland State University. It currently houses the university's main library on the first four floors and administration offices for many of the university's academic departments on the...
(formerly called University Tower). Additionally, Cleveland State is served in print by The Cauldron, an independent student newspaper, The Cleveland Stater, a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication, The Vindicator, and The Gavel which won the 2005 American Bar Association's -Student Division's first prize for the best law school newspaper in the country. There is no student television station
Student television station
A student television station is a television station run by university, high or middle school students that primarily airs school/university news and in many cases, student-produced soap operas, entertainment shows, and other programming....
at this time, though the university offers a film production and video production major with courses through its Digital Video Communication Center.
Information technology
CSU is a member of the OneCommunity (formerly OneCleveland) computer networkComputer network
A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....
, an initiative of Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
that connects nonprofit institutions throughout Northeast Ohio, allowing large scale collaborations over a high-speed fiber optic network.
Poetry Center
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is a literary small pressSmall press
Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts...
and poetry outreach organization operated by the the English Department. It publishes primarily original works of poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
by contemporary writers, though it has previously also published novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
and occasional works of criticism or translated poetry collections. It was founded in 1962 by poet Lewis Turco
Lewis Turco
Lewis P. Turco , is an American poet, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Turco is an advocate for Formalist poetry in the United States.-Life and work:...
at what was then Fenn College, attained its present name two years later when Fenn College was absorbed into the newly founded Cleveland State University, and began publishing books in 1971. Its current Director and Series Editor is poet and professor Michael Dumanis
Michael Dumanis
Michael Dumanis is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry.-Works:Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, My Soviet Union , won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. Other works have appeared in literary journals, including Denver Quarterly, H.O.W...
.
In its history, the poetry center has published more than 150 titles, including works by David Baker
David Baker (poet)
-Life:He was raised in Missouri.He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 1983.He taught at University of Michigan.He teaches at Denison University, and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers....
, Scott Cairns
Scott Cairns
Scott Cairns is an American poet, memoirist and essayist.-Life:He was educated at Western Washington University with a BA, Hollins College with an MA, Bowling Green State University with an MFA, and the University of Utah with a PhD.He taught at Kansas State University, Westminster College,...
, Jared Carter
Jared Carter
-Background:Carter studied at Yale and at Goddard College. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969...
, Chrystos
Chrystos
Chrystos is a Menominee rights activist and poet. Prior to being published, she worked as a home caretaker, and an activist for Turtle Mountain Band of Chipewa, Norma Jean Croy , and Leonard Peltier....
, Martha Collins
Martha Collins (poet)
-Life:She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A., and the University of Iowa with a Ph.D.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.She is editor of Field magazine...
, David Graham
David Graham (American poet)
David Graham is an American writer married to the artist Lee Shippey. He has published six collections of poetry, as well as poetry and short stories in numerous literary magazines. Born and raised in Johnstown, New York, he has taught English at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin since 1987, where...
, Richard Hague
Richard Hague
Richard Hague is an American poet and writer.Born August 7, he was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, in Appalachian Ohio's Steel Valley, where he worked summers for Wheeling Steel and the Penn Central Railroad. He studied as a high school student at Northwestern University's Summer High School...
, Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman
Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s...
, Claudia Keelan
Claudia Keelan
-Life:Keelan, who was born in Anaheim, California, is a graduate of Humboldt State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Missing Her , and has published poems widely in magazines and journals, including The American Poetry Review,...
, David Kirby
David Kirby (poet)
David Kirby is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University . His most recent book is The Temple Gate Called Beautiful, published in 2008 by Alice James Books...
, Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux
-Biography:Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball,...
, Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to...
, Amy Newman
Amy Newman
Amy Newman is an American poet, critic, and professor. She is the author of four collections of poems, most recently fall . Newman's second book, Camera Lyrica, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and her first book, Order, or Disorder, received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize in 1995...
, Mwatabu S. Okantah
Mwatabu S. Okantah
Mwatabu S. Okantah is an American poet, essayist, professor, and vocalist.He holds a B.A. degree in English and African Studies from Kent State University , where he studied with Halim El-Dabh and Fela Sowande. He earned a M.A...
, Carol Potter
Carol Potter
Carol Potter is an American poet and professor. Her most recent collection of poems is Otherwise Obedient , which was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist...
, Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. She has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, University of Georgia, and in the writing program at the University of Houston. As of 2011, Rankine is the Henry G...
, Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles is an American poet and professor. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Buffalo Head Solos...
, Larry R. Smith
Larry R. Smith
Larry R. Smith was born in Mingo Junction, Ohio in 1943 and graduated from Mingo High School in 1961, Muskingum College in 1965, then on to Kent State University in Ohio for a masters and doctorate in American and Contemporary World Literature. His thesis work was on Sherwood Anderson and Kenneth...
, Judith Vollmer
Judith Vollmer
Judith Vollmer is an American poet and editor.She is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg where she teaches such courses as Intro to Poetry, Nature Writing, World Poetry, and Political Poetry, and co-teaches American Poetry and the Creative Process. Vollmer is co-editor of 5...
, Jeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker is an American poet.-Life:Jeanne Murray Walker was born Jeanne Murray in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, the daughter of John Gerald and Erna Murray. In 1965, she won the Atlantic Monthly Award for both fiction and Poetry and was named the Atlantic Monthly Scholar at Bread Loaf...
, Sam Witt
Sam Witt
Sam Witt is an American poet, and journalist who currently lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Framingham State University.-Life:Born in 1970 in Wimbledon, England, Witt moved to the United States in 1977. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and went on to receive his...
, and Franz Wright
Franz Wright
-Background:Wright graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category....
. Authors featured by the center have won the Dylan Thomas Prize
Dylan Thomas Prize
The Dylan Thomas Prize is the world’s top cash prize for young writers. The annual prize, named in honor of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas, brings international prestige and a cash award of £30,000 . It is open to published writers in the English language under the age of thirty. The prize...
, a Ruth Lilly
Ruth Lilly
Ruth Lilly was an American philanthropist. She was the daughter of Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., and Ruth Lilly, and the sole living heiress to the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical fortune built by her great grandfather, Colonel Eli Lilly.Lilly made headlines in November 2002 when she pledged stock...
Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture. It was formed from Poetry magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly....
(awarded to Dora Malech
Dora Malech
Dora Malech is an American poet.Malech’s first full-length collection of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, was published in 2009 by the Waywiser Press. The Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2010....
), and a Whiting Writers' Award
Whiting Writers' Award
The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
(awarded to Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award...
).
Athletics
When the school was still known as Fenn College, the sports teams' nicknameNickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
was the Foxes. When the University was renamed Cleveland State, the nickname changed as well, and CSU's sports teams became the "Vikings". That nickname stands to this day. The school colors
School colors
School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. Most schools have two colors, which are usually chosen to avoid conflicts with other schools with which the school competes in sports and other activities...
are forest green and white. For many years the school mascot was the comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
character Hägar the Horrible
Hägar the Horrible
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne , and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973, and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 , his son Chris Browne has continued the...
along with his wife Helga, and the couple appeared at sporting events as well as on University literature. A new mascot, "Vike" was introduced in 1997 and Hagar was gradually phased out by 1998. Another new mascot named "Magnus" was introduced in August 2007.
Cleveland State fields varsity
Varsity team
In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of secondary schools, against...
teams in seventeen sports. Most of the teams compete in the Horizon League
Horizon League
The Horizon League is a ten school, NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located in five of the Midwestern United States....
. The men's basketball team
Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball
Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball started in 1929. Before as Fenn College they were known as the Fenn College Foxes. Cleveland State has been in Division I since 1972. They are a member of the Horizon League Cleveland State was formerly in the Mid-Continent Conference...
was noteworthy in 1986 when seeded 14th in the NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
tournament
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...
, it upset heavily favored 3-seed Indiana
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...
and St. Joseph's
Saint Joseph's University
Saint Joseph's University is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located partially in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia and partially in Lower Merion Township and located in the Pennsylvania Main Line, Pennsylvania, United States.The school was founded in 1851 as Saint...
before being beaten by Navy
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland, United States...
by one point, an unprecedented achievement for such a low seed. The Vikes made yet another NCAA tournament appearance in 2009, upsetting the highly favored 4th seeded Wake Forest
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Originally, Wake Forest's athletic teams were known as the Fighting Baptists, due to its association with the Baptist Convention...
before falling to the University of Arizona
Arizona Wildcats
-Athletic program:The University of Arizona participates in the NCAA's Division I-A in the Pacific-12 Conference Arizona participates in the conference's South Division, along with Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, USC, and Utah...
in the second round.
Fielding a football team
On October 14, 2008 CSU President Michael Schwartz stated "he wants a blue ribbon panel to give him a recommendation on the footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team before July 1, 2009, when he is scheduled to retire. He also said the program will have to be structured to pay for itself."
The Football establishment issue became an official item on the Cleveland State University, Student Government Association election ballot. From Monday April 12 at 12:01 AM until Friday April 14 the student body voted on the issue. By the Friday evening, the results indicated that 68.7% of the student population favored establishment of a football team. Furthermore the student body was asked if they were willing to pay a fee for Division 1 non-scholarship football in addition to any potential, future tuition increases that may be instituted by the University. The student body responded 55.6% of the vote as no.
Currently, the university is studying the possibility of establishing a football team, Division I non-scholarship in the University and further reports will be released in the upcoming years.
School songs
Fight SongO hail the Green and White;
For our great colors we shall fight!
To battle, Vikings all;
We'll sound the Viking Trumpet Call!
We always will defend
The Pride of Cleveland faithfully;
For Cleveland State we'll fight on to a victory!
Alma Mater
Near the shores of great Lake Erie, grand for all to view
Proudly stands our Alma Mater noble CSU
Lift your voices, join the chorus 'til our work is through.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater hail, hail all, CSU!
To educate, for future's sake, truth through knowledge is our goal,
Steadfast remains our Alma Mater, whatever the future holds.
Lift your voices, join the chorus 'til our work is through.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater hail, hail all, CSU!
See also
- Krenzler FieldKrenzler FieldKrenzler Field is a soccer stadium in Cleveland, Ohio on the campus of Cleveland State University. It serves as the home field to the men's and women's varsity teams and formerly the Cleveland City Stars of the USL First Division...
- Wolstein CenterWolstein CenterThe Bert L. & Iris S. Wolstein Convocation Center is an indoor arena located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It replaced the Woodling Gym...