SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY NEWS
Contact: Funda Alp, 203-396-8241, alpf@sacredheart.edu
For Immediate Release
March 27, 2006
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY'S LISBON CAMPUS MOVES TO GRISWOLD
FAIRFIELD, Conn.— Sacred Heart University will relocate its Lisbon campus to new, enhanced facilities at Griswold High School, effective July 1, 2006.
The program at Griswold will continue to offer its trademark Teacher Preparation, Fifth Year Internship programs and the Master of Arts in Teaching degree. Certification programs for School Administrators and Sixth Year degrees in Educational Leadership will continue to be offered on both a traditional semester or accelerated basis. The new facilities will also allow the University to launch its new Sixth Year degree in Literacy, with accompanying Certification in Remedial Reading.
The Griswold Board of Education's impressive Educational Campus is comprised of several schools—elementary, intermediate, middle school and high school—all at one centralized location. This comprehensive campus will provide an ideal “learning lab” for Sacred Heart graduate students. The high school will house the Sacred Heart University-Griswold program, providing office space for faculty and staff, classrooms, and access to the library, cafeteria and two state-of-the-art computer labs in the evenings.
“I am very pleased that we are able to begin this new phase of the Sacred Heart Graduate Programs in eastern Connecticut on the Griswold campus. These enhanced facilities will make excellent programs even better. I am grateful to Superintendent Betty Osga and the Griswold Board of Education for the opportunity to collaborate with them on this initiative,” stated Dr. Patricia Walker, Sacred Heart University's dean of the College of Education and Health Professions.
The SHU Graduate Education Program will relocate to these enhanced facilities at the conclusion of the Late Spring term. Dr. Karen Christensen, director of Graduate Studies, will coordinate the logistics of the move and work closely with staff, faculty, SHU students and the many school districts with which the program partners in eastern Connecticut, to effect a seamless transition.
The Griswold Campus is less than 2 miles from the present site and is directly accessible to Interstate 395, from both directions (at Exit 85). Ample parking is available.
To learn more about Graduate Education programs at Sacred Heart University-Griswold, please contact Dr. Karen Christensen at 860-376-8408 or christensenk@sacredheart.edu.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 50 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. Its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, is complemented by satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. Over 5,600 students are enrolled in its four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the newly established John F. Welch College of Business, committed to educating students in the leadership tradition and legacy of Jack Welch. U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review place SHU among America's best colleges in the Northeast, and Intel rates it #11 among the nation's most “unwired” campuses. SHU fields 32 Division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu
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