Albertus Magnus College Hosts STEM Event for Aspiring Teachers
Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers College Level STEM Experience is April 11
Zania Collier
New Haven, Conn, April 4, 2024 – Have you ever had a beloved teacher who inspired you to strive for greater achievements,especially in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)? Albertus Magnus College is fully prepared and eager to educate even more individuals in these fields. As the most diverse Catholic college in New England, Albertus is pleased to sponsor and host a college level STEM experience for Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers (TSTT), now celebrating 25 years of recruiting, mentoring, and training culturally diverse and economically challenged students from high school through college and placing them as effective teachers and committed leaders who strengthen schools and communities.
About 50 diverse high school students from Bridgeport public schools, who are aspiring teachers, will converge on campus to engage in hands-on STEM activities led by the CT STEM Academy and learn about Albertus’ teacher preparation programs - including the College’s admission process and receiving a tour of the campus.
Who: Leaders from the Albertus Teacher Education Program and Admissions teams, CT STEM Academy, and TSTT. Keynote Speaker: Zania Collier ’23 M.S. a New Haven school teacher and Albertus Magnus College alumnae whose grant proposal to bring Makey Makey STEM kits into her high school social studies classroom was funded by the Chuck Lorre Foundation.
What: Inspire today’s students to become the next generation of educators.
When: Thursday, April 11, 2024; 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.
Where: Behan Community Room, award-winning Hubert Campus Center, 831 Winchester Ave.,
New Haven, Conn.
About Albertus Magnus College
Albertus Magnus College, founded in 1925, is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. As New England's most diverse Catholic College, Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For eight consecutive years, graduating classes at Albertus have achieved post-graduate employment and graduate school success at a rate of at least 95%. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and 12 graduate programs. Proud to enroll a student body where more than half of its students come from minority backgrounds with nearly the same percentage of undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants and being first generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, General Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Public Health, and Supply Chain Management; among its graduate programs is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program. Just two years from its historic 100 th Anniversary Year, the College is implementing its Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, which articulates an inspiring, bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.