University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut)

When it was founded in 1932, USJ was the first college for women in the Hartford area.

Psychology professor Pamela Trotman Reid became the first African-American president of the university when she was appointed in 2008;{{cite web | url=https://www.usj.edu/news/pamela-trotman-reid-to-retire-as-university-of-saint-joseph-president-at-conclusion-of-academic-year/ | title=Pamela Trotman Reid to Retire as University of Saint Joseph President at Conclusion of Academic Year | date=3 October 2014 }} she retired in 2015.{{cite web |title=APA Profile |url=https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/psychologists/pamela-reid |website=American Psychological Association |access-date=15 June 2021}}{{cite web |title=Retirement Announcement |url=https://www.usj.edu/news/pamela-trotman-reid-to-retire-as-university-of-saint-joseph-president-at-conclusion-of-academic-year/ |website=University of Saint Joseph |date=3 October 2014 |access-date=15 June 2021}}

In November 2016, the University of Saint Joseph began its comprehensive research and review of becoming a coeducational institution. Based on this review, the university began admitting male students to all full-time undergraduate programs in the fall of 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.usj.edu/index.php/about-us/news-events/news-archive/university-of-saint-joseph-opens-full-time-undergraduate-programs-men |title=University of Saint Joseph Opens Full-Time Undergraduate Programs to Men |author=University of Saint Joseph |date=June 14, 2017 |access-date=June 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617235133/http://www.usj.edu/index.php/about-us/news-events/news-archive/university-of-saint-joseph-opens-full-time-undergraduate-programs-men |archive-date=2017-06-17 |url-status=dead}}

• Barbara Favola, Virginia State Senator
• Catherine Gentile, author
• Jahana Hayes, United States Representative
• Marilynn Malerba, Treasurer of the United States and 18th Chief of the Mohegan Tribe
• Evelyn Mantilla, former United States Representative
• Maura Melley, former Connecticut Secretary of State
• Antonina Uccello, former Mayor of Hartford

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The University of Saint Joseph has maintained a distinctive Georgian brick architecture in most of its 19 buildings, including six residence halls, a library, student life building, administration and classroom buildings, and an arts center with a theater and art gallery, among others.

The buildings are arranged around two tree-lined quadrangles on an {{cvt|84|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus designed by the Olmsted Brothers. Approximately 73 percent of first-year students live on campus and USJ offers university sponsored off-campus housing at the Millennium in downtown Hartford.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-30 |title=Suburban CT university expanding housing into city downtown. ‘We want to be a part of the growth.’ |url=https://www.courant.com/2024/07/30/suburban-ct-university-expanding-housing-into-city-downtown-we-want-to-be-a-part-of-the-growth/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Hartford Courant |language=en-US}}

The O'Connell Athletic Center features a newly renovated fitness center, indoor track, six-lane pool, two gymnasiums, a varsity weight room, and newly renovated locker rooms. The OC's outdoor complex includes six tennis courts, a turf soccer/lacrosse/field hockey field, turf softball field, and grass practice field.{{Cite journal |title=About Athletics |url=https://usjbluejays.com/information/about |language=en}}

This lab is a combination classroom, clinical practice area, and study space, and provides a high-quality simulation-based health care education. The unit includes an array of medical technology such as an electronic medication system, a Pyxis machine for dispensing medications, and high-fidelity manikins that enable students to practice a broad range of skills.{{Cite web |title=Nursing Education and Simulation Center |url=https://www.usj.edu/academics/sihs/nursing/nursing-education-simulation-center/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=University of Saint Joseph |language=en-US}}

USJ's on-campus Art Museum houses a collection of more than 2,800 works of fine art.

In April 2024, USJ announced its partnership with MakerspaceCT, a 28,000-square-foot workshop and skills development center in Hartford, offering the community support and resources to learn and create. Through this partnership, USJ’s engineering science students will have access to those resources and the opportunity to apply for internships with MakerspaceCT.{{Cite web |author=Staff report |date=2024-04-15 |title=University of St. Joseph, MakerspaceCT partner in workshop in CT city to benefit students |url=https://www.courant.com/2024/04/15/university-of-st-joseph-makerspacect-open-workshop-in-ct-city/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Hartford Courant |language=en-US}}

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In September 2018, the university made headlines by signing Jim Calhoun, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, as head coach of the newly formed men's basketball team.{{Cite news |url=http://www.usjbluejays.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/releases/20180918pqjrwp |title=Jim Calhoun Officially Named Head Men's Basketball Coach |date=2018-09-18 |work=Saint Joseph CT|access-date=2018-10-18 |language=en}}

The list of varsity sports includes (for both, men's and women's) basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, and tennis. Men's only sports include baseball, and women's only include field hockey, softball, and volleyball, for a total of 10 sports sponsored by the University of Saint Joseph at Connecticut.

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