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The College

Marist College is located in the Hudson River Valley, midway between New York City and Albany. The 180-acre riverside campus comfortably accommodates 4,193 full-time undergraduates. The campus has twenty-eight buildings, including eleven residence halls, five major classroom buildings, the James A. Cannavino Library, and a student center that includes a bookstore, music rooms, a theater, and a cafeteria. Town-house residences and garden-style apartments are also available for upperclass students. There are three major athletics fields and a boathouse with waterfront facilities for sailing and crew. The James J. McCann Recreation Center, one of the largest collegiate sports complexes in the Mid-Hudson Valley, houses a 4,000-seat field house and a natatorium with a diving well and spectator space for 700 as well as an indoor track, handball and racquetball courts, a weight room, a dance studio, and other facilities for recreation and competition.

Campus life accommodates a wide range of interests and talents. The student-administered Student Programming Council annually presents a full schedule of films, concerts, and social activities. More than eighty clubs and organizations are available in many areas, including theater, music, debate, TV and radio stations, and volunteer programs, such as Habitat for Humanity. Varsity sports for men include baseball, basketball, crew, cross-country, diving, football, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, and track. Varsity sports for women are offered in basketball, crew, cross-country, diving, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, and water polo. Cheerleading, field hockey, ice hockey, rugby, skiing, and soccer are available as club sports. An equestrian team is also available. The Marist Red Foxes compete in NCAA Division I in the Metro-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). An extensive intramural program encourages all students to participate in athletic recreation, and more than 80 percent of Marist students take part in club or team activities.

Special student services are offered in the areas of academic advising, counseling, career development, campus ministry, financial aid, health, residence living, and support of disabled students.

Graduate degrees are available in business administration, communication, counseling and community psychology, education, educational psychology, information systems, public administration, school psychology, software development, and technology management.

Location

Marists location in the historic and scenic Hudson River Valley provides access to many cultural and recreational opportunities. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Home and Presidential Library and the original plant of the IBM Corporation attest to the national and international significance of the region and its people and organizations. The river also serves as a focus for the Colleges Environmental Studies Program, while the nearby Catskill Mountains provide areas for such outdoor activities as hiking, skiing, and rock climbing. A short distance from the campus, the city of Poughkeepsie offers a major civic center that consolidates many of the areas cultural programs and expands leisure-time choices. With Amtrak and Metro North railroad stations only minutes from the campus, students also have convenient access to New York City, Albany, Boston, and other major metropolitan areas.

Majors and Degrees

The College is organized into the academic areas of the School of Communication and the Arts, the School of Computer Science and Math, the School of Liberal Arts, the School of Management, the School of Science, and the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

The Bachelor of Arts is awarded in American studies, communication arts, computer mathematics, economics, English, fine arts, French, history, integrative studies, mathematics, philosophy, political science, psychology, psychology/special childhood education, and Spanish. The Bachelor of Science is offered in accounting, athletic training, biology, business administration, chemistry, computer science, criminal justice, digital media, environmental science, information systems, information technology, integrative studies, medical technology, and social work. The Bachelor of Professional Studies is offered in fashion design and fashion merchandising. Concentrations are offered in Jewish studies, Latin American studies, paralegal studies, and public administration, among others. In order to provide greater academic opportunities for students, the College offers two combined B.A./M.A. programs (one in psychology and one in teacher education) and two combined B.S./M.S. programs (one in computer science and one in information systems). These accelerated programs allow students to graduate with both degrees in five years.

Preprofessional programs in dentistry, law, medicine, veterinary medicine, and other allied health professions are available. Marists teacher education program qualifies students for adolescence education teacher certification in biology, chemistry, English, French, history, mathematics, and Spanish and for certification to teach grades 16 in special-childhood education.

Academic Programs

Central to academic planning at Marist is the core curriculum, a program that provides all students with a solid educational foundation in the liberal arts. Students can take advantage of the double-major option that allows equal study in two subject areas. They can also choose a major in one subject and a minor in another area of interest. The Emerging Leaders Program, the Deans Circle, the honors program, the Marist Abroad Program, the Center for Estuarine Studies, and special academic advising are available for students wishing to enhance the academic experience. Faculty members help all students identify areas of academic interest and then continue to support students as that interest is developed and explored.

Off-Campus Programs

Through the Marist Abroad Program, students have many opportunities to study abroad. Marist students, representing a cross section of majors, have studied in many countries in Europe as well as in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. Through the Colleges membership in the Associated Colleges of the Mid-Hudson Area, Marist students have the opportunity to register for a few classes at any one of four other institutions: Culinary Institute of America, Dutchess Community College, State University of New York College at New Paltz, and Ulster Community College.

Internships are offered in all majors, and students are encouraged to make them part of their educational experience. Cooperative education opportunities (paid work experiences) are currently available in several majors.

Academic Facilities

Marist College is consistently recognized for excellence in the use of digital technology in the classroom and was listed in Yahoo! Internet Life's 100 Most Wired Colleges. A partnership with IBM has provided the College with more than $30million in computer technology, and the 6-year-old James A. Cannavino Library has been hailed by the New York Times as a model for digital libraries of the twenty-first century. This three-story landmark facility allows students and faculty members to access material stored on the Colleges powerful IBM S/390 mainframe as well as online sources of information from around the world. The $25-million library houses book stacks on its ground floor; research materials, periodicals, and an e-scriptorium on its main floor; and four state-of-the-art digital classrooms, a Center for Collaborative Learning, and the Weiss Language Center on its top floor. The Cannavino Library also offers more ports per student than any other college or university library in the United States; at any of the 860 seatsranging from individual study carrels to soft-cushioned easy chairs overlooking the Hudson Riverstudents and faculty members can plug in laptops and connect to sources of information from around the world. (In addition to the more than 200 desktop systems in place, IBM ThinkPad laptops are available for loan at the circulation desk.) Recently, the library became a wireless location on campus. Collaborative study rooms allow group discussions on projects, while quiet study areas with scenic vistas offer space from which to read and research. The Cannavino Librarys two-story atrium entrance also features a coffee bar and is a popular gathering place for students, faculty members, and staff members.

Donnelly Hall houses classrooms, lecture halls, the School of Science, the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising, the Colleges information technology facilities, a computer lab, and the Offices of Safety and Security, Human Resources, Financial Aid, and the Registrar.

The Colleges newest academic facility, Fontaine Hall, replaced a building of the same name that had been located on the site of the Cannavino Library. Named for the founding president of modern-day Marist College, Fontaine Hall houses multimedia classrooms, a black-box theater, a conference room overlooking the Hudson River, the School of Liberal Arts, the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, and the Office of College Advancement, including the Offices of Alumni Relations and Public Affairs. Historic photographs documenting the life of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt are displayed on the first floor of Fontaine Hall, reminding the Marist community and visitors of the close affiliation between the College and the FDR Presidential Library in neighboring Hyde Park.

The Department of Art and Art History is housed in the open, spacious, and newly renovated Steel Plant Studios, a former steel-fabrication facility. The building is home to the digital media, 2-D/graphic design, 3-D/sculpture, and photography studios. The art gallery is also located in Steel Plant Studios. In addition, a complete photography lab and darkroom is housed in nearby Donnelly Hall.

The Lowell Thomas Communications Center links the study of communications with computer technology. It features two sets of television and radio broadcast studios, computer-equipped classrooms, and print journalism areas as well as a public gallery displaying memorabilia of the late Lowell Thomas, the legendary broadcaster and explorer.

The Instructional Media Centers functions include consultation on media methods; production of films, slides, and videotapes; dispensing of audiovisual hardware; and distribution of video programming to classrooms. Group work and individual study in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, as well as in English for non-English-speaking students, are available.

The Margaret M. and Charles H. Dyson Center incorporates some of the most advanced technologies in education and houses the Colleges undergraduate and graduate programs in business, social and behavioral sciences, public administration, and public policy. The center is also used for innovative computer simulations and computer-assisted group learning and problem solving. In addition, it houses the School of Adult Education and the Office of Graduate Admissions.

Costs

Tuition and fees for 200607 were $22,066 for a full year. Room and board for a full year were $9790. The additional costs of transportation, clothes, and spending money usually amount to several hundred dollars. Students should plan on books and supplies costing an estimated $1200 per year.

Financial Aid

Approximately 80 percent of the Colleges full-time students receive aid from Marist and outside sources, including New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants, Federal Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Federal Perkins Loans, Federal Stafford Student Loans (Subsidized and Unsubsidized), and Federal Work-Study Program awards. Marist also has merit awards for outstanding students that are not based on financial need. Overall, Marist annually awards more than $20million in grants and scholarships from its own funds. For a student to be considered for assistance, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) should be filed as soon as possible after January1. The financial aid staff is available to discuss financial aid possibilities with all prospective students.

Faculty

The College has 199 full-time faculty members, approximately 85 percent of whom either hold doctorates or are doctoral candidates. A strong working relationship between students and faculty members is an important aspect of the learning process at Marist. The student-faculty ratio is currently 15:1.

Student Government

Student representation in decisions affecting the College is a tradition at Marist. Through Student Government committees, the student body is given a role in both administrative and academic policy making.

Admission Requirements

Applicants must have graduated from an accredited high school. Rigor of high school curriculum, grade point average, and rank in class are primary considerations; admission is based on a review of the high school transcript, scores on the SAT or ACT, a personal essay, and the recommendation of the guidance counselor or college adviser.

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