Western Connecticut State University

Western Connecticut State University (otherwise called Western or shortened to WCSU) is a state funded college situated in Danbury, Connecticut. WCSU comprises of four schools and one division: the Ancell School of Business (which incorporates the Justice and Law Administration program), the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Visual and Performing Arts, the School of Professional Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies. Established in 1903, WCSU is a piece of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities framework, alongside Eastern, Southern and Central Connecticut State colleges, and various junior colleges; between the four state colleges, more than 34,000 understudies are selected.

WCSU is likewise home to The Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies, which is the aftereffect of an association in the middle of WCSU and the Jane Goodall Institute (a private non benefit association that advances exploration, instruction and natural life protection). The college's Westside grounds likewise houses the Ives Concert Park, one of the chief execution venues in the zone.

Western began as an instructors' school, preparing the essential and optional school teachers for Connecticut's Fairfield County and encompassing regions. The school's name has changed throughout the years as it has concentrated on extra zones of study. Initially named the Danbury Normal School, in the 1950s it was known as the Danbury State Teachers College. The school was renamed Danbury State College in 1959, then Western Connecticut State College in 1967, lastly, in 1983, Western Connecticut State University. In 2011, administration of the University was exchanged to the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education.

In 2012, the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso went by the college for two open talks. WCSU got to be home to the Center for Compassion, Creativity and Innovation, and is presently authoritatively one of two colleges in the nation to be perceived as a "College of Compassion" by the Compassion Action Network. The Sikyong (leader) of Tibet, Lobsang Sangay, additionally addressed at the college's midtown grounds prior that year.

In 2005, previous President Bill Clinton went to WCSU to by and by thank understudies for their gathering pledges endeavors in the wake of the 2004 wave in Southeast Asia. Connecticut understudies raised about $300,000 to subsidize a 1,500-understudy school in Sri Lanka; in a location given at WCSU's William O'Neill Athletic and Convocation Center, Clinton expressed gratitude toward understudies for their endeavors and focused on the significance of keeping on giving alleviation to debacle stricken territories.