We’ll begin offering academic advisement, and later, classes leading to degree programs, at Gateway and Housatonic Community Colleges. Our target audience here is not students who would already come to Southern, but the working parent who can’t leave Bridgeport, or the student who works full time and supports a family. It’s another way to put our mission of access and social justice into practice.
Our forthcoming Professional Doctorate in Social Work will be the first of its kind in New England, offering the specialization that is now required for advanced employment in this and other health related fields.
Our new Utility Management program, is being hailed as a national model. A partnership with Gateway Community College and the Regional Water Authority, it provides utility companies facing a graying of the industry with critical succession planning and leadership development.
Southern is about to go solar in a big way! More than 3,000 solar panels with an annual generation capacity of one million kilowatts, will be installed on the west side of campus. There’s no capital investment or up-front cost and we’ll purchase the electricity generated by the panels at a significant discount compared with our current utility rates.