Our goal at Cleveland State University is to create a student-focused center of scholarly excellence. We expect to be known as a place of opportunity for those who wish to know the truth of things, who are willing to strive for it, and who seek a better life for themselves and their fellow citizens. Within this student-centered supportive environment, we are committed to developing the minds and talents of all who enroll in our courses.
Part of our commitment demands that we help students meet the challenges of living and learning in a knowledge-based, ever-changing world. Added to this challenge are the obligations to learn about and know one another. The tragic events that took place in the first year of the new millennium have forced us out of our isolation as a people and made us painfully aware that we must educate one another to be responsible members of a democratic society and citizens of the world. Our curriculum is designed for these goals. Among our 80 undergraduate programs you will find opportunities to study everything from medieval society to international trade, computers and technology, and the environment. You will also find opportunities for study abroad.
The university insists on creating an atmosphere that promotes intellectual growth and the creation of new knowledge. Working beside you in these discoveries will be a first class faculty. Ninety-eight percent of our full-time faculty hold the highest degrees in their fields. Four out of five hold the Ph.D., a figure unmatched by any other Ohio university. You will meet these professors, not graduate students, in our classrooms and laboratories. And all of our accepted students are admitted onto the main campus, not to a branch or a two-year program within the institution. You will find that, even as undergraduates, you will be welcomed into research teams by our faculty.
We believe that a first-class education benefits not only the graduate of Cleveland State but the rest of society as well. Public and private institutions, corporations, and businesses have joined as our partners in a dynamic learning experience. With their help, the university creates an environment where the individual, the curriculum, and the community interact to achieve the highest levels of learning. The knowledge you gain during your course of studies on our campus will be invaluably augmented by your experience in the community, whether as a participant in our outstanding cooperative education opportunities, through service learning, or as an intern or member of a ground-breaking research team. We hope that you will, in turn, employ your knowledge to solve problems, stimulate economic activity, and increase opportunity in these same communities.
This, then, is the educational philosophy of Cleveland State University. If you have been intrigued by what you have read so far, I invite you to read through the pages of this catalog, investigate our academic programs, and come visit our campus to meet our faculty.
I look forward to meeting you.
Michael Schwartz
President