Albertus Magnus College

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Albertus Magnus College is a small private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut. It is located about two miles from the central campus of Yale University in a residential area near the border with Hamden. The area, on Prospect Street just above Edgerton park. The college uses several of the area's 19th-century mansions as classroom and administrative buildings.

Albertus was founded by a Dominican congregation in 1925 and is still associated with that order, though the college's board of trustees was expanded in 1969 so that 80% of the trustees are lay people. The school was founded as a women's college but became coeducational in 1985.

Some 85% of the 695 (less than 200 students per graduating class) undergraduates hail from Connecticut; more than two-thirds are female.

One notable alumna of Albertus is Margaret Heckler, an American politician who served variously as a U.S. Representative, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland. Also Jacqueline Noonan, known for describing Noonan Syndrome.

[edit] Criticism & Scandals

Albertus Magnus College was censured by the AAUP in 2000 for terminating the job of professor Michael J. Hartwig in violation of the college's official procedural safeguards, and for failing to cooperate with, and taking active measures to hinder, the investigation of the AAUP into the matter. There were allegations that the termination was due to Hartwig's unorthodox views on sexuality, in particular, his publishing of a work (The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence, Peter Lang Pub Inc. 2000 (ISBN 0820448850)) that denounced as immoral the insistence on sexual abstinence for homosexuals and single adults. ^[1]

Dean of Students Moreen Morrison has been charged on DUI as well as the college's President.^{[citation needed]}

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• Albertus Magnus College

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