Albertus Magnus College Hosts STEM Event for Aspiring Teachers
Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers College Level STEM Experience is April 11
Zania Collier
New Haven, Conn, April 4, 2024 – Have you ever had a beloved teacher who inspired you to strive for greater achievements,especially in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)? Albertus Magnus College is fully prepared and eager to educate even more individuals in these fields. As the most diverse Catholic college in New England, Albertus is pleased to sponsor and host a college level STEM experience for Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers (TSTT), now celebrating 25 years of recruiting, mentoring, and training culturally diverse and economically challenged students from high school through college and placing them as effective teachers and committed leaders who strengthen schools and communities.
About 50 diverse high school students from Bridgeport public schools, who are aspiring teachers, will converge on campus to engage in hands-on STEM activities led by the CT STEM Academy and learn about Albertus’ teacher preparation programs - including the College’s admission process and receiving a tour of the campus.
Who: Leaders from the Albertus Teacher Education Program and Admissions teams, CT STEM Academy, and TSTT. Keynote Speaker: Zania Collier ’23 M.S. a New Haven school teacher and Albertus Magnus College alumnae whose grant proposal to bring Makey Makey STEM kits into her high school social studies classroom was funded by the Chuck Lorre Foundation.
What: Inspire today’s students to become the next generation of educators.
When: Thursday, April 11, 2024; 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.
Where: Behan Community Room, award-winning Hubert Campus Center, 831 Winchester Ave.,
New Haven, Conn.
About Albertus Magnus College
Founded in 1925, Albertus is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money, and The New York Times, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For ten consecutive years, at least 95% of Albertus graduates have attained employment or gone on to graduate studies within six months of completing their degrees. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and graduate program levels. Proud to enroll a student body where nearly half of its undergraduate students receive Federal Pell Grants and are first-generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, including BSN and Connecticut's first LPN-to-BSN; General Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Public Health.
Among its graduate offerings is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program, and it is just one of three schools to offer a Master of Science in Human Services. In 2025-26, Albertus is celebrating its historic 100th Anniversary and completing implementation of the Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, with a bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.