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The college was renamed Danbury State College in 1959, Western Connecticut State College in 1967, and, finally, Western Connecticut State University in 1983. [5] In 2011, governance of the university was transferred to the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system.
The William O'Neill Athletic and Convocation Center (O'Neill Center) is an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) multi-purpose athletic complex, at Western Connecticut State University, in Danbury, Connecticut. Named after William O'Neill, the O'Neill Center was completed in 1995 and has since been home to WestConn's basketball and volleyball teams.
The state's flagship public university is the University of Connecticut, [1] which is also the largest school in the state. The remainder of the state's public institutions constitute the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, comprising four state universities, twelve community colleges, and an online school, Charter Oak State College. [2]
Nathan S. Ancell, a major benefactor of the university and president of Ethan Allen, was honored with his name in memorial. The Ancell School of Business is primarily located in the West Side Campus Classroom Building, which also houses the Young Library and the Jane Goodall the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies.
The school occupies a 1.1-acre (4,500 m 2) lot at the north end of the block formed by Locust, Ninth and Roberts avenues in an otherwise residential neighborhood. Western Connecticut State University, formerly the Danbury State Normal School where the teachers at the school were trained in its laboratory era, is a block to the west.
Licensed to Danbury, Connecticut, United States, the station serves the Danbury area. The station is owned by Western Connecticut State University. [2] [3] WXCI broadcasts to Connecticut and New York at 3,000 watts with a stereo transmitter on WCSU's Westside Campus, while the actual studio is located on the Midtown campus.
The Echo – Western Connecticut State University ... Newspapers published in Danbury, Connecticut: Farmers Chronicle, W., June 17, 1793 - Sept. 19, 1796 [13]
Western Connecticut State College, now known as Western Connecticut State University, established its college football team in 1969, initially named the Western Connecticut Indians. The team's first head coach was Jim Krayeske , who guided them to a 2–2–1 record during their debut season in the Freedom Football League. [ 5 ]