GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT CALDWELL COLLEGE

Caldwell College is a Catholic, co-educational, four-year liberal arts institution, committed to intellectual rigor, individual attention, and the ethical values of the Judaeo-Christian academic tradition.

Founded in 1939 by the Sisters of Saint Dominic, the College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Universities, chartered by the State of New Jersey, and registered with the Regents of the University of the State of New York.

Located on a 70-acre wooded campus in a quiet suburban community 20 miles from Manhattan, Caldwell provides a serene and secure environment, conducive to study and learning.

Caldwell College offers a student/faculty ratio of 13 to 1, small classes and individualized attention. Professors know their students by name, challenge them to strive for excellence, and provide the support needed to achieve it. This close relationship between faculty and students also leads to a spirit of camaraderie throughout the campus community.

Caldwell offers 28 majors of study, each supported by fully-qualified faculty and up-to-date facilities. Students can choose from BA, BS, and BFA programs in the arts and sciences, education, psychology, business, and communications. Teaching certification can be earned in elementary education or in a variety of K-12 and secondary subjects. The College also has a number of affiliation programs with other colleges, universities, and medical schools allowing students to save time and money while earning multiple degrees.

Approximately half of the approximately 2,300 men and women currently enrolled at Caldwell are adults pursuing degrees part-time. The Center for Graduate and Continuing Studies meets the academic needs of the College’s adult students. The center provides adult learners, in undergraduate or graduate programs, with excellence in teaching, caring academic support, and learning options that work with their busy lives.

The College launched its first Ph.D. program in Fall 2009, when it began offering a doctoral program in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). This is the first doctoral program in ABA in the state of the New Jersey. ABA is a well developed scientific discipline that is best known for its proven ability to greatly help children with autism spectrum disorder.

Master's degrees are offered in Applied Behavior Analysis, a highly effective treatment for Autism (ABA), art therapy, business administration (accounting, nonprofit management), counseling psychology (art therapy, mental health counseling, school counseling), curriculum and instruction ( special education, supervisor certification), educational administration, pastoral ministry (church administration), and special education (general teacher and certification, learning disabilities). Educational administration is also offered in a fast-track Off-Campus Leadership Development Program. Post-master’s programs are available in educational principal’s and supervisor’s certification, professional counselor licensing, art therapy, school counseling and Director of School Counseling.

Combined bachelor’s-master’s programs are available to qualified students in art therapy, business, psychology, school counseling, and theology.

Caldwell extends up to a 25% tuition discount to educators with religious-affiliated schools or individuals working in pastoral ministry, as well as various other discounts to members of the Dominican Order, Caldwell College alumni, law enforcement personnel, and local residents.

Caldwell College has 11 NCAA Division II teams in men’s baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis, and women’s cross-country, soccer, tennis, volleyball, basketball, and softball and sponsors a variety of recreational sports. The College offers numerous activities and clubs through the Student Activities Office and Campus Ministry.

MISSION STATEMENT

Founded in 1939 by the Sisters of Saint Dominic, Caldwell College is a Catholic institution in the Judaeo-Christian tradition with a heritage of eight centuries of Dominican commitment to higher learning. Serving a diverse population of all ages, Caldwell College provides an excellent liberal arts education which promotes spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic growth. Upon this foundation, the College offers career-related programs which prepare its graduates to take advantage of opportunities in a complex society.

In pursuit of truth and life-long learning, Caldwell College fosters the well-being of this and future generations. Through a curriculum and extracurricular program rooted in the Catholic humanist tradition, the College seeks to empower its students to comprehend community and global issues and to act responsibly toward self and others.

ORIGINS

As one of the youngest of the many Dominican colleges and universities throughout the world, Caldwell College is intimately linked to the 800-year history and spirit of the Dominican Order, a worldwide community of preachers, scholars and educators which traces its origins to the thirteenth century. This Order had its beginnings in an age not unlike the present day, a time of unrest and transition in the social, economic, moral and intellectual sphere. Dedicated to the pursuit of truth, the Order has found itself since its inception at the heart of higher education and its climate of study and prayer has produced such scholars as Thomas Aquinas, social reformers like Catherine of Siena, artists like Fra Angelico, and scientists like Albert the Great.

This inherited integration of the arts, humanities and sciences, with the deepest expression of the contemplative and creative spirit of men and women forms the basis of the educational philosophy of Caldwell College. We celebrate our origins by Liturgy and through convocations, a campus-wide commitment to religious belief, and by witness to the College motto: “Sapientia et Scientia.”

HISTORY AND ACCREDITATION

Caldwell College was founded as a Catholic liberal arts college by the Sisters of Saint Dominic under the leadership of Mother M. Joseph Dunn, O.P., with the approval of the Most Reverend Thomas Joseph Walsh, Archbishop of Newark, who became its first president. Nancy H. Blattner, Ph.D. became Caldwell College’s eighth and current president July 1, 2009.

Caldwell College was incorporated on August 10, 1939, as an institution of higher learning for women under the laws of the State of New Jersey and empowered to grant degrees. In 1952, Caldwell College received full accreditation from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Caldwell has maintained this accreditation which was last reaffirmed in the Fall of 2005 when the Commission accepted the Periodic Review Report and commended the institution for the quality of the report.

In 1974, Caldwell College became the first institution in New Jersey to award the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1979, Caldwell became one of the few institutions in the state to offer a unique external degree program. In 1985, the Board of Trustees of the College voted to make Caldwell College fully co-educational, enabling men to receive the superior education and career preparation that women had been able to receive for fifty years. Caldwell College welcomed the first full-time male students in the fall of 1986.

In November 1992, Caldwell College reached another plateau: the New Jersey Board of Higher Education granted approval for the College to offer the M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction. During the summer of 1993, the first graduate students began classes.

The College now offers 17 graduate programs or degrees, along with a number of Post Baccalaureate and Post Masters' programs.

Visitors are always welcome on campus. It is advisable to call or write the Office of Admissions to arrange for a guided tour. The Office of Admissions can be contacted by phone at (973) 618-3500, by email at admissions@caldwell.edu, or via mail at the following address:

Office of Admissions
120 Bloomfield Avenue
Caldwell, New Jersey, 07006

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