College of Professional Schools
Dean: Aron Temkin
The College of Professional Schools covers a unique breadth of fields including accounting, management, computing, cyber defense, nursing, engineering, construction, and architecture. These programs are conducted by faculty in the School of Architecture and Art, the School of Business and Management, the David Crawford School of Engineering, and the School of Nursing.
Across these disciplines students and faculty are engaged in teaching and learning processes that combine strong conceptual foundations with hands-on practice. Our engaged spirit of service combines with a willingness to collaborate that is necessary for tackling real-world challenges. When this is combined with the leadership focus of the university, we position our students to engage the problems of our era and build the industries, systems, processes, machines and structures that are required of the next century.
College Mission
The College of Professional Schools provides students with the means, motivation, confidence and empathy to engage the problems of our era and create the industries, systems, processes, machines and structures that are required of our evolving society.
Professional Accreditation
The College includes several accredited programs. The School of Nursing offers a BSN degree accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The management and accounting degrees are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The three engineering degrees - Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering - are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. The fourth engineering major, Construction Management, is designed to be accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission (ASAC) of ABET.The Master of Architecture degree is accredited by the National Architecture Accreditation Board (NAAB).
School of Architecture & Art
Director: Cara Armstrong
Associate Director: Daniel Sagan
Director of Graduate Architecture: Michael Hoffman
Charles A. Dana Professor Woolf; Professor Temkin; Associate Professors Cox, Galligan-Baldwin, Hoffman, Lutz, Sagan and Schaller; Assistant Professors D'Aponte, Parker, Stonorov; Lecturer Armstrong.
Mission
To offer many opportunities for experiential learning and reflection. The School explores in many dimensions the meaning of making and the making of meaning. The School reinforces the student’s ability to think creatively and independently, and reflects the University’s ideals to develop citizens with integrity, conviction, and self-respect; educated and motivated to be leaders in service to the community.
Degrees and Minors Offered
The School of Architecture and Art offers the Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies, and the Master of Architecture (NAAB-accredited).
Minors are offered in Architectural Studies , Art History , and Art.
Accreditation
Norwich University’s School of Architecture + Art is the only NAAB accredited architecture school in northern New England.
In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.
Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.
Norwich University’s School of Architecture + Art offers the following NAAB accredited degree: M. Arch. (pre-professional degree with 141 credits + 34 graduate credits)
Next accreditation visit: 2017.
School of Business & Management
Director: Najiba Benabess
Associate Director: Stephen Pomeroy
Charles A. Dana Professor Puddicombe; Professors Kabay, Mohaghegh, and Vanecek; Associate Professors Benabess, Blythe, Jolley, Stephenson, and Yandow; Assistant Professors Chung, Hansen; Lecturers Almagambetov, Bovee, and Pomeroy.
Mission
The mission of the School of Business and Management is to provide a high quality education that emphasizes technical competence, critical thinking, ethical practices, communication and other interpersonal skills that qualify and equip our students to pursue a variety of life pursuits.
Degrees and Minors Offered
The School of Business and Management offers the B.S. in Management , B.S. in Accounting , B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Computer Security and Information Assurance . The B.S. in Management degree requires that students choose one of the following concentrations: Leadership , Marketing , Financial Economics and Computer Information Systems .
Minors are offered in Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Computer Crime & Forensics and Information Assurance.
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Computer Security and Information Assurance (MSIA) are offered through the College of Graduate and Continuing studies and described in the CGCS section of the online catalog .
Accreditation
Norwich University, through its School of Business and Management, is nationally accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) for the offering of the B.S. in Management and B.S. in Accounting. ACBSP promotes continuous improvement and recognizes excellence in the accreditation of business education programs around the world.
The David Crawford School of Engineering
Director: Stephen Fitzhugh
Chairs: Jeffrey Mountain, Michael Prairie, Edwin Schmeckpeper,
Charles A. Dana Professor Wight; Professors Descoteaux, Fitzhugh, Lessard, Schmeckpeper, and Wallace; Associate Professors Beneat, Friend, Kelley, Mountain, Prairie, and Sevi; Assistant Professors Al-Aubaidy, Kulkarni, Patterson, Supan, and Tefe; Lecturers Feinauer, and Rolland.
The David Crawford School of Engineering is comprised of the Departments of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
Mission
The Mission of the David Crawford School of Engineering is to:
- Prepare students to excel as engineers.
- Provide a broad, fundamental, and practical engineering education.
- Foster creativity and critical thinking in problem solving.
- Enable students to be leaders in their profession, community, nation, and the world.
Degrees and Minors Offered
The David Crawford School of Engineering offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering , Electrical and Computer Engineering , Mechanical Engineering and Construction Management.
A minor is offered in Engineering Science .
The Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) is offered through the College of Graduate and Continuing studies.
Accreditation
The Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. The Construction Management program is designed to be accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission (ASAC) of ABET.
School of Nursing
Director: Sharon I. Richie
Associate Professor Richie; Assistant Professors Lapierre, Healy; Lecturers Kiernan, Marchewka, Pitcher and Wood.
Mission
The Baccalaureate Nursing Program educates qualified nurses to serve individuals and communities throughout the life cycle in health promotion and disease management. Through educational excellence, this program challenges students to respond to the complex system of health care in order to ensure optimum quality and value inpatient care.
Degrees Offered
The School of Nursing offers the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). The MSN program isoffered through the College of Graduate and Continuing studies and is described in the CGCS section of the online catalog .
Accreditation
The BSN Program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 887-8476 and approved by the Vermont State Board of Nursing, Office of Professional Regulations, National Life Building, Floor 2, Montpelier, VT 05520-2482, (802) 828-2396.