Date: 01 October 2000

1. Corporate name of institution: Salem State College

2. Address (city, state, zip code): 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970
Phone: (978) 542-6000

3. Date institution was chartered or authorized: September 14, 1854

4. Date institution enrolled first students in degree programs: 1854 two year, 1932 Bachelor's degree

5. Date institution awarded first degrees: 1856 diploma, 1936 Bachelor's degree

6. Type of control: State

7. By what agency is the institution legally authorized to provide a program of education beyond high school, what degrees is it authorized to grant? Board of Higher Education: B.A., B.S., M.A., M.Ed., M.A.T., C.A.G.S.

8. Level of post secondary offering:

• Four or five-year baccalaureate degree granting program
• First professional degree
• Master's and/or work beyond the first professional degree
• Work beyond the master's level but not at the doctoral level (e.g., specialist in Education)

9. Type of Undergraduate programs:

• Occupational training at the technical or semi-professional level (degree)
• Liberal Arts and general
• Teacher preparatory
• Professional

10. The calendar system at the institution is: Semester

11. What constitutes a "normal" credit hour load for students each semester?

1. Undergraduate 12-15 credit hours
2. Graduate 9 credit hours

12. Student Population:

a) How many full-time students in degree programs?
	Headcount:	Headcount M/F:
1. Undergraduate	4257	1680/2577
2. Graduate	18	12/6
b) How many part-time students in degree programs?
	Headcount:	Headcount M/F:
1. Undergraduate	1695	583/1112
2. Graduate	763	201/562
c) How many full-time equivalents (total student populations)?
	Headcount:
1. Undergraduate	6357
2. Graduate	846
d) How many students (headcount) in non-credit, short-term courses?
	Headcount:
	1500

• American Chemical Society
• American Geological Institute
• Council on Social Work Education
• Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology
• National Association of Schools of Art and Design
• NCATE
• National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission
• NEASC

15. Supply a table of organization for the institution. While the organization of any institution will depend on its purpose, size and scope of operation, institutional organization usually includes four areas. Although every institution may not have a major administrative division for these areas, the following outline may be helpful in charting and describing the overall administrative organization:

a) Organization of academic affairs, showing a line of responsibility to president for each department, school division, library, admissions office, and other units assigned to this area;
b) Organization for student affairs, including health services, student government, intercollegiate activities, and other units assigned to this area;
c) Organization of finances and business management, including plant operations and maintenance, non-academic personnel administration, auxiliary enterprises, and other units assigned to this area;
d) Organization of institutional advancement, including fund development, public relations, alumni office and other units assigned to this area.

16. Record briefly the central elements in the history of the institution.

• September 14, 1854 – Salem Normal School opens for those students "wishing to prepare themselves for teaching." Fourth in Massachusetts, tenth in the nation to grow out of the humanitarian movement of the 19th century to improve public education of all children.
• End of Civil War – Student graduates fan out across the country, Africa, The Middle East and Asia
• 1890’s – Campus moves from Broad Street, Salem to present location, then an idyllic section of the city close to the shoreline.
• 1898 – Salem Normal School becomes co-educational.
• 1900-1920 – The then commercial curriculum became first of its kind in the nation.
• 1921 – Course of study expanded to four years.
• 1932 – Institution becomes Salem Teachers College and grants Bachelor of Science Education degrees.
• 1950’s – Transitional period; Division of Continuing Education and Graduate programs instituted in 1955.
• 1960's –Expansionist period; Salem Teachers College reorganized as Salem State College; Residence Halls opened in 1966.
• 1972 – Acquisition of South Campus
• 1977 – O’Keefe Sports Center dedicated
• 1998 – Acquisition of GTE/Sylvania site - Central Campus