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The university was founded in 1927 as the Junior College of Connecticut. It was the first Junior College chartered in the Northeastern United States . It became the University of Bridgeport in 1947 and started awarding master's degrees in 1951. It added its first doctoral degree program, educational leadership, in 1979. In 1991, the College of Chiropractic was established, the first Chiropractic school in the United States affiliated with a university. University of Bridgeport enrollment has been climbing from a low of 1,383 students in 1992 to more than 3,000 in 2003. This trend continued in 2004. The profile of the students has been changing in the last several years because of the need for financial revitalization. The school stopped awarding generous scholarships to international students and instead focused on attracting more domestic students. In 1991, the university suffered the longest faculty Strike in the history of American higher education. In an attempt to solve its financial problem, the university decided in that year to accept support from the Professors World Peace Academy , which is associated with the Unification Movement of Sun Myung Moon . Since then, the university has received more than $110 million in support from the organization. Neil Salonen , former president of the Unification Church in the United States, is the university president. By June 2003, however, the subsidies ended, and the University gained financial independence by balancing its budget. As a non-stock, non-profit Connecticut corporation the university is under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Higher Education and various accrediting agencies. EXTERNAL LINKS
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