The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association of North America ( ICSA ) is a volunteer organization that serves as the governing authority for all sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of Canada. It was founded in 1937 as the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association, and changed to it current name in 2001.
28-549: Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) is one of the seven conferences affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association that schedule and administer regattas within their established geographic regions. MAISA organizes and regulates intercollegiate sailing in Ontario , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , and
56-493: A 17-member Board of Trustees in 2019. In 2013 the faculty adopted an open-access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online. Twelve individuals have served as president, and three others have served as acting president of the University of Rhode Island. Marc B. Parlange is the current president, having served since August 2021. URI's main campus is located in northern South Kingstown , and most of
84-832: A few schools in Eight-Metres for the Oliver Hay Trophy, now known as the McMillan Cup. The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) was formed June 16, 1930, as the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association (ICYRA). The first inter-collegiate dinghy fleet event, the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup, took place with 34 entrants in 1930 in parallel with the founding of the ICYRA. There
112-589: Is 84%. U.S. News & World Report ranks URI tied for 152nd overall among 436 "national universities" and tied for 81st out of 225 "top public schools" in 2024. Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks URI for 51-75 globally for ''Oceanography'' in 2023. The average incoming freshman at the Kingston campus for the fall of 2017 had a GPA of 3.54 and an SAT score of 1178 (out of 1600) (with ACT scores converted to SAT scale). URI has 18 club sports teams consisting of around 600 athletes. Club sports
140-516: Is supervised by a Graduate Secretary and an executive committee, which comprises both graduate and undergraduate students. Both the Graduate Secretary and the executive committee are elected by representatives from each school in the conference. Each conference conducts local and intersectional regattas and holds district championships in both the fall and the spring. The conference or district championships allow schools to qualify for
168-504: Is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of Rhode Island . The university is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". As of 2019, the URI enrolled 14,653 undergraduate students, 1,982 graduate students, and 1,339 non-degree students, making it the largest university in the state. Its main campus is located in the village of Kingston in southern Rhode Island. Satellite campuses include
196-801: The District of Columbia . The conference consists of fifty-five member universities. Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association The first college sailing club to be formed in the United States was the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club , established in Branford, Connecticut in 1881, three years before the founding of the Oxford University Yacht Club at the University of Oxford in 1884 followed by
224-805: The Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships . The ICSA College Sailing Hall of Fame was established in 1969. The Hall of Fame is located in the Robert Crown Sailing Center at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. There are several awards that are bestowed upon collegiate sailors at the end of every full racing season: ICSA seeks to promote the sport of sailing throughout North America and encourage participation in
252-623: The New England District for the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy, a separate trophy from the new Fowle Trophy that is awarded to the best overall collegiate team. National team racing for the Walter Cromwell Wood Bowl , four-a-side format, commenced in 1970 between teams formed with sailors within a particular ICSA district or 'conference', and, since 1977, individuals from one college. The University of Rhode Island
280-744: The 25 on campus residence halls, thousands more opt to commute from the surrounding area. Narragansett , an abutting town to Kingston, is made up of hundreds of summer vacation homes which are rented to students for the academic year. Notable University of Rhode Island alumni in politics and government include Lieutenant General (retired) Michael Flynn (B.Sc. 1981), 38th mayor of Providence Jorge Elorza (B.Sc. 1998), and governors of Rhode Island Lincoln Almond (B.Sc. 1959) and J. Joseph Garrahy (1953). Notable graduates in journalism and media include CNN correspondent John King (B.A. 1985), CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour (B.A. 1983), and CBS correspondent Vladimir Duthiers (B.A. 1991). Among URI's alumni in
308-576: The Cambridge University Yacht Club at the University of Cambridge in 1893, the Harvard University Yacht Club in 1894, and Brown University Yacht Club in 1896. Harvard and Yale held a sailing event in 1911, but this was a long-distance 'cruise' rather than a fleet or team race, and only one Yale yacht attended the event. Organized intercollegiate fleet racing began in 1928 between just
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#1732779796508336-561: The ICSA since its inception most college sailing programs offer general instruction to the student body, and in some cases the general public. Often college sailing programs serve to introduce many people to the sport of sailing. Many college sailors have gone on to race in the America's Cup as well as in the Olympics . Vanguard Sailboats was an official partner of ICSA for many years and
364-400: The ICSA. 278 schools are listed in the ICSA team database, and over 170 are currently active. 34 schools have launched fully funded varsity teams , with the rest being club teams. Varsity teams include: Active club teams include: There are 6 conferences college sailing. The conferences within ICSA schedule and administer regattas within their established regions: Each conference
392-526: The NCAA "March Madness" Tournament a total of 10 times since its first appearance in 1961. Two of these ten appearances occurred during the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Athletic facilities include the Ryan Center , Keaney Gymnasium , Meade Stadium , Mackal Field House, Tootell Aquatic Center, Bradford R. Boss Arena , URI Soccer Complex, Bill Beck Field , and URI Softball Complex. While 5600 students live in
420-1061: The Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence's Jewelry District , the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett , and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich , which closed in June of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic . The university offers bachelor's degrees , master's degrees , and doctoral degrees in 80 undergraduate and 49 graduate areas of study through nine academic schools and colleges. Another college, University College for Academic Success, serves primarily as an advising college for all incoming undergraduates and follows them through their first two years of enrollment at URI. The University of Rhode Island
448-628: The boatbuilder annually sponsored the ICSA National Championships. Through 2021, LaserPerformance was the official sponsor. As of May 2024, Zim Sailing and West Coast Sailing are the Official Suppliers of College Sailing. Rhode Island University The University of Rhode Island ( URI ) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston , Rhode Island , United States. It
476-620: The school offers include men's and women's ice hockey , soccer , tennis , equestrian , ultimate frisbee , volleyball, field hockey , wrestling , crew, gymnastics , and sailing , amongst others. These teams travel and compete against other intercollegiate programs in the country. URI also has 20+ intramural sports , including volleyball , badminton , dodgeball , and soccer . The intramural sports allow students to compete in tournaments and games with other students on campus. URI also has over 300 student organizations and clubs. The university's student newspaper , The Good Five Cent Cigar ,
504-635: The school was given its current title through an act of the General Assembly following the addition of the College of Arts and Sciences and the offering of doctoral degrees. The Board of Governors for Higher Education, appointed by the governor, became the governing body of the university in 1981 during the presidency of Frank Newman (1974–1983). The Board of Governors was replaced by the Rhode Island Board of Education in 2013, and by
532-488: The school's name was again changed to Rhode Island State College as the school's programs were expanded beyond its original agricultural education mandate. The college graduated its first African American student, Harvey Robert Turner, in 1914. Turner majored in civil engineering, competed on the college's football and track teams, and received a Bachelor of Science degree. He went on to teach at Prairie View A&M University , where he also served as treasurer. In 1951
560-479: The sport among young people. Although both varsity and club teams compete fiercely to qualify for district championships and nationals, the overall goal is to promote sailing and have fun on the water. Thus, most college sailing programs do not require previous sailing experience and encourage widespread participation among students. However, most schools also value students who have high school sailing experience. As education and training have been two cornerstones of
588-472: The university property is in the Kingston census-designated place . The campus is accessed via Rhode Island Route 138 from either the west ( Interstate 95 ) or east ( United States Route 1 ). The campus was mostly farmland when it was purchased by the state in 1888, and still includes the c. 1796 Oliver Watson Farmhouse. The early buildings of the campus are set around its main quadrangle, and were built out of locally quarried granite. The campus master plan
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#1732779796508616-503: Was also a major sailing event between Princeton and Dartmouth in 1934, but details of its format are not recorded. The initial emphasis of the ICYRA was very much on fleet racing , rather than team racing , but during the 1930s, team racing between individual colleges started to emerge, with 2 to 4 colleges meeting up, each fielding 2 to 5 boats. Collegiate dinghy sailing blossomed in 1934–36 with initiatives taken by Princeton with its 'Tiger' dinghies (1934), MIT (the famous Pavilion
644-633: Was also first awarded in 1937, being won by MIT Following World War II , collegiate sailing spread across the U.S. and parts of Canada, with ICYRA membership rapidly growing to modern numbers. George O’Day ( Harvard ), Harry Anderson ( Yale ) and Bill Cox Sr. ( Princeton ) helped develop the ICYRA team race rules in the 1940s, and these were the forerunners of the NAYRU (now US Sailing ) and International Yacht Racing Union (later International Sailing Federation ) team race rules. A regional team racing championship, four-a-side format, first took place in 1950 in
672-906: Was developed by the noted landscape architects Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot in the 1890s. The central portion of the campus, where most of its pre-1950 buildings are located, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. URI is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education . The student-faculty ratio at University of Rhode Island is 16:1, and the school has 43.1% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at University of Rhode Island include: Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse; Psychology, General; Speech Communication and Rhetoric; Kinesiology and Exercise Science; and Health-Related Knowledge and Skills, Other. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction,
700-810: Was first chartered as the Rhode Island State Agricultural School, associated with the state agricultural experiment station , in 1888. The site of the school was originally the Oliver Watson Farm in Kingston, whose original farmhouse is now a small museum. In 1892, the school was reorganized as the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts . That year, it extended courses of study from two years to four years; URI reckons 1892 as its founding date. The first class had only seventeen students, each completing their course of study in two years. In 1909,
728-466: Was founded and built in 1935 at the instigation of Walter C. "Jack" Wood), and Brown (1936). The first ICSA dinghy fleet regatta took place in the spring of 1937 at the MIT Pavilion and was won by MIT, with Brown, Cornell , Harvard, Princeton, Williams , and Yale also competing. In the fall of 1937, 19 colleges took part in another ICYRA dinghy regatta at the MIT Pavilion. The Morss Trophy
756-668: Was founded in 1971. It is also home to several Greek-lettered organizations. The University of Rhode Island competes in 16 intercollegiate sports. The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and the Coastal Athletic Association in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The Rhode Island Rams men's basketball competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference, and has appeared in
784-767: Was the first winner of the current team racing championship in 1977. In 2001 the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association became the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association to better reflect the breadth of ships used in competition. In 2011, a group of Canadian University teams formed the Canadian Intercollegiate Sailing Association (CICSA), based on the ICSA's model. CICSA's two most successful teams, Queen's University and McGill University , also compete in
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