St. Catherine University

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St. Catherine University
St. Catherine University seal.png
Former names
College of St. Catherine (1905–2009)
St. Mary's School of Nursing (1887–1964)
St. Mary's Junior College (1964–1985)
Type Private university
Established1905;119 years ago (1905)
Religious affiliation
 Roman Catholic
Academic affiliations
 ACCU
CIC
WCC
Space-grant
Endowment $74.8 million (2016) [1]
Budget$128.3 million (2016) [2]
President Marcheta P. Evans, PhD [3]
Academic staff
340 [4]
Students4,724 [4]
Undergraduates 3,158
Postgraduates 1,566
Location
Saint Paul / Minneapolis, Minnesota
,
U.S.

44°55′29″N93°10′56″W / 44.92472°N 93.18222°W / 44.92472; -93.18222
CampusUrban
Colors     Purple and gold
Nickname Wildcats
Sporting affiliations
 NCAA Division III – MIAC
MascotA Wildcat
Website www.stkate.edu

St. Catherine University (St. Kate's) is a private Catholic university in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was established as one of the first institutions of higher learning specifically for women in the Midwest and was known as the College of St. Catherine until 2009. [5] St. Kate's offers baccalaureate programs for women as well as graduate and associate programs for women and men.

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The university averages an enrollment of about 5,000 students annually. [4] It focuses on recruiting and enrolling minority students and non-traditional aged students. St. Catherine's Weekend College—now College for Adults [6] —was the second such program in the nation and the first in the Upper Midwest. [7] St. Kate's was also the first private college in the nation to launch an effort to attract, welcome, and retain Hmong students, making it home to one of the largest populations of Hmong scholars in the nation. [8]

History

Founders

St. Catherine University was founded as the College of St. Catherine in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet under the leadership of Mother Seraphine Ireland. The university is named after St. Catherine of Alexandria, the fourth-century Egyptian lay philosopher who suffered martyrdom for her faith. [9]

A site for St. Kate's was chosen atop the city's second-highest hill in St. Paul in the area now known as Highland Park. Hugh Derham of Rosemount contributed $20,000 for the first building. Derham Hall opened in January 1905, offering classes to high school boarding students and lower-division college students. The high school eventually moved to its own campus and merged with the Lasallian-run Cretin High School to form Cretin-Derham Hall High School in 1987. Upper-division courses were first offered in the academic year of 1911–12. In spring 1913, Bachelor of Arts degrees were conferred on the first two students to complete four years at the new institution. In 1917, St. Kate's earned full accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. [9]

During World War II, St. Kate's responded to a critical nursing shortage by expanding its programs to include a baccalaureate degree in nursing and assuming leadership of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's hospitals and schools of nursing and partnering with the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps to provide students with financial assistance in exchange for nursing services. More than 170 St. Catherine alumnae served in military hospitals between 1942 and 1948. [10]

Prior to the 1970s, students often took classes at the nearby University of St. Thomas, which was at the time a men's college.

Expansion to Minneapolis

The St. Paul campus is the location for most day, evening/weekend, and graduate program classes, with 110 wooded acres in the Highland Park neighborhood, a central location between the Twin Cities' downtowns. [4] St. Kate's coeducational Minneapolis campus in the Riverside neighborhood offers associate degree and certificate programs in numerous healthcare fields. In 1887, the Sisters of St. Joseph responded to a need for trained nurses in the region founding the St. Mary's School of Nursing at St. Mary's Hospital in Minneapolis. Student nurses in the three year Registered Nurse program lived in a dormitory at the hospital while studying first year academics at the College of St. Catherine. In 1964, the hospital program was expanded and opened under the title St. Mary's Junior College. St. Mary's offered associate degrees in healthcare, including the first occupational therapy assistant program and the first physical therapist assistant program in the United States. St. Kate's acquired St. Mary's Junior College in 1985. [10] In 1987, Fairview Hospital combined with St. Mary's Hospital to become Riverside Medical Center. [11] In 2019, St. Catherine University sold the Minneapolis campus and moved all Minneapolis campus programs and staff to the St. Paul campus the following year. [12]

Move to University

On June 1, 2009, the College of St. Catherine changed its name to St. Catherine University. [9]

National Register of Historic Places

Derham Hall and Our Lady of Victory Chapel are co-listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

St. Kate's Presidents

St. Catherine's University has had twelve presidents over its history.

Organization

Schools and colleges

At St. Catherine University, students enroll in one of three colleges: [14]

Students pursue their majors or programs of study through four discipline-based schools: [15]

Collectively, the schools host more than 100 fields of study, many of which are available in both traditional day and nontraditional hybrid (evening, weekend and online) formats. [16] St. Kate's also has nearly 60 baccalaureate majors, plus another 35 or so through the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities, as well as dozens of minors and nine pre-professional programs.[ citation needed ]

Partnerships

St. Kate's is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC), a consortium of five private liberal arts colleges located in Minneapolis or St. Paul. The partnership allows students to take classes or complete a major at any one of the other colleges. The university also partners with 900 clinical training sites to make clinical education meaningful and relevant to St. Kate's students. [17] Partner organizations include Allina Health System, Fairview Health Services, HealthEast Care System and HealthPartners.

In the fall of 2011, St. Kate's became the first university in Minnesota to partner with the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program (formerly known as the Peace Corps Fellows/USA program) to offer Peace Corps volunteers a fellowship to earn a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (MAOL). [18]

Endowed Mission Chairs

Unlike many colleges and universities that have established separate departments for Catholic studies, liberal arts and women's studies, St. Catherine University has established three distinguished chairs: [19]

Each position is supported by endowed funds and a program endowment. The distinguished chairs will work as a team to:

Academics

The student/faculty ratio is 10:1. [4] The average class size is 18 in the traditional/day program, 13 in the College for Adults, bachelor's program and 16 in the College for Adults, associate program. [4]

In addition to taking courses directly related to their chosen majors, baccalaureate students are required to complete one or two additional courses in the arts, humanities and sciences to meet the university's liberal arts requirements. [20]

Online OTA program

In 2014, St. Catherine University expanded its Occupational Therapy Assistant program to offer a blended learning option. Starting in Virginia, and then expanding to California and Texas, the Online OTA program features 80% online and 20% onsite curriculum, including skills labs and fieldwork experiences. [21]

Research and Academic Centers

St. Catherine University offers opportunities for faculty-student research and mentoring through department and grant-funded initiatives—as well as through these programs and national centers:

Honors programs

First-year students or sophomores who have achieved at least a 3.5 GPA are eligible to apply for the St. Catherine University's Antonian Scholars program for promising learners, leaders, researchers, writers, performers, and creative thinkers. Antonian Scholars are required to complete an independent creative project during senior year. [30] There are a total of 25 different Honor Societies. [4]

Study abroad programs

St. Catherine University offers more than 150 study abroad options in 50 countries, ranging in length from January term to yearlong. More than 200 St. Kate's students study abroad each year. [31]

Student life

Residence life

Eighty percent of St. Catherine's first-year students live in nine residence halls on campus. [32] Students have access to computer labs in the halls and resident advisors (RAs) who provide ongoing support, guidance, and social activities. Each year, the university offers learning communities in some residence halls.

Clubs and organizations

St. Catherine University has more than 50 student organizations, including Student Senate, intramural sports, and a women's choir. [33] Students can work on two student publications, The Wheel and Ariston.

Art and archives

St. Catherine University's fine art collection dates back to St. Kate's founding in 1905. Today, more than 1,000 pieces comprise the collection. Among them are works on paper—prints (etchings, engravings, woodcuts, lithographs and silkscreens), watercolors and drawings—as well as paintings and sculpture by artists of different nationalities and periods, including:

In addition to paper files, the St. Catherine University archives contains more than 8,000 photographs and 4,500 artifacts. [34] The archives contain artifacts from before the Christian era and from the early days of printing, including a Heritage Edition of The Saint John's Bible. [35]

The university also houses the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery which hosts art exhibitions, programming, and the university's art collection. The gallery seeks to "maintain a powerful women-centered presence in the local and regional arts communities." [36]

Athletics

St. Catherine athletic teams are the Wildcats. The university is a member of the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) since the 1983–84 academic year. [37]

St. Catherine competes in 11 intercollegiate varsity sports: Women's sports include basketball, cross country, dance, golf, ice hockey, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball. Club and recreational sports include aerobics, volleyball, basketball, soccer, tennis and rock climbing.

Facilities

Remodeled in 2015, the Aimee and Patrick Butler Center for Sports and Fitness at St. Kate's is a women-oriented sports center, complete with an eight-lane swimming pool, weight room, suspended jogging track, spa and sauna. [38] The benefits for student athletes are emerging at the University's Women's Health Integrative Research (WHIR) Center. WHIR's equipment can establish baseline performance measurements and track athletic improvement over time.

Notable alumni

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