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The University of Scranton is a private Jesuit university in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1888 by William O'Hara , the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College . [ 2 ] In 1938, the college was elevated to university status and took the name The University of Scranton. [ 3 ]
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In 1966, the University of Scranton established a representative faculty assembly, called the University Senate. The University Senate served as an advisory body to the Board of Trustees, charged with submitting recommendations and resolutions regarding changes in University policy. [81] Later, membership was also extended to students.
The Aquinas, the university's first student publication, was originally established in 1916 as the monthly literary magazine of St. Thomas College, now called the University of Scranton. [2] The inaugural issue of The Aquinas was published in January 1916. [ 2 ]
The press was housed in the University of Scranton's Smurfit Art Center, a former Universalist church purchased by the university in 1987. [4] The University of Scranton Press is a founding member of the Association of Jesuit University Presses, [5] but was not a current member of the Association of American University Presses as of 2010. [6]
In 1955, the University of Scranton announced an ambitious $5,000,000 campus expansion plan, which proposed constructing ten new buildings over the course of the next ten years so that the school's physical plant would be concentrated at the former Scranton family Estate, the temporary barrack structures would be replaced with safer and more ...
This article is a list of presidents of the University of Scranton, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. No. Name Start End Ref. 1. John J. Mangan 1892 1895 [1] 2.
The Patrick and Margaret DeNaples Center is The University of Scranton's campus center. On January 31, 2006, the University announced plans for the DeNaples Center, a new $30,000,000 campus center that would replace Gunster Memorial Student Center and mark the University’s most ambitious project in its 118-year history. [1]