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In 1917, Providence College was founded as an all-male school through the efforts of the Diocese of Providence and the Dominican Province of St. Joseph.The central figure in the college's incorporation was Matthew Harkins, Bishop of Providence, who sought an institution that would establish a center of advanced learning for the Catholic youth of Rhode Island.
The University of Providence was founded in 1932 as Great Falls Junior College for Women by Edwin Vincent O'Hara, the Catholic Bishop of Great Falls, in collaboration with the Sisters of Charity of Providence and the Ursuline Sisters. It became coeducational in 1937.
The 2024–25 Providence Friars Men's ice hockey season will be the 74th season of play for the program and 41st in Hockey East. The Friars will represent Providence College in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, play their home games at Schneider Arena and be coached by Nate Leaman in his 14th season.
The 2024–25 Providence Friars men's basketball team represents Providence College during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The team is led by 2nd-year head coach Kim English, and play their home games at Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence, Rhode Island as a member of the Big East Conference.
Providence has fielded a men's college basketball team since 1926. The team played as an independent until 1979, when it became a charter member of the original Big East Conference. Providence was among seven schools to leave the original Big East in 2013 to become charter members of a new Big East Conference.
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The college's flagship Knight building in Warwick was designed by the Chicago and New York architecture firm of Perkins & Will, in conjunction with Providence firms Harkness & Geddes and Robinson Green Beretta. [13] The campus was designed to house all academic, social, and recreational functions in a single building. [13]