University of St. Thomas

Motto	Challenge Yourself Change Our World
Established	1885
Type	Private, Roman Catholic
Endowment	$351.6 million
Rector	Archbishop John Ireland
President	Rev. Dennis Dease
Faculty	564
Staff	1,051
Undergraduates	5,584
Postgraduates	5,057
Location	St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Address	2115 Summit Ave St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
Telephone	651-962-5000
Campus	Metropolitan: 87 acres (352,000 m²)
Colors	Purple and Grey
Mascot	Tommie the Tomcat
Website	http://www.stthomas.edu

The University of Saint Thomas (also known as UST or simply St. Thomas) is a four-year, coeducational archdiocesan Roman Catholic institution of higher learning based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1885 as a Catholic seminary, it is named after Thomas Aquinas, a medieval Catholic theologian, philosopher, and saint. Now a university, it currently enrolls more than 11,000 students, making it Minnesota's largest independent college or university. St. Thomas' recently revised mission statement is as follows: Image File history File links UST_Seal. ... A motto is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... This article is about John Ireland, an archbishop. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... State capitol building in Saint Paul Saint Paul is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area  Ranked 12th  - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 8. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... In some Christian churches, the diocese is an administrative territorial unit governed by a bishop, sometimes also referred to as a bishopric or episcopal see, though more often the term episcopal see means the office held by the bishop. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ... Location in Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A seminary is a specialized university-like institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in theology, often in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy. ... Saint Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. ... Strategic planning is a way to identify and move toward desired future states. ...

Inspired by Catholic intellectual tradition, the University of St. Thomas educates students to be morally responsible leaders who think critically, act wisely, and work skillfully to advance the common good.

Rev. Dennis Dease became the 14th president of the University of St. Thomas on July 1, 1991.

Campuses

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The St. Paul campus

Arched entryway to the St. Paul campus

The main campus, built on a farm site once considered "far removed from town," is located where St. Paul's stately Summit Avenue meets the Mississippi River. The site was farmed by ex-Fort Snelling soldier William Finn, who received the property as a pension settlement after he accidentally shot himself in the hand while on guard duty. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 378 KB) University of St. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 378 KB) University of St. ...

The western edge of the campus borders the Mississippi Gorge Regional Park. Summit Avenue, which runs through the middle of the campus, is the country's longest span of Victorian homes. This tree-lined avenue includes the Governor's Mansion, F. Scott Fitzgerald's townhome, and James J. Hill's spectacular mansion. Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK. The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. ... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ... James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a noted American and Canadian railroad tycoon. ...

The 78 acre (316,000 m²) St. Paul campus consists of the original 45 acre (182,000 m²) campus, five acres (20,000 m²) of adjacent properties and 28 acres (113,000 m²) of the St. Paul Seminary campus (informally referred to as the "south" campus) that was transferred in a 1987 affiliation between St. Thomas and the seminary. The beautifully landscaped campus has been used as a setting for two motion pictures.

St. Thomas is currently involved in an aggressive expansion project. The fall of 2005 marked the completion of the expedient 15-month construction of a new apartment-style residence hall. Selby Hall now sits on top of a three level underground parking ramp and houses an additional 400 residents. This is part of a larger plan to develop the land south of Summit Avenue. Recently completed is McNeely Hall, a large classroom building for Business that will replace the small, ineffective building of the same name that sits quietly next door. A new residential village, more parking ramps, and general civil engineering all have been negotiated successfully with the surrounding neighborhood. These developments are expected to begin within the next five years. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Murray-Herrick Center

In addition, the designing of a new student center is currently in the works as the current student center, Murray-Herrick Center, is out of date and incapable of serving students and staff to the fullest extent. The new student center is slated to be placed on an existing parking lot, hold underground parking, and be large enough to contain a new cafeteria, a ballroom, offices, a gathering area, and other facilities that are currently unavailable or inefficient. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2448x1632, 1126 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2448x1632, 1126 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

The St. Paul campus is home to most undergraduate students. In the spring of 2006 controversy arose from the undergraduate campus regarding the climate and the University's treatment of minorities on campus. The City Pages, the Star Tribune, the Pioneer Press and the University's newspaper The Aquin have written and featured many articles regarding instances of purported discrimination, including a racially motivated hate crime in Brady Hall. City Pages is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Minneapolis-St. ... The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-St. ... Pioneer Press press publishes 50 local newspapers in Chicagoland. ... The word discrimination comes from the Latin discriminare, which means to distinguish between. To discriminate socially is to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. ... A Jewish cemetery in France after being defaced by Neo-Nazis. ...

The Minneapolis campus

In fall 1992, the university opened a permanent, 150,000 square foot (14,000 m²) campus at 1000 LaSalle Ave. The building, named Terrence Murphy Hall in May 2000, is headquarters to the Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Professional Psychology. Artist Mark Balma created one of the largest frescoes in the United States on the arched ceiling of Terrence Murphy Hall's atrium. The seven-panel, 1,904 square foot (177 m²) fresco was completed in the summer of 1994 and portrays the seven virtues discussed in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Directly across the street is Opus Hall. The four-story, 100,000 square foot (9,000 m²) building opened in summer 1999 and is home to St. Thomas' School of Education. Connected to Opus Hall is a K-12 magnet school that also opened in 1999.

The University of St. Thomas School of Law began operations in Terrence Murphy Hall in fall 2001; the new School of Law building opened in 2003 and is located on the block south of Terrence Murphy Hall.

The Gainey Conference Center (Owatonna)

The Gainey Center is located on 180 acres (728,000 m²) in Owatonna just one hour south of the Twin Cities. The conference center and satellite campus was built around the French Norman-style home of the late Daniel C. Gainey who bequeathed the property to the university upon his death in 1979.

The Bernardi campus (Rome)

The University of St. Thomas Bernardi Campus is located on the west bank of the Tiber River on Lungotevere delle Armi in Rome, Italy.

Purchased by St. Thomas in November 1999, the Bernardi Campus houses St. Thomas students participating in academic programs and offers guest accommodations for visitors. Situated in the heart of the modern Prati Zone, the campus is near both the center of Rome and Vatican City.

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History

• Founded in 1885, St. Thomas began as an all-male, Catholic seminary. John Ireland, archbishop of Minneapolis and St. Paul, started the St. Thomas Aquinas seminary, which became a liberal arts college in 1894. A gift from local railroad tycoon James J. Hill provided funds to establish the St. Paul Seminary apart from the college.

• In 1896, college officials made an artificial lake, Lake Mennith, using water from an underground stream. Located in the lower quadrant, the shallow lake dried up in 1922.

• The College of St. Thomas became a military-based school for undergraduates in 1906 and awarded its first academic degrees in 1910. Before that, the school gave out two-year diplomas in commercial and classical programs.

• In 1915, the college and St. Thomas Military Academy for high school students split into two institutions and in 1965 the academy moved to Mendota Heights. The college later dropped its military distinction in 1922.

• From the late 1920s through the mid-1930s, the Holy Cross Fathers, who run the University of Notre Dame, controlled the college's administration. The diocese called those priests in to help with the school's financial problems; those priests were known as a crisis intervention team of sorts for parochial schools of that time.

• During World War II, St. Thomas served as a training base for naval officers, which kept the school open when men who would have attended college were fighting in the war.

• After the war, in 1948, the college established 'Tom Town' on the eastern end of the lower quadrant, which is currently home to the O'Shaughnessey-Frey Library. Tom Town consisted of white, barrack-like housing units for faculty, students and their families. The units helped to meet housing demand after WWII.

• In the latter half of the 20th century, St. Thomas started two of its most notable graduate programs: education in 1950 and business administration in 1974.

• Women started attending classes at St. Thomas for the first time in 1977 and now St. Thomas' undergraduate student body is 51 percent women and 49 percent men, according to Institutional Research.

• In 1991, the College of St. Thomas became the University of St. Thomas. The following year, the university opened the Minneapolis campus.

• In 2001, St. Thomas reinstated its School of Law at its Minneapolis Campus. The Law School was shut down during the Depression. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the speaker at the Grand Opening.

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Organization

Presidents

1. Thomas O’Gorman (1885 – 1887)
2. Edward McSweeney (1887 – 1888)
3. James Keane (1888 – 1892)
4. James Byrne (1892 – 1899)
5. John Dolphin (1899 – 1903)
6. Humphrey Moynihan (1903 – 1921)
7. Thomas Cullen (1921 – 1927)
8. John Foley (1927 – 1928)
9. Matthew Schumacher (1928 – 1933)
10. James Moynihan (1933 – 1943)
11. Vincent Flynn (1944 – 1956)
12. James Shannon (1956 – 1966)
13. Terrence Murphy (1966 – 1991)
14. Dennis Dease (1991 – Present)

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Academics

Each year the university awards almost 2,500 degrees including four different bachelor’s degrees (B.A., B.S., B.S.M.E. and B.S.E.E.). There are 88 major fields at the undergraduate level, with 59 minor fields of study and seven pre-professional programs. At the graduate and professional level, the university offers 41 master’s degrees, two education specialist, one juris doctor and five doctorates.

The University of St. Thomas is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC), a consortium of five private liberal arts colleges. Other ACTC members are Augsburg, St. Catherine, Hamline and Macalester. This program allows students to take classes at any of the associated universities as long as the class is not offered at their home university. Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC), a consortium of five private liberal arts colleges, all located in either Minneapolis or Saint Paul, Minnesota. ... Augsburg College is a liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... The College of St. ... Hamline University was founded in 1854 in Red Wing, Minnesota as the first institution of higher education in the state. ... Macalester College (commonly called Mac by those affiliated with the college) is a privately supported, coeducational liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...

Schools and Colleges

The university offers its degree programs through nine divisions:

• College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences includes undergraduate departments in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, plus a number of interdisciplinary programs. Master’s-level programs are offered in Art History, Catholic Studies, English, and Music Education.

• College of Business

The College of Business has six departments offering undergraduate curricula in an interdiscplinary setting. The college also offers nine degree programs at the graduate level. It is home to a variety of centers offering credit and noncredit seminars and continuing-education programs.

• St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity

The St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity offers master’s- and doctoral-level degrees oriented to theological study and the practice of ministry. The school also offers a two-year pre-theology program for priesthood candidates who require additional preparation.

• School of Education

The School of Education offers undergraduate courses and curricula for elementary and secondary teacher licensures. Graduate study is offered leading to certificates, master’s, educational specialist, and doctoral degrees.

• School of Engineering

Frey Science and Engineering Center

The School of Engineering offers graduate and undergraduate engineering degrees. Located on the St. Paul campus, programs in the college are committed to leadership in engineering and industry, in innovation, and in development of the whole person. They are built upon a firm –foundation of values and global awareness, and embedded in the context of the liberal arts. The college offers bachelor of science degrees in mechanical engineering (B.S.M.E.) and electrical engineering (B.S.E.E.), masters degrees in manufacturing systems engineering (M.M.S.E), manufacturing systems (M.S.M.S.) and technology management (M.S.T.M.) The B.S.M.E. and M.M.S.E. degrees are Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET accredited. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2448x1632, 1053 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2448x1632, 1053 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

• School of Law

The School of Law was re-opened in 1999 after a 66-year hiatus. The first class of 120 students was accepted in fall 2001.

• School of Social Work

The School of Social Work offers undergraduate courses and curricula for social work and chemical dependency counseling. The Master of Social Work, offered as a joint degree program with the College of St. Catherine, is designed to provide advanced professional study in social work. Dual-degree programs are offered in cooperation with Luther Seminary, the Department of Theology at the College of St. Catherine, and the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity.

• Graduate School of Professional Psychology

Master’s- and doctoral-level degrees are offered in counseling psychology. A certificate in family psychology also is offered.

• Graduate Programs in Software Engineering

These programs offer master’s-level programs in software engineering.

Athletics

• NCAA Division III
• The University of St. Thomas is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC).
• The school colors are purple and grey. The team mascot is Tommie the Tomcat.

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Varsity intercollegiate sports began in 1904, and St. Thomas celebrated its 100th year of varsity athletics in 2003-2004. (Varsity football didn't play during World War II in 1943, thus the 2004 season was the 100th season of varsity football).[1]

St. Thomas leads the MIAC in NCAA Division III Team Championships won with 10. Their largest rival is St. John's University from Collegeville, Minnesota. The College of Saint Benedict (CSB) and Saint John’s University (SJU) are partenered liberal arts colleges located in Collegeville, Minnesota. ... Collegeville Township is a township located in Stearns County, Minnesota. ...

Accomplishments

MIAC Basketball Finals versus Carleton in 2006

Tommie/Johnnie Football in 2005 (Final: UST 14, SJU 48)

Student Housing

Undergraduate housing is found on the St. Paul Campus. Approximately 2400 residents live in 7 traditional halls, traditional apartment residences, quasi-on-campus apartment residence, 3 university-owned specialty houses, and the undergraduate residence for St. John Vianney Seminary. All traditional halls are single-sex, while apartment residences are, in most cases, single-sex by floor.

Each hall is governed and supported by its own hall council, which is part of a larger student organization called the Residence Hall Association. Hall councils plan activities and events in their own hall and support larger resident-based programming on campus. RHA as a whole deals with resident issues and serves as a liaison between residents and the larger university community. The University of St. ...

Traditional Halls

Cretin Hall, built in 1894

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• Built in 1967 and named in honor of Archbishop William O. Brady Brady Hall is the largest male residence hall on campus.

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• Built in 1894, designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, and named in honor of the first Bishop of St. Paul, Joseph Cretin

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• Built in 1959 and named in honor of Archbishop Austin Dowling

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• Built in 1913, designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, and named in honor of the second Bishop of St. Paul, Thomas Grace

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• Built in 1912 and named in honor of the first Archbishop of St. Paul and founder of the school, John Ireland

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• Built in 1978 and named in honor of Pope John Paul II

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• Built in 1978 as the first female hall on campus and named in honor of Archbishop John Murray

The University of St. Thomas offers what they call special interest floors, or floors that are intended to house specific residents. Almost one third of all floors are First Year Experience floors, which consist of only freshmen. This is a nationwide practice that attempts to create a cohesive community by placing students together that will have a similar experience. UST also has a few FYE Weekend Activities floors, a newly created Catholic Women's floor, the Changing Faces of Minnesota floors, the Women in Math & Science floor, and a couple Substance Free floors. John Gregory Murray (February 26, 1877 - October 11, 1956) was the third Archbishop and fifth Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul (Minnesota). ...

Morrison Hall is connected to Koch Commons with a skyway

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Apartment Complexes

• Grand Avenue Apartments (Acquired in 1981)
• Morrison Hall (Built in 1998)
• Selby Hall (Built in 2005)

Specialty Houses and Buildings

• Common Ground
• The Wellness House
• Child Development Center Housing

Seminary

• St. John Vianney (SJV)

Film & Movies

• In 1992 Crossing the Bridge starring Stephen Baldwin used St. Thomas as part of its set.
• A made-for-TV film entitled She Led Two Lives was filmed on campus in 1994. “Several students sat in the auditorium of [John Roach Center] as extras for a classroom shot,” Bill Kirchgessner of University Relations said to the Aquin in 2002. “They were fed pizza and pop during the shoot, and that was for ‘She Led Two Lives.’”[2]
• Direct to video film Overnight Delivery starring Reese Witherspoon was shot on the St. Thomas campus in 1998.
• The film Scream 2 was almost filmed at St. Thomas in 1997. The story is recounted by the Aquin in 2002: “The producers for ‘Scream 2’ approached us after the Minnesota Film Board had pitched our campus as the perfect college for the sequel,” Kirchgessner said. “The director was familiar with the campus also, which made it seem as if UST would be a good place for the film.” After university officials looked more closely at what the shooting would entail, they decided that it would better for the students to turn down the offer. “While some questionable actions outlined in the script influence our decision, the major reason was the timing,” Kirchgessner said. “We would have had to close several classrooms, blocked off the entire H parking lot (Summit and Cleveland) and cleared people out of an entire residence hall floor. There were just too many negatives in having them on campus. “It would have been pretty neat to have that film to our credit, but it would not have been fair to the students of the university.”[3]
• St. Thomas alumn Casey Garven was cast as Larson, a snobby "cake-eating" hockey player from Edina in the movies The Mighty Ducks and D2: The Mighty Ducks.[4]
• Best Buy filmed a commercial on campus in the fall of 2004. The commercial, which played before films at AMC theaters, was a spoof on a cheerleading movie preview. It reminded AMC customers to turn off their cell phones before the movie started.

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Notable alumni

• Jim Oberstar - U.S. Congressman
• Larry Bond - Game designer and author
• Dottie Cannon - Miss Minnesota USA 2006
• Ann Winblad - Venture Capitalist
• Will Steger - Polar explorer
• Vince Flynn - Author of political thrillers

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External links

• Official site
• College of Business
• The Aquin (UST College Newspaper)
• UST Libraries