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Loyola University Chicago
Motto Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Established June 30, 1870
Type Private Jesuit Catholic
Endowment $266,563,444
President Michael J. Garanzini, S.J.
Faculty 1,100 full time
Students 15,194 [1]
Undergraduates 9,725 [2]
Postgraduates 5,469 graduate
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Campus 45 acre (182,000 m²) Lake Shore Campus,
70 acre (283,000 m²) Maywood Campus,
5 acre (20,234 m²) Rome Center
Athletics 11 NCAA Division I teams
Colors Black, Gold and Maroon
Mascot Lou Wolf
Website http://www.luc.edu/
A garden sign welcomes residents and visitors to Rogers Park as home of Loyola University Chicago.
A garden sign welcomes residents and visitors to Rogers Park as home of Loyola University Chicago.
A statue of Ignatius of Loyola was dedicated in 2000.
A statue of Ignatius of Loyola was dedicated in 2000.
Mundelein Hall, also called the Skyscraper building, was once the tallest building in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
Mundelein Hall, also called the Skyscraper building, was once the tallest building in the Rogers Park neighborhood.

Loyola University Chicago is a private co-educational religious-affiliated university established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College. It was founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus and bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of twenty-eight member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of more than 15,000 students, is the largest Jesuit University in the United States. [3]

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[edit] Beginnings and expansions

Founded in 1870 as the St Ignatius College on Chicago's West Side. In 1908 the School of Law was established as the first of the professional programs. St Ignatius College changed its name to Loyola University in 1909, while also adding the Stritch School of Medicine. 1923 saw the affiliation of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery with Loyola University, later to be known as Loyola University School of Dentistry (no longer open). In 1934 West Baden College affiliates itself with Loyola University, later to be known as the Bellarmine School of Theology then the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago. Loyola University established the School of Nursing in 1935, the first fully accredited collegiate school of nursing in the state of Illinois. Loyola then opened the Rome Center for Liberal Arts in 1962, the first American university sponsored program in Rome. 1969 saw the establishment of the School of Education and the opening of the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. In 1979 the School of Nursing is renamed the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. The most recent expansion was the 1991 acquisition of neighboring Mundelein College from the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

[edit] Main campuses

Loyola University is anchored at the Lake Shore Campus (on the shore of Lake Michigan) in Rogers Park, the northernmost neighborhood of the city of Chicago. Loyola has developed a ten year master plan that is designed to revitalize the community by adding an updated arts center as well as a retail district called "Loyola Station" near the CTA's Loyola 'L' stop. Among many others, the science departments are located on this campus. Loyola also has a Water Tower Campus in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue, steps away from such landmarks as the Water Tower (one of the few structures to survive the Great Chicago Fire) and the John Hancock Center (one of the tallest buildings in the United States). The School of Business Administration, School of Social Work, and the Law School are located at the Water Tower Campus (previously Lewis Towers), and many other classes are held at this campus.

Chicago's Jesuit university also boasts a campus in Rome, Italy. Loyola University Chicago Rome Center was established in 1962 on the site of the 1960 Summer Olympics grounds. It moved to several locations in Rome until finally settling in Monte Mario on the Via Massimi, one of the most affluent districts of the Italian capital. The campus offers a full academic year for Chicago-based Loyola University students wishing to study abroad.

Loyola University of Chicago has a medical school, the Stritch School of Medicine, and a hospital and medical center associated with them, all located on a campus in Maywood, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. The former Mundelein College is located just south of the Lake Shore Campus. The former Niles campus no longer exists.

[edit] Religious education

Religious education is still one of Loyola University's hallmarks as home to Saint Joseph College Seminary as well as the Jesuit First Studies program.

Loyola's First Studies Program is one of three in the country, with Fordham University and Saint Louis University housing the other two. During this three year period, Jesuit Scholastics and Brothers generally study philosophy and some theology. First Studies is one part of an eleven-year formation process toward the Jesuit priesthood. This program is administered by the Chicago Province Society of Jesus.

Saint Joseph College Seminary serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and provides vocational training to candidates of diocesan priesthood. Loyola University also provides rigorous religious education for those seeking careers in lay ministry with the Loyola University Pastoral Institute as well as degree opportunities in interdisciplinary Catholic studies.

[edit] Athletics

Shield of the Loyola Ramblers

The Loyola Ramblers compete in the Horizon League (formerly the Midwestern Collegiate Conference) of the NCAA's Division I. The Men's Volleyball team competes in the NCAA's Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association with schools such as Ball State and Ohio State, and is considered a national power with regular Top 15 rankings. [4] Loyola University boasts men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, track, golf, soccer, and volleyball, as well as women's softball. The Loyola Ramblers title originated in the late 1920s as a nickname given to the school's football team. Today, Loyola University no longer has a football team. The standing joke is that the team is undefeated since 1930. Outside of the NCAA regulated athletics programs, Loyola Ramblers also compete in non-traditional intercollegiate sports such as cricket and rugby.

Additionally, in recent years Loyola students have become integral in the resurrection of Hurling, still a major collegiate sport in Ireland and England, in the United States.

The Loyola Ramblers mascot is Lou Wolf. Lou Wolf was inspired by the Basque coat-of-arms of Saint Ignatius of Loyola depicting two wolves over a kettle. The popular mascot, which had become a Chicago institution through several generations, received a facelift over the summer of 2000. Originally the Loyola mascot was a Gyspy Rambler but many were upset over its racist depiction.

[edit] Civil rights movement and the 1963 NCAA Basketball Championship

The 1963 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and the obstacles faced on the team's road to victory in a racially segregated country put Loyola in the national spotlight. Before the championship, there was a gentlemen's agreement among college teams limiting how many black players could play during a game. Beginning in 1961, Loyola head coach George Ireland broke the gentleman's agreement by putting as many as four black players on the court at every game.[5] In 1962-63, Ireland played four black starters in every game. In a game in Oklahoma City against Wyoming, Ireland replaced fouled-out starter John Egan with Pablo Robertson (even with two white players available on his bench), marking the first time a Division I college team fielded five black players. [6]

After winning its first round NCAA tournament game on March 11, 1963 against Tennessee Tech, the Loyola Ramblers were scheduled to play in the second round against Mississippi State University, which practiced racial segregation. Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett banned the Mississippi school from traveling to the tournament to play against Loyola's black players. Sending a decoy team to divert state police, the Mississippi State team successfully sneaked out of the state to play the Ramblers. [7] Loyola won and went on to beat Illinois in its regional final and Duke in the national semifinals. At the NCAA Final, newspapers reported that the Ramblers didn't have a chance against Cincinnati, the two-time defending national champions. In one of the closest games of the season, Loyola became the third Jesuit University (Holy Cross won in 1947 and the University of San Francisco won twice in the 1950s) to ever win the NCAA Tournament. Loyola remains the only school in Chicago, and in the state of Illinois, to do so.

[edit] Buildings

[edit] Lake Shore Campus

  • Alumni Gym
  • Arrupe House
  • Athletic Field & Stevens Building
  • Campion Hall & St. Joseph Seminary
  • Centennial Forum Student Union
  • Coffey Hall
  • Creighton Hall
  • Crown Center
  • Cudahy Library
  • Cudahy Science Hall
  • Dumbach Hall (Formerly "Loyola Academy")
  • Fairfield Hall
  • Fine Arts / Root Building
  • Fine Arts Annex
  • Flanner Hall
  • Fordham Hall
  • George Halas, Jr. Sports Center
  • Georgetown Hall
  • Gonzaga Hall
  • Granada Center (Part of Fordham Hall, formerly the site of the Granada Theatre)
  • Holy Cross Hall
  • Information Commons (Building currently under construction)
  • Loyola University Jesuit Residence
  • Madonna Della Strada Chapel
  • Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art (Now located at Lewis Towers ,Water Tower Campus under the name Loyola University Museum of Art)
  • Mertz Hall
  • Mundelein Center (Formerly "Skyscraper Building", "Mundelein College")
  • Piper Hall
  • The Quinn Quadrangle
  • The Quinlan Life & Science Center
  • Regis Hall
  • Rockhurst Hall
  • Santa Clara Hall
  • Seattle Hall
  • Simpson Living-Learning Center
  • Sullivan Center for Student Services (Formerly "Sullivan Science Library")
  • Wright Hall (BVM Residence)
  • The Yellow House
  • Xavier Hall

[edit] Water Tower Campus

  • 25 E. Pearson Loyola Law Center
  • Rev. Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J. Residence Hall and Terry Student Center
  • The Clare (Building currently under construction)
  • Lewis Towers (Also houses "Loyola University Museum of Art")
  • Maguire Hall

[edit] Student Life

[edit] Sports

Lou Wolf
Lou Wolf

Lou Wolf is the mascot for the university. He was inspired by the coat-of-arms of St Ignatius of Loyola, from whom Loyola derives its name, which depicts two wolves standing over a kettle. He is ever-present at Loyola's basketball games, encouraging fans to show their support for the Ramblers.

[edit] Greek Life

Loyola University Chicago also houses Greek life on its Lake Shore Campus. These Greek organizations include the normal social fraternities Sigma Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Alpha Delta Gamma;as well as the normal social sororities Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Phi Sigma Sigma and Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Loyola is also home to the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO) co-ed fraternity Alpha Psi Lambda, and sororities Gamma Phi Omega (The first Latina-oriented sorority at loyola) and Sigma Lambda Gamma (the largest Latina-oriented sorority in the U.S.) as well as several co-ed business fraternities such as Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi, Kappa Psi, and Sigma Tau Delta.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Notable professors

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] Loyola University campuses

[edit] Loyola University athletics

[edit] Loyola University media

[edit] Loyola Related

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.luc.edu/undergrad/academics/factsheets/facts_at_a_glance.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.luc.edu/undergrad/academics/factsheets/facts_at_a_glance.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.luc.edu/keyfacts/
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ http://www.ramblermania.com/history.htm
  6. ^ http://www.ramblermania.com/1963/index.htm
  7. ^ http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/press_room/2006/january/20060106_defining_moments_rls.html


Horizon League
Butler (Butler Bulldogs) • Cleveland State (Cleveland State Vikings) • Detroit • UIC • Loyola • Milwaukee (Milwaukee Panthers) • UW-Green Bay • Wright State • Youngstown State
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Shondell/Dunlap League: Ball State • IPFW • Lewis • Loyola • Mercyhurst • Ohio State • Quincy
Coleman League: Carthage • Clarke • Central State • MSOE
Four year Colleges and Universities in Chicagoland
Aurora • Benedictine • Calumet • Carthage • Catholic Theological Union • Chicago College of Performing Arts • Chicago State • Chicago Theological Seminary • Columbia - Chicago • Concordia • DePaul • Dominican • East-West • Elmhurst • Governors State • Hebrew Theological College • IIT • Indiana University Northwest • Judson • Kendall • Lake Forest • Lewis • Loyola • Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago • McCormick Theological Seminary • Meadville Theological School • Midwestern • Moody Bible Institute • National-Louis • North Central • North Park • Northeastern Illinois • Northwestern • Olivet Nazarene • Purdue Calumet • Purdue North Central • Roosevelt • St. Francis • Saint Joseph's • Saint Mary of the Lake • St. Xavier • School of the Art Institute of Chicago • Shimer • Telshe Yeshiva • Trinity Christian • Trinity International • UChicago • UIC • Valparaiso • Vandercook College of Music • Wheaton
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Boston College • Canisius College • College of the Holy Cross • Creighton University • Fairfield University • Fordham University • Georgetown University • Gonzaga University • John Carroll University • Le Moyne College • Loyola University Chicago • Loyola College in Maryland • Loyola Marymount University • Loyola University New Orleans • Marquette University • Regis University • Rockhurst University • Saint Louis University • Saint Joseph's University • Saint Peter's College • Santa Clara University • Seattle University • Spring Hill College • University of Detroit Mercy • University of San Francisco • University of Scranton • Wheeling Jesuit University • Xavier University
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