Carroll College (Montana)

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Carroll College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Helena, Montana, USA.

Carroll College opened its doors in 1910. The school was founded by the second Bishop of the Diocese of Helena, Montana, John Patrick Carroll. Originally called Mount St. Charles College in honor of St. Charles Borromeo, it graduated its first class in 1916. In 1932 the institution changed its name to Carroll College in honor of its founder. The first and largest building on campus is St. Charles Hall which lies on Capital Hill. Originally it was founded as an all-men's liberal arts diocesan college with an emphasis on preparing men for careers in priesthood, law, medicine, teaching, and engineering.

Enrollment: 1,400; Male/Female: 43%/57%; Montana/Out-of-State: 68%/32%; Catholic/Other Denomination: 66%/34% (of students reporting religious preference); International Students: 23; Number of Countries Represented: 10

The college is home to Artisan Dance, Montana's first and only professional ballet company.

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[edit] Points of Distinction

  • Listed in Barron's Best Buys 2006 Edition
  • Carroll College Forensics: The Carroll College Talking Saints

speech and debate team is currently #1 in their region, with 18 running regional championships and over 40 regional tournament championships. In 1999, the Talking Saints captured their first national title in parliamentary debate by winning the season sweepstakes of the National Parliamentary Debate Association. The Fighting Saints are instructed by Brent Northup, Communications Department Chair.

[edit] Academics

The following majors are available for the Bachelor of Arts degree:

Pre-Professional Programs: Pre-Medical, Pre-Dental, Pre-Optometry, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Veterinary.

Special Programs:

[edit] Mission Statement

Carroll College is a Roman Catholic, diocesan, liberal arts college in the ecumenical tradition of the Second Vatican Council.

As a liberal arts school, Carroll College acknowledges the practical role of preparing its students for a career, but it also affirms the traditional role of providing for the expansion of the intellectual, imaginative, and social awareness of its students. It is dedicated to providing for its students the means for their full realization of a dual goal of vocation and enlightenment. Thus, while providing substantial professional and pre-professional programs, the College encourages and expects all students to participate in a broad spectrum of academic disciplines.

As an academic community, Carroll Cgollege affirms its commitment to the principle of freedom of inquiry in the process of investigating, understanding, critiacally reflecting upon, and finally judging reality and truth in all fields of human knowledge. As value-oriented, Carroll College is ycommitted to and deeply involved in the further dimension of free deliberation and decision making regarding values and personal commitment. Each student at Carroll, through personal and institutional means, is exposed to value systems with which one can readily identify, including secular values such as the worth of work and the use of the intellect, humanistic values centering on the uniqueness and dignity of the person, and religious and moral values concerned with one's relationship to God, self, and others.

As a Catholic college, Carroll is obligated to treat judgments concerning ultimate reality and decisions concerning ultimate value at both an academic and a pastoral level. This obligation involves the College's relationship to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, defined as "the perennial, authentic, and infallible teaching office committed to the Apostles by Christ and now possessed and exercised by their legitimate successors, the college of bishops in union with the pope".

Carroll College is committed to present faithfully within its curriculum the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church. At the same time, it acknowledges the special role of the theologian, who-although not a part of the authoritative teaching body of the Church-makes available to the Magisterium his or her scientific competence, while acting as a mediator between religion and culture by carrying on an academic dialogue with philosophy, science, the liberal arts, the believing community, and secular society.

As a college founded by and related to the Diocese of Helena, Carroll has a special obligation to provide for the spiritual needs of the college community. At the same time, the resources of the College's Theology Department, and campus ministry organization are available for the special religious needs of the diocesan community as a whole. Moreover, Carroll College rededicates its spiritual, academic, and social resources to the service of the citizens of Montana, its home, and to the worldwide human family through continuing efforts to guarantee to individuals, to groups, and especially to minorities the right to life, to personal and social dignity, and to equality of opportunity in all aspects of human activity.

In the ecumenical tradition of the Second Vatican Council, Carroll College is committed to a policy of open participation by members of all religious faiths and all persons of good will in the total academic and spiritual experience of the college community. While standing fast by the teaching of the Catholic Church, and avoiding a false conciliatory approach foreign to the true spirit of ecumenism, Carroll College welcomes in love and respect the full participation of other Christians and non-Christians in an ecumenical dialogue and in a truly humble and charitable joint venture in the common search for the Ultimate Truth and the Ultimate Good which is the final goal of all education.

Officially adopted by the Carroll College Board of Trustees on May 26, 1978

[edit] History

At the beginning of the 20th century, Bishop John Patrick Carroll, second Bishop of the Diocese of Helena had a dream to build a Catholic college in western Montana. In 1909, that dream became reality when William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, helped lay the cornerstone of St. Charles Hall.

In September 1910, Mount Saint Charles College, named in honor of St. Charles Borromeo, opened its doors for classes, and the first college student graduated in 1916. In 1932, the school’s name was changed to Carroll college in honor of its founder.

Carroll’s Founder’s Day, November 4, is especially unique for the College because Charles Borromeo was important to Bishop John Patrick Carroll. St. Charles Borromeo was a leader in developing diocesan seminaries with special academic programs. On the same day, the College celebrates the anniversary of the death of Bishop Carroll. When he died in 1925, he had seen 21 students graduate from his college, of whom 12 went on to become priests. While numerous people had helped in many ways to build Mount St. Charles College, some affectionately referred to it as “Jack’s Castle” in honor of Bishop John Patrick ("Jack") Carroll. Today the college’s largest and oldest building on Capital Hill is named St. Charles Hall and the one of the residence halls is named Borromeo Hall.

By 1936, the high school department of the College had moved to the newly constructed Cathedral High School and with that, Carroll was officially a liberal arts diocesan boarding college for men with special emphasis on programs which prepared students for the priesthood or for careers in law, medicine, teaching, and engineering.

In 1946 women began attending Carroll through the newly created nursing program. In the decades since then, the student body has grown, buildings have been built and new academic programs have been added but the motto of the college remains the same - Non Scholae Sed Vitae - Not for School but for Life.

[edit] Presidents

  • Very Rev. Stephen J. Sullivan: 1910-1912
  • Very Rev. John L. McMullen: 1912-1917
  • Very Rev. Peter F. MacDonald: 1917-1919
  • Very Rev. John J. Tracy: 1919-1920
  • Monsignor Norbert C. Hoff: 1920-1932
  • Monsignor Emmet J. Riley: 1932-1951
  • Monsignor R. Vincent Kavanagh: 1951-1957
  • Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen: 1957-1962
  • Monsignor Anthony M. Brown: 1962-1969
  • Monsignor Joseph D. Harrington: 1969-1974
  • Dr. Francis J. Kerins: 1974-1989
  • Dr. Matthew J. Quinn: 1989-2000
  • Very Rev. Stephen C. Rowan: 2000-2001
  • Dr. Thomas Trebon: 2001-Present

[edit] Athletics

The Carroll College sports teams are called The Fighting Saints and compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Frontier Conference. The sports offered at Carroll are as follows. Football, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Cross-Country, Women's Soccer, Women's Volleyball, and Golf.

[edit] Fighting Saints Football

The Fighting Saints football team has had remarkable success in the past seven years under head coach Mike Van Diest, including 8 straight Frontier Conference Championships (2000-2007), 6 straight national semi-final appearances (2000-2005), and 5 NAIA National Football Championships in 6 years (2002-2005,2007).

[edit] Students past and present

Carroll's most famous football graduate is current Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Bobby Petrino. Carroll was also the first head coaching job for John Gagliardi, who coached there from 1949 through 1952, and went on from there to St. John's of Minnesota, where he became the winningest coach in college history regardless of division. Other alumni include:

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