| Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | |
|---|---|
| Latin: Universitas Catholica Sacri Cordis Jesu | |
| Motto | In the heart of reality |
| Established | 1921 |
| Type | Private |
| Rector | Prof. Lorenzo Ornaghi |
| Admin. staff | 4,160 |
| Students | 42,000 |
| Location | Milano, Italy |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sports teams | CUS Milano |
| Colors | Blue and gold |
| Affiliations | FIUC-FUCE, CUS, NESA, EUCEN, ATEE, Club di Eurometropolis, CRE, EAIE, Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Financial Framework, IPBS - International Partnership of Business Schools, EFMD |
| Website | www.unicattolica.it |
The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) is a privately-owned Catholic university founded in 1921 by Agostino Gemelli. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome, and Campobasso. The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the biggest private university in Europe[1] and the biggest and one of the most distinguished Catholic universities in the world. [2]
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In 1919 Father Agostino Gemelli, Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli, and Ernesto Lombardo, founded the university. In 1920, after overcoming a number of obstacles and difficulties, the Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo di Studi Superiori was founded (The Institution is the founder as well as the warrantor for the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore). On June 24 of that year the Istituto was legally recognized with a Decree signed by the Minister of Education, Benedetto Croce; at the same time, the Pope Benedict XV officially recognized the University's ecclesiastical status.
On December 7, 1921, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was officially inaugurated with a special mass celebrated by Father Gemelli, in the presence of Achille Ratti, the Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, who three months later was elected as Pope Pius XI. The first campus was located in the Palazzo del Canonica, in via Sant'Agnese 2. In October 1930 it was moved to the ancient St. Ambrose Monastery, where the main campus remains today. 68 students enrolled in the university's two available programs, philosophy and social sciences, in 1921. As of 2011[update], 14 programs were offered to over 40,000 students distributed over the Milan, Rome, Brescia, Piacenza and Campobasso campuses.
In 1924, following legal recognition from the Italian state allowing the awarding of legally-recognized degrees (the charter of the Università Cattolica was approved by Royal Decree on October 2, 1924, and published on October 31 on the Gazzetta Ufficiale), the Humanities and Law Programs were inaugurated. In 1923 the Istituto Superiore di Magistero was opened, and in 1936 became an independent program, later evolving to become, in 1996, the College of Education Sciences.
In 1926 the Political and Economical Sciences Department became independent from the College of Law and, in 1931, became the College of Political, Economical, and Business Sciences which awarded, until 1947, the university's business degrees as well. In 1936 the College of Political Science became independent. The work and efforts of the Università Cattolica continued throughout the post-war period with new campuses and programs opening. The College of Economics, officially opened in 1947, offered night classes. On October 30, in the presence of Italian President Luigi Einaudi, the first stone of the Piacenza campus was laid, with the official opening of the College of Agriculture Sciences taking place in November 1952.
On August 4, 1958, the official decree for the opening of a Medical School in Rome, which had been advocated by Father Gemelli, was approved. Enormous difficulties had made this long and complicated, and it was not until the end of the 1950s that the Biological Institutes and the university Polyclinic, named after Fr Gemelli were built in Rome. Construction began in 1959; in 1961 Pope John XXIII opened the Medical School, with the first medical doctors graduating in 1967. The school now offers both medical and dentistry programs.
In 1956 the Brescia campus of the Università Cattolica was inaugurated with the opening of the College of Teaching and Education. In 1971, thanks to the initiative of important figures in the mathematical field, the College of Mathematics, Physics, and Natural Sciences was opened. During the 1990s other colleges were opened in Milan: the College of Banking, Finance, and Insurance Sciences (1990); the College of Foreign Languages and Literature (today the College of Linguistics) and Foreign Literature (1991); and the College of Psychology (1999). In 1997 in Piacenza the College of Economics, once part of the Milan curriculum, opened independently, and the College of Law in 1995.
In 2000 thirteen Cultural Centres were opened across Italy. In these Centers, through advanced satellite technology, distance-learning courses have been activated in collaboration with the major university campuses. During the 2001-2002 academic year the new College of Sociology, the fourteenth college of the Università Cattolica, was opened in Milan.
Most of Specializing Schools pertain to the medical area (they are located in Rome).
The restructuring of the Benedictine monastery by Giovanni Muzio in collaboration with the engineer Pier Fausto Barelli began in 1929 and finished twenty years later.
THe research in UCSC is structured in 22 Departments, 54 Institutes, 70 Research centers and 4 Atheneum centers.
The UCSC Library System works with numerous national and international bodies:IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, AIDA - Associazione Italiana per la Documentazione Avanzata, NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, LIBER - Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche, LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, NEREUS e INNOVATIVE.
The Cattolica, according to a study of International Student Barometer survey of a sample of 65 universities in Europe, is the second and fourth position at the international level between "the universities recommended by foreign students.[3]
UCSC is a part of a series of international networks including:LLP - Erasmus Network, UCSC International Bilateral Agreements, ISEP Network, International Network of Universities (INU), Fédération des Universités Catholiques Européenes (FUCE), Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques (FIUC), IPBS - The International Partnership of Business Schools e Cooperation Projects.[4]
On 1 November 2011 was introduced the Code of Ethics. This document contains the values that characterize the Cattolica and the rules of conduct.
Ludovico Necchi Association was founded in Milan in 1930 and collects all the graduates in the various professional fields of the UCSC. Annually organizes various activities, among which are particularly important as training and guidance to promote the employability of its members.
The Prize consists of a medal and a diploma will be awarded annually to the best graduate of each faculty UCSC. The Prize is awarded by Ludovico Necchi Association.
The University hosted the IFIUS 2009 World Interuniversity Games in October.
The publishing house of UCSC is Vita e Pensiero, which was founded in 1918. The owner is the Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo degli Studi Superiori.
There are various publications and magazines published in the UCSC. Vita e Pensiero, founded in 1914 by Agostino Gemelli, became the official magazine of the Cattolica since its inception. Presenza, bimonthly UCSC, was founded in 1969. This magazine is the 'house organ of the University and aims to examine topical issues and latest news of the university. The magazine is divided into two main blocks. In the first part, services and insights into current affairs, in the second part, the space devoted to news from the headquarters of the University (Milan, Brescia, Piacenza-Cremona, Roma and Campobasso). The magazine is distributed free to faculty, students, graduates and opinion makers at the national level.
It is said that those who pass through one of the cloisters of the Milan Campus or 2 columns of the staircase that connects the Gregorianum building with the Monumental building not graduate in UCSC. But after earning his degree, the graduate of the Cattolica is usually to make a round of racing in one of the cloisters.
In the milan campus there is a garden (the garden of St. Catherine of Alexandria) which access is allowed only for the girl students. For this reason it is nicknamed "the Virgins Garden".