Brescia University

This article is about the university in Kentucky. For the women's college in Ontario, see Brescia University College. For the university in Italy, see University of Brescia.

Coordinates: 37°46′8.22″N 87°6′43.47″W / 37.7689500°N 87.1120750°W / 37.7689500; -87.1120750

Brescia University
Former names	Mount Saint Joseph Junior College for Women
Type	Private
Established	1925
Affiliation	Catholic Church (Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph)
President	Rev. Larry Hostetter
Location	Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Colors
Athletics	NAIA – KIAC
Nickname	Bearcats
Affiliations	ACCU NAICU CIC
Website	brescia.edu

Brescia University is a coeducational Catholic university located in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the United States. Founded as a junior college for women, it is now a coeducational university offering undergraduate and master's programs.

History

Brescia University traces its roots to Mount Saint Joseph Junior College for Women founded in 1925 by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph at Maple Mount, a rural area outside Owensboro. Coeducational extension courses were started at Owensboro and eventually grew into its own campus. After World War II the two campuses were consolidated, thus becoming fully co-educational. In 1951, it was renamed Brescia College, after the Italian city of Brescia where Saint Angela Merici founded the original order.^[1] It attained university status in 1998 with the addition of Master's degree programs in Management, and Curriculum and Instruction.^[2]

Organizations

Brescia University boasts a number of on campus clubs and organizations, most notably the Student Activities Program Board (SAPB). SAPB sends members annually to the NACA Mid America Regional conference that brings in Activities Programming Board members from colleges across Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Illinois. Notable acts brought out of NACA include Five Times August and Cary Judd.

Notable alumnus

Joey Goebel, author

Athletics

Brescia University teams are known as the Bearcats. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball.

References

↑ About Brescia
↑ Campbell, Joy (2007-05-29). "A New Leader - Brescia's next president wants to build on university's tradition". Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Retrieved 2007-05-29.

External links

Kentucky Higher Education

Postsecondary Education Programs	Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education Project Graduate KnowHow2GOKy Kentucky Virtual Campus Kentucky Virtual Library

Public Universities	Eastern Kentucky University Kentucky State University Morehead State University Murray State University Northern Kentucky University University of Kentucky University of Louisville Western Kentucky University

Private Colleges and Universities	Alice Lloyd College Asbury University Asbury Theological Seminary Bellarmine University Berea College Brescia University Campbellsville University Centre College Clear Creek Baptist Bible College Frontier Nursing University Georgetown College Kentucky Christian University Kentucky Mountain Bible College Kentucky Wesleyan College Lexington Theological Seminary Lindsey Wilson College Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Midway University University of Pikeville Saint Catharine College Simmons College The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Spalding University Spencerian College Sullivan University Thomas More College Transylvania University Union College University of the Cumberlands

Community and/or Technical Colleges	Ashland Big Sandy Bluegrass Elizabethtown Gateway Hazard Henderson Hopkinsville Jefferson Madisonville Maysville Owensboro Somerset Southcentral Kentucky Southeast Kentucky West Kentucky

Owensboro, Kentucky

Subject areas	Culture Demographics Education Geography Government History Media People Transportation

Top subjects	Ben Hawes Golf Course and Park Brescia University Daymar College International Bar-B-Q Festival International Bluegrass Music Museum Kentucky Wesleyan College Owensboro Medical Health System Hospital Owensboro Public Schools Owensboro Sports Center Western Kentucky Botanical Garden

Prominent suburbs	Calhoun Hawesville Island Lewisport Livermore Sacramento Whitesville

American women's colleges that became coeducational

Became coeducational	Adelphi Albertus Magnus Andrew Anna Maria Barber-Scotia Beaver Bennington Blue Mountain College Brescia Cabrini Caldwell Carlow Cazenovia Chestnut Hill Chowan Columbia (MO) Connecticut College Dominican (CA) Dominican (NY) Drexel College of Medicine Elms Elmira Emmanuel (MA) Felician Florida State Fontbonne Georgia College Georgian Court Goucher Greensboro Holy Family Holy Names Hood Hunter Huston-Tillotson Immaculata Incarnate Word James Madison Keuka LaGrange Lake Erie Lasell Lesley Lindenwood Longwood MacMurray Mary Hardin–Baylor Mary Washington Marygrove Marymount (CA) Marymount (VA) Marymount Manhattan Marywood Mercy (NY) Mercyhurst Misericordia Mississippi University for Women Mount Mercy Mount St. Joseph Mount St. Vincent Montevallo Moravian Notre Dame (OH) Notre Dame de Namur Ohio Dominican Our Lady of Holy Cross Our Lady of the Lake Pine Manor Queens (NC) Radford Randolph Regis (MA) Rosemont Rivier St. Francis (IL) St. Joseph's (NY) St. Scholastica St. Xavier (IL) Sarah Lawrence Salve Regina Seton Hill Shorter Silver Lake Skidmore Southern Virginia Spalding Stevenson Texas Woman's Thomas More (KY) Trocaire UNC Greensboro University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Vassar Virginia Union Viterbo Washington College of Law Webster Wells Wheaton (MA) William Peace Wilson (PA) Winthrop

Coordinate colleges	Douglass (merged with Rutgers University) Evelyn College for Women (with Princeton University; closed) Georgia State College for Women (with Georgia School of Technology to form Georgia College & State University) H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College (merged with Tulane University) Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (merged with Carnegie Mellon University) Maryhill College (merged with St. Edward's University) Mt Vernon College (with GW University) Pembroke (merged with Brown University) Radcliffe College (merged with Harvard University) University of Mary Washington (with University of Virginia)

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