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==Financial aid==
==Financial aid==
Salve Regina offers scholarships, loans and part-time work-study employment. All new students are considered for an academic scholarship as part of the application review process. Scholarships are awarded at the time of acceptance based on a review of high school transcripts, SAT/ACT scores (if considered as part of the application review process) and class rank. Course selection and overall GPA are weighed heavily in the review process. The University offers endowed scholarships and participates in state and federal loan and scholarship programs including the Army ROTC program, as well as a number of private philanthropic programs.
Salve Regina offers scholarships, loans and part-time work-study employment. All new students are considered for an academic scholarship as part of the application review process. Scholarships are awarded at the time of acceptance based on a review of high school transcripts, SAT/ACT scores (if considered as part of the application review process) and class rank. Course selection and overall GPA are weighed heavily in the review process. The University offers endowed scholarships and participates in state and federal loan and scholarship programs including the Army ROTC program, as well as a number of private philanthropic programs.<ref>[http://www.salve.edu/office-service/financial-aid Salve Regina Financial Aid]</ref>


==Academics==
==Academics==

Revision as of 14:54, 12 July 2016

Salve Regina University
Salve Regina University logo
Former names
Salve Regina College (1934–91)
MottoMaria Spes Nostra
Motto in English
Mary, Our Hope
TypePrivate
Established1934
AffiliationRoman Catholic
(Sisters of Mercy)
EndowmentUS$57 million[1]
ChairmanBoard of Trustees Chairwoman Janet Robinson
ChancellorSister M. Therese Antone, RSM (July 2009)
PresidentSister Jane Gerety, RSM (July 2009)
Vice-presidentWilliam B. Hall
Barbara LoMonaco
Leona Misto
Michael Semenza
ProvostScott Zeman
Undergraduates2,158
Postgraduates600
Location
Newport
,
RI
,
USA

41°28′26″N 71°17′57″W / 41.47389°N 71.29917°W / 41.47389; -71.29917
CampusSuburban
ColorsNavy Blue, White
NicknameSalve Regina Seahawks
AffiliationsConference for Mercy Higher Education
NEASC
ACCU
NAICU
MascotSeahawk
Websitewww.salve.edu

Located on in the historic city of Newport, Rhode Island, Salve Regina University is a Catholic, coeducational university founded by the Sisters of Mercy. The University offers a comprehensive education with a liberal arts foundation that fosters the development of each student’s individual talents.

Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the University enrolls more than 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world. Salve Regina's diverse range of academic programs is complemented by community service initiatives, extracurricular activities and a full athletics program featuring varsity, intramural and club sports.

The undergraduate course of study is designed to further intellectual, social and spiritual growth and encourage students to work for a world that is harmonious, just and merciful. Graduate and continuing education programs are tailored to the unique needs of adult students, combining the integration of knowledge and personal values with the development of greater competency in both theory and practice.

Salve Regina’s 80-acre campus is set on seven contiguous Gilded Age estates and features 21 structures of historic significance that have been sensitively adapted to meet University needs while also preserving their status as treasures of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

History

Ochre Court, Salve's administrative building

On March 6, 1934, the state of Rhode Island granted a charter to the Sisters of Mercy of Providence for a corporation named Salve Regina College. Beyond noting that Salve Regina was to exist “to promote virtue, and piety and learning,” there were no specific directives. The charter left all educational options to the sisters.

In 1947, following more than a dozen years of careful preparation, a turn-of-the-century Newport mansion was gifted to the college corporation. The acquisition of Ochre Court, a 50-room French chateau, enabled Salve Regina to welcome its first class of 58 students that fall.

Salve Regina became coeducational in 1973, added graduate programs in 1975 and achieved university status in 1991, at which time the school’s charter was amended to change the name of the corporation to Salve Regina University. The Ph.D. program was accredited in 1995, and the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy was established by an Act of Congress in 1996.

In 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked Salve Regina 36th in the Best Colleges-Regional Universities (North) category.[2]

Admissions

Admission is selective, with an acceptance rate of 72.5 percent for the fall of 2015. Salve Regina accepts the Common Application, with a priority deadline of Feb. 1 for the fall semester and Dec. 1 for the spring semester. Salve also accepts Early Action applications through Nov. 1.

Admission to the nursing program is highly selective, and only 40 percent of nursing applications are typically admitted. The average SAT score (combined critical reading and math) of students recently offered admission was an 1150 with a minimum 500 scored on each section. Students who chose to take the ACT had an average composite score of 26. The average high school GPA (recalculated on a 4.0 scale at the completion of junior year) was a 3.50. Students accepted to the nursing program had four or more years of science with no grade lower than a B- in those courses.

Financial aid

Salve Regina offers scholarships, loans and part-time work-study employment. All new students are considered for an academic scholarship as part of the application review process. Scholarships are awarded at the time of acceptance based on a review of high school transcripts, SAT/ACT scores (if considered as part of the application review process) and class rank. Course selection and overall GPA are weighed heavily in the review process. The University offers endowed scholarships and participates in state and federal loan and scholarship programs including the Army ROTC program, as well as a number of private philanthropic programs.[3]

Academics

Salve Regina offers associate, bachelor’s and master's degrees, graduate certificates and two doctoral programs. The University enrolls more than 2,700 men and women from 35 states and 20 nations. Currently, Salve Regina offers 46 undergraduate majors, more than 20 graduate certificates, 11 master's degree programs, a Ph.D. in humanities and the Doctor of Nursing Practice.

Academic programs include:

  • Accounting – Bachelor’s, minor
  • Administration of justice – Associate, bachelor’s, minor, master’s
  • American studies – Bachelor’s
  • Applied behavior analysis – Master’s, certificate
  • Applied technology - Minor
  • Art history – Bachelor’s, minor
  • Biology – Bachelor’s, minor
  • Biology and secondary education – Bachelor’s
  • Business administration – Bachelor’s, minor, master’s
  • Business studies – Certificate
  • Chemistry – Bachelor’s, minor
  • Creative writing - Minor
  • Cultural and historic preservation – Bachelor’s, minor
  • Cybersecurity and intelligence - Certificate
  • Dance – Minor
  • Digital forensics - Certificate
  • Early childhood education – Bachelor’s
  • Economics – Bachelor’s, minor
  • Elementary education – Bachelor’s
  • Elementary and special education – Bachelor’s
  • English communications – Bachelor’s, minor
  • English literature - Bachelor’s, minor
  • English literature and secondary education - Bachelor’s
  • Environmental studies - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Expressive and creative arts - Certificate
  • Film - Minor
  • Financial management - Bachelor’s
  • French - Bachelor’s, minor
  • French and secondary education - Bachelor’s
  • Global business and economics - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Global studies - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Health care administration and management - Bachelor’s, minor, master’s, certificate
  • History - Bachelor’s, minor
  • History and secondary education - Bachelor’s
  • Holistic counseling – Master’s
  • Holistic leadership – Master’s, certificate
  • Holistic studies - Certificate
  • Human resources - Certificate
  • Human services – Minor
  • Humanities – Master’s, doctorate
  • Innovation and strategic management – Master’s
  • International relations – Master’s, certificate
  • Leadership and change management - Certificate
  • Leadership in justice – Certificate
  • Management - Certificate
  • Marketing - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Mathematics - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Mathematics and secondary education - Bachelor’s
  • Medical technology - Bachelor’s
  • Music - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Music education - Bachelor’s
  • Neuroscience – Minor
  • Nonprofit management - Certificate
  • Nursing - Bachelor’s, doctorate
  • Philosophy - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Political science - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Psychology - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Rehabilitation counseling – Master’s, certificate
  • Religious and theological studies - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Secondary education - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Social work - Bachelor’s
  • Sociology and anthropology - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Spanish - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Spanish and secondary education - Bachelor’s
  • Special education – Minor
  • Sports management - Minor
  • Studio art - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Substance abuse and treatment - Certificate
  • Theatre arts - Bachelor’s, minor
  • Women, gender and sexuality studies – Minor[4]

The Office of International Programs coordinates a number of programs through which students can study abroad for periods lasting from a few weeks to an entire year. Students have studied in a variety of locations, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Qatar, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.[5]

Buildings

Antone Academic Center

Antone Academic Center

The Antone Academic Center for Culture and the Arts houses performance areas, studios, offices, classrooms and laboratories for several academic departments and programs, including art, cultural and historic preservation and music, theatre and dance. Dedicated in 2008, the building is named in honor of Sister Therese Antone, who served as president of Salve Regina from 1994-2009. Creation of the Antone Academic Center involved the unique restoration, renovation and union of two nationally historic and significant carriage house and stables complexes - Wetmore Hall, the original carriage house and stables for Chateau-sur-Mer, and Mercy Hall, the original carriage house and stables for Ochre Court. While the project was designed to meet all the technological and aesthetic needs of today's academia, the center continues to dazzle with its 19th-century originals: a Belgian block exercise yard with a circular trough at its center, cast iron hardware, Minton tiles, decorative yellow brick flooring, rough-cut sandstone exterior, slate mansard roof and gable dormers.

McAuley Hall

McAuley Hall

Having served the University as both residence hall and library, McAuley Hall now houses classrooms, academic departments and offices, including the Office of Academic Affairs. Salve Regina acquired the property in 1955 and named it in honor of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy. Designed by the famed architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns, McAuley Hall is a rambling red sandstone mansion built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and characterized by heavy rustication and rounded arches. Completed in 1883, it is the former centerpiece of tobacco heiress Catherine Lorillard Wolfe’s sprawling Vinland estate. The grounds of the estate, planned by noted landscape architect Ernest Bowditch, feature a large dolium near the main entrance that was excavated from an Italian garden and dates to 200 B.C. A rose garden near the southern wing was planted by the University to serve as a place for quiet reflection.

McKillop Library

McKillop Library

The McKillop Library is a state-of-the-art facility that holds approximately 150,000 volumes and also accommodates computer labs. Completed in 1991, the library is named in honor of Sister Lucille McKillop, who served as president of Salve Regina from 1973 to 1994. The library's spacious, comfortable atmosphere provides plenty of room for individual and group study, along with a Learning Commons and an electronic classroom for instructional purposes. Designed by the architectural firm of Robinson Green Beretta, the 70,000-square-foot structure echoes the Gothic lines of Wakehurst to the north. Other ornamental details, such as finials on the library’s gabled peaks, are reflective of other mansions in the Ochre Point neighborhood.

Miley Hall

Miley Hall

Miley Hall is a traditional corridor-style residence hall that accommodates first-year students and also houses the cafeteria, bookstore and offices for the Center for Student Development, Counseling Services, Health Services and Student Affairs. Students are housed on three floors, with males on the first floor and females on the second and third floors. Designed in the international modern style by the architectural firm of Maginnis, Walsh and Kennedy, Miley Hall was completed in 1964. Situated on the site of Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs' Whiteholme estate, the grounds feature numerous Oriental Maidenhair trees that can reach 120 feet in height. Miley is named for Salve Regina's second president, Sister M. Hilda Miley.

Ochre Court

Ochre Court

Salve Regina's central administration building, Ochre Court houses the Office of the President, the Business Office and the offices of Undergraduate Admission, Financial Aid and the Registrar, among others. Concerts, student dances, lectures and special functions are held on the first floor throughout the year. Commissioned by New York real estate magnate Ogden Goelet as his family's summer residence, Ochre Court (1888-1892) was designed by Richard Morris Hunt, America's foremost architect of the late 19th century. For the mansion's exterior, Hunt drew his inspiration from the late medieval period in French architecture, installing high roofs, turrets, whimsical gargoyles and tall chimneys. Inside, he used details from French Gothic chateaux and churches to create a soaring great hall, impressive ground floor reception rooms and private upstairs family rooms designed with imported antique fireplaces and lavish wall coverings. It was the Goelet family's gift of Ochre Court to the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1947 that established Salve Regina. A far cry from its Gilded Age splendor, the stately 50-room mansion was the entire college for the first few years of the University's existence. The original 58 students lived on the third floor, attended classes on the second, studied and dined on the first, and snacked and purchased books in the basement. The eight Sisters of Mercy who made up the faculty established their own modest living area in the servants' quarters.

O'Hare Academic Center

O’Hare Academic Center

The O’Hare Academic Center houses classrooms, state-of-the-art laboratories, faculty offices, the Bazarsky Lecture Hall and Jazzman’s Cafe. Dedicated in 1968, the building is named for Sister Mary James O’Hare, the University’s first academic dean. In June 2015, Salve Regina broke ground on a $26 million renovation and expansion of the O'Hare Academic Center, the University's flagship academic building. Scheduled to conclude in June 2017, the project will add 23,000 square feet to the building's footprint and provide critical updates to its current educational spaces.

Our Lady of Mercy Chapel

Our Lady of Mercy Chapel

Centrally located on campus, Our Lady of Mercy Chapel is a sacred space that realizes the long-held dream of the many Sisters of Mercy who have served Salve Regina. Consecrated in September 2010, the chapel offers regular services and allows graduates and community members to celebrate their weddings on campus in a religious setting. The building's spacious first floor houses both the chapel and an interfaith prayer room, designed to provide a quiet place for prayer and meditation for people of all faiths. The Mercy Center for Spiritual Life, located on the lower level, provides ample space for student activities, fellowship and offices for campus ministers. Designed by award-winning architect Robert A.M. Stern, the chapel's stone and shingle exterior complements the historic architecture of Salve Regina's Ochre Point neighborhood. Features include a set of 13 leaded opalescent glass windows created by renowned artist John La Farge and a bell tower housing three 1910 bells cast by the Meneely Bell Company.

Rodgers Recreation Center

Rodgers Recreation Center

Dedicated in 2000, the Rodgers Recreation Center houses the University's athletic and recreational facilities, including the gymnasium, fitness center, aerobics studio, training rooms and a Hall of Fame area. Conference rooms, offices and locker rooms are located throughout the facility. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern, the facility's innovative design is a fitting modern counterpart to its Gilded Age neighbors. The Shingle-style exterior echoes McKim, Mead & White's Newport Casino and the Isaac Bell House. The Rodgers Recreation Center is named in honor of the late Thomas Rodgers Jr., a longtime University trustee and benefactor.

Wakehurst Student Center

Wakehurst

A hub for student activities, Wakehurst also houses classrooms and faculty offices. On the first floor is the Global Cafe, a video game lounge and the fireplace lounge, where many campus events are held. The lower level is home to the bicycle loan program, student mailroom, the Office of Student Activities and a lounge featuring pool, foosball, air hockey, ping-pong and a big-screen TV. The second floor features classrooms, a club resource room, the Office of Community Service, the Student Government Association, Campus Activities Board, Willow and Mosaic offices and a study lounge. The third floor houses offices for the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. Built for renowned anglophile James J. Van Alen and completed in 1887, Wakehurst was conceptualized by British architect Charles Eamer Kempe and constructed by local architect Dudley Newton. An exact replica of an Elizabethan manor house in England, Wakehurst Place, Wakehurst is distinguished by its geometric detail. Designed by Ernest Bowditch, the grounds recall the green serenity of an English country estate, with a serpentine drive and footpaths winding under magnificent specimen trees and ending at formal gardens. Salve Regina acquired Wakehurst from the Van Alen family in 1972.

Young Building

Young Building

The Young Building houses the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy and serves as a residence for sophomore students in the Pell Honors Program. Built during the initial development of Bellevue Avenue in the 1850s, the Queen Anne-style mansion originally known as Fairlawn was commissioned by Boston lawyer Andrew Ritchie and designed by architect Seth Bradford. The property has undergone several alterations over the years, including the addition of a ballroom and the installation of Tiffany stained glass windows in the great hall. Salve Regina acquired Fairlawn in 1997 and named it for University benefactors Anita O'Keeffe and Robert R. Young. In 1999, the University received a historic preservation award from the Newport Historical Society for the Young Building's restoration.

Athletics

Main article: Salve Regina University Athletics

Salve Regina competes on the NCAA Division III level. The University is a member of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) and New England Football Conference (NEFC). The university offers 10 varsity sports for women (soccer, field hockey, tennis, cross country, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, softball, track and field, and lacrosse), eight for men (football, cross country, soccer, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, baseball, and lacrosse), and one co-ed sport (sailing).

In addition, the University has a successful club sports program. The men's rugby club competes at the Division II level in the Colonial Coast Rugby Conference (CCRC). In 2011, the rugby team finished 17-0 and won the NSCRO National Championship, its first in school history.

In the past, the University's Rodgers Recreation Center served as the preseason training home of the Boston Celtics.

Notable alumni

Arts

Military

Accreditation and memberships

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf
  2. ^ "Salve Regina University $ Best College $ US News". Colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  3. ^ Salve Regina Financial Aid
  4. ^ Salve Regina Academic Departments
  5. ^ Salve Regina Study Abroad
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