Cardinal Stritch University

History and Tradition
Cardinal Stritch University has a rich history and custom going back to its establishing in 1937.


1937: The College is sanctioned by the condition of Wisconsin as St. Clare College, a showing establishment for its organizers, the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi. The College is situated on Milwaukee's south side.

1943: The Sisters opened a perusing facility to help youngsters in overcoming perusing troubles. This system, referred to today as The Literacy Centers, is among the most seasoned in the nation and remains a foundation of the University's legacy.

1946: St. Clare College is renamed Cardinal Stritch College to pay tribute to the previous Archbishop of Milwaukee, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, who initially urged the Sisters to begin a school. All scholastic projects are opened to laywomen.

1953: The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools stipends accreditation surprisingly. This accreditation proceeds to the present day.

1956: A graduate division is built up, offering majors in a specialized curriculum and perusing. Courses in this division are interested in men.

1962: The grounds on the city's south side is shut and opens at the present area in Fox Point/Glendale with five structures: Bonaventure Hall – organization; Duns Scotus Hall – scholastics; Roger Bacon Hall – science; Serra Hall – lounge area and kitchen; and Clare Hall – living arrangement.

1970: The College turns out to be altogether coeducational.

1980: A creative nursing project is presented, offering both partner and four year college educations.

1982: Programs in Management for Adults, the herald to the College of Business and Management, are executed to address the issues of working grown-ups looking for degrees. Their prosperity prompted venture into Minnesota in 1987.

1983: The Professional Inservice Bureau is made and offers an off-grounds conveyance framework for working teachers who need to seek after graduate studies.

1985: The O.W. Woodworker Campus Center and the A.S. Kliebhan Hall (Great Hall) are finished and committed. The Library, Fieldhouse, Student Union, Bookstore and Schroeder Auditorium are incorporated into this extension.

1988: The Master Plan for Stritch is revealed; its need was to advance the Franciscan charism. A team recognized and portrayed the four Franciscan qualities whereupon Stritch still works.

1997: University status is affirmed by the Board of Trustees, and Cardinal Stritch College gets to be Cardinal Stritch University. The Joan Steele Stein Center for Communication Studies/Fine Arts is opened, and Nursing presents its first graduate degree program.

1998: The Doctorate in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service is built up.

2000: The Franciscan Pilgrimage program starts for workforce, staff, and organization. At first, two individuals from every gathering are sent for a ten day authority journey in Assisi and Rome.

2002: Stritch builds up The Leadership Center, which gets ready and maintains pioneers that are impetuses for change of their associations and groups.

2005: A $14 million extension of the University's primary organization building, Bonaventure Hall, was finished. Stritch additionally started offering its first completely online degree programs.

2007: Stritch builds up The Saint Clare Center for Catholic Life, which gives instruction and arrangement to lay Catholics who look to develop in confidence and administration. It is the main focus of its kind in the nation.

2008: Heritage Park, regarding the Sisters who have served at Stritch, is devoted.

2009: City Center opens in Building #14 of the Pabst Brewery Redevelopment in downtown Milwaukee. The previous College of Education and Leadership expanding on grounds is rebuilt to make Assisi Hall, a habitation for 100 understudies.

2010: Plans are reported for the development of St. Francis of Assisi Chapel on the second floor of Bonaventure Hall. The Chapel is devoted on October 4, 2011.

2011: Dr. James Loftus turns into the University's eighth president.

2012: The University praises its 75th commemoration and presents the new "rose window" logo. Motivated by a window found at the Basilica of St. Clare in Assisi, Italy, it was regarded the University's rich past and the legacy of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi.

2013: Men's b-ball wins the NAIA Division II National Championship.

2014: The new Performing Arts office is presented. 


 Mission and Vision
Vision of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi for Cardinal Stritch University
Established in the estimations of Catholic Christianity and motivated by the soul of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi and the legacy of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, Cardinal Stritch University is a scholastic group called to change people to "support the better things" as they find their motivation in life.

The University empowers scholarly greatness, alongside scholarly, otherworldly, and social development among its whole group – personnel, staff, and understudies of all ages, beliefs, and ethnic foundations.

Editorial

Cardinal Stritch University grounds its aesthetic sciences project and its center exercises of instructing, learning, grant and administration in the Catholic confidence which confirms the decency of all creation and perspectives human persons as made in the picture of God and supplied with individual nobility. The University's scholarly convention looks to incorporate confidence and reason, confidence having its source in the mission of Jesus, who was sent so that all "may have life and have it all the more plentifully," and reason, drawing on religious, philosophical, moral, and experimental standards.

In association with the Catholic Church through the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, the University concentrates on what Pope John Paul II calls "a full hunt down truth" (Ex Corde Ecclesiae) in all its structures. In a dialog amongst confidence and reason, the University looks to open its understudies to supernatural truths, the Catholic and Franciscan scholarly customs, and the standards of Catholic social educating in a scholastic group that qualities flexibility of request and common, basic talk.

As a Catholic University in the Franciscan convention, Cardinal Stritch asserts a dream of God that underscores goodness and adoration. Spilling out of its faith in the Incarnation – God made present in mankind's history in the individual of Jesus Christ – the University perceives that learning must be with regards to our present experience of humankind and of the world. As a Franciscan learning group, it endeavors to draw in understudies and staff by method for the HEART (representing interpersonal and inter‐relational exercises), and the HEAD (managing truths, science, and reason). Henceforth, the University looks to make a domain in which its personnel, staff, and understudies "endeavor to join philanthropy and information so that the human individual may be both proficient and adoring," in the expressions of St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan researcher.

The University values assorted qualities and invites people of all beliefs and profound conventions, empowering inclusion of its work force in ecumenical and interfaith dialog, i.e., legit and conscious trade of confidence understandings. The particular Franciscan qualities, got from the Gospels and given conspicuousness at Stritch, are those of making a minding group, demonstrating sympathy, reverencing all of creation, and making peace.

In accordance with Catholic social educating, the University stresses sympathy toward poor people or underestimated, and stands prepared to remediate out of line frameworks where conceivable. It additionally puts extraordinary accentuation on the estimations of friendliness, cordiality, generosity, and fellowship, supporting multicultural differences among workforce, understudies, and staff, and an inviting state of mind toward persons with handicaps, and distraught and disappointed persons. At long last, the University offers programs on these qualities for its work force, perceiving that, just when their acknowledgment has been accomplished campus‐wide, can Stritch be a Catholic University in the Franciscan custom.