University of Notre Dame

''Not to be confused with the University of Notre Dame Australia''

University of Notre Dame du Lac

Motto	''Vita, Dulcedo, Spes'' Hail Holy Queen
Established	1842
School type	private school
President	Edward A. Malloy, CSC
Location	Notre Dame, Indiana, Indiana, United States
Campus	Suburban 1,250 acres (5 km²)
Enrollment	8,311 undergraduate 1,606 graduate 1,498 professional
Sports teams	The Fighting Irish
Mascot	The Leprechaun

The University of Notre Dame is a Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, United States. Notre Dame's picturesque campus sits on 1,250 acres (5 km²) containing two lakes and 136 buildings. ==Overview== The school was founded in 1842 by Rev. Edward Sorin and France priests who were members of the Congregation of Holy Cross. The Indiana General Assembly incorporated the school on January 15, 1844 under the name University of Notre Dame du Lac. While the translation of ''Notre Dame du Lac'' is "Our Lady of the Lake," the university actually has two lakes on its campus. According to legend, when Father Sorin arrived to found the school, it was November and everything was frozen. He thought there was only one lake, and named the university accordingly. ===Location=== The university is located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, and has its own ZIP code (46556). Most of the campus is located in Portage township, while the expansions east of Juniper Road are in Clay township. * [http://maps.google.com/maps?li=bwp&q=NOTRE+DAME,+IN+46556 Google map] ===Government=== The university consists of twelve self-perpetuating members called "fellows". Six of the fellows are priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and the remaining six fellows are lay persons. Three of the priest fellows are always the current university president, the provincial superior of the Congregation in Indiana, and the local superior of the Congregation at Notre Dame. The chairman of the board of trustees is also always a fellow. The rest of the fellows are selected for staggered six-year terms. The fellows meet at least annually and are competent to amend the university's statutes and bylaws and to elect and remove trustees. The Board of Trustees is much larger than the fellows and currently numbers fifty-seven, composed mostly by lay persons. The board meets tri-anually and is responsible for electing the officers of the university as well as exercising the rest of the corporate powers of the university. The university president is responsible for the overall administration of the university and is ultimately responsible for the hiring of faculty and staff. The president must always be a priest and a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Rev. Edward A. "Monk" Malloy, CSC, PhD, is the 16th and current president of the university and is serving his third five-year term. Malloy is also a full professor in the Department of Theology and played on the varsity basketball team at Notre Dame while earning his Bachelor's degree in English (1963). Rev. John Jenkins, CSC, Degrees of Oxford University, will succeed Father Malloy as president on June 30, 2005. ==Academics== ===Undergraduate School=== * First Year of Studies Established in 1962, the First Year of Studies is the college to which all incoming first-year students are admitted. Students are not in a major during the first year; rather, students make a declaration of a tentative intended program. Through the structure of the curriculum, the First Year of Studies responds to their uncertainty regarding the choice of college and major that many first-year students experience. The first-year curriculum also accommodates the academic needs of the students who have well-defined interests and have made a commitment to a specific college and major. In addition to the academic advising component of First Year of Studies, the Learning Resource Center provides workshops in learning strategies, time management, collaborative learning, and tutoring. * College of Arts & Letters Established as the University's first and only College in 1842, the College of Arts and Letters is the largest of the four undergraduate colleges. Housing eighteen departments in the fine arts, the humanities, and the social sciences, the College awards the Bachelor of Fine Arts and the Bachelor of Arts degree in over fifty areas or concentrations. The curriculum of the College offers students a contemporary version of the traditional liberal arts education. The faculty and administration of the College are dedicated to the Catholic concept of the unity of knowledge across disciplines, the life of the mind, and the critical engagement with the whole of human experience. Arts and Letters students are encouraged to view themselves as participants in and heirs of a rich intellectual and spiritual tradition. * College of Science The University of Notre Dame awarded its first bachelor of science degree in 1865. Today, the College of Science offers curricula leading to the degree of bachelor of science studies in the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Preprofessional Studies. * College of Engineering The College of Engineering was established as a distinct unit of the University in 1920, although a program in civil engineering was offered in 1873. It is now organized into the departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. * Mendoza College of Business Established in 1921, the College of Business seeks to advance knowledge through distinguished scholarship and research balanced with inspirational teaching and spirited service. Undergraduate degrees are offered in Accountancy, Finance and Business Economics, Management, Marketing, and Management of Information Systems. * School of Architecture Courses in architecture were taught at the University as early as 1869 and the School of Architecture has offered formal instruction in architecture since 1898. Today, a five-year program leading to the degree of bachelor of architecture is offered. The program is accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board and the curriculum conforms to NAAB requirements for the professional degree in architecture. ===Law School=== Founded in 1869, the Notre Dame Law School is the oldest Roman Catholic law school in the United States. The Notre Dame Law program aims to educate men and women to become lawyers of extraordinary professional competence. Its national program is designed to equip students to practice law in any jurisdiction. The Law School grants the professional Juris Doctor degree as well as the graduate LLM and SJD degrees. ===Graduate School=== Founded in 1918, the Graduate School comprises four divisions—engineering, humanities, science, and social sciences—and the School of Architecture, and includes thirty departments and programs offering graduate studies leading to the MA, MS, MTS, and/or PhD degrees in most of the major humanistic, scientific, and engineering disciplines. It also offers the professional Master of Fine Arts in Art or Creative Writing, the Master of Architecture program, and the Master of Divinity program in the Department of Theology. ===Graduate Business School=== The Graduate Business School is administered by the faculty of the Mendoza College of Business. It offers professional studies leading to the MBA and MSA degrees and is ranked among the Top Tier MBA schools in the United States by US News and BusinessWeek 2004 rankings. [[image:notre-dame-stadium.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, Indiana]] ==Athletics== Its athletic teams are known as the ''Fighting Irish''. Exactly where and how Notre Dame's athletic nickname came to be never has been perfectly explained. One story suggests the moniker was born in 1899 with Notre Dame leading Northwestern University 5-0 at halftime of a game in Evanston, Illinois. The Wildcat fans supposedly began to chant, "Kill the Fighting Irish, kill the Fighting Irish," as the second half opened. Another tale has the nickname originating at halftime of the Notre Dame-University of Michigan game in 1909. With his team trailing, one Notre Dame player yelled to his teammates - who had names like Dolan, Kelly, Glynn, Duffy and Ryan - "What's the matter with you guys? You're all Irish and you're not fighting worth a lick." Notre Dame came back to win the game and the press, after overhearing the remark, reported the game as a victory for the "Fighting Irish." The most generally accepted explanation is that the press coined the nickname as a characterization of Notre Dame athletic teams, their never-say-die fighting spirit and the Irish qualities of grit, determination and tenacity. The term likely began as an abusive expression tauntingly directed toward the athletes from the small, private, Catholic institution. Notre Dame alumnus Francis Wallace popularized it in his ''New York Daily News'' columns in the 1920s. Another such example is that of Father William Corby and the Irish Brigade of the American Civil War, dubbed "The Fighting Irish." The school has a comprehensive and nationally competitive Division I athletic program, but it is most famous for its American football program. Claiming 11 national championships, Notre Dame football is considered one of the most storied college football programs in America. Notre Dame is a member of the Big East Conference in all sports except for football, in which it maintains its status as one of a small handful of NCAA Division I-A Independent Schools; and ice hockey, which is not sponsored by the Big East. Its hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. ==Notable Alumni== ===Academia and literature=== * Theodore Hesburgh - President Emeritus and Congressional Gold Medal recipient who holds the world record for most honorary degrees received. * Barry Lopez - Author * Nicholas Sparks (author) - Author ===Arts and media=== * Tony Bill - Film producer * Don Criqui - Sportscaster * Phil Donahue - Talk Show Host * William Mapother - Actor * Regis Philbin - Television Personality * Mark Shields - Syndicated political columnist and commentator for CNN and ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' * Hannah Storm - Television Personality * Anne Thompson - Correspondent for NBC News ===Business=== * Edward J. DeBartolo - Businessman and former owner of the San Francisco 49ers ===Politics and government=== * Richard V. Allen—Former United States National Security Advisor * Bruce Babbitt—Former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona * Mike Ferguson—U.S. Congressman * Francis Harvey—United States Secretary of the Army * Joe Kernan—Former Governor of Indiana * William E. Miller—Nominee for Vice President in the U.S._presidential_election%2C_1964 * Alan Page—Pro Football Hall of Famer and Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court * Ernesto P�rez-Balladares—Former President of Panama * Condoleezza Rice—United States Secretary of State * Tim Roemer—Former U.S. Congressman and member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission) * Pedro Rossell�—Former Governor of Puerto Rico * Mark Souder—U.S. Congressman * Pete Visclosky—U.S. Congressman ===Sports=== * Steve Bartman -- Nemesis of the Chicago Cubs' 2003 Season * Angelo Bertelli - Heisman Trophy Winner and Professional Football Player * Jerome Bettis - Professional Football Player * Tim Brown - Heisman Trophy Winner and Professional Football Player * Nick Buoniconti - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Dave Casper - Pro Football Hall of Famer * George Connor - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Leon Hart - Heisman Trophy Winner and Professional Football Player * John Huarte - Heisman Trophy Winner and Professional Football Player * Paul Hornung - Heisman Trophy Winner and Pro Football Hall of Famer * Bill Laimbeer - Former Professional Basketball player, Professional Woman Basketball Coach * Earl Lambeau - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Johnny Lattner - Heisman Trophy Winner and Professional Football Player * Johnny Lujack - Heisman Trophy Winner and Professional Football Player * Kate Markgraf - Professional Soccer Player * John McNally - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Wayne Millner - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Joe Montana - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Ron Powlus - Former Professional Football Player, Director Of Personnel Development for Notre Dame Football * Knute Rockne - Former Professional Football Player and Coach * Daniel Ruettiger - Football Player depicted in the film Rudy (film) * Joe Theismann - Former Professional Football Player * George Trafton - Pro Football Hall of Famer * Ricky Watters - Former Professional Football Player * Charlie Weis - Current Notre Dame Football Head Coach ===Other=== * Jim Wetherbee - Astronaut ==External links== *[http://www.nd.edu/ Official university site] *[http://www.und.com/ Official Notre Dame athletics site] *[http://scholastic.nd.edu/ Notre Dame Scholastic Magazine] *[http://www.ndtv.net/ Notre Dame Television] University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

==Location== IMO, Notre Dame is in South Bend, not adjacent to it. It just has its own ZIP code for the convenience of the Postal Service. It's not a real town. It doesn't have an [http://www.google.com/local?num=20&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-03,GGLD:en&q=elementary+school&near=Notre+Dame,+IN+46556&sa=X&oi=localr elementary school], a [http://www.google.com/local?num=20&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=police+department&near=Notre+Dame,+IN+46556&sa=X&oi=localr police departmen], a [http://www.google.com/local?num=20&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-03,GGLD:en&q=fire+department&near=Notre+Dame,+IN+46556&sa=X&oi=localr fire department], or any other municipal services, nor does it have a mayor, town council, or any other municipal officials. It is just a university campus. --User:Tysto 21:44, 2005 May 6 (UTC) I edited myself in the above comment to eliminate my un-Wiki display of bile. I swear, it was just the Purdue University in me. However, I have left the core of the commment, some of which I have admitted below was incorrect. --User:Tysto 21:06, 2005 May 31 (UTC) : I decided to leave the word "adjacent" and add an explanation in a Location section. The university is kind of proud of its address, even if other colleges laugh when they see their roster says they'll be playing in "Notre Dame, Indiana." A clarification about police: the campus "security police" are just private security; [http://www.nd.edu/~ndspd/ndspmiss.html their website] uses clever wording, but only those officers who are real cops in their regular jobs in the surrounding communities have the full training and legal authority of sworn police; the others are just dudes with a nice uniform. --User:Tysto 22:24, 2005 May 6 (UTC) ::Um, it actually does have its own sworn police and its own fire department as well. Yes, they employ non-sworn patrolmen in addition to their sworn force, but so does the NYPD. "Department Staff "For nearly 140 years the University of Notre Dame has been served by it's own Fire Department. ... "Today, the Notre Dame Fire Department is staffed by professional full-time Firefighters, twenty-four hours a day. Each duty shift has one Captain (shift commander) and three Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technicians. There is a total of three shifts that work twenty-four hours at a time. The Department is also staffed with 19 on-call Firefighters who fill in for full time Firefighters and serve as additional manpower when major events and incidents occur." "In addition to being Indiana State certified Firefighter 1 and 2 level, all Notre Dame Firefighters are also state certified Emergency Medical Technicians. Most NDFD personnel are certified in hazardous materials response at the operations level, certified divers and trained in high and low angle rope rescue, confined space rescue and ice rescue." "The Fire Department is lead by a Fire Chief..."--User:Samuel J. Howard 01:31, May 7, 2005 (UTC) I've rewritten this so that it is now accurate. Also I've noted that while in an unicorporated part of St. Joseph county, the campus does cross both Portage and Clay townships. Most of the campus is in Portage, but the expansions across the (east of) Juniper Rd. are in Clay tonwnship.--User:Samuel J. Howard 01:42, May 7, 2005 (UTC) : Thanks for the correction about the NDFD. My memory and web search were both deficient. I stand by my statements about the ND security police. --User:Tysto 18:44, 2005 May 7 (UTC) Even if you think it is important to keep the mention of Juniper road, your phrasing is poor: "located partly in Portage township, most of the campus, and partly in Clay township, east of Juniper Road." I'd suggest changing it to: "Most of campus is located in Portage township, while expansions east of Juniper Road lay in Clay township."--User:Mtz206 19:42, May 7, 2005 (UTC) : Does anyone really care what township Notre Dame is in? Does that even belong in an encyclopedia? It seems to me that the answer to the question "Where is Notre Dame?" is "South Bend, Indiana, but it has its own ZIP code." --User:Tysto 21:07, 2005 May 9 (UTC) ::I agree that in terms of identifying the location of ND in an encyclopedia article, the actual township is not necessary information (especially which particular road marks the division between townships). Whether or not the campus exists ''within'' the city limits of South Bend is a different issue. I think the best entry would be something like "Notre Dame is adjacent to the city of South Bend, IN and approximately 90 miles southeast of Chicago" as listed on [http://www.southbend.com/Education.shtml#collegesuniversities SouthBend.com]--User:Mtz206 22:07, May 9, 2005 (UTC) In response to Tysto--But it is not "in South Bend, Indiana". Nor of course is having one's own zip code at all important, since, for instance, arbitrary divisions of large cities with no organic unity frequently have their own zip codes. I lived there and to vote I had to register with St. Joseph County as a resident of Clay township. Figuring out where the border was required quite a bit of research. Why should the information not be included? Wikipedia is not paper. This is exactly the kind of thing that should be included in an encyclopedia.--User:Samuel J. Howard 02:53, May 10, 2005 (UTC) :I applaud your effort; it's more than I could muster, and I've lived around there almost my whole life. I think the township detail should not be included because it's not helpful to 99% of readers (the information in the entry for Notre Dame, Indiana is appropriate, including the township detail). I was fine with the word "adjacent" and misspoke when I wrote "in" again. I just object to wording that suggests that the university is a town in any traditional sense. --User:Tysto 00:37, 2005 May 11 (UTC) == du Lac in page title == I'm thinking that this needs to be moved to University of Notre Dame, as that is the commonly accepted name. Even the school's website doesn't mention the 'de Lac' part. It should still be mentioned on the first line, as it ''is'' the official name. Any objections to a move? User:Xyzzyva 01:13, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC) I strongly agree! The school's site does mention the "du Lac" part... but you have to dig down deeply into the "history" section to find it. As a rule, the site consistently calls the school "University of Notre Dame". User:Dale Arnett 03:55, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC) ATTENTION: I'm preparing to move this page to University of Notre Dame some time in the next few days, unless I hear a big outcry otherwise. Even though the full legal name includes the "du Lac", the school itself almost never uses it, except on diplomas (I believe). Most people searching in Wikipedia would refer to it as "University of Notre Dame", and the school uses that name consistently throughout its official site. User:Dale Arnett 05:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) == UND Australia == I don't understand the disambiguation about not confusing this with UND-Australia? Is that not a sister campus, as the article mentions? If the two universities are affiliated, then I don't think it would be correct to say "don't confuse it with", but rather, simply keep the note in the text that a 2nd campus exists. --User:Mtz206 01:57, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC) :mike - I think that this claim about the link between the two universities is basically false (although it was so ambiguous anyway - what the heck is a 'sister campus'?). So I've removed hat tidbit. UNDA say on their website that they were 'inspired by' the American Notre Dame. The two are totally separate institutions - some exchanges occur between them, but to no greater extent than occur between each and other institutions worldwide. This does, btw, bring up the issue of whether the American institution should have the University of Notre Dame entry, but it is so much better known that I think that would be ok.--User:Mgekelly 03:08, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::I found more info [http://www.nd.edu/~intlstud/locations/australia/fremantle1.htm here] stating that ND-Aus merely as "strong collegial links" with ND-US. Removing the "sister campus" language seems appropriate. --User:Mtz206 04:49, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC) == Malloy == According to his University bio [http://president.nd.edu/pages/bio.shtml], Mallow is a full professor in Theology. There is no mention to him being on the Philosophy Department's faculty. --User:Mtz206 19:50, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC) == Marye Anne Fox == According to her bio at UCSD [http://www-chancellor.ucsd.edu/biography.html] and this press release [http://www.notredamecollege.edu/about_ndc/press_releases/fox.htm], Marye Anne Fox went to Notre Dame College, not University of Notre Dame. --User:Mtz206 22:16, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

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