Holy Names University
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Holy Names University is a private, coeducational university
located in Oakland, California
. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church
and is administered by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
.
, a teaching order from Quebec, Canada. They were invited to Oakland
by Father Michael King, Pastor of Saint Mary's Church to establish a school for girls and to provide means to train future teachers.
The original site of the convent was to be the shores of Lake Merritt
. By 1909 the convent began to offer classes at a post-secondary level and was renamed the College of the Holy Names. In 1949 the College became one of the Charter members of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
(WASC). Graduate degree programs were added in 1951 and men were first admitted only as graduate students. Soon afterward in 1957, the original site was purchased by Henry J. Kaiser where he constructed the Kaiser Building, and the school moved to its present location in the Oakland Hills. In 1971 the college became coeducational and was renamed Holy Names College. The Julia Morgan School for Girls held classes for its first two years, from 1999 through 2001, at Holy Names. The school took its present name on May 10, 2004 and became known as the "newest Catholic university in California."
about 2.5 miles southeast of the Montclair
district. To the north of campus lies the neighborhood of Woodminster, and the City of Oakland's 500 acre Joaquin Miller Park
. To the south, Holy Names' campus is flanked with the Crestwood neighborhood to the east, and the Redwood Heights neighborhood to the west across the Warren Freeway. Redwood Regional Park
, part of the East Bay Regional Park District
, lies about 2.2 miles east on Redwood Road.
architect Milton T. Pflueger, younger brother of the renowned architect Timothy L. Pflueger
, designed the mid-century modern
campus buildings, which were constructed from 1955-1958 , and dedicated in 1957. Milton Pflueger designed many campus buildings at Cal Berkeley and Stanford University
, but Holy Names is the only complete campus he designed. The first buildings constructed included the Academic facilities, the Student Center, housing, Gymnasium and pool, and McLean Chapel.. The hillside location inspired a linear plan, with low-roofed buildings nestled along the slope. The site features panoramic views across the San Francisco Bay
from San Jose
on the San Francisco Peninsula
to Mount Tamalpais
on the Marin
Peninsula.
The Valley Center for the Performing Arts was constructed in 1994, in the former location of the tennis courts. It houses two separate theatres; large audiences up to 390 can be accommodated in the Regents’ Theatre, while smaller groups use the Studio Theatre with movable seating for up to 125 participants.
The university offers nineteen undergraduate degree programs, and five adult degree completion programs, including a Bachelor of Nursing Science (BSN) degree awarded by Samuel Merritt College
, in a partnership whereby HNU offers the liberal arts and science courses while Samuel Merritt offers the nursing courses. It added an LVN to BSN degree in 2010.
HNU offers eight master's degree programs in addition to a teacher education program leading to a California teacher's credential. Graduate degrees offered include several business
degree concentrations (MBA in Energy and Environment Management, Finance
, Management and Leadership, Marketing
, or Sports Management), counseling psychology
(MA), education
(EdD
and Credentials), English
(MA), music
(MA), nursing
(MSN/MBA, MSN/MFP), and pastoral ministries (MA). The university added an MA in Forensic Psychology degree in 2006.
of the NAIA
. The university fields teams for both men and women in basketball, volleyball, cross-country and soccer. Holy Names also fields men's golf team and women's softball team, also competing in the NAIA. Women's softball is the newest sport at the university celebrating their inaugural season during the 2007-2008 academic year.
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
located in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
and is administered by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary is a teaching order founded at Longueuil, Québec, Canada in 1843 by Blessed Mother Marie-Rose for the Christian education of young girls.Their motto is: "Jésus et Marie, Ma Force et Ma Gloire" .Since 1843, the...
.
History
The university was originally established as the Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in 1868 by six members of the Sisters of the Holy NamesSisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary is a teaching order founded at Longueuil, Québec, Canada in 1843 by Blessed Mother Marie-Rose for the Christian education of young girls.Their motto is: "Jésus et Marie, Ma Force et Ma Gloire" .Since 1843, the...
, a teaching order from Quebec, Canada. They were invited to Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
by Father Michael King, Pastor of Saint Mary's Church to establish a school for girls and to provide means to train future teachers.
The original site of the convent was to be the shores of Lake Merritt
Lake Merritt
Lake Merritt is a large tidal lagoon that lies just east of downtown Oakland, California. It is surrounded by parkland and city neighborhoods. A popular 3.1 mile walking and jogging path runs along its perimeter...
. By 1909 the convent began to offer classes at a post-secondary level and was renamed the College of the Holy Names. In 1949 the College became one of the Charter members of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. The Western Association of...
(WASC). Graduate degree programs were added in 1951 and men were first admitted only as graduate students. Soon afterward in 1957, the original site was purchased by Henry J. Kaiser where he constructed the Kaiser Building, and the school moved to its present location in the Oakland Hills. In 1971 the college became coeducational and was renamed Holy Names College. The Julia Morgan School for Girls held classes for its first two years, from 1999 through 2001, at Holy Names. The school took its present name on May 10, 2004 and became known as the "newest Catholic university in California."
Campus
Holy Names University is located on a wooded, sixty-acre site in the Oakland HillsOakland Hills, Oakland, California
Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California.-The geologic feature:...
about 2.5 miles southeast of the Montclair
Montclair, Oakland, California
Montclair is a neighborhood of Oakland, California. Montclair is located in the hills east of Piedmont in a valley formed by the Hayward Fault...
district. To the north of campus lies the neighborhood of Woodminster, and the City of Oakland's 500 acre Joaquin Miller Park
Joaquin Miller Park
Joaquin Miller Park is a large open space park in the Oakland Hills owned and operated by the city of Oakland, California. It was named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who lived here in his house "The Hights", now preserved as the Joaquin Miller House.-Park:The park's are...
. To the south, Holy Names' campus is flanked with the Crestwood neighborhood to the east, and the Redwood Heights neighborhood to the west across the Warren Freeway. Redwood Regional Park
Redwood Regional Park
Redwood Regional Park is a park of the East Bay Regional Parks District in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located in the hills east of Oakland. The park contains the largest remaining natural stand of coast redwood found in the East Bay. Redwood forests are more commonly found closer to the...
, part of the East Bay Regional Park District
East Bay Regional Park District
The East Bay Regional Park District is a special district operating in Alameda County and Contra Costa County, California, within the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area...
, lies about 2.2 miles east on Redwood Road.
Architecture
San Francisco Bay AreaSan Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
architect Milton T. Pflueger, younger brother of the renowned architect Timothy L. Pflueger
Timothy L. Pflueger
Timothy Ludwig Pflueger was a prominent architect, interior designer and architectural lighting designer in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first half of the 20th century. Together with James R...
, designed the mid-century modern
Mid-century modern
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965...
campus buildings, which were constructed from 1955-1958 , and dedicated in 1957. Milton Pflueger designed many campus buildings at Cal Berkeley and Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, but Holy Names is the only complete campus he designed. The first buildings constructed included the Academic facilities, the Student Center, housing, Gymnasium and pool, and McLean Chapel.. The hillside location inspired a linear plan, with low-roofed buildings nestled along the slope. The site features panoramic views across the San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...
from San Jose
San José
San José, or San Jose, is the Spanish for Saint Joseph. It usually refers to one of two major cities. These are:*San José, Costa Rica, the capital of Costa Rica*San Jose, California, the tenth-most populous city in the United States...
on the San Francisco Peninsula
San Francisco Peninsula
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco. Its southern base is in Santa Clara County, including the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Mountain...
to Mount Tamalpais
Mount Tamalpais
Mount Tamalpais is a peak in Marin County, California, United States, often considered symbolic of Marin County. Much of Mount Tamalpais is protected within public lands such as Mount Tamalpais State Park and the Mount Tamalpais Watershed.-Geography:...
on the Marin
Marin Headlands
The Marin Headlands is a hilly area at the southernmost end of Marin County, California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Headlands are located just north of San Francisco, immediately across the Golden Gate Bridge. The entire area is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area...
Peninsula.
The Valley Center for the Performing Arts was constructed in 1994, in the former location of the tennis courts. It houses two separate theatres; large audiences up to 390 can be accommodated in the Regents’ Theatre, while smaller groups use the Studio Theatre with movable seating for up to 125 participants.
Academics
The school maintains small class sizes, with a student to faculty ratio of 17:1, and more than 90 percent of the faculty hold the highest degree in their fields . In 2006, for the third year in a row, US News and World Report rated Holy Names University a "best value" among universities that do not offer doctorates on the West Coast. That same publication also ranked the university as the third most diverse university in the West. Fifty-one percent of the incoming freshmen in the Fall of 2006 were first generation college students and the student body represents 36 nations.The university offers nineteen undergraduate degree programs, and five adult degree completion programs, including a Bachelor of Nursing Science (BSN) degree awarded by Samuel Merritt College
Samuel Merritt College
Samuel Merritt University, formerly Samuel Merritt College, was founded in 1909 as a hospital school of nursing. It is a fully accredited health sciences institution located on the Summit campus of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, United States...
, in a partnership whereby HNU offers the liberal arts and science courses while Samuel Merritt offers the nursing courses. It added an LVN to BSN degree in 2010.
HNU offers eight master's degree programs in addition to a teacher education program leading to a California teacher's credential. Graduate degrees offered include several business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
degree concentrations (MBA in Energy and Environment Management, Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
, Management and Leadership, Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
, or Sports Management), counseling psychology
Counseling psychology
Counseling psychology is a psychological specialty that encompasses research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention and health...
(MA), education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
(EdD
Edd
-Science and medicine:* Experimental Design Diagram* Electron-detachment dissociation, a fragmentation technique* Expected Date of Delivery, the estimated date when a woman will give birth* End-diastolic dimension-Technology:...
and Credentials), English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(MA), music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
(MA), nursing
Nursing
Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....
(MSN/MBA, MSN/MFP), and pastoral ministries (MA). The university added an MA in Forensic Psychology degree in 2006.
Athletics
The Hawks of Holy Names University participate in the California Pacific ConferenceCalifornia Pacific Conference
The California Pacific Conference is a college athletics conference in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics . The conference commissioner is Don Ott. Conference leadership is shared among the member institutions. The conference president is Themy Adachi of Mills College. The...
of the NAIA
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...
. The university fields teams for both men and women in basketball, volleyball, cross-country and soccer. Holy Names also fields men's golf team and women's softball team, also competing in the NAIA. Women's softball is the newest sport at the university celebrating their inaugural season during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Alumnae
- Dame Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, Member of the House of LordsHouse of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
in the United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, DBEOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
- Carol A. Corrigan, Associate Justice of the California State Supreme Court
- Rita LavelleRita LavelleRita Marie Lavelle is a United States and California State Republican political figure. Lavelle was convicted on federal charges of perjury related to an investigation into misuse of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's "Superfund" money during her tenure with the agency, and...
, EPA official during the Reagan Administration
- Dean Peterson, Director of The Missoula Symphony Chorale and Hellgate High School Choirs
- Agnieszka Winker, Founder of The Winkler Group; McCall and ADWEEK “Woman Advertiser of the Year” and author of Warp Speed Branding