Newman University, Wichita
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Former names
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Sacred Heart College (1933–1973) Kansas Newman College (1973–1998) |
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| Motto | Caritas Christi urget nos (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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The charity of Christ urges us |
| Type | Private, Non-profit, Coeducational |
| Established | 1933 |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic (Adorers of the Blood of Christ) |
| President | Noreen Carrocci |
| Provost | Kimberly Long |
| Dean | David Shubert |
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Academic staff
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207 |
| Students | 3,736 |
| Undergraduates | 2,796 |
| Postgraduates | 940 |
| Location |
Wichita, Kansas, U.S. 37°40′20″N 97°22′42″W / 37.67222°N 97.37833°WCoordinates: 37°40′20″N 97°22′42″W / 37.67222°N 97.37833°W |
| Campus |
Urban 61 acres (0.25 km2) |
| Newspaper | The Vantage |
| Colors | Newman blue and red |
| Athletics | NCAA Division II – Heartland Conference |
| Nickname | Jets |
| Mascot | Johnny Jet |
| Affiliations |
ACCU NAICU CIC |
| Website | newmanu |
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Newman University is a coeducational Catholic liberal arts university named for John Henry Cardinal Newman and founded by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Newman offers more than forty undergraduate and several graduate programs and now serves more than 3,000 students. Most classes are under 20 students.
The origins of Newman University can be traced to the village of Acuto, Italy, where in 1834 a young woman named Maria De Mattias founded the order of religious women, which would become the university’s sponsoring religious congregation, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ [ASC]. Following the example of Maria—who was elevated to sainthood in 2003—the ASC were primarily a teaching order. The sisters came to the United States beginning in 1870, settling near St. Louis. In 1893, they were missioned to Westphalia, KS, and by 1902, they had come as far west as Wichita, Kansas. They purchased a six-acre piece of land, which Henry Dugan, a local farmer, had donated to the Catholic Diocese when Most Rev. J. J. Hennessy was bishop of Wichita. Here the Adorers established St. John’s Institute, a boarding school for girls. The following year (1903) a boys’ school was added. This former Dugan property would eventually become the heart of the Newman University campus.
In 1933, Mother Beata Netemeyer, who was named the first provincial of the Wichita Adorers in 1929, decided to establish Sacred Heart Junior College with the guidance and assistance of Leon A. McNeill, a member of the diocesan clergy and the superintendent of the Diocesan Catholic Schools.
The college officially opened on September 12, 1933, with “no personnel, no finances and very limited facilities” at the height of the Great Depression then engulfing the world. Despite the obstacles, the college steadily developed, training the sisters as teachers and providing education for lay women in teacher education, nursing, secretarial science and home economics. The objective of the college was the “development of a true and finished Christian character” to enable students to be honorable and useful citizens of the world. The first graduating class of 1935 numbered 17.
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