Dominican University (DU) is a coeducational, complete, Catholic establishment of advanced education and examination in River Forest, Illinois. Partnered with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, it offers single man's and graduate degrees and declaration programs and additionally a PhD in library and data science. Dominican offers more than 50 majors in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 20 programs in five graduate scholarly divisions offering graduate projects in library and data science, business, the School of Education, and social work. Dominican likewise has a School of Professional and Continuing Studies. Dominican is surely understood for its offerings of undergrad projects in expressions of the human experience and sciences and additionally a few graduate projects by and by situated trains, for example, business and instruction. US News and World Report positions Dominican in the top level of Midwestern master's-level colleges.
History and mission
Passage entryway to Dominican University
The school started as St. Clara College in 1848, sanctioned by Fr. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, O.P. in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. It turned into a school in 1901 and moved to River Forest, Illinois, taking the name Rosary College in 1922 while under the administration of Mother Samuel Coughlin of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters. The present name of Dominican University was embraced in 1997 as a component of a vital arrangement by president Donna Carroll to mirror the school's Dominican legacy and its status as a more exhaustive college.
The college works under the accompanying statement of purpose: "As a Sinsinawa Dominican-supported foundation, Dominican University plans understudies to seek after truth, to give empathetic administration and to partake in the formation of an all the more just and altruistic world."
The school got to be coeducational in 1970.
Scholastics
Perspective of the "Old Library" and Chapel
Dominican University offers more than 40 undergrad majors, and a few pre-proficient projects. There is a twelve to one understudy personnel proportion at this University. Dominican's master's level college is separated into five scholarly divisions: the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Professional Continuing Studies.
Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) and the Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Science (PhD).
The GSLIS distributes a semi-yearly, peer-inspected online diary called World Libraries, a production devoted to "bookkeepers and libraries in districts without affiliations or offices to empower insightful correspondence and expert improvement." The distribution of World Libraries is facilitated by understudies contemplating web distributed.
Controlled by the GSLIS, the Butler Children's Literature Center is one of the country's chief communities for the investigation of kids' and youthful grown-up writing in the administrations of education, learning and a long lasting affection for perusing. As an examination community for youngsters' and youthful grown-up writing, it serves as a best practices proficient gathering to bolster coordination of kids' and youthful grown-up writing in classrooms, libraries, childcare focuses, and homes.
In the Fall of 2014, the college presented another Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program. Another clinical reproduction research center was planned and fabricated particularly for the project.
Grounds
Perspective of the Dominican University quad
Dominican University is situated on a 30-section of land (12.14 ha) lush grounds in rural River Forest and only ten miles (16 km) from downtown Chicago. The Rebecca Crown Library has 300,000 materials in different arrangements and a completely prepared learning asset focus. Different grounds highlights incorporate a dialect learning focus, a PC innovation focus, a craftsmanship exhibition, a house of prayer, an understudy focus, the Lund Auditorium, the Eloise Martin Recital Hall and the Stepan Bookstore. There are five habitation corridors at Dominican University: Aquinas Hall (Priory Campus), Coughlin Hall, Sister Jean Murray Hall, Mazzuchelli and Power Hall. More than 30% of all students live on grounds. Most approaching first-year understudies live in twofold rooms in Murray or Coughlin corridors. Murray is the most up to date home corridor, which opened in 2004 (as Centennial Hall; renamed after previous school president Sister Jean Murray in 2012).
Parmer Hall
Parmer Hall
In 2007, Dominican University started another building intended to consolidate the college's gothic personality. This $38 million office is utilized for science and instruction classes. This building takes after the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design criteria to minimize natural effect. This building joins Murray Hall, a living arrangement corridor, and a 550-auto stopping structure among late grounds increments.
Understudy life
Dominican has an assortment of grounds associations for understudies. They incorporate social gatherings, division clubs, honor social orders, and specific vested parties.
Games
Dominican University groups take an interest as an individual from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III since 2000 (beforehand NAIA). Nicknamed the "Stars," Dominican is an individual from the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) (some time ago the Northern Athletics Conference ("NAC")). From the mid 1990s until spring 2005, Dominican was an individual from the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference; and an individual from the Lake Michigan Conference until the spring of 2006. Men's games incorporate baseball, b-ball, crosscountry, golf, soccer, tennis, and volleyball; while ladies' games incorporate b-ball, crosscountry, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball.
Men's soccer
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Dominican University's Men's Soccer group is every year positioned amongst the best in the country. Since 2002, the Stars Men's Soccer has made 11 back to back NCAA national competition appearances, and have posted a 16–11 NCAA Tournament record (.593). The Stars have progressed to the Sweet Sixteen four times in system history (2003, 2006, 2009, 2012), to the Elite Eight three times (2003, 2006, 2009), and to the NCAA national elimination round amusement in 2009 where the Stars fell 1-0 to the possible national runner-up, Calvin College. Since the NAC (now the NACC) started in 2006, the Stars have won every one of the seven Men's Soccer normal season and competition titles, and gloat a gathering unbeaten dash of 104 matches, and a meeting competition winning dash of 32 amusements.
With the 2012-13 scholarly year being his nineteenth in charge, Head Men's Soccer Coach Erick Baumann gloats a profession .801 winning rate with a 311-69-22 general record, positioning him in the main 15 amongst all NCAA men's soccer most dominating mentors untouched, and fourth record-breaking among NCAA Division III men's soccer mentors. Furthermore, Baumann's 311 profession guiding triumphs rank him twentieth in NCAA Division III men's soccer untouched while he is the main mentor in the main 20 with less than 22 years as a mentor at a Division III foundation. In 1999, Baumann was highlighted in Sports Illustrated as the NAIA Region VII Coach of the Year as he drove the group to the college's first-ever local title in men's soccer and the project's first appearance in the NAIA National Tournament.
Under Baumann's initiative, Dominican's Men's Soccer group has created eight All-American competitors. The latest to earn the honor under Baumann was Lio Tovar and Michael Kapusta, first and second group determinations separately in 2010. In 2009, Mario Napiorkowski earned a spot on the 2009 second group. In 2007, Matt Kochanowski was a third group choice. In 2004 and 2005 separately Erik Elizondo and David Niederholtmeyer were first-group choices. In 1997 Oscar Alvarez was named to the second group in 1997. In 1999, Carlos Carrillo and Oscar Alvarez were third group determinations.
On September 25, 2013, Dominican's notable 104-match gathering unbeaten streak arrived at an end. Benedictine University's Edgar Reyes scored the solitary objective which gave the Star's their first misfortune in meeting play since October 2004. Benedictine and Dominican went ahead to impart the standard season title to Dominican winning the gathering competition asserting their twelfth back to back NCAA offer. Benedictine was grinding away a year later when they beat Dominican again in a diversion that finished 2-1. Green bean sensation Nick Kapetanos scored the main objective and helped Edgar Reyes on the second. Benedictine is the main group to beat Dominican in NACC play and they did it in consecutive years. The following year was the same story as Benedictine beat Dominican 1-0 amid the last customary season standoff. Dominican would get its reprisal by beating Benedictine 3-2 in additional time the next week.
Local competitions have created with other prominent Division III projects, for example, University of Chicago, Wheaton College (IL), Loras College, North Park University, and Washington University (St. Louis, MO).
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