DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY

formerly Rosary College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in River Forest, Ill., U.S. It is affiliated with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, a religious order of the Roman Catholic church. The college offers a range of undergraduate majors in business, education, and arts and sciences. Master's degree programs in business, education, and library and information science are also available. Students enjoy access to facilities at Argonne National Laboratory. Total enrollment is approximately 1,800. The history of the college began in 1948 with the founding in Wisconsin of St. Clara Academy, a frontier school for women, by a Dominican educator who rejected the period's conventional course of study offered to young women and instead included sciences, history, and philosophy in the school's curriculum. The academy's staff were the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, who established St. Clara College in Sinsinawa, Wis., in 1901. At the request of Archbishop George Mundelein of Chicago, the college moved to River Forest in 1922. The library-science school opened in 1930. It was then the only Rosary program that accepted men. In 1970 the college adopted a coeducational policy. In 1997 the school was renamed Dominican University.