Xavier University of Louisiana

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Xavier University of Louisiana
motto Deodorant Adjuvenate, Non Timendum
founding 1915
Sponsorship Private
place New Orleans , Louisiana , USA
president Norman Francis
Students 4.121
Professors 241
Foundation assets $ 90 million
University sports Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
Website xula.edu
Xavier University of Louisiana

Xavier University of Louisiana ( XULA ) is a Catholic-oriented university in New Orleans , the largest city in the US state of Louisiana .

After over 4,100 students before Hurricane Katrina (2005) there are now over 4,000 students again. In 2007 there were 521 graduates, a total of more than 18,000.

mission

The XULA is the only institute of 105 " historically Black " and 253 " Catholic " colleges that combines both labels. It can also claim to be the only one founded by a papally canonized saint, namely Katherine Maria Drexel .

The aim is to support a just and humane society. It prepares its students to take on roles in leadership and service to society. This preparation takes place in a pluralistic teaching and learning environment with all relevant means including research and services.

The current Mission Statement of Xavier in many ways quite identical to the founding mission:
Xavier University of Louisiana is Catholic and historically Black. The ultimate purpose of the University is the promotion of a more just and humane society. To this end, Xavier prepares its students to assume roles of leadership and service in society. This preparation takes place in a pluralistic teaching and learning environment that incorporates all relevant educational means, including research and community service.

Personalities

Graduates

  • Alvin J. Boutte - Founder and Chairman of the largest black-run financial institution Indecorp, as well as Independence Bank and Drexel National Bank in Chicago
  • Bernard Randolph - Former USAF General , one of only 3 Afro-Americans with the rank of 4-Star General in the US Forces
  • Charles Champion - influential US pharmacist specializing in herbal medicine
  • Annabelle Bernard - first black leading actress at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin
  • George McKenna III - educationalist, developed an excellent educational model from a "bad urban school" that became the basis for the television film " The George McKenna Story " (1986)
  • Marie McDemmond - first female president of Norfolk State University
  • Louis Castenell - Dean of the University of Cincinnati 's College of Education
  • Alexis Herman - First African-American Secretary of Labor
  • Ivan LR Lemelle - New Orleans District Court Judge
  • Regina Benjamin - Physicist, first African-American woman to serve as a curator on the American Medical Association 's Board of Trustees
  • Sherrie Brown Littlejohn - Vice President and Press Secretary of the telecommunications company SBC Messaging in Ramon, California , a subsidiary of SBC Communications
  • Rosalind Miller - Director of the JB Henderson Family Investment Center in New Iberia, Louisiana, serving low-income earners
  • Patrice Jean - honored at Princeton University as "Unsung Heroine" for her social rights efforts and with a prize for "effectiveness in teaching molecular biology"

Award winners

  • 2006: Honorary doctorate for Barack Obama - Senator and 44th US President

Web links

Commons : Xavier University of Louisiana  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Best Colleges 2010 - Xavier University of Louisiana. In: US News & World Report. (English). Accessed March 28, 2010

Coordinates: 29 ° 57 ′ 54.8 "  N , 90 ° 6 ′ 25.2"  W.