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Long known as Rosary College, Dominican University is a private, Catholic liberal arts school in west suburban River Forest. It was founded in 1901 as an all-female school in Sinsinawa, Wisc., as St. Clara College by the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary. In 1922, it was moved to River Forest and its name was changed to Rosary College. Now a co-ed institution, it first admitted men in 1970. In May 1997, as part of an aggressive strategic plan, the name was changed to Dominican University. It has one undergraduate school, the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, and five graduate schools: the Brennan School of Business; the Graduate School of Library & Information Science; t...
Long known as Rosary College, Dominican University is a private, Catholic liberal arts school in west suburban River Forest. It was founded in 1901 as an all-female school in Sinsinawa, Wisc., as St. Clara College by the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary. In 1922, it was moved to River Forest and its name was changed to Rosary College. Now a co-ed institution, it first admitted men in 1970. In May 1997, as part of an aggressive strategic plan, the name was changed to Dominican University. It has one undergraduate school, the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, and five graduate schools: the Brennan School of Business; the Graduate School of Library & Information Science; the Graduate School of Social Work; the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies; and the School of Education.
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Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak made incomparable art from childhood's monsters
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In Cook County, campus sex-assault suspects rarely prosecuted
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Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home for sale
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Hemingway's Oak Park home for sale
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