- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 
Latin: Universitas Catholica Sacri Cordis Jesu Motto In the heart of reality Established 1921 Type Private Rector Prof. Lorenzo Ornaghi Students 42,000 Location Milano, Italy Sports teams CUS Milano Colors Blue and gold Website www.unicattolica.it/
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) is a privately-owned Catholic university founded in 1921 by Agostino Gemelli. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome, and Campobasso. The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the biggest private university in Europe[1] and the biggest and one of the most distinguished Catholic universities in the world. [2]Contents
History
In 1919 Father Agostino Gemelli, Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli, and Ernesto Lombardo, founded the university. In 1920, after overcoming a number of obstacles and difficulties, the Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo di Studi Superiori was founded (The Institution is the founder as well as the warrantor for the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore). On June 24 of that year the Istituto was legally recognized with a Decree signed by the Minister of Education, Benedetto Croce; at the same time, the Pope Benedict XV officially recognized the University's ecclesiastical status.
UCSC Milan.
On December 7, 1921, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was officially inaugurated with a special mass celebrated by Father Gemelli, in the presence of Achille Ratti, the Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, who three months later was elected as Pope Pius XI. The first campus was located in the Palazzo del Canonica, in via Sant'Agnese 2. In October 1930 it was moved to the ancient St. Ambrose Monastery, where the main campus remains today. 68 students enrolled in the university's two available programs, philosophy and social sciences, in 1921. As of 2011[update], 14 programs were offered to over 40,000 students distributed over the Milan, Rome, Brescia, Piacenza and Campobasso campuses.
In 1924, following legal recognition from the Italian state allowing the awarding of legally-recognized degrees (the charter of the Università Cattolica was approved by Royal Decree on October 2, 1924, and published on October 31 on the Gazzetta Ufficiale), the Humanities and Law Programs were inaugurated. In 1923 the Istituto Superiore di Magistero was opened, and in 1936 became an independent program, later evolving to become, in 1996, the College of Education Sciences.
Inner yard.In 1926 the Political and Economical Sciences Department became independent from the College of Law and, in 1931, became the College of Political, Economical, and Business Sciences which awarded, until 1947, the university's business degrees as well. In 1936 the College of Political Science became independent. The work and efforts of the Università Cattolica continued throughout the post-war period with new campuses and programs opening. The College of Economics, officially opened in 1947, offered night classes. On October 30, in the presence of Italian President Luigi Einaudi, the first stone of the Piacenza campus was laid, with the official opening of the College of Agriculture Sciences taking place in November 1952.
On August 4, 1958, the official decree for the opening of a Medical School in Rome, which had been advocated by Father Gemelli, was approved. Enormous difficulties had made this long and complicated, and it was not until the end of the 1950s that the Biological Institutes and the university Polyclinic, named after Fr Gemelli were built in Rome. Construction began in 1959; in 1961 Pope John XXIII opened the Medical School, with the first medical doctors graduating in 1967. The school now offers both medical and dentistry programs.
In 1956 the Brescia campus of the Università Cattolica was inaugurated with the opening of the College of Teaching and Education. In 1971, thanks to the initiative of important figures in the mathematical field, the College of Mathematics, Physics, and Natural Sciences was opened. During the 1990s other colleges were opened in Milan: the College of Banking, Finance, and Insurance Sciences (1990); the College of Foreign Languages and Literature (today the College of Linguistics) and Foreign Literature (1991); and the College of Psychology (1999). In 1997 in Piacenza the College of Economics, once part of the Milan curriculum, opened independently, and the College of Law in 1995.
In 2000 thirteen Cultural Centres were opened across Italy. In these Centers, through advanced satellite technology, distance-learning courses have been activated in collaboration with the major university campuses. During the 2001-2002 academic year the new College of Sociology, the fourteenth college of the Università Cattolica, was opened in Milan. The presidents of the Università del Sacro Cuore over the yars have been Agostino Gemelli, Francesco Vito, Ezio Franceschini, Giuseppe Lazzati, Adriano Bausola, Sergio Zaninelli and Lorenzo Ornaghi.
Rectors
- Agostino Gemelli (1921-1959)
- Francesco Vito (1959-1965)
- Ezio Franceschini (1965-1968)
- Giuseppe Lazzati (1968-1983)
- Adriano Bausola (1983-1998)
- Sergio Zaninelli (1998-2002)
- Lorenzo Ornaghi (from 2002)
Organization
ucs.Faculties
- Faculty of Agriculture, Piacenza-Cremona
- Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
- Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Economics, Piacenza-Cremona
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Law, Piacenza-Cremona
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Science, Brescia
- Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Rome
- Faculty of Modern Languages
- Faculty of Political Science
- Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Sociology
Specializing Schools
Most of Specializing Schools pertain to the medical area (they are located in Rome).
Postgraduate Schools
- ALMED Postgraduate School of Media Communications and Performing Arts
- ALTIS Postgraduate School Business & Society
- ASA Postgraduate School of Environmental Studies
- ASAG Postgraduate School of Psychology "Agostino Gemelli"
- ASERI Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations
- SMEA Postgraduate School of Agricultural and Food Economics
- ALTEMS Postgraduate School of Health Economics and Management
Campus
Housing
- Collegio Augustinianum, Milan
- Collegio Marianum, Milan
- Collegio Ludovicianum, Milan
- Collegio Paolo VI, Milan
- Collegio Sant'Isidoro, Piacenza
- Collegio Ker Maria, Rome
- Collegio San Damiano, Rome
- Collegio Nuovo Joanneum, Rome
- Collegio San Luca - Armida Barelli, Rome
Academics
Research
ucsc.THe research in UCSC is structured in 22 Departments, 54 Institutes, 70 Research centers and 4 Centres of "Ateneo".
Libraries
Code of ethics
On 1 November 2011 was introduced the Code of Ethics. This document contains the values that characterize the Cattolica and the rules of conduct.
Students
In the 5 Campuses of UCSC there are 42000 students.
Sports
The University hosted the IFIUS 2009 World Interuniversity Games in October.
Virgins garden.Traditions
In the milan campus there is a garden (the garden of St. Catherine of Alexandria) which access is allowed only for the girl students. For this reason it is nicknamed "the Virgin Garden".
Magazines
- Vita e Pensiero
- Presenza
Notable alumni (a) and Professors (p)
Economy and Finance
- Giovanni Bazoli (Intesa Sanpaolo President) p
- Angelo Caloia (Vatican Central Bank President) p&a
- Giacomo Campora (Allianz Bank Financial Advisors S.p.a. CEO) a
- Pasquale Cannatelli (Fininvest CEO) a
- Gabriele Del Torchio (Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. CEO) a
- Dino Piero Giarda (Banca Popolare Italiana, President and Banco Popolare Vice-President) p&a
- Siro Lombardini (Banca Popolare di Novara President) p&a
- Enrico Mattei ( ENI - Founder and President) a
- Roberto Poli (ENI President) p
- Edilio Rusconi (Rusconi Editore Founder and President) a
- Nicola Trussardi (entrepreneur and fashion designer) a
Journalism
- Vincenzo Mollica (journalist and writer) a
- Benedetta Parodi (TV host) a
- Cristina Parodi (television broadcasts) a
- Irene Pivetti (President of Italian Parliament, and television broadcasts) a
- Alfonso Signorini ("TV Sorrisi e Canzoni" and "Chi" editor) a
- Aldo Maria Valli (vaticanist) a
- Monica Maggioni (journalist) p
Intellectuals
- Roberto Busa p
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi (archaeologist and writer) p
- Giuseppe Pontiggia (writer) a
- Giovanni Reale (philosopher) p&a
- Giulio Salvadori (literary critic and poet) p
- Vanni Scheiwiller (Publisher) a
- David Maria Turoldo (poet) a
- Lodovico Barassi (lawyer) p
Politics
- Angelino Alfano (Minister of Justice) a
- Beniamino Andreatta (Minister of Defense) a&p
- Gerardo Bianco (Partito Popolare Italiano leader) a&p
- Michela Vittoria Brambilla (Under-Secretary for tourism) a
- Ciriaco De Mita (Prime Minister) a&p
- Amintore Fanfani (Prime Minister) a&p
- Giuseppe Fioroni (Minister of Education) a&p
- Giovanni Maria Flick (Minister for Justice and Constitutional Court President) a
- Roberto Formigoni (Regione Lombardia President) a
- Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli (Minister of Health abd founder of the Antimafia committee) a&p
- Maria Pia Garavaglia (Minister of Health) a
- Nilde Iotti (Parliament President) a
- Gianfranco Miglio (Constitutionalist) p
- Filippo Maria Pandolfi (Minister of Economy, Minister Agricolture, European Commission Vice-President) a
- Romano Prodi (Prime minister, Democratic Party President, European Commission President, IRI President) a
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Repubblic President) a
- Giovanni Spagnolli (Parliament President) a
- Tiziano Treu (Minister of Labor, Minister of Transport) a&p
Medicine & Science
Other
- Julián Carrón (Comunione e Liberazione leader) p
- Gherardo Colombo (important Judge) a
- Luigi Giussani (Comunione e Liberazione founder) p
- Aldo Grasso (TV critic) a&p
- Ignazio Marino (political) a&p
- Attilio Nicora (Cardinal) a
- Paolo Sardi (Cardinal) a
- Luigi Pasinetti (Economist) a&p
- Angelo Scola (Cardinal) a
- Roberto Vecchioni (writer) a
- Luigi Maria Verzé (San Raffaele Hospital Founder and President, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University President) a
- Zeno Saltini (Nomadelfia founder) a
See also
- List of Italian universities
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
Notes
External links
- Official Website (Italian) (English)
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