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St. John's University (New York City)
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St. John's University is a private
, Roman Catholic
, coeducation
al university
located in New York City
, United States
. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) in 1870, the school was originally located in the borough of Brooklyn
in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant. Beginning in the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current location in the borough of Queens
. St. John's also has campuses in Staten Island
, Manhattan
, and Rome
, Italy
, as well as a graduate center in Oakdale, New York
. A campus in Paris
, France
opened in the Spring of 2009. The school is named after Saint John the Baptist.
St. John's is organized into five undergraduate schools and six graduate school
s. As of 2011, the university has a total of 15,720 undergraduate students and 5,634 graduate students. In 2011, St. John's was ranked as a Tier One university by U.S. World News' college rankings.
of the Roman Catholic Church
in response to an invitation by the first Bishop
of Brooklyn, John Loughlin
, to provide the poor youth of the city with an intellectual and moral education.
St. John's Vincentian values stem from the ideals and works of St Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), who is the patron saint of Christian charity. Following the Vincentian tradition, the university seeks to provide an education that encourages greater involvement in social justice, charity and service.
St. John's University was originally founded as St. John's College at 75 Lewis Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Beginning with the law school in 1925, St. John's started founding other schools and became a university in 1933. In 1954, St. John's broke ground on a new campus in Jamaica, Queens, on the former site of the Hillcrest Golf Club. The following year, the original school of the university, St. John's College, moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant to the new campus. Over approximately the next two decades, the other schools of the university, which were located at a separate campus at 96 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn
, moved out to the new campus in Queens. The last of the schools to relocate to Queens would move there in 1972, bringing an end to the Downtown Brooklyn campus of the university.
The University received praise from Time Magazine in 1962 for being a Catholic university that accepted Jews with low household income. Later St. John's was the defendant in a lawsuit by Donald Scheiber (the only Jewish Vice President at the school) for discrimination after being removed because he was Jewish. The court ruled against St. John's University in this lawsuit. Time also ranked St. John's as "good−small" on a list of the nation's Catholic universities in 1962.
The St. John's University strike of 1966-1967
was a protest by faculty at the university which began on January 4, 1966, and ended in June 1967. The strike began after 31 faculty members were dismissed in the fall of 1965 without due process, dismissals which some felt were a violation of the professors' academic freedom. The tension of that year was noted in Time Magazine stating, "[A]cademically, [St. John's University] has never ranked high among Catholic schools; in troubles, it outdoes them all." The strike ended without any reinstatements, but led to the widespread unionization of public college faculty in the New York City area. In 1970 arbitrators ruled that the university had not acted improperly.
On January 27, 1971, the New York State Board of Regents approved the consolidation of the University with the former Notre Dame College (New York)
a private women's college
and the Staten Island Campus of St. John’s University became a reality. Classes began in the fall of 1971, combining the original Notre Dame College with the former Brooklyn campus of St. John’s, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, business and education.
In 1990 the tuition and fee's at St. John's was less than half of that at schools like NYU and Columbia. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/nyregion/little-anger-at-sex-case-at-st-john-s.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm. Now the tuition is comparable with St. John's being $1104 per credit http://www.stjohns.edu/services/financial/bursar/tuition/undergraduate/1112.stj, NYU being 1106 http://www.nyu.edu/bursar/tuition.fees/rates10/ugcas.html and Columbia being 1302 per credit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sfs/docs/University_Tuition_And_Fees/tuition-fees-10-11.html#N102BD.
In 1999, St. John's purchased the La Salle Center in Oakdale, NY. The 175 acre (0.7082005 km²) campus served as a military academy since 1926. Before this, the land was owned by Frederick Bourne, President of Singer Sewing Machine Company, who constructed his estate on the grounds. His mansion still remains and is used for party receptions.
St. John's merged with the College of Insurance
in 2001. The merger gave St. John's a five-story building located in lower Manhattan which is used by the Peter J. Tobin College of Business and the colleges School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science.
After the 9/11 attacks to the World Trade Center, the Manhattan campus was used by emergency workers.
In 2007, St. John's, along with several other universities, settled with New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo
for $800,000.00 among allegations of receiving kickbacks from student loan corporations.
Also in 2007, St John's University purchased a Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center facility in Fresh Meadows. This added two medical programs to the school. This added a Physician's Assistant program as well as Bio-medical technician program to the school. Tuition for the PA program at Saint Vincent Medical Center was $15,000 per year, but when purchased by STJ it increased to 29,950 per year.
St. John's opened its new Rome campus in October 2008. Located in the Prati section
of Rome, the 75000 sq ft (6,967.7 m²). building can house up to 200 students.
is the 15th president of the university. The university is organized into six colleges and schools: St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, Peter J. Tobin College of Business, the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, the College of Professional Studies, and the School of Law
.
and has 13 specialized accreditations.
The annual tuition rate is currently $29,350 per academic year for undergraduates, $33,600 for pharmacy majors (Pharm.D), and $42,200 for law school students. In 2007, St. John's awarded $338 million in financial assistance through scholarships, loans, grants and work-study programs, including $138 million from university-funded grants. Around 95% of freshman students received grants directly from the university in 2007. The average undergraduate loan debt for 2006 graduates was $21,633, an amount lower than the national average for graduates of private institutions. By 2007, this increased to 28,010 (with 74% of students graduating with some sort of debt, far above the national average. Currently, the average student debt at St. John's is over $30,692. http://projectonstudentdebt.org/state_by_state-view2010.php?area=NY
In 2011, St. John's was ranked as a Tier One university by U.S. World News' college rankings .
For the Fall 2010 class St. John's enrolled 21,354 students -- 15,720 undergraduate students and 5,634 graduate students. Students come from 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. 115 countries are represented. The 2009-2010 one-year retention rate was 78%, the four-year graduation rate is 38%, and the six-year graduation rate is 59%. The university conferred 4,225 degrees in the 2009-2010 academic year.
54,871 students applied for admission to the 2010 freshman class; 24,993 (45%) were accepted and 3,117 enrolled. For the Fall 2010 class, the mean SAT (verbal and math) was 1097 and the average high school GPA was 87%. Fifty-one percent of the degrees were bachelor's, thirty percent were master’s, seven percent were JD
law graduates, six percent of the graduates were PharmDs, and eighty-nine doctoral degrees were conferred.
In the 2011 edition of the Best 368 Colleges published by The Princeton Review
, St. John's was named a "Best Northeastern College."
In a 2010 The Wall Street Journal
survey of national recruiters, St. John's was listed in the top 100 colleges in the country "most likely to help students land a job in key careers and professions — areas that are growing, pay well and offer high levels of satisfaction.”
In Bloomberg Business Week’s 2010 Payscale Survey of 554 colleges and universities, St. John’s earned high marks as an outstanding “return on investment” whose graduates are top earners.
In the 2009 edition of Forbes Magazines America's Best Colleges, St John's was ranked number 504.
In 2008, the School of Law was ranked in the 1st tier at 72nd, and the School of Education was ranked 58th scoring 52 out of 100.
Students at St. John's are also encouraged to participate in service activities through St. John's Bread & Life, Campus Ministries, or several other service organizations in New York as part of their collective education. The university also provides funding to the Student Government Incorporated (SGI) to be disseminated among 150 academic, professional, and recreational student organizations, and hosts many notable guest speakers throughout the academic year.
Students are only an hour away from Manhattan taking the F train, conveniently located a few blocks away from campus. Many students hang out at Traditions, a local bar, specifically on Wednesday and Friday nights. The proximity to Manhattan is also recognized by the undergraduate Discover New York class, a three-credit course that is part of the university core curriculum
is the official student-run newspaper of St. John's University. Founded in 1922, the paper has shifted in and out of the control of the University, but has been financially independent from the University since 1980. In 1988, The Torch was inducted into the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame after being awarded a number of awards from various collegiate newspaper organizations.
St. John’s completed a new 22000 sq ft (2,043.9 m²) facility in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in June 2008. The new facility can serve over 200,000 hot meals and 150,000 food pantry meals each year. Those in need have access to everything they had in the old location, plus a library, computers and educational classes.
Jamaica, Queens – The main campus of St. John's University is located in the neighborhood of Jamaica in the Borough of Queens of New York City. This 105 acre (0.4249203 km²) campus houses several academic buildings, 8 residence halls, athletic facilities, the St. Augustine Library, and provides easy access to Manhattan via the subway system. The Queens campus features stone buildings and student residence halls. Facilities include laboratory and classroom buildings, the main collections of its 1.7 million-volume library; and athletic facilities for students and St. John's Division I athletic teams.
Branch campuses
In 2005, St. John's constructed Taffner Field house, and dramatically renovated Carnesecca Hall and the University Center. Renovations to Carnesecca Hall included a 6400 sq ft (594.6 m²). Health Center, for use by Student Life and athletics, including weight training equipment, aerobic and dance studios, and a student lounge. The University Center renovations consisted of reconfigured office and meeting space for Student Life and academic clubs, and the addition of audio/visual rooms for all varsity athletic teams. Taffner Athletic Field House was $23 million initiative. The two-story, 38000 sq ft (3,530.3 m²). structure adjacent to Carnesecca Hall includes four basketball courts, academic classrooms,
The 2004–2005 academic years saw $35 million in capital projects, including the completion of St. Thomas More church, the DaSilva academic building, Carnesecca Hall Fitness Center, and Belson Stadium. In 2005 the science labs and student life facilities were the target of an additional $60 million in capital enhancements.
In regards to its expansion plans, the university has had a contentious relationship with the surrounding community in the past. In 2007, however, it was discovered that the university was planning to lease a building under construction by a separate company for an off-campus dormitory. Residents argue that such a plan goes against the school's pledge of being a "good neighbor" towards the community. The university, however, contends that it did not break the pledge for it was only leasing the structure not building it. Nevertheless, opponents, including state Senator Frank Padavan
, argue that such an explanation is "disingenuous".
The university has seen much growth on its campuses in order to attract students from outside the New York area. In 1999, the first dormitory was completed on the Queens campus. As of 2008, the campus now contains seven dorms and a townhouse complex.
St. John's 17 NCAA Division I teams compete in the Big East Conference, with the exception of the fencing and lacrosse teams, which compete in the ECAC. The athletic program fields sixteen intercollegiate teams: basketball, soccer, baseball, lacrosse, tennis, golf, and fencing for men and basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball, tennis, track and field, cross country, golf, and fencing for women. In 2002, the university eliminated five men's athletic teams and one women's team in order to comply with Title IX
rules prohibiting activities that receive federal assistance from discriminating on the basis of gender. Until 1994, the St. John's mascot was the Redmen, which referenced the red uniforms worn by the university in competition. However, the name was interpreted as a Native American reference in the 1960s, and was changed to the Red Storm after mounting pressure on colleges and universities to adopt names more sensitive to Native American culture. The Redmen name still remains popular among fans, however, as does the pejorative "Johnnies".
St. John's basketball according to a Sports Illustrated
article was once mighty and has now fallen. It was argued that this is because St. John's could no longer offer the housing stipend to its basketball players that it was allowed when it built dorms. It was argued in this article that one player Sylven Landesberg
chose University of Virginia
because it was a superior academic school.
St. John's Red Storm men's basketball
has the 7th-most NCAA tournament appearances (27), two John R. Wooden Award
winners, 11 consensus All-Americans, 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and has sent 59 players to the NBA. St. John's though even as late as 1990 was said to not compare to other basketball powerhouses like Ohio State However, of the top 5 teams, Kentucky
, North Carolina
, Kansas
, Duke
, and St. John's, St. John's is the only team not to win an NCAA championship for basketball, and currently holds the NCAA Division I record for most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
appearances without a championship. The Red Storm play most of their home games at Madison Square Garden
, "The World's Most Famous Arena", while their early non-conference games are held at Carnesecca Arena
on the St. John's campus in Queens. St. John's University holds the second best winning percentage for a New York City school in the NCAA basketball tournament (second to City College of New York
– which won two NCAA Div 1 Championships) St. John's has the most NIT
appearances with 27, the most championship wins with 6, although they were stripped of one due to an NCAA infraction. St. John's also holds a Helms Athletic Foundation
Championship. In 2008, St. John's celebrated its 100th year of college basketball.
St. John's soccer has appeared in 15 consecutive NCAA tournaments, advancing to the Sweet 16 in each of the last ten seasons, and the Final Four on 3 occasions. They have captured 11 Big East Championships, including the 2006 season title as well as the 2009 season title, and in 1996, St. John's won the NCAA National Championship. Their home games are hosted at Belson Stadium, a state-of-the-art 2,300-seat stadium on the university campus. In 2006, the men's soccer team became the first American soccer team to be invited to play in Vietnam
. The team played against several Vietnam Football Federation
squads as well as participating in community service.
The St. John's baseball team has been to the College World Series six times, recorded 26 NCAA appearances, 6 Big East Championships and have sent 70 players on to professional baseball careers. Most recently, St. John's won the Big East Regular Season Title three of the last five years (2005/2007/2010). The 3,500-seat "Ballpark at St. John's" was renamed "Jack Kaiser Stadium" in 2007 after the Hall of Fame Coach and former St. John's Athletic Director. The stadium is one of the largest college baseball stadiums in the northeast, and is a featured venue on the EA Sports MVP NCAA Baseball video game. The stadium was conceived out of a deal between the university and the Giuliani administration. The administration wanted to find a location for a single-A team that would be affiliated with the New York Mets
. Expressing concern about quality of life issues and the spending of public money for a private religious institution, surrounding neighborhood civic groups and local politicians protested the plan. In order to placate their concerns, however, the Mets offered to open it up to the communities for local high school games and youth programs. This stadium was built despite large protests by community residents as well as State Senator
Frank Padavan (while also using city financing) The Red Storm played the first ever game at the Mets' new ballpark, Citi Field on March 29, 2009.
The St. John's fencing program has also attained national prominence including Olympians Keeth Smart
and Ivan Lee
. In 2001, St. John's won the NCAA Fencing Championship. The team has ranked in the top five each of the last 10 years, and finished 2nd in the NCAA during 1995, 2000, 2002, and 2007 seasons. In addition to team accolades, St. John's has won eleven NCAA Individual National Championship titles.
. Some of the most recognized alumni are former New York Governors Hugh L. Carey and Mario M. Cuomo, former California Governor George Deukmejian
, U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Ronald H. Brown Another notable alumni is North Carolina rapper J.Cole
.
Private university
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, Roman Catholic
Catholicism
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, coeducation
Coeducation
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al university
University
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located in New York City
New York City
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, United States
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. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) in 1870, the school was originally located in the borough of Brooklyn
Brooklyn
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in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant. Beginning in the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current location in the borough of Queens
Queens
Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....
. St. John's also has campuses in Staten Island
Staten Island
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, Manhattan
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, and Rome
Rome
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, Italy
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, as well as a graduate center in Oakdale, New York
Oakdale, New York
Oakdale is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 8,075 at the 2000 census. Oakdale is in the Town of Islip.- History :...
. A campus in Paris
Paris
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, France
France
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opened in the Spring of 2009. The school is named after Saint John the Baptist.
St. John's is organized into five undergraduate schools and six graduate school
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
s. As of 2011, the university has a total of 15,720 undergraduate students and 5,634 graduate students. In 2011, St. John's was ranked as a Tier One university by U.S. World News' college rankings.
History
St. John's University was founded in 1870, by the Vincentian FathersLazarists
Congregation of the Mission is a vowed order of priests and brothers associated with the Vincentian Family, a loose federation of organizations who claim St. Vincent de Paul as their founder or Patron...
of the Roman Catholic Church
Catholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
in response to an invitation by the first Bishop
Bishop
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of Brooklyn, John Loughlin
John Loughlin (bishop)
John Loughlin was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Brooklyn, New York .-References:...
, to provide the poor youth of the city with an intellectual and moral education.
St. John's Vincentian values stem from the ideals and works of St Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), who is the patron saint of Christian charity. Following the Vincentian tradition, the university seeks to provide an education that encourages greater involvement in social justice, charity and service.
St. John's University was originally founded as St. John's College at 75 Lewis Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Beginning with the law school in 1925, St. John's started founding other schools and became a university in 1933. In 1954, St. John's broke ground on a new campus in Jamaica, Queens, on the former site of the Hillcrest Golf Club. The following year, the original school of the university, St. John's College, moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant to the new campus. Over approximately the next two decades, the other schools of the university, which were located at a separate campus at 96 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City , and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn...
, moved out to the new campus in Queens. The last of the schools to relocate to Queens would move there in 1972, bringing an end to the Downtown Brooklyn campus of the university.
The University received praise from Time Magazine in 1962 for being a Catholic university that accepted Jews with low household income. Later St. John's was the defendant in a lawsuit by Donald Scheiber (the only Jewish Vice President at the school) for discrimination after being removed because he was Jewish. The court ruled against St. John's University in this lawsuit. Time also ranked St. John's as "good−small" on a list of the nation's Catholic universities in 1962.
The St. John's University strike of 1966-1967
St. John's University strike of 1966-1967
The St. John's University strike of 1966-1967 was a strike by faculty at St. John's University in New York City which began on January 4, 1966, and ended in June 1967. The strike began after 31 faculty members were dismissed in the fall of 1965 without due process, dismissals which some felt were a...
was a protest by faculty at the university which began on January 4, 1966, and ended in June 1967. The strike began after 31 faculty members were dismissed in the fall of 1965 without due process, dismissals which some felt were a violation of the professors' academic freedom. The tension of that year was noted in Time Magazine stating, "[A]cademically, [St. John's University] has never ranked high among Catholic schools; in troubles, it outdoes them all." The strike ended without any reinstatements, but led to the widespread unionization of public college faculty in the New York City area. In 1970 arbitrators ruled that the university had not acted improperly.
On January 27, 1971, the New York State Board of Regents approved the consolidation of the University with the former Notre Dame College (New York)
Notre Dame College (New York)
Notre Dame College was a small Catholic women's college located in the Grymes Hill area of Staten Island, New York. It opened in 1933 and merged with St. John's University in 1971....
a private women's college
Women's college
Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women...
and the Staten Island Campus of St. John’s University became a reality. Classes began in the fall of 1971, combining the original Notre Dame College with the former Brooklyn campus of St. John’s, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, business and education.
In 1990 the tuition and fee's at St. John's was less than half of that at schools like NYU and Columbia. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/nyregion/little-anger-at-sex-case-at-st-john-s.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm. Now the tuition is comparable with St. John's being $1104 per credit http://www.stjohns.edu/services/financial/bursar/tuition/undergraduate/1112.stj, NYU being 1106 http://www.nyu.edu/bursar/tuition.fees/rates10/ugcas.html and Columbia being 1302 per credit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sfs/docs/University_Tuition_And_Fees/tuition-fees-10-11.html#N102BD.
St. John's merged with the College of Insurance
College of Insurance
The College of Insurance was a specialized accredited college, started by insurance industry leaders in 1901 as an insurance library society, the Insurance Society of New York . The Insurance Society of New York initially provided study space and material to young people entering the insurance...
in 2001. The merger gave St. John's a five-story building located in lower Manhattan which is used by the Peter J. Tobin College of Business and the colleges School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science.
After the 9/11 attacks to the World Trade Center, the Manhattan campus was used by emergency workers.
In 2007, St. John's, along with several other universities, settled with New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
for $800,000.00 among allegations of receiving kickbacks from student loan corporations.
Also in 2007, St John's University purchased a Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center facility in Fresh Meadows. This added two medical programs to the school. This added a Physician's Assistant program as well as Bio-medical technician program to the school. Tuition for the PA program at Saint Vincent Medical Center was $15,000 per year, but when purchased by STJ it increased to 29,950 per year.
St. John's opened its new Rome campus in October 2008. Located in the Prati section
Prati (rione of Rome)
Prati is the XXII rione of Rome. Its logo is the shape of Hadrian's mausoleum, in a blue color on a silver background. Hadrian's mausoleum was not in this area, but in the rione Borgo, bordering Prati to the south. This is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Rome.In Piazza Della Libertà, on...
of Rome, the 75000 sq ft (6,967.7 m²). building can house up to 200 students.
Organization and administration
St. John's University is a non-profit organization controlled by privately appointed Board of Trustees. The Rev. Donald J. HarringtonDonald J. Harrington
Donald J. Harrington, C.M. is the fifteenth President of St. John's University in New York. He became President in 1989. He is a Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Mission.- External links :*...
is the 15th president of the university. The university is organized into six colleges and schools: St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, Peter J. Tobin College of Business, the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, the College of Professional Studies, and the School of Law
St. John's University School of Law
St. John's University School of Law is a Roman Catholic law school in Queens, New York City, affiliated with St. John's University. The School of Law was founded in 1925, and confers Juris Doctor degrees and degrees for Master of Laws in Bankruptcy and Master of Laws in U.S. Studies. Over 13,000 St...
.
Academics
St. John's is a large, four-year, primarily nonresidential doctoral/research university. The full-time, four-year undergraduate program is balanced between the arts and sciences and professional fields; while being primarilty non science and non engineering based school. The university is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and SchoolsMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation...
and has 13 specialized accreditations.
The annual tuition rate is currently $29,350 per academic year for undergraduates, $33,600 for pharmacy majors (Pharm.D), and $42,200 for law school students. In 2007, St. John's awarded $338 million in financial assistance through scholarships, loans, grants and work-study programs, including $138 million from university-funded grants. Around 95% of freshman students received grants directly from the university in 2007. The average undergraduate loan debt for 2006 graduates was $21,633, an amount lower than the national average for graduates of private institutions. By 2007, this increased to 28,010 (with 74% of students graduating with some sort of debt, far above the national average. Currently, the average student debt at St. John's is over $30,692. http://projectonstudentdebt.org/state_by_state-view2010.php?area=NY
In 2011, St. John's was ranked as a Tier One university by U.S. World News' college rankings .
Student body
| Undergraduate | U.S. Census | |
|---|---|---|
| African American African American African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States... |
13.7% | 12.1% |
| Asian American Asian American Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,... |
14.8% | 4.3% |
| Hispanic American | 13.8% | 14.5% |
| Native American Native Americans in the United States Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as... |
0.001% | 0.9% |
| White American White American White Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa... |
42.7% | 66% |
| International student International student According to Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development , international students are those who travel to a country different from their own for the purpose of tertiary study. Despite that, the definition of international students varies in each country in accordance to their own national... |
3.4% | (N/A) |
For the Fall 2010 class St. John's enrolled 21,354 students -- 15,720 undergraduate students and 5,634 graduate students. Students come from 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. 115 countries are represented. The 2009-2010 one-year retention rate was 78%, the four-year graduation rate is 38%, and the six-year graduation rate is 59%. The university conferred 4,225 degrees in the 2009-2010 academic year.
54,871 students applied for admission to the 2010 freshman class; 24,993 (45%) were accepted and 3,117 enrolled. For the Fall 2010 class, the mean SAT (verbal and math) was 1097 and the average high school GPA was 87%. Fifty-one percent of the degrees were bachelor's, thirty percent were master’s, seven percent were JD
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
law graduates, six percent of the graduates were PharmDs, and eighty-nine doctoral degrees were conferred.
Faculty
The university employs 659 full-time and 820 part-time faculty members. 60% of faculty members have a doctorate or other terminal degree, 33% have a non-terminal master's degree, and the remainder (8%) have a bachelor's degree only. The student to faculty ratio is 17:1 and 60% of class sections have 10–29 students in them.Rankings
In the 2011 U.S. News and World Report ranking of "National Universities", St. John's undergraduate program was ranked in the 1st tier of American universities at 143rd in the nation.In the 2011 edition of the Best 368 Colleges published by The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review
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, St. John's was named a "Best Northeastern College."
In a 2010 The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
survey of national recruiters, St. John's was listed in the top 100 colleges in the country "most likely to help students land a job in key careers and professions — areas that are growing, pay well and offer high levels of satisfaction.”
In Bloomberg Business Week’s 2010 Payscale Survey of 554 colleges and universities, St. John’s earned high marks as an outstanding “return on investment” whose graduates are top earners.
In the 2009 edition of Forbes Magazines America's Best Colleges, St John's was ranked number 504.
In 2008, the School of Law was ranked in the 1st tier at 72nd, and the School of Education was ranked 58th scoring 52 out of 100.
Student life
Students are only an hour away from Manhattan taking the F train, conveniently located a few blocks away from campus. Many students hang out at Traditions, a local bar, specifically on Wednesday and Friday nights. The proximity to Manhattan is also recognized by the undergraduate Discover New York class, a three-credit course that is part of the university core curriculum
Fraternities and sororities
There are Fraternities and sororities, but not a traditional Greek Row. Instead, brothers and sisters opt to get houses off campus.The Torch
The TorchThe Torch, St. John's University
The Torch is the official student-run newspaper of St. John's University in Jamaica, New York. Founded in 1922, the paper has shifted in and out of the control of the University and has been financially independent from the University since 1980...
is the official student-run newspaper of St. John's University. Founded in 1922, the paper has shifted in and out of the control of the University, but has been financially independent from the University since 1980. In 1988, The Torch was inducted into the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame after being awarded a number of awards from various collegiate newspaper organizations.
The Storm Front
The Storm Front is the official student-run newspaper of St. John's University Staten Island Campus. It was organized in 2005 and succeeded The Arrow as the campus newspaper after The Arrow was later seen as a throw-back to the University's former Red Men theme.Proteus
Proteus is the literary magazine of the Staten Island Campus. It is released as a compilation of student-submitted works through the St. John's University Creative Expression's Guild.WSJU Radio
WSJU, which opened in 1974, is the official radio station of St. John's University; the staff and crew consists of St. John’s University students. The broadcasts are played in Marillac cafeteria and simulcast on the internet. WSJU is an official member of The National Association of College Broadcasters (NACB) and the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS).Bread & Life Program
The Bread & Life Program was established in 1982, and recently returned as an extension of St. John’s University in 2006. The program is located in Brooklyn, NY at the original location of St. John’s University and provides a soup kitchen, food pantry, mobile meals, counseling services, medical support, a legal clinic, and advocates for the poor. It is one of the largest social service organizations serving the needs of the homeless and underprivileged in New York City. The organization served more than 120,000 meals to the hungry, 140,000 through its food pantry and another 90,000 plus meals through its Mobile Soup Kitchen in 2007. The program is operated in large part by student volunteers from St. John’s University, as well as other volunteers in the city.St. John’s completed a new 22000 sq ft (2,043.9 m²) facility in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in June 2008. The new facility can serve over 200,000 hot meals and 150,000 food pantry meals each year. Those in need have access to everything they had in the old location, plus a library, computers and educational classes.
Campuses
St. John's University Locations:Jamaica, Queens – The main campus of St. John's University is located in the neighborhood of Jamaica in the Borough of Queens of New York City. This 105 acre (0.4249203 km²) campus houses several academic buildings, 8 residence halls, athletic facilities, the St. Augustine Library, and provides easy access to Manhattan via the subway system. The Queens campus features stone buildings and student residence halls. Facilities include laboratory and classroom buildings, the main collections of its 1.7 million-volume library; and athletic facilities for students and St. John's Division I athletic teams.
Branch campuses
- Staten IslandStaten IslandStaten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
– Originally Notre Dame College (New York)Notre Dame College (New York)Notre Dame College was a small Catholic women's college located in the Grymes Hill area of Staten Island, New York. It opened in 1933 and merged with St. John's University in 1971....
, Today the Staten Island Campus has expanded to include 16.5 acres (66,773.2 m²) serving over 2,000 students who are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The 16.5 acres (66,773.2 m²) campus features lawns, apartment-style student residences, and architectural styles that range from red-brick colonial to the modern. The campus is located in the residential Grymes HillGrymes Hill, Staten IslandGrymes Hill is a neighborhood, situated upon a hill by that name, on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. The east side of the hill is defined by Van Duzer Street and Richmond Road to the intersection with the Staten Island Expressway, which, with Clove Road, defines the...
section of Staten Island.
- ManhattanManhattanManhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
– St. John’s officially opened its Manhattan Campus in June 2001, after a merger with The College of InsuranceCollege of InsuranceThe College of Insurance was a specialized accredited college, started by insurance industry leaders in 1901 as an insurance library society, the Insurance Society of New York . The Insurance Society of New York initially provided study space and material to young people entering the insurance...
(TCI). Through the merger, TCI became the School of Risk Management and operates as a unit of the Peter J. Tobin College of Business. This ten-story, prize-winning "vertical campus" features a five-story entrance atrium, 16 conference and seminar rooms, dormitories, 24 high-tech classrooms, and a variety of computer labs. It currently serves 250 students. - OakdaleOakdale, New YorkOakdale is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 8,075 at the 2000 census. Oakdale is in the Town of Islip.- History :...
– The center in Oakdale is home to several graduate programs in education, psychology, crimial justice, and library science. The location is located on a 175 acre (0.7082005 km²) spread, overlooking the south shore of Long Island, and is the former summer mansion home of Frederick Bourne, President of Singer Sewing Machine Company. Its is the only St. John's campus not to offer on-campus housing. - RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
- The St. John's University (Italy)St. John's University (Italy)St. John's University is an international branch of St. John's University located in Queens, New York. The Rome campus functions primarily as a graduate degree granting institution, but supports undergraduate study-abroad programs. St. John's is a private Roman Catholic university. The campus...
location in Rome, Italy is primarily dedicated to graduate programs in business and government, with particular emphasis on the international issues of law, relations, diplomacy, and business. In 2007, St. John's signed a contract to lease new space and expand its presence in Rome. The new facility, which is within walking distance of Vatican City, will include more than 200 beds, 12 classrooms, a multi-use conference room, and student lounge. The building should be complete by Spring 2009. - ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
– In 2008, St. John's announced the formation of full-time programs, along with semester abroad programs, at a new campus location in Paris, France. The new campus is located within the Vincentian Motherhouse in Paris.
Campus renovations
In 2008, St. John's University broke ground for the new University Center/Academic Building, one of the largest and most comprehensive construction projects in St. John’s recent history. Located between Sullivan Hall and the Taffner Field House on the site that currently serves as stadium seating for lacrosse and track and field events, the 110000 square feet (10,219.3 m²) complex has been designed to significantly enhance student life on campus. The building, which will rise dramatically over the upper campus, will contain 14 technologically sophisticated, state-of-the-art classrooms with approximately 800 seats. In addition, it will include a café, lounge, recreation and entertainment spaces, student organization offices and conference and meeting rooms devoted exclusively to student use. The building will be named "The D'Angelo Center" after Board of Trustees member Peter D'Angelo '78 MBA, and his wife Peg D'Angelo '70 Ed.In 2005, St. John's constructed Taffner Field house, and dramatically renovated Carnesecca Hall and the University Center. Renovations to Carnesecca Hall included a 6400 sq ft (594.6 m²). Health Center, for use by Student Life and athletics, including weight training equipment, aerobic and dance studios, and a student lounge. The University Center renovations consisted of reconfigured office and meeting space for Student Life and academic clubs, and the addition of audio/visual rooms for all varsity athletic teams. Taffner Athletic Field House was $23 million initiative. The two-story, 38000 sq ft (3,530.3 m²). structure adjacent to Carnesecca Hall includes four basketball courts, academic classrooms,
The 2004–2005 academic years saw $35 million in capital projects, including the completion of St. Thomas More church, the DaSilva academic building, Carnesecca Hall Fitness Center, and Belson Stadium. In 2005 the science labs and student life facilities were the target of an additional $60 million in capital enhancements.
In regards to its expansion plans, the university has had a contentious relationship with the surrounding community in the past. In 2007, however, it was discovered that the university was planning to lease a building under construction by a separate company for an off-campus dormitory. Residents argue that such a plan goes against the school's pledge of being a "good neighbor" towards the community. The university, however, contends that it did not break the pledge for it was only leasing the structure not building it. Nevertheless, opponents, including state Senator Frank Padavan
Frank Padavan
Frank Padavan is an engineer and was a Republican New York state senator representing District 11, located in Queens County. His district included the communities of Queens Village, Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Douglaston, Little Neck, College Point, Bellerose, Hollis, Jamaica Estates, Floral...
, argue that such an explanation is "disingenuous".
The university has seen much growth on its campuses in order to attract students from outside the New York area. In 1999, the first dormitory was completed on the Queens campus. As of 2008, the campus now contains seven dorms and a townhouse complex.
Athletics
St. John's 17 NCAA Division I teams compete in the Big East Conference, with the exception of the fencing and lacrosse teams, which compete in the ECAC. The athletic program fields sixteen intercollegiate teams: basketball, soccer, baseball, lacrosse, tennis, golf, and fencing for men and basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball, tennis, track and field, cross country, golf, and fencing for women. In 2002, the university eliminated five men's athletic teams and one women's team in order to comply with Title IX
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a United States law, enacted on June 23, 1972, that amended Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 2002 it was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, in honor of its principal author Congresswoman Mink, but is most...
rules prohibiting activities that receive federal assistance from discriminating on the basis of gender. Until 1994, the St. John's mascot was the Redmen, which referenced the red uniforms worn by the university in competition. However, the name was interpreted as a Native American reference in the 1960s, and was changed to the Red Storm after mounting pressure on colleges and universities to adopt names more sensitive to Native American culture. The Redmen name still remains popular among fans, however, as does the pejorative "Johnnies".
St. John's basketball according to a Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
article was once mighty and has now fallen. It was argued that this is because St. John's could no longer offer the housing stipend to its basketball players that it was allowed when it built dorms. It was argued in this article that one player Sylven Landesberg
Sylven Landesberg
Sylven Joshua Landesberg is an American-Israeli professional basketball player, who plays guard for Maccabi Haifa in Israel....
chose University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
because it was a superior academic school.
St. John's Red Storm men's basketball
St. John's Red Storm men's basketball
The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents the St. John's University in Queens, New York. The team participates in the Big East Conference. The men’s coach Norm Roberts was fired on March 19, 2010...
has the 7th-most NCAA tournament appearances (27), two John R. Wooden Award
John R. Wooden Award
The John R. Wooden Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding men's and women's college basketball players. The program consists of the men's and women's Player of the Year awards, the Legends of Coaching award and recognizes the All–America Teams.The awards, given by the Los...
winners, 11 consensus All-Americans, 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and has sent 59 players to the NBA. St. John's though even as late as 1990 was said to not compare to other basketball powerhouses like Ohio State However, of the top 5 teams, Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
, Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
, Duke
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, and St. John's, St. John's is the only team not to win an NCAA championship for basketball, and currently holds the NCAA Division I record for most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...
appearances without a championship. The Red Storm play most of their home games at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
, "The World's Most Famous Arena", while their early non-conference games are held at Carnesecca Arena
Carnesecca Arena
Carnesecca Arena is a 5,602-seat multi-purpose arena in Queens County, New York, USA. It was built in 1961 and renamed in honor of Hall of Fame Coach Lou Carnesecca on November 23, 2004. It is the exclusive home to the St...
on the St. John's campus in Queens. St. John's University holds the second best winning percentage for a New York City school in the NCAA basketball tournament (second to City College of New York
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
– which won two NCAA Div 1 Championships) St. John's has the most NIT
National Invitation Tournament
The National Invitation Tournament is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are two NIT events each season. The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off , was founded in 1985...
appearances with 27, the most championship wins with 6, although they were stripped of one due to an NCAA infraction. St. John's also holds a Helms Athletic Foundation
Helms Athletic Foundation
The Helms Athletic Foundation was an athletic foundation based in Los Angeles, founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms. It put together a panel of experts to select National Champion teams and make All-America team selections in a number of college sports including football and basketball...
Championship. In 2008, St. John's celebrated its 100th year of college basketball.
St. John's soccer has appeared in 15 consecutive NCAA tournaments, advancing to the Sweet 16 in each of the last ten seasons, and the Final Four on 3 occasions. They have captured 11 Big East Championships, including the 2006 season title as well as the 2009 season title, and in 1996, St. John's won the NCAA National Championship. Their home games are hosted at Belson Stadium, a state-of-the-art 2,300-seat stadium on the university campus. In 2006, the men's soccer team became the first American soccer team to be invited to play in Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
. The team played against several Vietnam Football Federation
Vietnam Football Federation
The Vietnam Football Federation is the governing body of football in Vietnam. It is responsible for the Vietnam men's, women's, olympic, and other youth teams as well as national competitions....
squads as well as participating in community service.
The St. John's baseball team has been to the College World Series six times, recorded 26 NCAA appearances, 6 Big East Championships and have sent 70 players on to professional baseball careers. Most recently, St. John's won the Big East Regular Season Title three of the last five years (2005/2007/2010). The 3,500-seat "Ballpark at St. John's" was renamed "Jack Kaiser Stadium" in 2007 after the Hall of Fame Coach and former St. John's Athletic Director. The stadium is one of the largest college baseball stadiums in the northeast, and is a featured venue on the EA Sports MVP NCAA Baseball video game. The stadium was conceived out of a deal between the university and the Giuliani administration. The administration wanted to find a location for a single-A team that would be affiliated with the New York Mets
New York Mets
The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
. Expressing concern about quality of life issues and the spending of public money for a private religious institution, surrounding neighborhood civic groups and local politicians protested the plan. In order to placate their concerns, however, the Mets offered to open it up to the communities for local high school games and youth programs. This stadium was built despite large protests by community residents as well as State Senator
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's Senate, the upper house in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a legislator in Nebraska's one house State Legislature.There are typically fewer state senators than there are members of a state's lower house...
Frank Padavan (while also using city financing) The Red Storm played the first ever game at the Mets' new ballpark, Citi Field on March 29, 2009.
The St. John's fencing program has also attained national prominence including Olympians Keeth Smart
Keeth Smart
Keeth Thomas Smart is a US sabre fencer who became the first American to gain the sport's #1 ranking for males. He received a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Early life and education:...
and Ivan Lee
Ivan Lee
Ivan Lee is a world-class American sabre fencer.-General:He was a member of the 2001 U.S...
. In 2001, St. John's won the NCAA Fencing Championship. The team has ranked in the top five each of the last 10 years, and finished 2nd in the NCAA during 1995, 2000, 2002, and 2007 seasons. In addition to team accolades, St. John's has won eleven NCAA Individual National Championship titles.
- In 2000, St. John's was criticized by the NCAA for misrepresenting facts in an NCAA investigation.
- In 2003, it was revealed that Abe Keita, a basketball player, was given a $300 monthly allowance and free school books to be on the team which violated NCAA standards. Expecting NCAA penalties, the university announced a self-imposed two-year ban on postseason play.
- The 1990 St. John's lacrosse team rape case involved five members of the St. John's University Lacrosse team who were acquitted of charges. One student pleaded guilty to second degree sexual abuse. Another member pleaded guilty to sexual assault and a third to two counts of sexual misconduct and unlawful imprisonment.
- In one of the biggest point shaving scandals Mike Parenti, William Chrystal and Tony Jackson all from St. John's were proven to have taken bribes.
Notable alumni
St. John's has over 161,000 alumni, 82% of whom reside in the Greater New York Metropolitan AreaNew York metropolitan area
The New York metropolitan area, also known as Greater New York, or the Tri-State area, is the region that composes of New York City and the surrounding region...
. Some of the most recognized alumni are former New York Governors Hugh L. Carey and Mario M. Cuomo, former California Governor George Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...
, U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Ronald H. Brown Another notable alumni is North Carolina rapper J.Cole
J.Cole
Jermaine Lamarr Cole , better known by his stage name J. Cole, is an American rapper, singer and record producer. In 2009, he was the first artist signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation...
.
Further reading
- Hueppe, Frederick E., "The Radiant Light: a history of St. John's College presented in the Vincentian," 1955, (St. John's University Archives).
- Morris, Barbara L., "To Define A Catholic University: the 1965 Crisis at St. John's" (Ed. D. thesis, Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Teachers College, 1977)