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Trinity Washington University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is the name of a Roman Catholic Religious order#Christian tradition of Nun#Distinction between nun and religious sisters, dedicated to teaching order to the poor....
, is a Roman Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 across from Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies
Dominican House of Studies

The Dominican House of Studies is a Priory of the Province of St. Joseph of the Order of Preachers. It houses the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Priory of the Immaculate Conception....
. Although it has been a university since September 10, 2004, Trinity's College of Arts & Sciences undergraduate program maintains its original status as a liberal arts
Liberal arts college

Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclop?dia Britannica Concise defines "liberal arts" as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational educati...
 women's college
Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are higher education in the United States that exclude or limit males from admission. They are often Liberal arts colleges in the United States....
. Men are accepted into the School of Education and the School of Professional Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Hall houses most of the classrooms, faculty offices and administrative offices on campus, as well as the University's art gallery, auditorium, and Admissions Office.

Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports is an athletic, recreational and educational complex located in the heart of Trinity's campus.






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Trinity Washington University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is the name of a Roman Catholic Religious order#Christian tradition of Nun#Distinction between nun and religious sisters, dedicated to teaching order to the poor....
, is a Roman Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 across from Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies
Dominican House of Studies

The Dominican House of Studies is a Priory of the Province of St. Joseph of the Order of Preachers. It houses the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Priory of the Immaculate Conception....
. Although it has been a university since September 10, 2004, Trinity's College of Arts & Sciences undergraduate program maintains its original status as a liberal arts
Liberal arts college

Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclop?dia Britannica Concise defines "liberal arts" as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational educati...
 women's college
Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are higher education in the United States that exclude or limit males from admission. They are often Liberal arts colleges in the United States....
. Men are accepted into the School of Education and the School of Professional Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Campus


Main Hall

Main Hall houses most of the classrooms, faculty offices and administrative offices on campus, as well as the University's art gallery, auditorium, and Admissions Office.

Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports

The Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports is an athletic, recreational and educational complex located in the heart of Trinity's campus. (Also see 'Athletics Facilities' below).

Sister Helen Sheehan Library

The Sister Helen Sheehan Library is a library that includes more than 200,000 volumes.

Science Building

Trinity's Science Building houses all of the university's science and mathematics classrooms, laboratories and science faculty offices.

Alumnae Hall

Alumnae Hall serves as the university's dining hall where buffet-style meals are served. Alumnae Hall also houses the offices for the International Affairs program

Cuvilly Hall

Cuvilly Hall is a residence hall for sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Kerby Hall

Kerby is a residence hall for all first-year students and some sophomores.

Notre Dame Chapel

Notre Dame Chapel hosts many of Trinity's traditions, including Academic Convocation, Freshman Medal Ceremony, Cap and Gown Mass and Baccalaureate Mass. The Chapel hosted the Pope during his 1979 visit to the United States. Notre Dame Chapel was built in 1924 and won a national architecture award for ecclesiastical architecture. The chapel was restored in 1997.

Academics


Three Schools

Trinity has an annual enrollment of about 2,000 students in the University's three schools, which offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in a variety of academic areas.

College of Arts and Sciences
Trinity's College of Arts and Sciences offers community service opportunities, athletics, student clubs and campus activities. The College of Arts and Sciences offers a number of academic programs, including criminal justice, forensic psychology, journalism, and business economics.

School of Education
Trinity's School of Education is a coeducational graduate program offering degrees in education, counseling, curriculum design, and educational administration.

Through its Continuing Education Program, the School of Education also offers 300 professional development courses enrolling 4,000 education professionals each year.

School of Professional Studies
The university's School of Professional Studies offers undergraduate and graduate degrees designed for women and men seeking to advance or change their careers. Degrees offered include, but are not limited to, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Science Administration (M.S.A.), Master of Arts in Communication and a Master of Science in Information Security Management.

Special Academic Programs


Nursing Program

Trinity's Nursing program, started in 2006, offers courses of study culminating in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing for current Registered Nurses. The program was accredited in 2007 by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education

The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education is an autonomous nursing education accrediting agency that contributes to the improvement of the public's health....
.

Trinity at THEARC
Trinity offers professional development, Associate in Arts, and Master's of Science in Administration - Non Profit Management Specialization programs at a satellite classroom located at THEARC, a multipurpose community facility in southeast Washington, DC. Trinity is the only private university to offer programs in the District of Columbia's underserved neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

Athletics

Playing as the Trinity Tigers, Trinity competes in the NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
 Division III in basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, cross country
Cross country running

Cross Country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include Poaceae, mud, woodlands, and water....
, lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
, soccer, swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
, tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
, and volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
. Their current Athletic Director is Tracy Renken.

Athletics Facilities

The newest building on the Trinity Campus, the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports was completed in 2003. It features a basketball arena; walking track; swimming pool and spa; fitness center with weight machines, free weights and cardio equipment and dance studio, tennis courts, and an athletic field. Free to Trinity students, the Center offers memberships to local residents.

Dining Facilities

In addition to a snack bar/deli, Trinity University has Alumnae Hall, a full-service dining hall serving three meals a day throughout the academic year.

Honor Societies

  • Phi Beta Kappa, chapter established in 1971
  • Alpha Sigma Lambda
    Alpha Sigma Lambda

    Alpha Sigma Lambda is a national honor society for Non-traditional student who achieve and maintain outstanding scholastic standards and leadership characteristics while adroitly handling additional responsibilities of work and family ....
  • Beta Kappa Chi
  • Lambda Pi Eta
    Lambda Pi Eta

    Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association . As a member of the Association of College Honor Societies , Lambda Pi Eta has over 400 active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide....
  • Psi Chi
    Psi Chi

    Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology....
  • Pi Sigma Alpha
    Pi sigma alpha

    Pi Sigma Alpha , the National Political Science Honor Society, is the only honor society for college and university students of political science in the United States....


Noted alumnae

  • Cathleen Black, President of Hearst Magazines
  • Kellyanne Conway
    Kellyanne Conway

    Kellyanne Conway is a Republican Party strategist and pollster. She is President & CEO of the polling company, inc./WomanTrend, a full-service qualitative and quantitative research firm....
  • Barbara B. Kennelly
    Barbara B. Kennelly

    Barbara Bailey Kennelly was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.Kennelly was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of long-time Democratic Party leader John Moran Bailey....
    , former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Maria Leavey
    Maria Leavey

    Maria Leavey was an independent political strategist. She was born on January 1, 1954 and died December 31, 2006, the day before her 53rd birthday....
    , political strategist
  • Jane McAuliffe
    Jane McAuliffe

    Jane Dammen McAuliffe is the eighth president of Bryn Mawr College, beginning her tenure in July 2008. Before that, she served as Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University from 1999 to 2008....
    , President of Bryn Mawr College
    Bryn Mawr College

    'Bryn Mawr College' is a highly selective Women's colleges in the United States Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  • Nancy Pelosi
    Nancy Pelosi

    Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. She is a Democratic party . Before being elected Speaker in the 110th United States Congress, she was the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th United States Cong...
    , Speaker of the House
    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

    The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party representing California's 8th congressional district....
  • Lisa Polyak and Gitanjali Deane, Lead plaintiffs in Deane & Polyak v. Conaway, litigation to obtain marriage equality for same-sex couples in Maryland
  • Kathleen Sebelius
    Kathleen Sebelius

    Kathleen Sebelius is an United States politician currently serving as the 44th Governor of Kansas. She is the second List of female state governors in the United States of Kansas, the Democratic respondent to the 2008 State of the Union address, and chair-emerita of the Democratic Governors Association....
    , Governor of Kansas
  • Maggie Williams
    Maggie Williams

    Margaret "Maggie" Ann Williams was the campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, 2008. Following Clinton's win in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, 2008 in January 2008, Williams was brought onto the Clinton campaign staff as a senior adviser....
    , White House Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton


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