The university was founded by Father Joseph Cataldo, SJ, an Italian-born priest and missionary. He accustomed the Catholic academy for bounded Native Americans whom he served.
The university offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees through its seven colleges, the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Business Administration, Academy of Education, Academy of Engineering & Applied Science, Academy of Law, Academy of Nursing and Human Physiology, and the Academy of Able Studies.
Campus
Gonzaga campus consists of 105 barrio amid on 152 acres.The university is home to two ample libraries. Foley Centermost Library is Gonzaga's capital alum and undergraduate library, opened in 1992.Chastek Law Library primarily serves the Gonzaga University Academy of Law, erected in 2000. The Rosauer Academy of Apprenticeship architectonics was completed in 1994.
Gonzaga is host to abounding different pieces of artwork, abounding adherent to actual religious abstracts and arresting Catholics. A allotment of the a lot of notable are statues of St. Ignatius, St. Joseph, St. Aloysius, and alum Bing Crosby. The Jundt Art Centermost and Museum accustomed in 1995 aswell actualization a array of artwork from differing periods. The spires of St. Aloysius Church are a battleground of the Spokane area.
Due to an accretion apprentice body, Gonzaga completed architectonics of a projected $60 actor architectonics that serves as the new centermost of campus. The John J. Hemmingson Center, the new Circulus Omnium Gonzagaorum (COG), replaced the above COG that was activated by acceptance for over 60 years. The three-story, 167,000-square-foot (15,500 m2) architectonics actualization avant-garde architectonics and an all-glass exterior. The architectonics was completed for the Fall 2015 semester.
The university is aswell architectonics the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, including a 750-seat theater.
In accession to the capital campus in Spokane, Washington, Gonzaga aswell has a basic campus area they action a avant-garde ambit of online academy apprenticeship amount programs.
Academics
Gonzaga's avant-garde arts attitude lies in its amount curriculum, which integrates philosophy, religious studies, mathematics, literature, accustomed and amusing sciences, and all-encompassing autograph in anniversary above discipline. Gonzaga offers studies in 92 fields and 26 alum programs. In addition, Gonzaga offers programs in alertness for able schools in business, education, engineering, dentistry, divinity/theology, law, medicine, nursing and veterinary medicine. Gonzaga aswell sponsors an Army ROTC affairs which prepares acceptance to become commissioned admiral aloft graduation. Additionally, Gonzaga ally with Bishop White Seminary, amid next to the campus, to adapt Catholic seminarians for the priesthood. Acceptance may abstraction away at Gonzaga's campus in Florence, Italy, or at added programs in Australia, Benin, British West Indies, China, Costa Rica, England, France, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Spain and Zambia.
Rankings
Gonzaga is ranked 4th in the U.S. News & World Report 2016 rankings of Bounded Universities in the West. The Academy of Engineering and Applied Science is the No. 22 (tied with seven added schools) best undergraduate engineering affairs civic (among engineering schools whose accomplished amount is a bachelor’s or master’s). Added U.S. News rankings cover the 4th Best Value academy in the west, and civic rankings for the part-time Master of Business Administration affairs as angry for 81st best, the nursing academy angry for 102nd (with the nursing-anesthesia affairs ranked 32nd), and the law academy angry for 110th. Forbes ranks Gonzaga as the 187th best clandestine academy in the country and 36th in the West. Additionally, Gonzaga is listed a allotment of The Princeton Review's rankings of the best 378 colleges and in the Fiske Guide to Colleges, which ranks 336 colleges in the United States, Canada and England.
Athletics
Main article: Gonzaga Bulldogs
Gonzaga University, whose official amulet is the Bulldog and whose players are nicknamed the Zags, is allotment of the NCAA Division I West Coast Conference. Gonzaga University currently offers 16 men and women varsity sports. These Intercollegiate Sports include: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Rowing(‡), Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball and Track & Field (Indoor & Outdoor). Gonzaga became a domiciliary name with their "Cinderella" run in the NCAA clash in 1999, which saw Gonzaga accomplish it to the "Elite Eight." Gonzaga connected to body on that success, and now has one of the accomplished admired basketball programs in the country. Back that celebrated run in 1999, Gonzaga has accomplished notable success in the West Coast Conference as able-bodied as in the NCAA tournament, for which they accept played in 16 afterwards years. Gonzaga's basketball feats cover 15 WCC approved titles, 6 "Sweet 16's," produced 15 All Americans, a civic CBS-Chevrolet Amateur of the Year and USBWA Oscar Robertson Trophy in Adam Morrison, and 4 NBA aboriginal annular picks as of 2012. Additionally, in 2013, Canadian centermost Kelly Olynyk, a civic Amateur of the Year finalist, was called as a aboriginal aggregation All American. In the 2012-13 season, Gonzaga was ranked No. 1 by the AP for the aboriginal time in academy history. Its accomplished baronial afore extensive the acme of academy hoops came in 2004, if the Bulldogs were ranked No. 2. Additionally, Gonzaga, with arguably their a lot of counterbalanced agenda in aggregation history, avant-garde to the Elite 8 of the 2015 NCAA tournament, eventually accident to #1 ranked Duke.
Basketball amateur are captivated in the McCarthey Athletic Center. The university's men's basketball team, which did not accomplish its aboriginal actualization in the NCAA clash until 1995 (more than a decade afterwards NBA Hall of Fame amateur and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated), has fabricated the bounded finals of the NCAA clash (the "Elite Eight") in 1999, re-appearing in the clash every year back (As of 2015). The Zags aswell avant-garde to the Elite 8 of the NCAA clash in 2015. The Ladies basketball aggregation fabricated it to the "Sweet Sixteen" in 2010.
Three of Gonzaga's a lot of contempo notable athletes are basketball players—former centermost Ronny Turiaf (now arena for the Minnesota Timberwolves); Robert Sacre 2012 NBA Draft (selected by the Los Angeles Lakers third all-embracing 2006 NBA Draft pick, and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison (who was called by the Charlotte Bobcats); and Courtney Vandersloot, 2011 champ of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the arch Division I women's point bouncer and women's Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top Division I amateur no taller than 5'8" (1.73 m), called third all-embracing by the Chicago Sky in the 2011 WNBA Draft. Men's arch drillmaster Mark Few was the West Coast Conference drillmaster of the year from 2001 to 2006, and afresh in 2008. Above women's arch drillmaster Kelly Graves, a six-time WCC drillmaster of the year, led the Zags to seven afterwards WCC regular-season titles and four WCC clash titles. The 2010–11 women's team, a No. 11 berry in that year's NCAA Tournament, became the everyman berry anytime to beforehand to a bounded final in the history of the women's tournament.
Like some added abate colleges, Gonzaga concluded its football affairs in the Fall of 1941, just afore the U.S. access into World War II. It produced two Pro Football Hall of Famers: Tony Canadeo (1941) of the Green Bay Packers, and Ray Flaherty (1926), arch drillmaster of the Washington Redskins. In addition, Flaherty recruited above Bulldog football stars, Ed Justice, George "Automatic" Karamatic and Max Krause to play in the Redskin backfield.
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