Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private, co-educational university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions amid in the Westchester association of Westside Los Angeles, California. The university is one of 28 affiliate institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of 5 Marymount institutions of academy education.

Loyola Marymount University traces its history through Loyola University, founded in 1911 as the almsman to St. Vincent's Academy which was founded in 1865, and Marymount College, founded in 1933 with its roots in Marymount Academy which was founded in 1923. Loyola Marymount, which sits aloft the bluffs overlooking Marina Del Rey and Playa Del Rey is the ancestor academy to Loyola Law Academy amid in city-limits Los Angeles.

As of 2010, Loyola Marymount is one of the better Roman Catholic universities on the West Coast with just over 9,000 undergraduate, alum and law academy students.

History
The names "Loyola" and "Marymount" accept connected been associated with Catholic academy apprenticeship in countries about the globe. Saint Ignatius Loyola, artist of The Society of Jesus, accustomed the foundation of his order's aboriginal academy in 1548. The Religious of the Angelic Affection of Mary accept conducted educational institutions aback their enactment in France in 1849 by Father Jean Gailhac. These two traditions of apprenticeship accept appear calm in Los Angeles as Loyola Marymount University.

St. Vincent's College
The present university is the almsman to the avant-garde Catholic academy and aboriginal academy of academy acquirements in Southern California.

In 1865, the Vincentian Fathers were commissioned by Bishop Thaddeus Amat y Brusi to activate St. Vincent's Academy for boys in Los Angeles. Father John Asmuth, C.M., served as the aboriginal Admiral Rector. The academy was originally amid in the Lugo Adobe House at the southeast bend of Alameda and Beirut streets. The architecture was one of few two-story complexes in the city-limits at that time and had been donated by Vincente Lugo. Although the architecture no best stands, its aboriginal website is aloft Alameda Street from the accustomed Abutment Station, on the Plaza abreast the southeast end of the city's celebrated Olvera Street. Afterwards two years, the academy confused several blocks over. The campus was amidst by Broadway, 6th Street, Hill Street, and 7th Street. Today, the website is in the affection of Los Angeles's Jewellery Commune and is accustomed as St. Vincent Court. A decade later, the academy confused to a breadth at Grand Avenue and Washington Boulevard breadth it remained until getting bankrupt into the anew founded Los Angeles Academy in 1911.

Beginnings of Loyola in L.A.
When the Vincentians pulled out of educational admiral in Los Angeles in 1911, Bishop Thomas Conaty asked the Jesuits to appear to Los Angeles and yield over St. Vincent's College. Not adulatory to accept any of the college's debt, the Jesuits, instead, founded Los Angeles Academy in 1911. They accompanying opened their top academy analysis (Loyola Top School) and bankrupt the board, faculty, and acceptance of St. Vincent's Academy into Los Angeles Academy at a new breadth fabricated up of several bungalows at Avenue 52 in the Highland Park commune of Los Angeles. Father Richard A. Gleeson, S.J. served as the aboriginal Jesuit Admiral but the lath of the academy was initially fabricated up of Vincentian Fathers. Rapid advance prompted the Jesuits to seek a new campus on Venice Boulevard in 1917; with this move, the name of the academy was afflicted aback to St. Vincent's College. However, in 1918 the name was already afresh afflicted to Loyola Academy of Los Angeles.

Graduate apprenticeship began in 1920 with the foundation of a abstracted law academy (though apprenticeship at the undergraduate akin remained all male, women were accustomed to the law school). The law academy was the additional in Los Angeles to accept Jewish students. (USC's law academy had done so at atomic aback 1910.) In 1929, the undergraduate analysis of Loyola relocated beneath then-President, Joseph A. Sullivan, S.J., to the present Westchester campus in 1929, and accomplished university cachet in 1930 acceptable Loyola University of Los Angeles. Loyola Law Academy did not move with the blow of the university, but confused afterwards to addition breadth just west of city-limits Los Angeles.

World War II had a cogent appulse on Loyola University. As acceptance began to plummet, Father Edward Whelan, S.J., again president, brokered a accord with the US Army to anatomy an administrator training affairs for both Army and Navy officers. The adjustment accustomed the university to abide accessible during the war and acceptance hit best highs as a aftereffect of abiding veterans demography advantage of the G.I. Bill in the mid-to-late 1940s. Additionally, Father Whelan accustomed the grave abuse of the Japanese bondage camps during Apple War II and assassin and housed at Loyola abounding Japanese Americans abiding to Los Angeles afterwards their absolution from the camps. In 1949, Father Charles Cassassa, S.J., Ph.D., was called admiral and began one of the a lot of consequential presidencies in the university's history. His plan included the accumulation of a alum analysis on the Westchester campus occurred in June 1950, although the alum plan had formed an basic allotment of the Teacher Apprenticeship Affairs during the above-mentioned two years, accretion campus infrastructure, and started the Institute of Human Relations to advance bigger ancestral relations in business and in government. Future Mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley abounding the aboriginal year-long affairs captivated by the Institute of Human Relations and remained constant accompany with Father Cassassa. Father Cassassa aswell connected Father Whelan's bequest of active ancestral injustice. In 1950, he affected the school's football aggregation to cost an abroad bold adjoin Texas Western aback the school's rules prevented African-American players, such as Loyola's Bill English, to play on their field. Aswell during the Cassassa era, the law academy confused to its accustomed campus, advised by Frank Gehry, in 1964.

For the a lot of part, Loyola University connected to be an all-male academy until its alliance with Marymount Academy in 1973. There were, however, several notable exceptions. The aboriginal getting that during the summer months, the Loyola adroitness offered classes for women religious (Catholic nuns) gluttonous undergraduate degrees. Abounding sisters from aloft Los Angeles and Orange Counties acquired their undergraduate degrees from Loyola. Additionally, women were accustomed to several of Loyola's alum programs above-mentioned to the amalgamation and alliance with Marymount College. Furthermore, there were several changeable acceptance accustomed to Marymount Academy who afterwards matriculated into Loyola University during the two schools' five-year amalgamation above-mentioned to 1973, primarily Engineering and Business majors which Marymount did not offer.

Beginnings of Marymount in L.A.
In abstracted admitting alongside developments, the Religious of the Angelic Affection of Mary began teaching bounded adolescent women in 1923. Accepting been arrive by Bishop John Cantwell, seven sisters of the Religious of the Angelic Affection of Mary, beneath the administration of Mother Cecilia Rafter, R.S.H.M., formed what was aboriginal an elementary academy and, anon thereafter, a top school. Within ten years, abounding adolescent women admired to abide their apprenticeship with the Marymount sisters aloft top academy that Marymount Inferior Academy opened as an all-women's academy on the Westwood campus of Marymount Top Academy in 1933. Mother Gertrude Cain, R.S.H.M., served as the aboriginal admiral of the inferior academy and guided its development into a four-year academy in 1948, bold the name Marymount Academy of Los Angeles. In 1960, accepting outgrown its aggregate Westwood campus, Marymount Academy confused both its two-year affairs and its four-year affairs to the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwestern Los Angeles.
In 1967 Sister Raymunde McKay, R.S.H.M., D.Phil., the admiral of Marymount College, connected an allurement to Sister Mary Felix Montgomery, C.S.J., Ph.D., General Superior of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange, to absorb Marymount Academy with St. Joseph Academy of Orange, a four-year advanced arts academy for women religious run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange, which Sister Montgomery accepted. St. Joseph Academy was originally formed as St. Joseph Teacher's College, a inferior academy affiliated with The Catholic University of America in 1953. In 1959 it was congenital as an autonomous, four-year academy and affected the St. Joseph Academy name. In 1968 Marymount and St. Joseph Colleges alloyed beneath the Marymount name with an acceding that the traditions and ancestry of both the Religious of the Angelic Affection of Mary and Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange would be agitated in the Marymount name.

As allotment of the Marymount Academy Agreement, Marymount Academy was administered "co-equally" by the Religious of the Angelic Affection of Mary and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange as associates of both communities partnered in the governing, staffing, and teaching of Marymount College. Subsequently, St. Joseph Academy of Orange was renamed Marymount Academy of Orange. During the bookish year, it remained a academy for women religious gluttonous their baccalaureate degrees; academy courses were offered to men and women during the summers at the Orange campus. The aforementioned year, Marymount Academy began its amalgamation with Loyola University, affective its four-year affairs at the Palos Verdes campus to the Westchester campus of Loyola University. Marymount Academy again operated on three campuses: Palos Verdes retained its two-year program, Orange remained a campus for women religious in Orange County, and Westchester was a campus for both lay and religious women.

Affiliation and alliance of Loyola and Marymount
By the mid-1960s, Loyola University of Los Angeles had abominably petitioned the Archbishop of Los Angeles, Basal James Francis McIntyre, to acquiesce coeducation at Loyola for several years. In 1967, however, Sister McKay, Admiral of Marymount College, accustomed permission from Basal McIntyre to activate amalgamation with Loyola University on Loyola’s Westchester campus. Sister McKay and Father Charles Cassassa, S.J., Ph.D., Admiral of Loyola University, captivated a collective columnist appointment to advertise the affiliation. The amalgamation of Marymount Academy and Loyola University began in 1968 if Marymount's four-year affairs confused to Loyola's Westchester campus; this adjustment (two absolute schools on one campus) connected for 5 years. In 1970, the Student Governments of Loyola University (ASLU—Associated Acceptance of Loyola University) and Marymount Academy (ASMC—Associated Acceptance of Marymount College) abutting to anatomy the Associated Acceptance of Loyola and Marymount (ASLM).

After 5 years of administration commonsense and facilities, Loyola University and Marymount Academy alloyed and affected the name Loyola Marymount University in 1973. Through this union, the broadcast university maintained the century-old mission of Catholic academy apprenticeship in Los Angeles and congenital the educational traditions of the Jesuits, Marymount sisters, and Orange sisters into one institution. At this time, ASLM became accustomed as the Associated Acceptance of Loyola Marymount University (ASLMU).

Father Donald Merrifield, S.J., Ph.D., who became admiral of Loyola University in 1969, connected to serve as the university's president. The bookish carnality admiral of Marymount College, Sister Renee Harrangue, R.S.H.M., Ph.D., became the provost. During Merrifield's administration as admiral thirteen new barrio were complete on Loyola Marymount's capital campus including the Von der Ahe Communication Arts Building, the George Page Baseball Stadium, Doolan Hall, Gersten Pavilion, Burns Fine Art Center, the Laband Art Gallery, the Leavey Adroitness Center and the Loyola Apartments. Merrifield aswell oversaw the amplification of Loyola Law School's campus in Pico-Union, abreast city-limits Los Angeles. Merrifield and the university commissioned artist Frank Gehry to architecture the new campus, which was bare to lath added enrollment.

Merrifield aswell implemented a amount of programs to access boyhood enrollment, such as banking aid bales and scholarships, and added African American and Latino studies programs. He stepped down as admiral of Loyola Marymount in 1984, but remained the university's adjudicator until 2002.

Marymount College's four-year affairs afterwards afar from its two-year program. The Marymount two-year affairs remained congenital as a abstracted academy and accustomed accreditation in 1971 as the apart run Marymount College, Palos Verdes, which is currently operates in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. In 2010, Marymount College, Palos Verdes accustomed accreditation as a four-year institution.

With the alliance of Loyola University and Marymount Academy in 1973, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange abutting the Society of Jesus and the Religious of the Angelic Affection of Mary as one of the allotment religious communities of Loyola Marymount University. Marymount Academy of Orange was renamed the Orange Campus of Loyola Marymount University. The Orange Campus offered continuing apprenticeship and summer courses to men and women through the 1980s.

Recent history
In 2007, the university reestablished its attendance in Orange County, California if the Theological Studies Department began alms a two-year master's affairs in Pastoral Theology in Orange, California. The aboriginal accomplice accelerating in the Spring of 2009 and the additional accomplice began the afterward the fall. The classes are captivated in the Marywood offices of the Diocese of Orange, not far from the now asleep Orange Campus of Loyola Marymount University.
In articulating a eyes for this bookish enterprise, the Lath of Advisers angry to the history of the four-century-old Jesuit educational philosophy, as able-bodied as to the educational philosophies and traditions of the Marymount and St. Joseph's Sisters.


Xavier Hall
On March 1, 2010, Loyola Marymount President, Father Robert B. Lawton, S.J., appear his retirement as arch of the university, able at the end of the bookish year in May 2010.[15][16] Lawton cited bloom problems, including a apathetic accretion from a 2009 aback surgery, as the capital acumen for his departure.He had served as admiral for eleven years, alpha his administration in 1999.

David W. Burcham, a 1984 alum of Loyola Law Academy became the aboriginal lay admiral in the school's history. Burcham captivated the appointment for 5 years, from 2010-2015. Burcham, who presided over LMU's bazaar in 2011, autonomous not to break on afterwards his appellation ended. The LMU lath of advisers adopted Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., as the 16th admiral and he took appointment on June 1, 2015.

Campus
LMU sits aloft the Del Rey Hills bluffs 150 acreage (61 ha) in the Westchester association of Westside Los Angeles. The aboriginal 99 acreage (40 ha) were donated to the university by Harry Culver. Xavier Hall, called for St. Francis Xavier, S.J., a accompaniment of St. Ignatius of Loyola, S.J., and St. Robert's Hall, called for St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J., a basal and Doctor of the Church, were the aboriginal two barrio to be congenital on the accustomed Westchester Campus. Afterward their achievement in 1929, Xavier Hall housed both the Jesuit Adroitness and the acceptance at the time while St. Robert's Hall served as the bookish and authoritative building.

Sacred Affection Chapel and the Regents Bell Tower were the next non-residential structures to be congenital on the campus (1953–1955). The Malone Student Center, called for Lorenzo M. Malone, S.J., an alum of the university and aloft Dean of Acceptance and Treasurer of the University, was completed in 1958 and adapted in 1996. LMU now houses 36 academic, athletic, administrative, and accident accessories as able-bodied as 12 on-campus abode halls (dormitory and accommodation models) and six on-campus accommodation complexes. It is broadly accustomed the Loyola Marymount University Campus, and surrounding areas was the breadth of angelic Indian burying grounds. The architecture traveling on in the Playa Vista breadth was said to accept unearthed about 1,000 grave sites from the Tongva, but their alibi was that they did not apperceive it was there afore construction. The Loyola Marymount Association allegedly has accustomed of the Indian breadth aback the architecture of the upperclassmen abode halls on the arctic ancillary of the campus on the barefaced overlooking West Los Angeles.

The campus houses four ample accessible grass areas not aloof alone for able-bodied play. Alumni Mall and Sunken Gardens accommodate backdrop to the campus that is already burdened with angle of the absolute Los Angeles Basin, Marina del Rey, Playa Vista, Playa del Rey, and the Pacific Ocean.

The university's accretion of University Hall in 2000 brought the campus a new access as able-bodied as much-needed appointment and classroom space. University Hall is a ability different to any bookish institution:[citation needed] It was originally complete for Hughes Aircraft as their apple address and adapted from an alone accumulated ability to a architecture advancing with bookish life. LMU acquired the 1,000,000-square-foot (93,000 m2) architecture in January 2000 from Raytheon, which bought Hughes Aircraft. LMU completed the autogenous acclimate of about 250,000 aboveboard anxiety (23,000 m2) in April 2001. The building, which houses the university's Bellarmine Academy of Advanced Arts, is complete of animate and accurate and is disconnected into seven structures aloft ground. University Hall has over 500,000 aboveboard anxiety (46,000 m2) of attic amplitude and contains over 1,000 parking spaces in three underground levels. The 70,000 aboveboard anxiety (6,500 m2) of atrium amplitude is and will abide to be the area for abounding LMU events. University Hall was featured in division one, adventure two of the television alternation Bones, as the fabulous "Hamilton Cultural Center" in Washington, D.C.

The Princeton Review has afresh ranked LMU as accepting the 7th a lot of admirable campus in America.[17] CampusSqueeze academy e-zine ranked LMU as accepting the 3rd a lot of admirable campus in America.[