University of Holy Cross

University of Holy Cross was founded in 1916 as a two-year women's normal school by the Marianites of Holy Cross . Its original location was in the Bywater area of New Orleans. [ 5 ] It became a 4-year institution in 1938. In 1947, a 40-acre (16 ha) parcel of land in Algiers was donated to the Marianites. The college completed a move across the river to this new site in 1960. Its area was later reduced by a sale. Men were first admitted in 1967. In August 2011, the Marianites dismissed the college's president and all 19 of its trustees without warning. [ 6 ] The move prompted an investigation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges, the college's regional accreditor . [ 7 ] Following the investigation, SACS placed the college on probation for six months. [ 8 ] In January 2016, the institution, formerly Our Lady of Holy Cross College , was renamed University of Holy Cross.

University of Holy Cross is situated on a 16-acre (65,000 m 2 ) campus in a middle-class residential neighborhood of the Algiers area of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River . It is built primarily in the Southern Colonial style .

There are more than 50 undergraduate and graduate programs. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]

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