

It includes ministry and scholarship programs, and pilgrimages to Rome and Assisi. The office is responsible for exploring how the school engages its Catholic, Franciscan identity in all facets with programming for students, staff and faculty. One way the university has maintained focus on its mission is by maintaining an Office of Mission Integration. The four core Franciscan values are: showing compassion, making peace, creating a caring community, and reverencing all of creation. Francis of Assisiįrom the beginning, the school's mission has been for students, faculty and staff to model the virtues and values of St. More: Stunned Cardinal Stritch underclass students not sure where they are headed next Cardinal Stritch kept a strong link to St. The program, not surprisingly, encompassed the Franciscan approach to combining leadership and service. In 1970, men were allowed to enroll for the first time, and in 1997, the school became Cardinal Stritch University by offering its first doctorate program, in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service. In 1962, the college moved to its current location in Fox Point, in northern Milwaukee County. The college began teaching lay women in 1953, and established its first graduate program three years later. The cardinal died in 1958 at the age of 70. In 1946, Pope Pius XII elevated Stritch to Cardinal of Chicago, and in his honor, the Sisters renamed the south side Milwaukee school Cardinal Stritch College. The archbishop served Milwaukee from 1930 to 1939, then was assigned as archbishop to Chicago. Clare College on Milwaukee's south side in 1937, at the urging of Milwaukee Archbishop Samuel Alphonsius Stritch. Women from the group organized a religious congregation, the Sisters of St. Martin Henni, the first archbishop of Milwaukee. In 1849, a small group of lay Franciscans left Bavaria to become missionaries to German immigrants in Wisconsin at the request of Archbishop J.

Cardinal Stritch was founded in 1937 as St. Here's what you need to know about the history of the school. That will come to an end late in May as the university announced Monday that is is permanently closing. Watch Video: Cardinal Stritch students react to the school's sudden closingĬardinal Stritch University has billed itself as one of the largest Franciscan institutions of higher education in North America.
