Introduction
Two Colleges, One Education
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint
John's University are two liberal arts colleges located four miles apart in Central Minnesota. Saint
Benedict's is a college for women and Saint John's is a college for men. The students of
these two colleges share in one common education, as well as coeducational social,
cultural and spiritual programs. The colleges encourage students to come to terms with
their own personal development in relation to their peers and to bring that enriched
understanding into the lively coeducational life which characterizes the two campuses.
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint
John's University have a common curriculum, identical degree requirements and a single
academic calendar. All academic
departments are joint, and classes are offered throughout the day on both campuses.
The academic program is coordinated by the Provost for Academic Affairs, who is assisted
by undergraduate academic deans on
each campus. In addition, there is one admission
office, a joint registrar's office, a combined library system, joint academic computing services and a myriad of
joint student activities and clubs.
The two campuses are linked by free
bus service throughout the day and late into the night.
The colleges enroll 3,600 students from 43
states and 20 foreign countries and trust territories. Saint Benedict's enrolls 1,900
women; Saint John's enrolls 1,700 men. The combined faculties include approximately 270
professors, among them
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Benedictines and
lay professors with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Many faculty members, both
lay and Benedictine, live on or
near the campuses and participate actively in campus life.
The liberal arts education provided by the
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University is rooted in the Catholic university
tradition and guided by the Benedictine principles of the colleges' founders and
sponsoring religious communities. These principles stress cultivation of the love of God,
neighbor and self through the art of listening, worship, and balanced, humane living. The
liberal arts, valuable in themselves, are the center of disciplined inquiry and a rich
preparation for the professions, public life and service to others in many forms of work.
Graduates of the two colleges have a distinguished record in each of these areas.
Recognition of individual worth without
regard for wealth or social standing is explicit in The Rule of Benedict. In
harmony with this principle, the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
seek to exemplify an authentically Christian concern for human rights and to make
education broadly available to students on the sole criterion of ability to benefit from
enrollment in the colleges. While the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's
University have historically served first their own region, they welcome growing numbers
of students and faculty from diverse cultures and regions, and increasingly serve a
national and international community.
The
College of Saint Benedict: pages 7-9
Saint
John's University: pages 10-14
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