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La Salle University

La Salle University (/ləˈsæl/) is a private, Catholic university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle.

La Salle University
Latin: Universitas La Salliana
Former name
La Salle College (1863-1984)
MottoVirtus, Scientia (Latin)
Motto in English
Virtue, Knowledge
TypePrivate university
Established1863; 160 years ago (1863)
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic
(Christian Brothers)
Academic affiliations
IALU ACCU
NAICU
Endowment$80.0 million (2020)[1]
PresidentDaniel J. Allen
Academic staff
373[2]
Students5,191 (2019)[3]
Undergraduates3,904 (2019)[3]
Postgraduates1,287 (2019)[3]
Location, ,
U.S.

40°02′21″N 75°09′12″W / 40.03925°N 75.15325°W / 40.03925; -75.15325
CampusUrban, 130 acres (526,091.3 m2)
ColorsBlue and gold[4]
   
NicknameExplorers
Sporting affiliations
MascotThe Explorer
Websitewww.lasalle.edu

History

 
Looking toward Connelly Library

La Salle College was founded in March 1863 as an all-male college by Brother Teliow and Archbishop James Wood of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. It was first located at St. Michael's Parish on N. 2nd Street in the Olde Kensington section of Philadelphia. La Salle soon moved to the building vacated by St. Joseph's College at 1234 Filbert Street in Center City, Philadelphia. In 1886, due to the development of the Center City district, La Salle moved to a third location, the former mansion of Michael Bouvier, the great-great-grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at 1240 North Broad Street. Due to space constraints, in 1930 La Salle moved to its current campus at the intersection of 20th Street and Olney Avenue in the Logan neighborhood of the city. The new location had a suburban feel with ample land, but was linked to the city by trolleys and the newly constructed Broad Street Subway.

The 1930s proved to be a tumultuous decade for La Salle, which was nearly bankrupt after being unable to sell the 1240 North Broad Street property. The main academic building on campus, College Hall was unable to be finished due to a lack of funds, and the college nearly closed in the late 1930s. The college's closing was prevented by a 75th Anniversary Fund Drive in 1938, spearheaded by Philadelphia businessman John McCarthy. Funds raised from this drive also enabled La Salle to purchase a tract of land to the east of 19th Street, where Philadelphia had intended to build a city college.

La Salle nearly closed again due to a lack of students during World War II, and the football team was disbanded due to a lack of players, but the college experienced a period of growth in the late 1940s. Several new buildings were constructed in the 1940s and 1950s, including a new library, student union, and a science building. It was also during this time that the first student residence halls were constructed at La Salle, mostly on land purchased from the former Belfield Country Club. Additional student housing was provided by purchasing or renting local homes, such as the house known as "The Mansion", on David and Logan Blain's Belfield Estate. During the 1960s, the high school section moved out due to the lack of space after many years of sharing the same campus with the College.

 
Peale House on Belfield, the former Office of the President of La Salle

La Salle admitted women to its regular classes in 1970, becoming a fully co-educational institution. A year later, La Salle opened Olney Hall,[5] its main academic building. It also continued to expand its property throughout the 1970s and 1980s, buying land along Chew Avenue in the Germantown section of the city, along with the Belfield Estate in 1984, and to the south of main-campus, the orphanage run by the Sisters of St. Basil the Great. It was also during this era, in 1984, that La Salle was granted University status. In 2007, La Salle acquired the former Germantown Hospital, now West Campus, and constructed The Shoppes at La Salle shopping center across the street in 2008. The construction of the Shoppes at La Salle and addition of The Fresh Grocer ended a decades-long food desert in Germantown.[6]

In October 2015, La Salle inaugurated its first lay person and first woman president, Colleen Hanycz, former president of Brescia University College. In 2015, Hanycz led consolidation and prioritization efforts, ultimately firing a couple dozen prominent staff members and administrators. The university even cut six undergraduate majors, which were mostly in the foreign language department. However, just a year after her arrival, the school stated that it would decrease tuition by 29 percent. The reasoning for the significant tuition cut was to make La Salle more attractive and accessible for students from more diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.[7]

Governance

 
Big 5 Student Government Meeting, 2016

The university is led by its board of trustees headed by a president and chair.[8] The president serves one or more 5–year terms.[9] As of 2022, there have been 29 Presidents. Students are represented through a democratically elected student government. The La Salle Students' Government Association sits on numerous committees led by staff and administrators, including some board meetings.[10] La Salle's student government is a founding member of the American Student Government Association.[11] The president's office, formerly located in the historic Peale House, is now in College Hall, the former business school building.

Academics

Within La Salle is the College of Professional and Continuing Studies and its three Schools: Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, and Nursing & Health Sciences. Communication, Nursing, and Education are the largest majors at La Salle. Courses in the programs may be offered in traditional, online, or hybrid formats.[12]

Tuition and financial aid

In the Fall 2017 semester, La Salle University decreased its tuition by 29%, citing affordability for all students and a "renaissance" at the school.[13] Even prior to the tuition reduction, La Salle was recognized for its value.[14][15][16]

Admissions

Undergraduate fall enrollment declined from more than 4,500 in 2012 to 3,900 in 2018.[17]

The average GPA for an admitted student at La Salle is a 3.35 on a 4.0 scale.[18] Its acceptance rate is labeled as "moderately difficult" and admits about 75 percent of students who apply. La Salle requires SAT or ACT scores and an essay for admission. La Salle also uses the common application for prospective students in the United States.

According to The New York Times, the median family income of a student from La Salle is about $91,000 per year. 40 percent of La Salle students come from families in the top 20 percent of income. 37.1 percent come from families in the bottom 60 percent of income (<$65,000 per year). Less than 1 percent come from families in the top 1 percent of income ($650k+).[19][20]

Academic rankings

Publisher Ranking System Year Ranking
The Economist College Rankings 2015 99[16]
Time Money Magazine Colleges that Add the Most Value 2016 5[14]
U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges for Veterans 2017 19[25]
U.S. News & World Report Best Value Schools 2017 16[26]
U.S. News & World Report MBA Programs Where Graduates Find Jobs Quickly 2017 4[27]
U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges, Regional Universities North 2018 34[28]

Athletics

La Salle D1 Athletic Programs
Sport Men's Women's
Baseball
 Y
Basketball
 Y
 Y
Cross Country
 Y
 Y
Field Hockey
 N
 Y
Golf
 Y
 Y
Lacrosse
 N
 Y
Rowing
 Y
 Y
Soccer
 Y
 Y
Softball
 Y
Swimming & Diving
 Y
 Y
Tennis
 Y
 Y
Track & Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
 Y
 Y
Volleyball
 N
 Y
Water Polo
 Y
 Y

La Salle University's 20 varsity sports teams, known as the Explorers, compete in the NCAA's Division I. La Salle is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and the historic Philadelphia Big 5, an informal association of Philadelphia sports programs. As a member of the Big 5, the Explorers play against Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University and Saint Joseph's University at least once a year at the Palestra. They have won eleven titles. La Salle has sent 16 athletes to the Olympic a total of 22 times. La Salle athletes have won a total of six Olympic medals (four gold, and two bronze) and have appeared in eleven Olympic Games.

La Salle's teams have won two national championships: The 1954 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and the 1980 Division II AIAW Field Hockey Championship. The school also won the 1952 National Invitation Tournament. La Salle's major historic rival has been the Hawks of Saint Joseph's University, especially in men's basketball. Not only are both universities situated in Philadelphia, but they are also both Catholic, private institutions.

The name "Explorer" derives from a 1931 mistake made by a sportswriter. The writer thought the university was named after the French explorer Sieur de La Salle, when in fact it is named after St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and was officially chosen in a student contest during the spring of 1932.

In 2016, La Salle University changed its tagline from "Never Stop Exploring" to "Explorers are Never Lost".[29]

Men's basketball

 
Naismith Hall of Fame basketball player Tom Gola, namesake of Tom Gola Arena

The program has been rated the 53rd "Greatest College Basketball Program of All-Time" by Street & Smith's magazine and 71st by the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia.

La Salle has won one National Championship, one National Invitation Tournament Championship, and advanced to two Final Fours. The Explorers have also made 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, won eight Philadelphia Big 5 city championships, and four Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships. The program is one of only two schools (with Houston) to have two players in the top 25 in all-time NCAA scoring - Lionel Simmons and Michael Brooks. It's also had three National Players of the Year - only Duke University and Ohio State have had more.[30]

 
La Salle's men's basketball team playing at Tom Gola Arena

La Salle's last successful run in the NCAA Tournament a surprising run in 2013 when La Salle went to the Sweet Sixteen as an underdog. The Explorers pulled off surprise upsets, beating ranked Kansas State and Ole Miss.[31]

La Salle also has an extensive history of players who played professional basketball, including Michael Brooks, (1980 College Player of the Year), Joe Bryant (father of Kobe Bryant), Rasual Butler (formerly with the Washington Wizards), Larry Cannon, Ken Durrett, Tom Gola, (NBA Hall of Fame inductee and 1955 College Player of the Year), and Tim Legler (current basketball analyst for ESPN and 4th all-time in NBA three-point shooting percentage).

The Explorers play in Tom Gola Arena as their main home stadium and The Palestra for Philadelphia Big 5 games.

Women's basketball

Campus

La Salle moved to its fourth and present location in 1931. The campus is located in part on Belfield, the estate of Charles Willson Peale, the Revolutionary War patriot and painter famous for his portraits of the founding fathers, most notably, George Washington. The first to occupy the land of the Belfield after the passing of the famously known painter, Charles Wilson Peale, was William Logan Fisher. Fisher was born to the family of Thomas Fisher and Sarah Logan; Sarah had inherited the northeastern portion of Stenton. Fisher's roots lay deeply in La Salle's history as he owned the land that is now South Campus. After living there, Fisher gave this land to his daughter Sarah Logan Fisher and her husband William Wister. The home belonged to the Wisters until 1984 when La Salle University purchased the land. What once was the home of a famous artist, and later affluent family[32][33], is the current office of the University president.

La Salle's campus is located in the Logan, Philadelphia-Ogontz/Belfield neighborhood of Philadelphia. In May 2007, La Salle created their West Campus after buying a portion of Germantown Hospital in the Germantown neighborhood of the city. La Salle's campus is divided into 3 parts: North, South, and West campus. Both the North and South parts of campus are located in the Logan, Philadelphia-Belfield area of Philadelphia, and the western portion of campus (west of Wister Street) is located in the Germantown, Philadelphia neighborhood of the city.

La Salle University Art Museum

The La Salle Art Museum is located in the basement of Olney Hall and houses a collection of European and American art from the Renaissance to the present. The museum also owns a number of special collections including Japanese prints. The art museum is also home to the Walking Madonna, one of four by the British artist Dame Elisabeth Frink. Frink created the sculpture in 1981, the other Walking Madonna sculptures remain in England, with one in Salisbury and the other in Frink's garden at her home. In early 2018, the university announced plans to sell forty-six artworks from the La Salle University Art Museum to "help fund teaching and learning initiatives in its new strategic plan".[34] Selling art to fund the university is controversial in the art community and the plan was criticized by artists and museum groups.[34][35]

 
Explorer's Den, Winter 2014

Student housing

In 2011, St. Basil's Court was considered by DormSplash.com as the best dorm in the country.[36][37] St. Basil's Court is mostly home to honors students, athletes, and upperclassmen.

 
St. Basil Court Residence Hall was rated as the best dorm in the country in 2011.

Living styles vary by location. In North Residence Halls and St. Neumann, men and women live in the same building but on different floors. In St. Basil's, men and women live on the same floors but on different sides of the hall. In the St. Miguel Townhouses and Apartments, men and women live with the same gender in their own living space with a kitchen and bathrooms. In 2016, students voted to have gender-neutral housing in the St. Miguel Townhouses, which would make La Salle the only Catholic university in the country to facilitate co-ed living.[38] This issue caused controversy in Catholic circles across the United States since it is traditional for Catholic school residence halls to be completely separated by gender.[39] La Salle also has individual unit gender-neutral bathrooms in some of their residence halls.

Expansion

 
Founder's Hall from the corner of Wister and Chew, 2015

La Salle has spent about $75 million in renovations going back to 2005. In the Fall of 2005, the $26 million first phase of this master plan was completed with the construction of Tree Tops Cafe (dining hall) and St. Basil Court (Residence Hall).[40] St. Basil's houses approximately 430 students. Three of the building's wings feature "suites", in which four students share two bedrooms and one bathroom. The fourth wing's rooms have the traditional one-room for housing two students with communal bathrooms. The facilities have lounges, study rooms, and special purpose rooms.[41]

A $2.5 million athletic field renovation was completed in the Fall of 2006.[42][13]

In May 2007, the university purchased adjacent Germantown Hospital for $10 million. The 24 acres (97,000 m2) acquired has become "West Campus", and increased the campus size by 25 percent.[43] A $15 million shopping center and supermarket complex opened in Fall 2008 across from the Germantown Hospital.[44] The Shoppes at La Salle was formerly home to the university's softball field and other recreational areas. The renovated Holroyd Science Center was completed in Fall 2009 and a new business school opened in West Campus in January 2016.

In the summer of 2016, McShain Hall in the middle of campus was torn down and replaced with more green space. The new quad was named after its donor, the Hansen family.

A satellite campus and Conference Center in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the La Salle University Bucks County Center, offers graduate courses in various disciplines, undergraduate courses in nursing, and continuing education courses. The Conference Center comprises fifteen instructional rooms with seating capacities ranging from 20 to 40, along with four computer laboratories with 100 workstations. La Salle offers M.B.A. and Clinical-Counseling Psychology Master of Arts classes at the Plymouth Meeting Metroplex Corporate Center in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

In the fall of 2016, La Salle changed its motto from "Never Stop Exploring" to "Explorers are Never Lost".[29] The change reflected a new brand campaign, coinciding with the announcement that La Salle would decrease tuition by more than 29 percent.[13]

Student life

Students at La Salle are offered many opportunities to participate at different degrees and in many different ways. There are several organizations and a student programming center whose mission is primarily to plan activities (games, movie nights, bus trips, etc.) for the students of La Salle University. The Communication Department operates La Salle 56, a cable TV educational-access television station available to 300,000 subscribers. The university also has a student-run radio station, WEXP and a student-run weekly newspaper, The Collegian, along with over 100 other[45] intramurals, clubs, and NCAA Division I sports offered. La Salle University offers a number of student services, including non-remedial tutoring, a women's center, career advising and placement services, health services, and health insurance. La Salle also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc.). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age, making La Salle one of the few Catholic wet campuses. La Salle is also an LGBTQ-friendly Catholic university.[46]

 
St. Miguel Townhouses

Demographics

About 55 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated or -affiliated housing and 45 percent of students live off campus near the university or commute from home. The gender distribution is about 37 percent male students and 63 percent female students. Of La Salle students, about 35 percent have cars on campus.[47] It has a total undergraduate enrollment of about 3,947, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 133 acres.

Student media

La Salle TV

La Salle TV is a student run,[48] public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television station that offers an Educational-access television channel run by La Salle and carried within Philadelphia's city limits on the Comcast cable system. The station reaches over 300,000 homes and serves La Salle students and its neighbors with educational and entertaining programs. The station also serves as a hands-on teaching facility for students interested in the communication field. In 2009, La Salle 56 officially changed their name to La Salle TV due to a recent agreement with Verizon to carry the student television station. La Salle University gained the cable channel in 1991 as part of the franchise agreements between cable providers and the city of Philadelphia. The student television station is a main component of the Communication Department, which uses the department's technical facility and allows use students majoring in communication. Notable station alumni include Meredith Marakovits.

La Salle TV features a variety of student-produced programs, including collegiate sports,[49] entertainment, and social issues. Original student films are broadcast in addition to interviews with local and national authors, actors, musicians, athletes, and television personalities. During the academic year when the majority of new programming is produced, each show is assigned a specific timeslot. Two-hour station masters containing non-dated material fill the remaining time. The hours between 8:00pm and 12:00am are used mainly for new La Salle-produced programs.

 
Students tour La Salle TV studios on the university's south campus

The Collegian

The Collegian published its first issue on March 16, 1931. It is the only on-campus newspaper for La Salle. It is published weekly every Thursday throughout the school year. The newspaper is written, edited, and produced by La Salle students underneath a faculty adviser. The newspaper is not independent, meaning that it has restrictions placed by the University on what it can publish. Restrictions are placed by the Division of Student Affairs and sometimes the President's Office.

WEXP

WEXP is a college radio station with a freeform radio format. It previously broadcast on 1600 and 530 AM in the Philadelphia-area before becoming an Internet radio-only station.[50]

WEXP opened its studio in 1972. Initially, the radio station could only be heard inside the Student Union building. However, with the advent of computers in every dorm, where AM radios became scarcer to find, the station chose to embark on an Internet-only focus, setting up a partnership with live365 beginning in the fourth quarter of 2002. The shift in focus re-energized the station by recruiting more members and boosting listenership both on campus and across the country.[51]

Greek life

One of the aspects of La Salle's social scene are its fraternities and sororities. In total, La Salle has fourteen Greek life organizations: Ten traditional fraternities and sororities, two Divine Nine (historically black) organizations, and two co-educational fraternities.

Fraternities

La Salle has six chartered fraternities, five of which are nationally recognized. Sigma Phi Lambda—not to be confused with Sigma Phi Lambda, the nationally recognized sorority founded in Austin, Texas—is the only unrecognized national fraternity on La Salle's campus. Sigma Phi Lambda, however, was La Salle University's first and oldest fraternity.[52] It was founded in 1935 by La Salle President Brother Leonard. The fraternity dissolved with La Salle's drop in enrollment during World War II, but reemerged in 1960 under the leadership of Dr. John Guischard. Brother Gerald (Gerry) Molyneaux became the moderator of the Sigma Phi Lambda fraternity in 1976, where he remains as moderator as of 2017. Science professor Roland Holroyd was also an active member and advisor for the fraternity. Holroyd would soon become the namesake of the science center, Holroyd Hall, on La Salle's main campus. Sigma Phi Lambda and Alpha Theta Alpha, the two sororities and fraternities founded at La Salle, would remain exclusive to the university.

National Fraternity Greek Letters
Sigma Phi Epsilon ΣΦΕ
Alpha Chi Rho ΑΧΡ
Alpha Phi Delta ΑΦΔ
Delta Sigma Phi ΔΣΦ
Sigma Phi Lambda ΣΦΛ
Phi Beta Sigma ΦΒΣ

Sororities

La Salle's Greek life community consists of six sororities. Sororities were incorporated at La Salle after 1970, once the school started admitting women. Five La Salle sororities are nationally recognized: Alpha Sigma Tau, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Mu, and Zeta Phi Beta. Alpha Theta Alpha's only charter is at La Salle University, where the sorority originally began. Alpha Theta Alpha was La Salle University's first sorority.[53]

National Fraternity Greek Letters
Alpha Theta Alpha ΑΘΑ
Alpha Sigma Tau ΑΣΤ
Gamma Phi Beta ΓΦΒ
Delta Phi Epsilon ΔΦΕ
Phi Mu ΦΜ
Zeta Phi Beta ΖΦΒ

Co-educational fraternities

In addition, La Salle also offers two co-educational fraternities: a business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi, and a community service fraternity, Epsilon Sigma Alpha.[54]

National Fraternity Greek Letters
Epsilon Sigma Alpha ΕΣΑ
Delta Sigma Pi ΔΣΠ

University ministry and service

La Salle's religiously-affiliated University Ministry and Service (UMAS) program offers student ministry and community service opportunities for students. Regardless of religious affiliation, La Salle students can participate in more than a dozen weekly service and volunteer projects in Philadelphia including working at food banks, homeless shelters, the Special Olympics, and more. La Salle holds mass once a day, every week. Their Sunday liturgy has high student involvement through student ministers.

Students can also participate in service trips, known as Lasallian Immersion and Volunteer Experiences (LIVE). Service trips occur domestically and internationally. Domestic service trips include going to Habitat for Humanity programs, working in Harlan, Kentucky in Appalachia, and even going to local locations like Camden, New Jersey. International service trip volunteers go to Kenya, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, and more. Each student's trip is subsidized by the school and by their own fundraising initiatives.[55]

Notable alumni

La Salle alumni have earned numerous accolades, scholarships, and titles including an Emmy award, a Pulitzer Prize, six Olympic gold medals, a Marshall scholarship, about one-hundred Fulbright scholarships, and more. La Salle has three alumni currently serving in the United States House of Representatives along with about a dozen representatives in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and one on the Philadelphia City Council.

See also

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External links

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Not to be confused with Lasell University For other uses see La Salle University disambiguation La Salle University l e ˈ s ae l is a private Catholic university in Philadelphia Pennsylvania The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St Jean Baptiste de La Salle La Salle UniversityLatin Universitas La SallianaFormer nameLa Salle College 1863 1984 MottoVirtus Scientia Latin Motto in EnglishVirtue KnowledgeTypePrivate universityEstablished1863 160 years ago 1863 Religious affiliationRoman Catholic Christian Brothers Academic affiliationsIALU ACCUNAICUEndowment 80 0 million 2020 1 PresidentDaniel J AllenAcademic staff373 2 Students5 191 2019 3 Undergraduates3 904 2019 3 Postgraduates1 287 2019 3 LocationPhiladelphia Pennsylvania U S 40 02 21 N 75 09 12 W 40 03925 N 75 15325 W 40 03925 75 15325CampusUrban 130 acres 526 091 3 m2 ColorsBlue and gold 4 NicknameExplorersSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I Atlantic 10Philadelphia Big 5City 6CWPAMascotThe ExplorerWebsitewww wbr lasalle wbr edu Contents 1 History 2 Governance 3 Academics 3 1 Tuition and financial aid 3 2 Admissions 3 3 Academic rankings 4 Athletics 4 1 Men s basketball 4 2 Women s basketball 5 Campus 5 1 La Salle University Art Museum 5 2 Student housing 5 3 Expansion 6 Student life 6 1 Demographics 6 2 Student media 6 2 1 La Salle TV 6 2 2 The Collegian 6 2 3 WEXP 6 3 Greek life 6 3 1 Fraternities 6 3 2 Sororities 6 3 3 Co educational fraternities 6 4 University ministry and service 7 Notable alumni 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory Edit Looking toward Connelly LibraryLa Salle College was founded in March 1863 as an all male college by Brother Teliow and Archbishop James Wood of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia It was first located at St Michael s Parish on N 2nd Street in the Olde Kensington section of Philadelphia La Salle soon moved to the building vacated by St Joseph s College at 1234 Filbert Street in Center City Philadelphia In 1886 due to the development of the Center City district La Salle moved to a third location the former mansion of Michael Bouvier the great great grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at 1240 North Broad Street Due to space constraints in 1930 La Salle moved to its current campus at the intersection of 20th Street and Olney Avenue in the Logan neighborhood of the city The new location had a suburban feel with ample land but was linked to the city by trolleys and the newly constructed Broad Street Subway The 1930s proved to be a tumultuous decade for La Salle which was nearly bankrupt after being unable to sell the 1240 North Broad Street property The main academic building on campus College Hall was unable to be finished due to a lack of funds and the college nearly closed in the late 1930s The college s closing was prevented by a 75th Anniversary Fund Drive in 1938 spearheaded by Philadelphia businessman John McCarthy Funds raised from this drive also enabled La Salle to purchase a tract of land to the east of 19th Street where Philadelphia had intended to build a city college La Salle nearly closed again due to a lack of students during World War II and the football team was disbanded due to a lack of players but the college experienced a period of growth in the late 1940s Several new buildings were constructed in the 1940s and 1950s including a new library student union and a science building It was also during this time that the first student residence halls were constructed at La Salle mostly on land purchased from the former Belfield Country Club Additional student housing was provided by purchasing or renting local homes such as the house known as The Mansion on David and Logan Blain s Belfield Estate During the 1960s the high school section moved out due to the lack of space after many years of sharing the same campus with the College Peale House on Belfield the former Office of the President of La SalleLa Salle admitted women to its regular classes in 1970 becoming a fully co educational institution A year later La Salle opened Olney Hall 5 its main academic building It also continued to expand its property throughout the 1970s and 1980s buying land along Chew Avenue in the Germantown section of the city along with the Belfield Estate in 1984 and to the south of main campus the orphanage run by the Sisters of St Basil the Great It was also during this era in 1984 that La Salle was granted University status In 2007 La Salle acquired the former Germantown Hospital now West Campus and constructed The Shoppes at La Salle shopping center across the street in 2008 The construction of the Shoppes at La Salle and addition of The Fresh Grocer ended a decades long food desert in Germantown 6 In October 2015 La Salle inaugurated its first lay person and first woman president Colleen Hanycz former president of Brescia University College In 2015 Hanycz led consolidation and prioritization efforts ultimately firing a couple dozen prominent staff members and administrators The university even cut six undergraduate majors which were mostly in the foreign language department However just a year after her arrival the school stated that it would decrease tuition by 29 percent The reasoning for the significant tuition cut was to make La Salle more attractive and accessible for students from more diverse socioeconomic backgrounds 7 Governance Edit Big 5 Student Government Meeting 2016The university is led by its board of trustees headed by a president and chair 8 The president serves one or more 5 year terms 9 As of 2022 update there have been 29 Presidents Students are represented through a democratically elected student government The La Salle Students Government Association sits on numerous committees led by staff and administrators including some board meetings 10 La Salle s student government is a founding member of the American Student Government Association 11 The president s office formerly located in the historic Peale House is now in College Hall the former business school building Academics EditWithin La Salle is the College of Professional and Continuing Studies and its three Schools Arts amp Sciences Business Administration and Nursing amp Health Sciences Communication Nursing and Education are the largest majors at La Salle Courses in the programs may be offered in traditional online or hybrid formats 12 Tuition and financial aid Edit In the Fall 2017 semester La Salle University decreased its tuition by 29 citing affordability for all students and a renaissance at the school 13 Even prior to the tuition reduction La Salle was recognized for its value 14 15 16 Admissions Edit Undergraduate fall enrollment declined from more than 4 500 in 2012 to 3 900 in 2018 17 The average GPA for an admitted student at La Salle is a 3 35 on a 4 0 scale 18 Its acceptance rate is labeled as moderately difficult and admits about 75 percent of students who apply La Salle requires SAT or ACT scores and an essay for admission La Salle also uses the common application for prospective students in the United States According to The New York Times the median family income of a student from La Salle is about 91 000 per year 40 percent of La Salle students come from families in the top 20 percent of income 37 1 percent come from families in the bottom 60 percent of income lt 65 000 per year Less than 1 percent come from families in the top 1 percent of income 650k 19 20 Academic rankings Edit Academic rankingsRegionalU S News amp World Report 21 38Master s universityWashington Monthly 22 130NationalForbes 23 377THE WSJ 24 311Publisher Ranking System Year RankingThe Economist College Rankings 2015 99 16 Time Money Magazine Colleges that Add the Most Value 2016 5 14 U S News amp World Report Best Colleges for Veterans 2017 19 25 U S News amp World Report Best Value Schools 2017 16 26 U S News amp World Report MBA Programs Where Graduates Find Jobs Quickly 2017 4 27 U S News amp World Report Best Colleges Regional Universities North 2018 34 28 Athletics EditMain article La Salle Explorers La Salle D1 Athletic Programs Sport Men s Women sBaseball YBasketball Y YCross Country Y YField Hockey N YGolf Y YLacrosse N YRowing Y YSoccer Y YSoftball YSwimming amp Diving Y YTennis Y YTrack amp Field Indoor and Outdoor Y YVolleyball N YWater Polo Y YLa Salle University s 20 varsity sports teams known as the Explorers compete in the NCAA s Division I La Salle is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and the historic Philadelphia Big 5 an informal association of Philadelphia sports programs As a member of the Big 5 the Explorers play against Temple University University of Pennsylvania Villanova University and Saint Joseph s University at least once a year at the Palestra They have won eleven titles La Salle has sent 16 athletes to the Olympic a total of 22 times La Salle athletes have won a total of six Olympic medals four gold and two bronze and have appeared in eleven Olympic Games La Salle s teams have won two national championships The 1954 NCAA Men s Division I Basketball Tournament and the 1980 Division II AIAW Field Hockey Championship The school also won the 1952 National Invitation Tournament La Salle s major historic rival has been the Hawks of Saint Joseph s University especially in men s basketball Not only are both universities situated in Philadelphia but they are also both Catholic private institutions The name Explorer derives from a 1931 mistake made by a sportswriter The writer thought the university was named after the French explorer Sieur de La Salle when in fact it is named after St Jean Baptiste de La Salle and was officially chosen in a student contest during the spring of 1932 In 2016 La Salle University changed its tagline from Never Stop Exploring to Explorers are Never Lost 29 Men s basketball Edit Main article La Salle Explorers men s basketball Naismith Hall of Fame basketball player Tom Gola namesake of Tom Gola ArenaThe program has been rated the 53rd Greatest College Basketball Program of All Time by Street amp Smith s magazine and 71st by the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia La Salle has won one National Championship one National Invitation Tournament Championship and advanced to two Final Fours The Explorers have also made 12 NCAA Tournament appearances won eight Philadelphia Big 5 city championships and four Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships The program is one of only two schools with Houston to have two players in the top 25 in all time NCAA scoring Lionel Simmons and Michael Brooks It s also had three National Players of the Year only Duke University and Ohio State have had more 30 La Salle s men s basketball team playing at Tom Gola ArenaLa Salle s last successful run in the NCAA Tournament a surprising run in 2013 when La Salle went to the Sweet Sixteen as an underdog The Explorers pulled off surprise upsets beating ranked Kansas State and Ole Miss 31 La Salle also has an extensive history of players who played professional basketball including Michael Brooks 1980 College Player of the Year Joe Bryant father of Kobe Bryant Rasual Butler formerly with the Washington Wizards Larry Cannon Ken Durrett Tom Gola NBA Hall of Fame inductee and 1955 College Player of the Year and Tim Legler current basketball analyst for ESPN and 4th all time in NBA three point shooting percentage The Explorers play in Tom Gola Arena as their main home stadium and The Palestra for Philadelphia Big 5 games Women s basketball Edit Main article La Salle Explorers women s basketballCampus EditLa Salle moved to its fourth and present location in 1931 The campus is located in part on Belfield the estate of Charles Willson Peale the Revolutionary War patriot and painter famous for his portraits of the founding fathers most notably George Washington The first to occupy the land of the Belfield after the passing of the famously known painter Charles Wilson Peale was William Logan Fisher Fisher was born to the family of Thomas Fisher and Sarah Logan Sarah had inherited the northeastern portion of Stenton Fisher s roots lay deeply in La Salle s history as he owned the land that is now South Campus After living there Fisher gave this land to his daughter Sarah Logan Fisher and her husband William Wister The home belonged to the Wisters until 1984 when La Salle University purchased the land What once was the home of a famous artist and later affluent family 32 33 is the current office of the University president La Salle s campus is located in the Logan Philadelphia Ogontz Belfield neighborhood of Philadelphia In May 2007 La Salle created their West Campus after buying a portion of Germantown Hospital in the Germantown neighborhood of the city La Salle s campus is divided into 3 parts North South and West campus Both the North and South parts of campus are located in the Logan Philadelphia Belfield area of Philadelphia and the western portion of campus west of Wister Street is located in the Germantown Philadelphia neighborhood of the city College Hall Connelly Library Roland Holroyd Science Center Hansen Quad Wister Hall Communications Center North Residence Halls Complex at 20th amp Olney Ave St John Baptiste De La Salle with a student La Salle University Art Museum Edit Main article La Salle University Art Museum The La Salle Art Museum is located in the basement of Olney Hall and houses a collection of European and American art from the Renaissance to the present The museum also owns a number of special collections including Japanese prints The art museum is also home to the Walking Madonna one of four by the British artist Dame Elisabeth Frink Frink created the sculpture in 1981 the other Walking Madonna sculptures remain in England with one in Salisbury and the other in Frink s garden at her home In early 2018 the university announced plans to sell forty six artworks from the La Salle University Art Museum to help fund teaching and learning initiatives in its new strategic plan 34 Selling art to fund the university is controversial in the art community and the plan was criticized by artists and museum groups 34 35 Explorer s Den Winter 2014Student housing Edit In 2011 St Basil s Court was considered by DormSplash com as the best dorm in the country 36 37 St Basil s Court is mostly home to honors students athletes and upperclassmen St Basil Court Residence Hall was rated as the best dorm in the country in 2011 Living styles vary by location In North Residence Halls and St Neumann men and women live in the same building but on different floors In St Basil s men and women live on the same floors but on different sides of the hall In the St Miguel Townhouses and Apartments men and women live with the same gender in their own living space with a kitchen and bathrooms In 2016 students voted to have gender neutral housing in the St Miguel Townhouses which would make La Salle the only Catholic university in the country to facilitate co ed living 38 This issue caused controversy in Catholic circles across the United States since it is traditional for Catholic school residence halls to be completely separated by gender 39 La Salle also has individual unit gender neutral bathrooms in some of their residence halls Expansion Edit Founder s Hall from the corner of Wister and Chew 2015La Salle has spent about 75 million in renovations going back to 2005 In the Fall of 2005 the 26 million first phase of this master plan was completed with the construction of Tree Tops Cafe dining hall and St Basil Court Residence Hall 40 St Basil s houses approximately 430 students Three of the building s wings feature suites in which four students share two bedrooms and one bathroom The fourth wing s rooms have the traditional one room for housing two students with communal bathrooms The facilities have lounges study rooms and special purpose rooms 41 A 2 5 million athletic field renovation was completed in the Fall of 2006 42 13 In May 2007 the university purchased adjacent Germantown Hospital for 10 million The 24 acres 97 000 m2 acquired has become West Campus and increased the campus size by 25 percent 43 A 15 million shopping center and supermarket complex opened in Fall 2008 across from the Germantown Hospital 44 The Shoppes at La Salle was formerly home to the university s softball field and other recreational areas The renovated Holroyd Science Center was completed in Fall 2009 and a new business school opened in West Campus in January 2016 In the summer of 2016 McShain Hall in the middle of campus was torn down and replaced with more green space The new quad was named after its donor the Hansen family A satellite campus and Conference Center in Newtown Bucks County Pennsylvania the La Salle University Bucks County Center offers graduate courses in various disciplines undergraduate courses in nursing and continuing education courses The Conference Center comprises fifteen instructional rooms with seating capacities ranging from 20 to 40 along with four computer laboratories with 100 workstations La Salle offers M B A and Clinical Counseling Psychology Master of Arts classes at the Plymouth Meeting Metroplex Corporate Center in Montgomery County Pennsylvania In the fall of 2016 La Salle changed its motto from Never Stop Exploring to Explorers are Never Lost 29 The change reflected a new brand campaign coinciding with the announcement that La Salle would decrease tuition by more than 29 percent 13 Student life EditStudents at La Salle are offered many opportunities to participate at different degrees and in many different ways There are several organizations and a student programming center whose mission is primarily to plan activities games movie nights bus trips etc for the students of La Salle University The Communication Department operates La Salle 56 a cable TV educational access television station available to 300 000 subscribers The university also has a student run radio station WEXP and a student run weekly newspaper The Collegian along with over 100 other 45 intramurals clubs and NCAA Division I sports offered La Salle University offers a number of student services including non remedial tutoring a women s center career advising and placement services health services and health insurance La Salle also offers campus safety and security services like 24 hour foot and vehicle patrols late night transport escort service 24 hour emergency telephones lighted pathways sidewalks controlled dormitory access key security card etc Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age making La Salle one of the few Catholic wet campuses La Salle is also an LGBTQ friendly Catholic university 46 St Miguel TownhousesDemographics Edit About 55 percent of the students live in college owned operated or affiliated housing and 45 percent of students live off campus near the university or commute from home The gender distribution is about 37 percent male students and 63 percent female students Of La Salle students about 35 percent have cars on campus 47 It has a total undergraduate enrollment of about 3 947 its setting is urban and the campus size is 133 acres Student media Edit La Salle TV Edit La Salle TV is a student run 48 public educational and government access PEG cable television station that offers an Educational access television channel run by La Salle and carried within Philadelphia s city limits on the Comcast cable system The station reaches over 300 000 homes and serves La Salle students and its neighbors with educational and entertaining programs The station also serves as a hands on teaching facility for students interested in the communication field In 2009 La Salle 56 officially changed their name to La Salle TV due to a recent agreement with Verizon to carry the student television station La Salle University gained the cable channel in 1991 as part of the franchise agreements between cable providers and the city of Philadelphia The student television station is a main component of the Communication Department which uses the department s technical facility and allows use students majoring in communication Notable station alumni include Meredith Marakovits La Salle TV features a variety of student produced programs including collegiate sports 49 entertainment and social issues Original student films are broadcast in addition to interviews with local and national authors actors musicians athletes and television personalities During the academic year when the majority of new programming is produced each show is assigned a specific timeslot Two hour station masters containing non dated material fill the remaining time The hours between 8 00pm and 12 00am are used mainly for new La Salle produced programs Students tour La Salle TV studios on the university s south campusThe Collegian Edit Main article La Salle Collegian The Collegian published its first issue on March 16 1931 It is the only on campus newspaper for La Salle It is published weekly every Thursday throughout the school year The newspaper is written edited and produced by La Salle students underneath a faculty adviser The newspaper is not independent meaning that it has restrictions placed by the University on what it can publish Restrictions are placed by the Division of Student Affairs and sometimes the President s Office WEXP Edit Main article WEXP La Salle University WEXP is a college radio station with a freeform radio format It previously broadcast on 1600 and 530 AM in the Philadelphia area before becoming an Internet radio only station 50 WEXP opened its studio in 1972 Initially the radio station could only be heard inside the Student Union building However with the advent of computers in every dorm where AM radios became scarcer to find the station chose to embark on an Internet only focus setting up a partnership with live365 beginning in the fourth quarter of 2002 The shift in focus re energized the station by recruiting more members and boosting listenership both on campus and across the country 51 Greek life Edit One of the aspects of La Salle s social scene are its fraternities and sororities In total La Salle has fourteen Greek life organizations Ten traditional fraternities and sororities two Divine Nine historically black organizations and two co educational fraternities Fraternities Edit La Salle has six chartered fraternities five of which are nationally recognized Sigma Phi Lambda not to be confused with Sigma Phi Lambda the nationally recognized sorority founded in Austin Texas is the only unrecognized national fraternity on La Salle s campus Sigma Phi Lambda however was La Salle University s first and oldest fraternity 52 It was founded in 1935 by La Salle President Brother Leonard The fraternity dissolved with La Salle s drop in enrollment during World War II but reemerged in 1960 under the leadership of Dr John Guischard Brother Gerald Gerry Molyneaux became the moderator of the Sigma Phi Lambda fraternity in 1976 where he remains as moderator as of 2017 Science professor Roland Holroyd was also an active member and advisor for the fraternity Holroyd would soon become the namesake of the science center Holroyd Hall on La Salle s main campus Sigma Phi Lambda and Alpha Theta Alpha the two sororities and fraternities founded at La Salle would remain exclusive to the university National Fraternity Greek LettersSigma Phi Epsilon SFEAlpha Chi Rho AXRAlpha Phi Delta AFDDelta Sigma Phi DSFSigma Phi Lambda SFLPhi Beta Sigma FBSSororities Edit La Salle s Greek life community consists of six sororities Sororities were incorporated at La Salle after 1970 once the school started admitting women Five La Salle sororities are nationally recognized Alpha Sigma Tau Gamma Phi Beta Delta Phi Epsilon Phi Mu and Zeta Phi Beta Alpha Theta Alpha s only charter is at La Salle University where the sorority originally began Alpha Theta Alpha was La Salle University s first sorority 53 National Fraternity Greek LettersAlpha Theta Alpha A8AAlpha Sigma Tau ASTGamma Phi Beta GFBDelta Phi Epsilon DFEPhi Mu FMZeta Phi Beta ZFBCo educational fraternities Edit In addition La Salle also offers two co educational fraternities a business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi and a community service fraternity Epsilon Sigma Alpha 54 National Fraternity Greek LettersEpsilon Sigma Alpha ESADelta Sigma Pi DSPUniversity ministry and service Edit La Salle s religiously affiliated University Ministry and Service UMAS program offers student ministry and community service opportunities for students Regardless of religious affiliation La Salle students can participate in more than a dozen weekly service and volunteer projects in Philadelphia including working at food banks homeless shelters the Special Olympics and more La Salle holds mass once a day every week Their Sunday liturgy has high student involvement through student ministers Students can also participate in service trips known as Lasallian Immersion and Volunteer Experiences LIVE Service trips occur domestically and internationally Domestic service trips include going to Habitat for Humanity programs working in Harlan Kentucky in Appalachia and even going to local locations like Camden New Jersey International service trip volunteers go to Kenya the Dominican Republic Haiti Honduras and more Each student s trip is subsidized by the school and by their own fundraising initiatives 55 Notable alumni EditMain article List of La Salle University people La Salle alumni have earned numerous accolades scholarships and titles including an Emmy award a Pulitzer Prize six Olympic gold medals a Marshall scholarship about one hundred Fulbright scholarships and more La Salle has three alumni currently serving in the United States House of Representatives along with about a dozen representatives in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and one on the Philadelphia City Council William J Burns Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Jim Kenney Mayor of Philadelphia Tom Gola former basketball player who is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Brian Fitzpatrick U S Representative Peter Boyle actor Jessica Barth actress Bill Raftery college basketball analyst and former coach Madeleine Dean U S Representative Joe Bryant basketball coach and father of Kobe Bryant Matthew Quick author of Silver Linings Playbook Fran Dunphy college basketball coach Dwight Evans U S Representative Meredith Marakovits New York Yankees clubhouse reporter for the YES Network Michael J Stack III former Lieutenant Governor of PennsylvaniaSee also Edit Philadelphia portalList of colleges and universities in Philadelphia Lasallian educational institutionsReferences Edit As of June 30 2020 U S and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 Report National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA February 19 2021 Retrieved February 20 2021 College Overview petersons com Retrieved April 24 2017 a b c La Salle University www usnews com Retrieved February 29 2020 La Salle Brand Standards Manual PDF July 29 2021 Retrieved December 5 2022 1900 West Olney Avenue Philadelphia PA 19141 After 40 years a supermarket E Germantowners now have one in their neighborhood philly archives Articles philly com January 31 2011 Archived from the original on June 23 2016 Retrieved June 26 2016 La Salle slashes tuition by nearly 30 percent metro us September 28 2016 Retrieved April 24 2017 2012 13 Board of Trustees Office of the President La Salle University Retrieved May 21 2013 Shelly Jared May 21 2013 La Salle president stepping down Philadelphia Business Journal Retrieved May 21 2013 Students Government Association Lasalle edu Retrieved April 26 2017 Founding Members American Student Government Association ASGA Asgaonline com Retrieved June 26 2016 La Salle University Education Database Online Retrieved October 19 2013 a b c A 29 percent tuition cut caps renaissance at La Salle philly com Retrieved April 24 2017 a b The 50 Colleges That Add the Most Value a MONEY Best colleges time com Retrieved June 26 2016 Forbes Ranks La Salle One of America s Best Value Colleges Lasalle edu March 30 2016 Retrieved June 26 2016 a b The Economist Ranks La Salle University Among Top 100 in the U S for Value Lasalle edu November 4 2015 Retrieved June 26 2016 Carey Kevin May 26 2020 Risky Strategy by Many Private Colleges Leaves Them Exposed The New York Times Retrieved May 28 2020 La Salle University CollegeData College Profile collegedata com Retrieved April 24 2017 Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 Find Yours The New York Times January 18 2017 Retrieved April 24 2017 Cox Gregor Aisch Larry Buchanan Amanda Quealy Kevin January 18 2017 Economic diversity and student outcomes at La Salle The New York Times Retrieved April 24 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite 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com October 13 2016 Retrieved April 24 2017 Official Site of La Salle University Athletics cstv com Archived from the original on July 14 2007 Retrieved April 24 2017 Sielski Mike March 26 2013 Why La Salle Basketball Matters Wsj com Retrieved April 24 2017 Dillan Michelle William Logan Fisher Belfield amp Wakefield A Link to La Salle s Past La Salle University Archived from the original on July 1 2002 Retrieved September 29 2015 Butler James A Spring 1994 The Remarkable Wisters at Belifield Belfield amp Wakefield A Link to La Salle s Past La Salle University Archived from the original on October 26 2015 Retrieved September 29 2015 a b Susan Snyder and Stephan Salisbury January 3 2018 La Salle plan to sell museum masterpieces stuns art community The Philadelphia Inquirer Retrieved January 15 2018 Scott Jaschik January 8 2018 Museum Groups Condemn La Salle for Selling Art Inside Higher Ed Retrieved January 15 2018 Ranking the Residences Georgia State Tops Nation s Best College Dorms TIME com Newsfeed time com March 9 2011 Retrieved June 26 2016 The 10 Best Dorms In The Country DormSplash List Huffingtonpost com March 1 2011 Retrieved April 24 2017 La Salle students want gender neutral housing philly archives Articles philly com February 26 2016 Retrieved June 26 2016 Cardinal Newman Society Cardinal Newman Society Archived from the original on May 10 2016 Retrieved June 26 2016 La Salle University to Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony for New 26 Million Residence Hall and Dining Facility Lasalle edu Retrieved October 6 2014 La Salle University Master Plan h2l2 com Archived from the original on September 29 2007 Retrieved April 24 2017 Athletic Fields to Undergo 2 5 Million Facelift goexplorers com Archived from the original on June 14 2006 Retrieved April 24 2017 La Salle University Buys Einstein s Germantown Hospital Property Lasalle edu Retrieved October 6 2014 Supermarket Shopping Center Plans Announced by La Salle and Partners Lasalle edu Retrieved October 6 2014 Student organizations Lasalle edu Retrieved October 6 2014 New Ways Ministry February 1 2016 Gay friendly Colleges and Universities New Ways Ministry Archived from the original on June 30 2016 Retrieved June 26 2016 La Salle University Colleges usnews rankingsandreviews com Retrieved April 26 2017 Auspitz Debra March 20 2003 SQUEAL LIKE A WOMBAT ON LA SALLE UNIVERSITY S TV GAME SHOW Q amp A MAKING ANIMAL NOISES IS JUST PART OF THE FUN Philadelphia City Paper ProQuest 362711807 Bertha Mike March 23 2013 Help La Salle student reporters go to L A for the Sweet 16 Philadelphia Inquirer Retrieved March 26 2018 Radio WEXP September 1 2011 WEXP RADIO IS BACK wordpress com Retrieved April 24 2017 Grabenstein Brother Joseph La Salle University Archives WEXP File La Salle University October 2005 LaMonica Jeffrey April 24 2017 LaSalle University Arcadia Publishing ISBN 9780738539225 Retrieved April 24 2017 via Google Books Alpha Theta Alpha lasalle edu Retrieved April 24 2017 Greek Life Clubs 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