Cardinal Stritch University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The university also offers courses in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin; Eden Prairie, Minnesota and Rochester, Minnesota, and has outreach programs throughout Wisconsin. Cardinal Stritch University is the nation's largest Franciscanuniversity. Its motto, Ut probetis potiora ("To value the better things"), is taken from Philippians 1:10.

　　Cardinal Stritch University's enrollment for the 2009–2010 academic year was 6,276.Tuition that year was $20,000. About 82 percent of Stritch students benefit from scholarships, grants, work-study programs and loans.

　　History

　　Cardinal Stritch University was founded in 1937 as St. Clare College by the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi onMilwaukee's south side as an institution to help the order's sisters effectively train as teachers. The sisters opened a reading clinic in 1943 to help promote literacy in the area, still existing today as the Cardinal Stritch University Literacy Centers operating throughout the Milwaukee area.

　　In 1946, the college was renamed Cardinal Stritch College in honor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's Samuel Cardinal Stritch. The college opened its programs to lay women for the first time and was subsequently accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in 1953.

　　Stritch established its first graduate program in 1956, offering majors in special education and reading. The university also opened its doors to men that year, becoming fully co-educational in 1970.

　　Stritch moved to its current campus in the northern Milwaukee suburb of Fox Point in 1962. This new campus allowed the college to begin many new programs such as the nursing program in 1980 and its College of Business and Management in 1982.

　　Cardinal Stritch College was renamed Cardinal Stritch University in 1997 with the university's first doctorate program offered the following year, the Doctorate in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service. A $14 million expansion and renovation of the university occurred in 2006 with the introduction of online degree programs.

　　Campus

　　In addition to the University's main campus, Cardinal Stritch University offers degree programs at 13 other locations throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota.

　　Main Campus

　　The Main Campus of Cardinal Stritch University is located on a 40-acre campus 9 miles north of Milwaukee in the suburbs of Fox Point and Glendale. The campus sits on private land accessible from roads on the eastern and western edges. Lake Michigan is less than one mile east of campus.

　　Facilities

　　Administration

　　Bonaventure Hall-home to the University's administrative offices including the Office of the President and departmental offices for the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Management, and the College of Education and Leadership.

　　Academic

　　Duns Scotus Hall - the University's main academic building housing classrooms and the International Education office

　　Roger Bacon Hall - home to the College of Nursing and labs for biology and chemistry

　　Library - includes Information Commons, main collection, Instructional Materials Center collection, Franciscan Center Library, and other resources

　　Arts

　　Joan Steele Stein Center for Communication Studies/Fine Arts - houses the communication, music, theater, and art departments housing classrooms, offices, studios, and the University's theaters

　　Athletic

　　Fieldhouse- the hub of Stritch Athletics housing athletic offices, gymnasium, workout facility, locker rooms and indoor running track

　　Residence halls/student union

　　Clare Residence Hall-also home to the Department of Residence Life and student health services

　　Assisi Residence Hall-converted into a residence hall in 2009 from the old College of Education building

　　Serra Hall-dining hall

　　Campus Center-home to the student union, bookstore, the Bean coffee shop, Dean of Students, and campus ministry offices

　　Academics

　　Cardinal Stritch University offers more than 60 fields of student throughout four colleges, offering associate, bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. Programs are set up for traditional undergraduates, adult undergraduate, graduate, and online programs

　　Athletics

　　Cardinal Stritch teams, nicknamed the Wolves, compete in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Men's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, golf, tennis, bowling, track and field and volleyball; women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, golf, track and field and volleyball.

　　Previously, Cardinal Stritch was a member of the now-defunct Lake Michigan Conference of the NCAA Division III level and won the men’s basketball championship in 1987. The men's team was also five-time National Little College Athletic Association Great Lakes District men's basketball champion from 1983 to 1987.

　　Cardinal Stritch University's Men's Basketball team won the NAIA Division 2 National Championship in 2013. After being ranked number one in seven straight polls, they were knocked out of the 2014 NAIA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament in the second round.

　　Notable alumni

　　Rosemary Hinkfuss - Wisconsin State Assemblywoman

　　John E. McCoy - US Air National Guard Brigadier General

　　Harold J. Nevin, Jr. - US National Guard Brigadier General

　　Anthony Shumaker - Major League Baseball player