圣塔克拉拉大学
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圣塔克拉拉大学(Santa Clara University,SCU)官方网站网址：http://www.scu.edu 英文
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圣塔克拉拉大学于公元1851年成立于加州圣塔克拉拉市（Santa Clara），也就是加州硅谷（Silicon Valley）的心脏地带，前身为天主教耶稣会所创办的圣塔克拉拉学院（Santa Clara College）；此校最初以大学前的预科教育为办学内容，至1853年始提供大学的课程。
圣塔克拉拉学院创校的前60年期间历经美国的南北战争，缓慢而稳定的发展，直到1912年成立了法律学校及工程学校，才更名为圣塔克拉拉大学，因此圣塔克拉拉大学可说是美国加州历史最悠久的高等教育机构之一。
圣塔克拉拉大学是一所私立的天主教大学，男校的传统持续了110年，直到1961年开始招收女性学生，成为加州第一所男女合校的天主教大学。目前学生包括大学部4,643人，研究生3,417人，共计8060名。
位于加州旧金山海湾（San Francisco Bay）南端的圣塔克拉拉大学，坐落于全球盛名的硅谷（Silicon Valley），占地104英亩，学习资源相当丰富，工作机会也多。
此外，圣塔克拉拉大学还曾连续15年获得美国新闻世界报导杂志（U.S. News & World Report）评为美国西部大学排名第二名，是西部最有价值的学校之一，并指出圣塔克拉拉大学的研究所课程能有效率地提升学生的学习力，而学生亦有相当成就。
圣塔克拉拉大学有着152年的悠长教育传统，教育方式以价值观为导向，学风严谨，并期望在授与学术教育的同时，赋予学生健全的伦理观及社会观，以培育出既具竞争领导能力又富有奉献服务精神的学生为宗旨。教学则采用小班制，师资杰出，师生比为1：12。
The university is situated in Santa Clara, California (2006 est. population 108,518), adjacent to the city of San Jose, California in Santa Clara County (est. population 1.8 million), which anchors the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Also known by the abbreviation SCU, its students and 71,000 alumni are called “Santa Clarans” and its athletics teams are called the Broncos. In many of its informational and promotional publications the school is billed as "The Jesuit University in Silicon Valley."
Built around historic Mission Santa Clara, the present university is home to a population of nearly 5,000 undergraduate and 3,500 masters, J.D., and Ph.D. students. The institution employs over 450 full time faculty members, who are divided between four professional schools and the College of Arts and Sciences, all of which are located on the 106 acre (0.4 km2) mission campus. In July of 2009, the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (JST), formerly an independent school, legally merged with the university taking the name "Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University." Although a division of SCU, the school retains its campus in Berkeley, California. JST is one of two Jesuit seminaries in the United States with ecclesiastical faculties approved by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education. The other seminary, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, completed a similar affiliation with Boston College in June 2008, becoming Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. [3]
For the 2008–2009 academic year, the university's operating budget was $311 million, and the university's endowment was over $697 million.[4] For the same period, undergraduate tuition and fees was $34,950 and the average cost of room and board was $11,067.[5]
Santa Clara is civilly chartered and governed by a board of trustees, which appoints the president. By internal statute, the president must be a member of the Jesuit order; although, the membership of the board is primarily lay. About forty Jesuit priests and brothers are active teachers and administrators in various departments and centers located on the main campus in Santa Clara. Additionally, fourteen Jesuits currently hold faculty positions at the university's Jesuit School of Theology located in Berkeley. In total, Jesuits comprise around seven percent of the permanent faculty and hold teaching positions in biology, computer engineering, counseling psychology, economics, English, history, law, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religious studies, theology, and theater arts. They also serve in campus ministry and residence-hall ministry, and some act as faculty directors in residential learning communities.
SCU maintains its Catholic and Jesuit affiliation and supports numerous initiatives intended to further its religious mission. Students are invited to attend the Sunday evening student Masses in the mission church and encouraged to participate in campus ministry programs and lectures. All bachelor’s degrees require three religious studies courses as part of the academic core. An emphasis on social justice is furthered through the Pedro Arrupe Partnership and Kolvenbach Solidarity Programs, which offer service opportunities in the community and immersion opportunities throughout the world. The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society also have programs that serve the university's Catholic, Jesuit identity.
圣塔克拉拉大学目前拥有4种专门学校包括商业学院（Leavey School of Business）、法律学院（School of Law）、工程学院（School of Engineering）、教育及谘商心理神职学院（School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries），由于位居硅谷的地利之便，无形中为圣塔克拉拉大学增加了许多可贵的学习资源。
- 商业学院（Leavey School of Business）
商业学院成立于1926年，并在创立后的10年间发展成为首批获得美国国家认证的商业学校之一；由于位于商业活动活跃的硅谷，圣塔克拉拉大学商业学校致力于将理论与实务训练整合融会并应用于国际经济上。
商业学院还提供了经认可且具口碑的MBA课程、学术研讨会、课堂讲授以及针对专职经理人才所开设的专业课程。毕业的校友分布于全球，领导各商业组织的发展。
- 法律学院（School of Law）
法律学院所开设的智慧财产权（intellectual property）、高科技相关法规（High Tec Law）、社会司法（social justice）、公职法（public service law）、国际法（international law）等课程，都在相关领域排名上有不错的评价；每年的申请者有40%是来自美国加州以外的城市及海外各国，毕业后可取得J.D.或LL.M.学位。
- 工程学院（School of Engineering）
课程目标是增进学生将来成为职业工程师必须具备的专业能力；亦针对已就职的工程人员开设了相关的课程，共有7种硕士学位可供选读。
- 教育、谘商心理及神职学院（School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries）
含括教育、心理治疗、神职训练及人类服务。有些课程会让学生有机会亲身在小区服务学习，并提供专业证照及学位。
- In 1777, the Blessed Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan friar, had founded the Santa Clara church, as the eighth in the chain of Franciscan missions in Alta California, at the site of the future university.
- In 1851, at the height of the California Gold Rush, at the request of the Bishop of Monterey, the Dominican Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Italian Jesuits John Nobili and Michael Accolti established the original Santa Clara College around Mission Santa Clara de Asís.
- The year 1851 saw the foundation of California's first two colleges in the town of Santa Clara -- Santa Clara College and the Methodist-founded California Wesleyan College, now known as the University of the Pacific and located in Stockton, California. Because Santa Clara College began instruction before the Methodist campus, Santa Clara calls itself the first institution of higher learning in the state. With its 1851 foundation, Santa Clara College also became the first Catholic college west of St. Louis, Missouri, where the Jesuit Saint Louis University traces its origins to 1818. For its part, California Wesleyan obtained its state charter in July 1851, and for that reason its successor, the University of the Pacific, legitimately claims to be "California's first chartered university".
- Santa Clara's Jesuit founders eventually accumulated the endowment required for a charter, which was granted on April 28, 1855.
- In 1857, Santa Clara awarded the first bachelor's degree given in California. The recipient was Thomas I. Bergin.
- In 1912, Santa Clara College became the University of Santa Clara with the addition of the School of Engineering and School of Law.
- In 1925, the Leavey School of Business was added and became one of the first business schools in the United States to receive national accreditation.
- In 1961, women were admitted to what had been initially an all-men's school. This step made Santa Clara University the first Catholic university in California to admit both men and women.
- In 1985, in part to avoid confusion with the University of Southern California, the University of Santa Clara, as it had been known since 1912, changed its name to Santa Clara University.
- In 2001, the School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries was formed to offer master's level and other credential programs.
- US News and World Report 2006：商学〈Business〉研究所第74名
- US News & World Report 2006：西区大学排名第2名