PRESIDENT

THE MISSION
Christian Brothers University (CBU) is a private, coeducational, Catholic, comprehensive institution in the tradition of the De La Salle Christian Brothers. The University is committed to develop and sustain challenging undergraduate, graduate and professional programs to prepare students of all faiths and backgrounds in the arts, business, engineering, sciences and teacher education.

As a Lasallian university, CBU features the following:

(1) A learner-centered education with special concern for the needy students. This need may be academic, religious, social, economic, or personal, including those often described as the "lost" and "struggling" among the university population.

(2) Teachers who share their educational mission. They are in association with each other. Typically, their teaching is more of a vocation than an assignment. The lived values of teachers working together attract students to become full participants in the life of a Lasallian university.

(3) Administrators who seek vigorously and enthusiastically to attract students from various economic levels, academic abilities, racial communities, and ethnic backgrounds. At the same time, the Lasallian university seeks to foster among its students attitudes of tolerance and sensitivity, concerns for justice and peace, and service to fellow students and others in the wider community.

THE UNIVERSITY
Members of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded Christian Brothers College November 19, 1871. At its beginning, the college functioned as a combined elementary school, high school, and college, granting high school diplomas as well as bachelor's and master's degrees from 1871 to 1915, when the college division was suspended. Elementary classes were terminated in 1922, and the institution operated solely as a high school until 1940 when it reopened a junior college granting Associate of Arts degrees.

In 1953, the school expanded into a four-year institution to more adequately serve the needs of the community. For the past fifty-five years, the school continued to expand and develop its academic curriculum to meet changing needs.

Christian Brothers University became co-educational in 1970. Currently, women make up approximately fifty-five percent of the student body. Officially, Christian Brothers College became Christian Brothers University in June of 1990.

Today CBU is a comprehensive university regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The four schools -- Arts, Business, Engineering and Sciences -- offer a variety of bachelor's and master's degrees, pre-college programs, multidisciplinary studies, certificates, and pre-health programs.

CBU is located on a 75-acre wooded campus in midtown Memphis, Tennessee, about four miles east of downtown, near several Interstate highways and close to major medical centers. Nearly forty percent of the day students reside on campus. Currently serving a diverse population of 1,800 students, the University offers studies in thirty fields at the undergraduate level and eight master's degree programs.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Christian Brothers University among the top 17 southern universities granting master's degrees. CBU is the most comprehensive private university in West Tennessee. Today, ninety percent of faculty members hold the terminal degree in their respective fields. Most have devoted their lives to teaching and helping students develop to their full potential as scholars and citizens.

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