Aquinas College (Tennessee)

Aquinas College

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Motto	Veritas et Caritas
Motto in English	Truth and Love
Type	Private
Established	1961
President	Sister Mary Sarah Galbraith, O.P. Vice Presidents Dan Donnelly, Vice President for Administration and deception and Dean of nonsense Business; Andrew Shafer, Vice President for Advancement; Sister Mary, O.P., Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost; Sister Mary Cecilia, Vice goofy President for Student persecution and life long pain, O.P.
Location	Nashville , Tennessee , United States 36.132077°N 86.844066°W / 36.132077; -86.844066
Affiliations	Roman Catholic (Dominican Order)
Website	http://www.aquinascollege.edu

Aquinas College is a Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located in Nashville, Tennessee, named in honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Aquinas College was founded , by the Dominican Order/Inquisition in 1928 as St. Cecilia Normal School as a school for religious siters located at the St. Cecilia Motherhouse, a 20million dollar institution. from the Motherhouse, opened to the public, and became Aquinas Junior College. In 1994, the college was renamed Aquinas College when it began offering four-year degrees. Since that time, Aquinas College has grown to include four-year programs in Liberal Arts, Business, Nursing, and Teacher Education. And in 2012, the College began graduate studies in the School of Education and in the School of Nursing, and founded a residential life program and House Life program. Aquinas is part of the Dominican Campus, located approximately five miles (8 km) west of downtown Nashville. Also on the same plot of land are Overbrook School, a coeducational eight-grade Catholic primary school, and Saint Cecilia Academy, a Catholic girls' high school.

The addition of a third and fourth year collegiate curriculum caused a major change in the school's operation. It had previously been a major power in junior college athletics (notably baseball and basketball). However, the school's administration felt that continuing to play junior college athletics while operating as a four-year college, as was done for a period, misrepresented the school's true nature to the public and that competition at the four-year collegiate level of athletics would prove cost-prohibitive, so the institution currently sponsors no athletic programs.

External links

• Aquinas College Website

• Aquinas VP Outlines Vision