Trinity University

Trinity College (not to be mistaken for the disconnected Trinity College (Connecticut) or Trinity College, Dublin) was established by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as a Catholic school for ladies. For more than 70 years, Trinity taught working class Catholic ladies, who were underrepresented in America's schools. (For more foundation on ladies' advanced education, see Origins and sorts of Women's schools in the United States.)

In the 1960s, the school vied with Wellesley College and Bryn Mawr College for the little girls of the rich and powerful.[citation needed] But when numerous all-male universities got to be co-ed, Trinity's full-time enlistment dropped - from 1,000 in 1969 to 300 in 1989. The school's twelfth president, Sister Donna Jurick, reacted in the early 1980s by opening a weekend school for working ladies from the District of Columbia, a racially different populace the school had beforehand not served. The main such program in Washington, it got to be extremely well known; inside three years, it had a larger number of understudies than the undergrad program.[1]

Under Patricia McGuire, a Trinity alumna, who got to be president of the school in 1989, Trinity turned into a multifaceted college that connected with the dark and Hispanic ladies of Washington. McGuire part the school into three schools: the notable ladies' school turned into the College of Arts and Sciences; the higher-income instructor school turned into the School of Education; and the proceeding with training classes were collapsed into a School of Professional Studies. Trinity started enlisting at D.C. secondary schools. She extended the expert schools, whose joined enlistment rose from 639 in 1989 to 974 in 1999. By the school's 1997 centennial, it had turned into the private school of decision for the ladies of D.C. open schools.[1]

Trinity has a yearly enlistment of around 2,000 understudies in the University's four schools, which offer undergrad and graduate degrees in a mixed bag of scholarly regions.

The College of Arts and Sciences—Trinity's memorable ladies' school—offers group administration opportunities, games, understudy clubs and grounds exercises. The College of Arts and Sciences offers various scholarly projects, including worldwide undertakings, criminal equity, scientific brain science, news-casting, and business financial aspects.

Trinity's School of Education is a coeducational graduate project offering degrees in instruction, directing, educational program outline, and instructive organization. Through its Continuing Education Program, the School of Education likewise offers 300 expert advancement courses enlisting 4,000 training experts every year.

The School of Professional Studies offers undergrad and graduate degrees intended for ladies and men trying to progress or change their vocations. Degrees offered incorporate, however are not restricted to, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Science Administration (M.S.A.), Master of Arts in Communication and a Master of Science in Information Security Management.

In fall 2010, a School of Nursing and Health Professions was reported as the new home for Trinity's current nursing project, which began in 2006 and got accreditation in 2007 by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The school right now offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) program in both a prelicensure track and a track for enrolled attendants. The school arrangements to develop its offerings in 2011 and 2012.

Trinity offers proficient advancement, Associate in Arts, and Master's of Science in Administration - Non Profit Management Specialization programs at a satellite classroom placed at THEARC, a multipurpose group office in southeast Washington, DC. Trinity is the main private college to offer projects in the District of Columbia's underserved neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.