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www .fairfield .edu. Main Entrance and Alumni House. Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2023, the university had about 5,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students, including full-time and part-time students.
Fairfield College Preparatory School. / 41.16056°N 73.25472°W / 41.16056; -73.25472. Fairfield College Preparatory School (Fairfield Prep) is a Jesuit preparatory school located on the campus of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is an all-male school of about 800 students, founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942.
Paul Grendler has authored a history of Jesuit schools and universities from 1548 to 1773. In it, he notes that the Jesuits had established over 700 colleges and universities across Europe by 1749, with another hundred in the rest of the world, but in the aftermath of the Jesuit suppressions of the 18th and 19th centuries, all these schools ...
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and three theological centers in the United States, Canada, and Belize committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities, sharing resources, and advocating and representing the work of Jesuit higher education at the national and ...
A year later, Fr. von Arx received an M.Div. from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and was ordained a priest. von Arx served as the eighth president of Fairfield University from July 1, 2004, until December 31, 2016. Previously, von Arx served as Chair of the History Department at Georgetown University and Dean of Fordham College at Rose ...
Ellen Umansky. Dr. Ellen M. Umansky is the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University located in Fairfield, Connecticut, positions that she has held since 1994. Before coming to Fairfield University, Dr. Umansky taught at various institutions, including ...
Died. March 22, 2004. (2004-03-22) (aged 82) Washington, D.C., U.S. Alma mater. Georgetown University, University of Chicago. Thomas Rollins Fitzgerald, [1] S.J. (February 23, 1922 – March 22, 2004) was an American Jesuit priest who served as the sixth president of Fairfield University from 1973 to 1979 and the 30th president of Saint Louis ...
St. Joseph's Preparatory School. Alma mater. St. Louis University. University of Innsbruck. University of Pennsylvania. Aloysius Paul Kelley, S.J. (born October 4, 1929) [1] is an American Jesuit and educator. He served as the seventh president of Fairfield University, located in Fairfield, Connecticut, from 1979 to 2004.