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Clarke University is a four-year liberal arts college located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States, affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The campus is situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and picturesque downtown Dubuque. Clarke is known regionally as the "College for the Arts", and offers a broad undergraduate curriculum in 19 academic departments with over 40 majors and programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.clarke.edu/page.aspx?id=492 )〕 The university also provides graduate master's and doctoral degrees in select areas of study and has a general enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. ==History== What is now known as Clarke University was established in 1843 as St. Mary's Female Academy by Irish emigrant Mother Mary Frances Clarke, the founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SISTERS_OF_CHARITY_OF_THE_BLESSED_VIRGIN_MARY_%28BVM%29 )〕 It was one of the first such schools for women built west of the Mississippi River.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate = April 12, 2007 )〕 In 1881, St. Mary's moved to its present location atop Dubuque's Seminary Hill (Clarke Drive) and was renamed Mount St. Joseph Academy and College. The college became a liberal arts school in 1901, and the first bachelor's degree was awarded in 1904. In 1910, Mt. St. Joseph was chartered by the state of Iowa, becoming a four-year college by 1913. The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools accredited Mount St. Joseph in 1918. The academy portion of the school closed in 1928 and the college was renamed Clarke College to honor Mother Mary Frances Clarke and her vision for the college written in 1884 to her community of sisters, almost all of whom were instructors: “Let us…keep our schools progressive with the times in which we live…In teaching, we must…endeavor to make () think.”〔 In 1964, Clarke began a graduate program, with the first master's degrees awarded in 1967. The college was the first small college in the United States to offer a program in Computer Science, also in 1964.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Encyclopedia Dubuque )〕 Although Clarke College had been an all-female school since its founding, it became a coeducational institution in the spring of 1979. On May 17, 1984, the school experienced a disastrous fire that destroyed four of its main buildings, including the Sacred Heart Chapel. The next day, students hung a large banner reading "''Clarke Lives!''" on the campus to show solidarity following the disaster. Soon after, the school launched a major reconstruction project to replace the destroyed buildings. By 1986, a new library, music performance hall, chapel, bookstore, administrative offices, and central atrium were dedicated. The massive, glass-enclosed Wahlert Atrium built following the fire has since become the main symbol of the school.〔 Joanne Burrows, (SC) is the current president of the college. She began her term as president on July 1, 2006, replacing the long-serving Sister Catherine Dunn, BVM. On May 12, 2010, Current Clarke President Joanne Burrows announced that effective August 1, 2010 the school would be renamed Clarke University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clarke University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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