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St. John's University (SJU)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=St. John's A New Look )〕 is a private, Roman Catholic, coeducational university located in New York City, United States. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) in 1870, the school was originally located in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant in the borough of Brooklyn. Beginning in the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current location to Utopia Parkway in Hillcrest, Queens. St. John's also has campuses in Staten Island and Manhattan in New York City, overseas in Rome, Italy, and a graduate center in Oakdale, New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discover Our Campuses )〕 A campus in Paris opened in the Spring of 2009. The school is named after Saint John the Baptist.〔 St. John's is organized into five undergraduate schools and six graduate schools. As of 2011, the university has a total of 15,720 undergraduate students and 5,634 graduate students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fast Facts )〕 ==History== St. John's University was founded in 1868, by the Vincentian Fathers of the Roman Catholic Church in response to an invitation by the first Bishop of Brooklyn, John Loughlin, to provide the poor youth of the city with an intellectual and moral education. St. John's Vincentian values stem from the ideals and works of St Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), who is the patron saint of Christian charity. Following the Vincentian tradition, the university seeks to provide an education that encourages greater involvement in social justice, charity and service.〔(Vincentian Heritage )〕 The Vincentian Center for Church and Society ("Vincenter") located on the university's Queens campus serves as "a clearinghouse for and developer of Vincentian information, poverty research, social justice resources, and as an academic/cultural programming Center."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home - Vincentian Center for Church and Society )〕 St. John's University was originally founded as the College of St. John the Baptist at 75 Lewis Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The foundations of the first building were laid in the summer of 1868, and the building was opened for educational purposes September 5, 1871.〔Stiles, Henry R., History of Kings County, vol. 2, p. 955〕 Beginning with the law school in 1925, St. John's started founding other schools and became a university in 1933. In 1954, St. John's broke ground on a new campus in Jamaica, Queens, on the former site of the Hillcrest Golf Club. The following year, the original school of the university, St. John's College, moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant to the new campus. The high school, now St. John's Prep, took over its former buildings and later moved to its present location in Astoria, Queens. Over approximately the next two decades, the other schools of the university, which were located at a separate campus at 96 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn, moved out to the new campus in Queens. The last of the schools to relocate to Queens would move there in 1972, bringing an end to the Downtown Brooklyn campus of the university. In 1959, the university established a Freedom Institute to provide lectures and programs that would focus, in the words of university president John A. Flynn, "attention on the dangers of communism threatening free institutions here and abroad," with Arpad F. Kovacs of the St. John's history department as its director.〔(John A. Flynn, "Foreword," ) in Arpad F. Kovacs, ''The Twentieth Century: An Abstract of the Main Events Which Have Shaped Our Times'' (St. John's University Press, 1960).〕 (A volume of lectures given at the Freedom Institute was edited by Kovacs and published in 1961 as ''Let Freedom Ring''.) The university also hired the noted historian Paul Kwan-Tsien Sih to establish an Institute of Asian Studies in 1959,〔("Paul Kwan-Tsien Sih (1909-1978)," ''Chinese American Who Was Who'' ).〕 and similarly set up a Center for African Studies under the directorship of the economic geographer Hugh C. Brooks. The university received praise from ''Time Magazine'' in 1962 for being a Catholic university that accepted Jews with low household income. Later St. John's was the defendant in a lawsuit by Donald Scheiber (the only Jewish Vice President at the school) for discrimination after being removed because he was Jewish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I94_0118.htm )〕 The court ruled against St. John's University in this lawsuit. ''Time'' also ranked St. John's as "good−small" on a list of the nation's Catholic universities in 1962. The St. John's University strike of 1966-1967 was a protest by faculty at the university which began on January 4, 1966, and ended in June 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guide to the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York Records and Photographs WAG.009 )〕 The strike began after 31 faculty members were dismissed in the fall of 1965 without due process, dismissals which some felt were a violation of the professors' academic freedom. The tension of that year was noted in ''Time Magazine'' stating, "()cademically, (John's University ) has never ranked high among Catholic schools; in troubles, it outdoes them all." The strike ended without any reinstatements, but led to the widespread unionization of public college faculty in the New York City area. In 1970 arbitrators ruled that the university had not acted improperly. On January 27, 1971, the New York State Board of Regents approved the consolidation of the university with the former Notre Dame College (New York) a private women's college and the Staten Island Campus of St. John’s University became a reality. Classes began in the fall of 1971, combining the original Notre Dame College with the former Brooklyn campus of St. John’s, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, business and education.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home )〕 In 1990 the tuition and fees at St. John's was less than half of that at schools like NYU and Columbia.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/nyregion/little-anger-at-sex-case-at-st-john-s.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm〕 Now the tuition is comparable with St. John's being $1104 per credit,〔http://www.stjohns.edu/services/financial/bursar/tuition/undergraduate/1112.stj〕 New York Institute of Technology being $1005,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tuition & Fees - NYIT )〕 NYU being 1106 and Columbia being 1302 per credit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Student Financial Services )〕 In 1999, St. John's purchased the La Salle Center in Oakdale, NY. The campus served as a military academy since 1926.〔http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html res=9A04E4DE1031F934A25752C0A96F958260〕 Before this, the land was owned by Frederick Bourne, President of Singer Sewing Machine Company, who constructed his estate on the grounds. His mansion still remains and is used for receptions.〔http://www.stjohns.edu/campus/oakdale/history.stj〕 St. John's merged with the College of Insurance in 2001. The merger gave St. John's a five-story building located in lower Manhattan which is used by the Peter J. Tobin College of Business〔name="Peter J. Tobin College of Business〕〔(web|url=http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/undergraduate/tobin )〕 and the colleges School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science.〔(Manhattan )〕 After the 9/11 attacks to the World Trade Center, the Manhattan campus was used by emergency workers.〔(Lower Manhattan : News | St. John's University Offers a Downtown Sanctuary )〕 In 2007, St. John's, along with several other universities, settled with New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo for $800,000.00 among allegations of receiving kickbacks from student loan corporations.〔()〕 Also in 2007, St John's University purchased a Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center facility in Fresh Meadows.〔(St. John's University Acquires Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers School of Allied Health Professions in Fresh Meadows )〕 This added two medical programs to the school. This added a Physician's Assistant program as well as Bio-medical technician program to the school. Tuition for the PA program at Saint Vincent Medical Center was $15,000 per year,〔http://www.svcmc.org/body.cfm?id=1185〕 but when purchased by STJ it increased to 29,950 per year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tuition )〕 St. John's opened its new Rome Campus in October 2008. Located in the Prati section of Rome, the . building can house up to 200 students.〔 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「St. John's University (New York City)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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