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The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in San Francisco, California, United States. The school's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed the "The Hilltop", and part of the main campus is located on Lone Mountain, one of San Francisco's major hills. In addition, the university offers classes at four northern California branch campuses (Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Pleasanton), at a southern California branch campus, and at locations in downtown San Francisco, including the Folger Building at 101 Howard Street, and at the Presidio. Its close historical ties with the City and County of San Francisco are reflected in the University's traditional motto, ''Pro Urbe et Universitate'' (''For the City and University''). USF's Jesuit-Roman Catholic identity is rooted in the vision and work of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order. ==History== Founded in 1855 as St. Ignatius Academy Anthony Maraschi, S.J. USF started as a one-room schoolhouse along Market Street in what later became downtown San Francisco. St. Ignatius Academy received its charter on April 30, 1859, from the State of California, and signed by governor John B. Weller (the document survived the 1906 fire and earthquake) and changed its name to St. Ignatius College. The original curriculum included Greek, Spanish, Latin, English, French, Italian, algebra, arithmetic, history, geography, elocution, and bookkeeping. Father Maraschi was not only the college's first president, but also a professor, the college's treasurer, and first pastor of St. Ignatius Church.〔Ziajka, Alan. ''Legacy & Promise: 150 years of Jesuit education at the University of San Francisco''. San Francisco: University of San Francisco, Association of Jesuit University Presses, 2005.〕 A new building was constructed in 1862 to replace the first frame building. In June 1863, the university awarded its first Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1880, the college moved from Market Street to a new site on the corner of Hayes Street and Van Ness Avenue (currently occupied by the Davies Symphony Hall). The third St. Ignatius College received moderate damage in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was completely destroyed in the ensuing fire. The campus moved west, to the corner of Hayes and Shrader Streets, close to Golden Gate Park, where it occupied a hastily constructed structure known as The Shirt Factory (for its resemblance to similar manufacturing buildings of the era) for the next 21 years. The college moved to its present site on Fulton Street in 1927. The college was built on the site of a former Masonic Cemetery (see (map )). In 1901, the city enacted a law prohibiting more burials in the City and County of San Francisco. The remains were supposed to be transferred to Colma, California, though caskets and human remains are still found whenever a foundation is excavated for a new building on the main campus.〔Ziajka, Alan. ''Lighting the City, Changing the World of the Science at the University of San Francisco''. San Francisco: University of San Francisco, Association of Jesuit University Presses, 2014.〕 To celebrate its diamond jubilee in 1930, St. Ignatius College changed its name to the University of San Francisco. The change from college to university was sought by many alumni groups and by long-time San Francisco Mayor James Rolph Jr..〔 A male-only school for most of its history, USF became fully coeducational in 1964, though females started attending the evening programs in business and law as early as 1927. In 1969, the high school division, already wholly separate from the university, moved to the western part of San Francisco and became St. Ignatius College Preparatory. In 1978, the university acquired Lone Mountain College.〔 October 15, 2005, marked the 150th anniversary of the university's founding.〔(USFCA.edu )〕 As of the fall of 2014, USF enrolled 10,701 undergraduate and graduate students in all of its programs housed in four schools (Law, Management, Education, Nursing and Health Professions) and one college (Arts and Sciences). 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「University of San Francisco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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