Dominican University of California
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Former names
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Dominican College |
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| Motto | Veritas Fax Ardens (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Truth is a Flaming Torch |
| Type | Private Nonprofit Coeducational |
| Established | 1890 |
| Endowment | $26 million |
| President | Mary B. Marcy, D.Phil. |
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Academic staff
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357 |
| Students | 1,863 |
| Undergraduates | 1,383 |
| Postgraduates | 480 |
| Location |
San Rafael, California, USA 37°58′47″N 122°30′48″W / 37.97972°N 122.51333°WCoordinates: 37°58′47″N 122°30′48″W / 37.97972°N 122.51333°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 80 acres (32 ha) |
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Black Gold White |
| Athletics | NCAA Division II – PacWest |
| Sports | 11 varsity teams |
| Nickname | Penguins |
| Mascot | Chilly the Penguin |
| Affiliations | NAICU CIC |
| Website | http://www.dominican.edu/ |
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Dominican University of California is a 1,863-student institution in San Rafael, California.
Founded in 1890 as Dominican College by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, Dominican is one of the oldest universities in California.
The history of Dominican University of California can be traced back to 1850. It was in this year that Joseph Sadoc Alemany was appointed Bishop of Monterey. At the time of this appointment, he was in Italy attending a meeting of the Dominican Order, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic de Guzmán in France in 1216.
As Bishop Alemany was returning to his new post in California, he stopped in Paris at the Dominican Monastery of the Cross and expressed his desire to have a few Dominican Sisters join him to teach the children of the Forty-niners. A Belgian novice, Sister Mary of the Cross Goemaere (1809-1891) volunteered to accompany the new bishop and to begin a school in his new diocese. Within three years, nine women (three American, one Mexican, and five Spanish) joined Sister Mary to form the Congregation of the Most Holy Name. In 1854, the Dominicans moved to Benicia.
Following the leadership of Mother Mary Goemaere, Mother Louis O'Donnell (1887-1929) moved the motherhouse, a school and novitiate from Benicia to San Rafael in 1889.
In 1890 the Congregation of the Most Holy Name, under the auspices of Mother O'Donnell, filed Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of California. With the encouragement of faculty of the University of California in Berkeley, a junior college was opened in 1915, and in 1917 a four-year college, Dominican College, was formed. At that point Dominican College became the first Catholic college in California to grant the bachelor's degree to women. Originally a female-only institution, Dominican College became coeducational in 1971.
The campus is located in San Rafael, California, 15 miles north of San Francisco.
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