Iona College (New York)
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| Motto | Certa bonum certamen (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Fight the good fight |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1940 |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic (Congregation of Christian Brothers) |
| Endowment | $110.9 million (as of June 30, 2015) |
| President | Joseph E. Nyre |
| Provost | Vincent J. Calluzzo |
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New Rochelle, New York, U.S. 40°55′34″N 73°47′17″W / 40.926°N 73.788°WCoordinates: 40°55′34″N 73°47′17″W / 40.926°N 73.788°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 45 acres (0.2 km2) |
| Colors | Maroon and Gold |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I – MAAC |
| Sports | 21 varsity teams |
| Nickname | Gaels |
| Mascot | Killian |
| Affiliations |
ACCU NAICU |
| Website | www |
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Iona College is a Congregation of Christian Brothers-affiliated four-year college in New Rochelle, New York. Located 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan in suburban Westchester County, the college occupies 45 acres (0.18 km2) at 715 North Avenue. It also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River Rockland County, New York.
Iona offers BA, BS, BBA, and BPS undergraduate degrees and several master's degree programs. An honors program, with special courses, seminars, mentoring, advising, and off-campus opportunities, is available to top students.
Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education.
Previous to opening in New York, the brothers taught at Saint Mary's College in Halifax NS. They had been brought in from Bonaventure College in Saint John's Nfld in 1913. They operated the Halifax institution until 1940 when they were given a tearful sendoff after a run-in with the new archbishop, John T McNally.
Iona College opened its doors in 1940, with nine Christian Brothers and six lay faculty greeting the first class. The Christian Brothers named the College after Iona, the island monastery of St. Columba [in Irish: St. Colmcille] located off the west coast of Scotland. Columba founded the monastery in 563 AD. The Congregation of Christian Brothers was itself founded in 1802 by Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice in Waterford, Ireland.
In 1940, the idea of the College's founding community of Brothers was to start a small, affordable college for the sons of New York's working class. At the time, the Christian Brothers taught in seven high schools in the Archdiocese of New York, including Iona Prep, All Hallows, Rice High School, and Power Memorial. They recognized that many of their graduates could not afford the cost of local universities, and so they started Iona.
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