Johnson & Wales
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| Motto | The Wildcat Way; Pride, Courage, Character and Community |
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| Type | Private, nonprofit |
| Established | 1914 |
| Endowment | $263.78 million (2015) |
| Chancellor | John Bowen |
| Students | 16,095 (total) |
| Location |
Providence, Rhode Island, Charlotte, North Carolina, Miami, Florida, Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Campus | Urban, 176 acres (0.71 km2) |
| Colors | Blue and white |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
| Website | www |
Johnson & Wales University (JWU) is an American private, nonprofit, co-educational, career-oriented university with one main and three branch campuses located throughout the United States. Providence, Rhode Island is home to JWU's first, largest, and main campus. Founded as a business school in 1914 by Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales, JWU currently has 15,063 students enrolled in business, arts & sciences, culinary arts, education, engineering, equine management, hospitality, and engineering technology programs across its campuses.
The university is accredited by the New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC), through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.
Johnson & Wales Business School was founded in September 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island. Founders Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales met as students at Pennsylvania State Normal School in Millersville, Pennsylvania. Years later, both were teaching at Bryant and Stratton business school in Providence (now Bryant University) when they decided to team up and open a business school. The school opened with one student and one typewriter on Hope Street in Providence. The school soon moved to a larger site on Olney Street, and later moved downtown to 36 Exchange Street to better serve returning soldiers after World War I. The curriculum in the early part of the 20th Century included bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, English, and Mathematics. The school served both men and women.
In June 1947, founders Johnson and Wales, facing old age and illness, sold Johnson & Wales Business School to partners (and Navy buddies) Edward Triangelo and Morris Gaebe. At this time the school had roughly 100 students.
Triangelo and Gaebe served as co-directors as the school grew rapidly. The school earned national accreditation in 1954. In 1960, Johnson & Wales was accredited as a junior college.
The school became a registered nonprofit organization in 1963. Edward P. Triangolo served as the college's first president from 1963 to 1969.
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