Loras Duhawks
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| Motto | Pro Deo Et Patria (For God and Country) |
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| Type | Private University |
| Established | 1839 |
| Founder | Bishop Mathias Loras |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic Church |
| Endowment | $30.5 million + (2015) |
| President | James E. Collins |
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Administrative staff
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172 |
| Students | 1,600 |
| Address |
1450 Alta Vista St., Dubuque, Iowa, USA 42°30′09″N 90°40′52″W / 42.502592°N 90.680984°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Gold and Purple |
| Nickname | Duhawks |
| Mascot | Dewey the Duhawk |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 42°30′10″N 90°40′53″W / 42.502805°N 90.681401°W
Loras College is a four-year Catholic college in Dubuque, Iowa, with an enrollment of approximately 1,600 students. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It is one of four four-year post-secondary institutions in the City of Dubuque and one of three Catholic colleges in the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
Loras College, a liberal arts college, was founded in 1839 by the Most Rev. Bishop Mathias Loras, first bishop of Dubuque, who established Saint Raphael's Seminary to educate young men for the priesthood with the expressed intention of also providing an opportunity for higher education to the citizens of the area. Loras later became President of the college. The college has functioned under several different names: Saint Raphael's Seminary and later Saint Raphael's Academy (1839-1850), Mount St. Bernard's College and Seminary (1850-1860), St. Joseph's College (1873-1914), Dubuque College (1914-1920), and Columbia College (1920-1939). The present name was adopted during the school's centennial in 1939. That same year, the national Catholic honor society, Delta Epsilon Sigma was founded at the college, by Father Fitzgerald. From the time of its founding, the college has devoted its faculty and facilities to an undergraduate program; it conferred the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.
In 1963, when The Catholic University of America decided to discontinue its branch program of graduate study on the Loras campus, Loras College, realizing the growing need in the locale for study beyond the baccalaureate degree, initiated its Graduate Division offering the Master of Arts degree in some fields.
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