Mount St. Mary's Seminary
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| Latin: Universitas Sanctae Mariae Ad Montes | |
| Motto | Spes Nostra (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Our Hope |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1808 |
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Religious affiliation
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Roman Catholic |
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Academic affiliations
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ACCU NAICU CIC |
| Endowment | US$47,605,000 (2014) |
| President | Timothy Trainor |
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Academic staff
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120 full-time, 58 part-time |
| Students | 2,240 (2014) |
| Undergraduates | 1,741 (2014) |
| Postgraduates | 499 (2014) |
| Location | Emmitsburg, Maryland, United States |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I – NEC, ECAC |
| Nickname | Mountaineers |
| Mascot | Emmit S. Burg |
| Website | www |
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Mount St. Mary's University (also known as The Mount) is a private, liberal arts, Catholic university in the near historic Emmitsburg, Maryland.
The undergraduate university is divided into four schools: the College of Liberal Arts, the Richard J. Bolte School of Business, the School of Education & Human Services, and the School of Natural Science and Mathematics. The university has more than 40 majors, minors, concentrations and special programs, including bachelor's/master's combinations in partnership with other universities.
The university also offers eight master's degree programs and six postgraduate certificate programs.
The campus includes the second largest Catholic seminary in the United States, where future priests study in the Ordination/Master of Divinity program. Lay students can pursue a Master of Theology Arts at the seminary.
Karl Einolf served briefly as acting university president, following the resignation of Simon Newman. Former academic dean of the United States Military Academy Brigadier General (ret.) Timothy Trainor, was announced as the interim president on a two-year contract in June 2016. Trainor was named the permanent president on June 3, 2017.
The seminary's rector and president is Monsignor Andrew R. Baker. The chancellor of the seminary is the current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Most Reverend William E. Lori.
Mount Saint Mary's was founded by French émigré Father John DuBois. In 1805, Father DuBois bought land near Emmitsburg, Maryland on the mountain that Catholic colonists had christened "St. Mary's Mountain," and laid the cornerstone for Saint-Mary's-on-the-Hill church. Parishioners from two local congregations built a one-story, two room log cabin for Father DuBois, and that cabin was the first structure of Mount Saint Mary's. The church was completed in 1807. Father DuBois first opened a boarding school for children. Then, in 1808, the Society of St. Sulpice closed Pigeon Hill, its preparatory seminary in Pennsylvania, and transferred all the seminarians to Emmitsburg. This marked the official beginning of Mount St. Mary's. Father DuBois was appointed president of the college. Father Simon Bruté, whom President John Quincy Adams called "the most learned man of his day in America," joined Mount St. Mary's as teacher and vice-president in 1812. The small faculty of Mount St. Mary's strove to offer a full high school and college course to lay students and potential priests and developed Mount St. Mary's into "one of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the country." DuBois Hall, named for Father DuBois, was completed in 1826 in what had been a swampy thicket on the mountain. The first charter for a university was obtained in 1830. Until the early 1900s, Mount St. Mary's also acted as a boarding school. Some remnants of the boarding school, such as Bradley Hall (one of the oldest buildings on campus), still exist. The Mount was known as Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary until June 7, 2004, when the name was changed to Mount Saint Mary's University.
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