Villa Julie College
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| Motto |
"Pro Discendo, Pro Vivendo" For Learning, For Living |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1947 |
| Endowment | $77,419,161 (2014) |
| President | Claire E Moore |
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Academic staff
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523 |
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Administrative staff
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580 |
| Students | 4,185 (Fall 2015) |
| Undergraduates | 3,223 |
| Postgraduates | 502 |
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Other students
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460 (adult undergraduates) |
| Location |
Owings Mills and Stevenson, Maryland, United States 39°25′17.37″N 76°42′4.87″W / 39.4214917°N 76.7013528°W |
| Campus |
Suburban Stevenson: 60 acres Owings Mills: 104 acres |
| Colors | Green and White |
| Nickname | Mustangs |
| Website | stevenson.edu |
Stevenson University is a private, independent, coeducational university that is located in the Greenspring Valley area of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The University has three campuses, one in Stevenson and two in Owings Mills, with approximately 4,200 undergraduate and graduate students. Formerly known as Villa Julie College, the name was changed to Stevenson University in 2008.
Stevenson University was founded in Maryland as "Villa Julie College" in 1947 by the Roman Catholic women's religious order, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as a one-year school training women to become medical secretaries. The College was named for Saint Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame.
Stevenson's Greenspring Valley campus in suburban Baltimore County is located on the 80-acre (320,000 m2) former estate of the George Carroll Jenkins family. The estate's name was "Seven Oaks," a reference to huge old oak trees planted on the property. They were thought to mark a traditional Lenni Lenape burial ground. One of these seven oaks still survived on campus as late as August 2007, when it was deemed potentially hazardous and cut down. The Greenspring and Worthington Valleys, west of the Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway, (Interstate 83) are part of the "horse country" of northern Maryland and its steeplechase horses with the "Maryland Hunt Cup".
Villa Julie was approved as a two-year college by the Maryland State Department of Education in 1954, and received its first Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation in 1962. In 1967, the College established a Board of Trustees and became independent of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and the Roman Catholic Church. Villa Julie became coeducational in 1972, admitting its first male student that year.
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