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Webster University

Webster University
Webster University in the snow, 2014.jpg
Webster University's Webster Hall in 2014
Type Private
Established 1915
Endowment $111.5 million
President Elizabeth J. Stroble
Provost Julian Schuster
Academic staff
14.7:1 student–faculty ratio; 184 full-time, 1,642 adjunct
Students 22,000
Location Webster Groves, Missouri, United States
Campus Webster Groves main campus 47 acres (19 ha),
Colors Navy, gold, and white
Athletics NCAA Division III, 7 Men's Sports, 7 Women's Sports
Nickname Gorloks
Mascot Gorlok
Website Webster.edu
Webster University Logo.svg

Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri.

Webster operates as an independent, non-denominational university with multiple branch locations across the United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various disciplines, including the liberal arts, fine and performing arts, teacher education, business and management. In 2014, Webster enrolled about 22,000 students, representing all 50 U.S. states and 140 countries. The university has an alumni network of around 170,000 graduates worldwide.

It was founded in 1915 by the Sisters of Loretto as Loretto College, a Catholic women's college, one of the first west of the Mississippi River. The first male students were admitted in 1962. The Sisters of Loretto transferred ownership of the university to a lay Board of Directors in 1967. They were the first Catholic college in the United States to be totally under lay control.

Webster was involved in the early racial integration battles in St. Louis. During the early 1940s, many local priests, especially the Jesuits, challenged the segregationist policies at the city's Catholic colleges and parochial schools. The St. Louis chapter of the Midwest Clergy Conference on Negro Welfare arranged in 1943 for Webster College to admit a black female student, Mary Aloyse Foster, which would make it the city's first Catholic college to integrate. However, in 1943 Archbishop John J. Glennon blocked that student's enrollment by speaking privately with the Kentucky-based Superior General of the Sisters of Loretto. The Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper with national circulation, discovered Glennon's actions and ran a front-page feature on the Webster incident in February 1944. The negative publicity toward Glennon's segregationist policies led Saint Louis University to begin admitting African American students in summer 1944. In the fall of 1945, Webster College responded to pressure by admitting Irene Thomas, a Catholic African-American woman from St. Louis, as a music major.


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