Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta

LUMSA University
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
Former name
Istituto Superiore di Magistero Maria SS. Assunta
Motto
In fide et humanitate (Latin)
Motto in English
In faith and in humanity
TypePrivate
Established26 October 1939
FoundersLuigia Tincani, Venerable
Giuseppe Pizzardo
Pius XII[1]
AffiliationBioGeM
PresidentGiovanni Lajolo
RectorFrancesco Bonini
Students7,200[2]
Location
Rome (main campus), Palermo, & Taranto
,
Italy
CampusUrban (multiple sites)
LanguageItalian and English
ColorsMalachite and white   
Sporting affiliations
LUMSA Sport United
Websitewww.lumsa.it Edit this at Wikidata

The Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, often simply abbreviated as "LUMSA", is a private Roman Catholic university founded in 1939 in Rome.[3] It is the second-oldest university in Rome after Sapienza.[2]

Organization

The university began its life as the "Istituto Superiore di Magistero Maria Ss. Assunta", an educational institute for nuns founded in 1939 by Luigia Tincani (Royal Decree No. 1760 of 26 October 1939). In 1989, it was reconstituted as "Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta" (LUMSA), a university for women. The university was opened to men in 1991.[4]

LUMSA is a private Catholic institution with autonomy at all levels of the university. As an Italian-accredited institution, its degrees are considered equivalent to those issued by Italian public universities.

The university is governed by a council which includes a President, a Rector, two Pro-Rectors, a Director General, and general council members. Since 2017, the President has been Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo.[5]

University teaching is distributed across three departments:[6]

The educational structure of LUMSA is arranged around four divisions. The university offers, through the divisions, undergraduate degrees (Italian laurea) in various social science fields. In post-graduate education, LUMSA offers several graduate programs and two long-cycle programs in law and education sciences, as well as four PhDs (Italian dottorato di ricerca).[7][8][9]

Notable people

Honorary degrees

These people received an honorary degree, but did not attend the university.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Luigia Tincani". lumsa.it. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b "The University". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  3. ^ Riondino, Michele (2017). "Reflections on fifty years of church teaching on universities (from Gravissimum Educationis to Ex Corde Ecclesiae)". In Whittle, Sean (ed.). Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 208. doi:10.4324/9781315389240. ISBN 978-1-4724-8863-3. LCCN 2016026573.
  4. ^ "Our history". lumsa.it. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Governance". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Departments". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Academics". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Corsi di laurea triennale, magistrale e a ciclo unico - Roma, Palermo, Taranto" [Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees and long-cycle degrees - Rome, Palermo, Taranto]. lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  9. ^ "PhD programs". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g "I protagonisti" [The protagonists]. 80.lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Il lutto. Addio al giurista cattolico Giuseppe Dalla Torre: fede, cultura e diritto". www.avvenire.it. 3 December 2020.
  12. ^ a b c d "La storia - 1939-2019: 80 anni dell'Università LUMSA" [History - 1939-2019: 80 years of LUMSA University]. 80.lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Awarding of the honorary master's degree to Senator Liliana Segre". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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