Mount St. Joseph University

Catholic university in Delhi Township, Ohio, US

For the high school in Maryland, see Mount Saint Joseph College.

Mount St. Joseph University

Former names

| As college:
College of Mount St. Joseph (1920–2014)
Motto| Deo Duce

Motto in English

| "With God for a leader"
Type| Private university
Established| September 1920; 103 years ago (1920-09)
Affiliation| Roman Catholic

Academic affiliations

| ACCU
GCCCU
CIC
NAICU
Endowment| $58.8 million (2020)[1]
President| H. James Williams

Academic staff

| 123
Undergraduates| 1,889
Postgraduates| 336
Location|

Delhi Township

Ohio

United States

39°05′42″N 84°38′16″W﻿ / ﻿39.0949°N 84.6379°W﻿ / 39.0949; -84.6379
Campus| Suburban, 92 acres (37 ha)
Colors| Blue and gold
Nickname| Lions

Sporting affiliations

| NCAA Division III – HCAC, MCVL, ORLC
Mascot| Lion
Website| www.msj.edu

The Mount St. Joseph University (The Mount) is a private, Roman Catholic university in Delhi, Ohio. It was founded in 1920 by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.

The university enrolls over 1,800 undergraduate students and approximately 300 graduate students. It offers 48 undergraduate programs, nine associate degrees, pre-professional and certificate programs, and graduate programs.

## History[edit]

Mount St. Joseph University was established by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio, a religious congregation that traces its roots to Elizabeth Ann Seton, North America's first canonized saint. The first Sisters of Charity arrived in Cincinnati from Maryland in 1829 and opened St. Peter's Academy, then St. Mary's Academy. By 1853, these schools were replaced by Mount St. Vincent Academy. In 1906 the academy was named Mount St. Joseph after a move to the Mount St. Joseph property in Cincinnati's Delhi Township, owned by the Sisters of Charity.

Mount St. Joseph Academy offered a four-year high school curriculum but also postgraduate study covering two years of college. In 1920, the Ohio Department of Education granted formal approval for a college curriculum. The College of Mount St. Joseph opened the doors to its first 20 students in September 1920 as the first Catholic college for women in Southwestern Ohio – the same year that American women gained the right to vote.

By the 1950s, the Sisters of Charity made plans to develop property at the intersection of Delhi and Neeb Roads into a new campus that opened in fall of 1962. By the 1970s, adult education brought a new population of women and men to campus for degree studies, and by 1986, the college was coeducational. The Sisters of Charity continued to operate the college until 1972 when the Mount was incorporated under a board of trustees. The institution remains a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Charity.

On October 9, 2013, the college announced the change to university status. It would be known as Mount St. Joseph University, effective July 1, 2014.[2] The change in designation reflects the institution's expanding academic offerings, including increasing its number of graduate programs for master's and doctorate degrees, as well as implementing online programs.

## Athletics[edit]

The Mount fields 23 NCAA Division III athletic teams called the Lions, most of which compete in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Men's sports: Baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling and Esports.

* Two men's sports not sponsored by the HCAC have separate affiliations, both in conferences created for the 2014–15 school year. Lacrosse plays in the Ohio River Lacrosse Conference and volleyball plays in the Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League.

Women's sports: Basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball and Esports.

* The HCAC does not sponsor women's lacrosse; that team plays on the women's side of the Ohio River Lacrosse Conference.
* Cheerleading, dance and Esports are university-recognized sports, but are not recognized as official NCAA sports.

### Lauren Hill[edit]

Main articles: Lauren Hill and 2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph women's basketball game

In late 2014, incoming freshman basketball player Lauren Hill was suffering from an inoperable brain tumor and facing the possibility of dying before the end of that year, and wished to play in one college game before her death. The Mount's season opener against Hiram College, originally scheduled for November 15, was moved with NCAA approval to November 2; when the event outgrew the MSJ campus, Xavier University gave MSJ free use of its arena, Cintas Center. In a sold-out game that ended up being nationally televised by Fox College Sports, Hill scored the first and last baskets. The game was the start of a charitable fundraising campaign that, by the time of her death in April 2015, raised over $1.5 million for research into the specific cancer from which Hill was suffering. She went on to play in three more games before her declining health forced her to end her playing career. Hill ultimately died of her brain tumor on April 10, 2015. Since her death, MSJ and Xavier have teamed up for an annual season-opening women's basketball doubleheader, the Lauren Hill Tipoff Classic, at Cintas Center.

## Student publications[edit]

The university's student newspaper, Dateline, is published monthly.

The university's literacy magazine, "Lions-on-line", is published each semester.

The university's student podcast, MountCast, is published weekly.

## Greek life[edit]

The university has one international fraternity on campus, Delta Tau Delta. Chartered on April 28, 2018, the Kappa Eta chapter initiates male students.

in October 2019, the university announced that Theta Phi Alpha would become the first international sorority on campus for women.

## Notable alumni[edit]

* Jarrod Martin, member of Ohio House of Representatives
* Lauren Hill, college basketball player and pediatric cancer advocate
* Jesse Minter, college football coach
* Nancy Noel, artist
* Sarah Moormann Scharper, actress, director, teacher, writer and lecturer
* Wes Sims, mixed martial artist (did not graduate)
* Denise Trauth, president of Texas State University
* Christopher Wilke, composer, musician, and teacher

## Notable faculty[edit]

* Nikki Giovanni
* Paula González
* John Pont
* Louis Terhar

## References[edit]

As of 23 February 2009, this article is derived in whole or in part from official website. The copyright holder has licensed the content in a manner that permits reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed. The original text was at "The Mount"

1. ^ As of June 30, 2020. U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 (Report). National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. February 19, 2021. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
2. ^ Move to U Archived 2014-07-04 at the Wayback Machine

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* Official athletics website

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