University of Tulsa

Private university in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US

The University of Tulsa

Former names

| Presbyterian School for Indian Girls (1882–1894)
Henry Kendall College (1894–1920)
Motto| "Wisdom, Faith, Service"
Type| Private research university
Established| 1894; 131 years ago (1894)
Accreditation| HLC

Religious affiliation

| Nondenominational, historically Presbyterian Church (USA)

Academic affiliations

* APCU
* NAICU[1]
* ORAU

Endowment| $1.36 billion (2021)[2]
President| Rick Dickson[3]

Academic staff

| 306 (full-time)
Students| 3,769[4]
Undergraduates| 2,647
Postgraduates| 1,122
Location|

Tulsa

Oklahoma

United States

36°09′08″N 95°56′47″W﻿ / ﻿36.15222°N 95.94639°W﻿ / 36.15222; -95.94639
Campus| Large city[5], 230 acres (930,000 m2)
Newspaper| The Collegian
Colors| Royal blue, old gold, and crimson[6]

Nickname| Golden Hurricane

Sporting affiliations

| NCAA Division I FBS – The American
Mascot| Gus T.
Website| www.utulsa.edu

The University of Tulsa (TU) is a private research university in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[7] It has a historic affiliation with the Presbyterian Church, although it is now nondenominational, and the campus architectural style is predominantly Collegiate Gothic. The school traces its origin to the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls, which was established in 1882 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, then a town in Indian Territory, and which evolved into an institution of higher education named Henry Kendall College by 1894. The college moved to Tulsa, another town in the Creek Nation in 1904, before the state of Oklahoma was created. In 1920, Kendall College was renamed the University of Tulsa.[8]

The University of Tulsa is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[9] It manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the largest collections of American Western art and indigenous American artifacts in the world.[10] TU also hosts the Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, founded by former TU professor and noted feminist critic Germaine Greer (now at the University of Cambridge).

TU's athletic teams are collectively known as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane and compete in Division I of the NCAA as members of the American Athletic Conference (The American).[11] The University of Tulsa is designated as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in both Information Assurance and Cyber Defense. The McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering is ranked 6th among petroleum engineering graduate schools and 10th among undergraduate PE schools by U.S. News & World report.

## History

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See also: List of presidents of the University of Tulsa

### Frontier Origins

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The Presbyterian School for Indian Girls (also known as "Minerva Home")[12] was founded in Muskogee, Indian Territory, in 1882 to offer a primary education to young women of the Creek Nation.[13]

In 1894, the young school expanded to become Henry Kendall College, named in honor of Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.[14][15] The first president was William A. Caldwell, who served a brief two-year term, which ended in 1896.

Caldwell was succeeded by William Robert King, a Presbyterian minister and co-founder of the college, who had come to Oklahoma from Tennessee, by way of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City (affiliated with Columbia University). Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, granted the first post-secondary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898.[16] Under King, the college was moved from its original location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by Creek Nation Chief Pleasant Porter.

Kendall College students, faculty and administrators were instrumental in efforts to get the State of Sequoyah recognized; they wrote most of the proposed constitution and designed the seal among other things.[17]

The opening of the new campus coincided with the start of the tenure of the third president, A. Grant Evans. Over the next 10 years, Evans oversaw the struggling school's growth. In most years, class sizes remained small and although the academy, the attached elementary, middle, and high school was more successful; by the end of the 1906–07 year Kendall College had had only 27 collegiate graduates. At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees and began to look at alternatives for the future of the school. When the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate.[14][15][18][19]

### Relocation to Tulsa

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The Tulsa Commercial Club (a forerunner of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce) decided to bid for the college. Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included: B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall (sic), Grant C. Stebbins, Rev. Charles W. Kerr, C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000, 20 acres of real estate, and a guarantee for utilities and street car service.[20]

The college opened to 35 students in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma became a state. These first students attended classes at the First Presbyterian Church until permanent buildings could be erected on the new campus. This became the start of higher education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was completed in 1908[14][15][18] and was quickly followed by two other buildings. All three buildings have since been demolished, with Kendall the last to be razed in 1972.[21] The bell that once hung in the Kendall Building tower was saved and displayed in Bayless Plaza.

The Kendall College presidents during 1907–1919 were Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.[22]

In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed building a college in Tulsa, using money donated by a Tulsa oilman Robert M. McFarlin. The proposed college was to be named McFarlin College. However, it was soon apparent that Tulsa could not yet support two competing schools. In 1920, Henry Kendall College merged with the proposed McFarlin College to become the University of Tulsa. The McFarlin Library of TU was named for the principal donor of the proposed college. The name of Henry Kendall has lived on to the present as the Kendall College of Arts and Sciences.

### 20th century

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The University of Tulsa opened its School of Petroleum Engineering in 1928.[23]

The Great Depression hit the university hard. By 1935, the school was about to close because of its poor financial condition. It had a debt of $250,000, enrollment had fallen to 300 students (including many who could not pay their tuition), the faculty was poorly paid and morale was low. It was then that the oil tycoon and TU-patron Waite Phillips offered the school presidency to Clarence Isaiah ("Cy") Pontius, a former investment banker. His primary focus would be to rescue the school's finances. A dean's council would take charge of academic issues.[24]

However, Pontius' accomplishments went beyond raising money. During his tenure, the following events occurred:

* In 1935, the university opened the College of Business Administration, which it renamed the Collins College of Business in 2008.[23]
* The Tulsa Law School, located in downtown Tulsa, became part of the university in 1943.[23]
* In 1948, oil magnate William G. Skelly donated funds to found the university radio station, KWGS (named for his initials), now known as Public Radio Tulsa.

Skelly House, one-time official residence for the president of the University of Tulsa

After William G. Skelly died, his widow donated the Skelly Mansion, at the corner of 21st Street and Madison Avenue, to the University of Tulsa. The school sold the mansion and its furnishings to private owners in 1959. On July 5, 2012, the university announced that it would repurchase the house as a residence for its president. TU sold the property in 2021.

In 1958, Ben Graf Henneke, a scholar of theater and communications, became the first alumnus to hold the presidency of the University of Tulsa. During his tenure, the university established new doctoral programs, increased the proportion of faculty with doctorates, started new publications including Petroleum Abstracts and the James Joyce Quarterly, developed a North Campus center for petroleum engineering research, and expanded many main campus facilities. He was succeeded by Eugene L. Swearingen, a Stanford University-trained economist and Oklahoma native who served on the National Finance Committee for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign.[25] Swearingen increased TU's endowment and expanded the footprint of its campus.

### 21st century

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In 2004, anthropologist Steadman Upham joined the University of Tulsa as president, having served in faculty and leadership positions at the University of Oregon and Arizona State University. Within five years of his arrival, TU saw 13 major construction projects and renovations on campus, ranging from the construction of the Roxana Rozsa and Robert Eugene Lorton Performance Center to the overhaul of Keplinger Hall, and plans for seven more major projects finalized (despite the nationwide recession).

The university also launched the Oxley College of Health Sciences, in downtown Tulsa, named in recognition of a major gift from Tulsa's Oxley Foundation.[26] In 2023, the unit was renamed the Oxley College of Health & Natural Sciences. The university also partnered with the George Kaiser Family Foundation to temporarily house The Bob Dylan Archive at TU in 2016. Under Upham's leadership, the University of Tulsa assumed management of the famous Gilcrease Museum in northwest Tulsa.

In 2016, President Upham retired and was succeeded by Gerard Clancy, who previously served as a psychiatry professor and held leadership positions at the University of Iowa and the University of Oklahoma. About two and a half years into his presidency, in the spring of 2019, President Clancy and Provost Janet K. Levit announced a restructuring of academic programs at the university that would eliminate several academic programs. The plan was met with resistance from some faculty who believed it was formulated without adequate input from faculty. Although faculty members voted "no confidence" in the president and provost in November, the university's board of trustees publicly affirmed their support of the plan.[27]

In January 2020, President Clancy informed the board that he needed to cut back on his activities because of unspecified medical issues. The board named Provost Levit as interim president of the school, effective in January 2020.[a]

Former Congressman Brad R. Carson became president of the University of Tulsa on July 1, 2021.

## Academics

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The University of Tulsa offers liberal arts, music, film, and professional programs, including engineering, English, computer science, natural sciences, social sciences, health sciences, business, law, and other disciplines.[28]

The university has an undergraduate research program, evidenced by 45 students receiving Goldwater Scholarships since 1995.[29] The Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) allows undergraduates to conduct advanced research with the guidance of top TU professors.[30]

### Rankings

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Academic rankings

National
Forbes[31]| 307
U.S. News & World Report[32]| 179
Washington Monthly[33]| 365
WSJ/College Pulse[34]| 240
Global
QS[35]| 701–750
THE[36]| 501–600
U.S. News & World Report[37]| 1291
USNWR graduate school rankings[38] Petroleum Engineering  | 6

|

Law  | 120
USNWR departmental rankings[38] Clinical Psychology  | 146

|

Computer Science  | 176
English  | 113
Psychology  | 194
Speech–Language Pathology  | 159

U.S. News & World Report's 2025 edition of "Best Colleges" ranked the University of Tulsa tied for 179th among "national universities" and tied at 90th for "Best Value".[39]

### Scholarship and fellowship recipients

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TU students have won 67 Goldwater Scholarships, 5 Marshall Scholarships, 3 Rhodes Scholarships (9 Rhodes finalists), 28 Fulbright Scholarships, and numerous Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and Morris K. Udall Fellowships.[40]

## Campus

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The campus of the University of Tulsa centers on a wide, grassy, quad-like space known as Dietler Commons, formerly called "The U." The predominant architectural style is English Gothic. Most of the buildings are constructed from tan and rose-colored Crab Orchard sandstone from Tennessee interspersed with stone quarried in Arkansas. Other materials include Bedford limestone from Indiana and slate quarried in Vermont. The university's campus borders Tulsa's Kendall Whittier neighborhood and is not far from Tulsa's downtown and midtown neighborhoods. The campus, in particular its football venue Skelly Field, is located on the historic U.S. 66, America's "Mother Road" stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles.

The University of Tulsa, viewed from South Delaware Avenue

### Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium

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Chapman Stadium

Tulsa Golden Hurricane football has played home games at Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium since 1930.

### Museums and libraries

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See also: Gilcrease Museum

McFarlin Library

McFarlin Library: Resources and Notable Collections

The library's Department of Special Collections and University Archives houses over 12 million archival items and has over 1,000 collections on a wide-ranging array of topics including 20th-century British, Irish, and American literature, which includes the world's second-largest collection of materials by James Joyce. It also houses the papers of Nobel Prize winners V.S. Naipaul and Doris Lessing, as well as novelists and poets Jean Rhys, Eliot Bliss, David Plante, Anna Kavan, and Stevie Smith, just to name a few. In addition to these famous novelists, McFarlin Library houses the papers of Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson, literary critic Richard Ellmann, comic book innovator E. Nelson Bridwell, Cherokee Principal Chief J.B. Milam, and writer/sexologist Edward Charles, among others. The Department of Special Collections also contains a vast collection of books on Native American history.[41]

### Partnership with Gilcrease Museum

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In July 2008, the University of Tulsa took over management of Gilcrease Museum in a public-private partnership with the City of Tulsa. The museum has one of the largest collections of American Western art in the world (including famous works by Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, and others) and houses growing collections of artifacts from Central and South America. The museum sits on 460 acres (1.9 km2) in northwest Tulsa.[42]

### The Bob Dylan Archive

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The Bob Dylan Archive is a collection of documents and objects relating to iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (whose mentor was Oklahoman Woody Guthrie). It was announced on March 2, 2016, that the archive had been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) and the University of Tulsa. The university has since relinquished ownership to GKFF.[43]

## Student body and student life

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Student body composition as of May 2, 2022  Race and ethnicity[44] | Total

|

White | 53%  | 53

Other[b] | 12%  | 12

Hispanic | 9%  | 9

Foreign national | 9%  | 9

Black | 7%  | 7

Asian | 6%  | 6

Native American | 3%  | 3

Economic diversity
Low-income[c] | 26%  | 26

Affluent[d] | 74%  | 74

Students at the University of Tulsa represent 47 states and over 79 foreign countries, of which 58% are Oklahoma residents.[45] Among the most common countries of origin for TU international students are China, Iran, Azerbaijan, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.[46]

The University of Tulsa is home to more than 150 student organizations, registered with and partially funded by the Student Government Association.

### Diversity and campus life

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Several groups exist to support diversity on the University of Tulsa campus. There are at least 25 campus organizations existing to support and sustain a diverse campus community.[47] In addition, TU hosts the Chevron Multicultural Resource Center, funded by a gift from the energy company, which hosts events and programming to promote diversity on campus.

Although TU has historic ties to the Presbyterian Church, the university has long embraced religious diversity. In 2002, TU was home to the first mosque built on an American university campus.[48][49] TU also hosts a chapter of Hillel International, an organization to support Jewish life on campus.[50] The university also hosts several organizations reflecting different streams of Christian spiritual practice, including Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox.[51]

### 2015 student speech controversy

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In February 2015, after the University of Tulsa suspended a student under its zero-tolerance policy for harassment for threatening and defamatory Facebook postings by his fiancée against multiple faculty members and a female student, administrators attempted to discourage the campus newspaper from publishing information the university deemed "confidential".[52] The controversy was picked up by two websites that claimed the administration used "threats" and "intimidation" to "cover up" their handling of the disciplinary issue.[53][54] In January 2016, the former student filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming his dismissal was unfair and was a breach of the institution's commitment to due process.[55] The incident earned the university a spot on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) 2016 "10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech".[56] By 2023, however, the University of Tulsa had received a "green light" rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in recognition of the university's commitment to free speech.[57]

## Athletics

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Main article: Tulsa Golden Hurricane

Tulsa's sports teams participate in NCAA Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American); its football team is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Tulsa has the smallest undergraduate enrollment of any FBS school.[58] TU has had a rivalry with both Rice University and the University of Houston. It also has two current rivalries with D-I schools that do not sponsor football—an in-conference rivalry with Wichita State University, especially in men's basketball, and a crosstown rivalry, most prominently in basketball, with Summit League member Oral Roberts University.

The university's nickname is the Golden Hurricane (it was originally the Golden Tornadoes). The Sound of the Golden Hurricane marching band plays at all home football and basketball games as well as traveling to championships in support of the Golden Hurricane. Tulsa has won six national championships (three NCAA): four in women's golf and two in men's basketball. The University of Tulsa currently fields a varsity team in seven men's sports and ten women's sports.[11]

## Symbols

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The school's colors are old gold (PMS 7502), royal blue (PMS 661C), and crimson (PMS 186).[59]

The university's original motto was, in full: "Faith, Wisdom, Service: For Christ, For State."

## Media

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The University of Tulsa Collegian is the long-standing independent and student-run newspaper on campus.

The following scholarly journals are published by the university:

* Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry
* James Joyce Quarterly
* Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
* Energy Law Journal
* Tulsa Law Review

In 2003 Tulsa joined the efforts of Brown University on the Modernist Journals Project, an online archive of early 20th-century periodicals. Tulsa has contributed various modernist texts from McFarlin Library's Special Collections to the project's website.

Sean Latham, then-editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, brought the 2003 North American James Joyce Conference to the University of Tulsa.

The university is the owner of the Tulsa region’s National Public Radio station, KWGS, as well as KWTU, which airs a classical music format.

## Notable people

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Main articles: List of University of Tulsa people and List of presidents of the University of Tulsa

TU students have won 67 Goldwater Scholarships, 5 Marshall Scholarships, 3 Rhodes Scholarships (9 Rhodes finalists), 28 Fulbright Scholarships, and numerous Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and Morris K. Udall Fellowships.[60]

### Alumni

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Steve Largent

The University of Tulsa counts a number of distinguished individuals among its alumni, including current Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, New York School poet Ted Berrigan, The Outsiders author S.E. Hinton, voicemail inventor Gordon Matthews, Golden Girls actress Rue McClanahan, actor Peter McRobbie, roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson, radio legend Paul Harvey, Kuwaiti Petroleum Company CEO Hani Abdulaziz Al Hussein, TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw (who played football for TU but did not graduate), Cherokee Nation Chief Chad "Corntassel" Smith, botanist and ecologist Harriet George Barclay, U.S. Congressman and Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Steve Largent, NBA basketball player Steve Bracey, and Brazilian billionaire businessman Ermirio Pereira de Moraes; HE Suhail Al Mazroui, Minister of Energy & Industry for the United Arab Emirates,[61] member of the Supreme Petroleum Council, and sits on the executive committee and other sections of Mubadala Investment Company.

### Faculty

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Several notable individuals have served on the University of Tulsa's faculty over the years. Current notable faculty members include psychologist Robert Hogan, political scientist Robert Donaldson, Catholic philosopher F. Russell Hittinger, computer scientist Sujeet Shenoi,[62] and former U.S. Congressman Brad Carson. Noted artist Adah Robinson was the founder and first chairperson of the university's Department of Art.[63] Several renowned literary figures and critics have served on Tulsa's faculty, including feminist pioneer Germaine Greer, Booker-prize winning novelist Paul Scott, author and critic Darcy O'Brien, and the famous Russian poet and dissident intellectual Yevgeny Yevtushenko until he died in 2017. Other notable former faculty members include legal scholars Paul Finkelman and Larry Catá Backer, psychologist Brent Roberts, painter Alexandre Hogue, Catholic Bishop Daniel Henry Mueggenborg, and others.

## Notes

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1. ^ Levit thus became the first woman to lead the school in its history.
2. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
3. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
4. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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## External links

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* Official website
* Tulsa Golden Hurricane Athletics website

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University of Tulsa

Located in: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Academics|

* College of Law
* University School

Campus buildings|

* Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium
* Reynolds Center
* Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium
* Michael D. Case Tennis Center

Athletics|

* Baseball
* Football
* Men's basketball
* Women's basketball
* Men's soccer
* Softball
* Track and field

Student life|

* Sound of the Golden Hurricane
* Collegian
* Nimrod International Journal
* James Joyce Quarterly
* Captain Cane

* Founded: 1894

Links to related articles

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* e

Colleges and universities in Oklahoma

Public institutions|

| The University of Oklahoma system|

* Cameron University
* Rogers State University
* University of Oklahoma

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Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical Colleges system|

* Connors State College
* Langston University
* Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College
* Oklahoma Panhandle State University
* Oklahoma State University–Stillwater

Regional University System of Oklahoma|

* University of Central Oklahoma
* East Central University
* Northeastern State University
* Northwestern Oklahoma State University
* Southeastern Oklahoma State University
* Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Independent|

* University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Private institutions|

* Bacone College
* Randall University
* Mid-America Christian University
* Oklahoma Baptist University
* Oklahoma Christian University
* Oklahoma City University
* Oklahoma Wesleyan University
* Oral Roberts University
* Phillips Theological Seminary
* St. Gregory's University
* Southern Nazarene University
* Southwestern Christian University
* Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
* University of Tulsa

Community colleges|

* Carl Albert State College
* Eastern Oklahoma State College
* Murray State College
* Northern Oklahoma College
* Oklahoma City Community College
* Redlands Community College
* Rose State College
* Seminole State College
* Tulsa Community College
* Western Oklahoma State College

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American Conference

Full members|

* Charlotte 49ers
* East Carolina Pirates
* Florida Atlantic Owls
* Memphis Tigers
* North Texas Mean Green
* Rice Owls
* South Florida Bulls
* Temple Owls
* Tulane Green Wave
* Tulsa Golden Hurricane
* UAB Blazers
* UTSA Roadrunners
* Wichita State Shockers5

Associate members|

* Army Black Knights1
* Navy Midshipmen1
* James Madison Dukes2 4
* Old Dominion Monarchs2
* Vanderbilt Commodores2
* FIU Panthers3 4
* Missouri State Bears3
* Liberty Lady Flames4
* Marshall Thundering Herd4

Championships|

* Conference champions

Media|

* American Digital Network

See also|

* 2010–2013 Big East Conference realignment
* 2021–2026 NCAA conference realignment

* 1football
* 2women's lacrosse
* 3men's soccer
* 4women's swimming
* 5non-football member

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Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities

* Agnes Scott
* Alma
* Arcadia
* Austin
* Barber-Scotia
* Belhaven
* Blackburn
* Buena Vista
* Carroll
* Centre
* Coe
* College of Idaho
* College of the Ozarks
* College of Wooster
* Davidson
* Davis and Elkins
* Dubuque
* Eckerd
* Grove City
* Hampden–Sydney
* Hannam
* Hanover
* Hastings
* Illinois College
* Inter American
* Jamestown
* Johnson C. Smith
* King
* Lake Forest
* Lees-McRae
* Lindenwood
* Lyon
* Macalester
* Mary Baldwin
* Maryville
* Millikin
* Missouri Valley
* Monmouth
* Muskingum
* Pikeville
* Presbyterian
* University of the Ozarks
* Queens (Charlotte)
* Rhodes
* Rocky Mountain
* Schreiner
* St. Andrews
* Sterling
* Stillman
* Trinity
* Tulsa
* Tusculum
* Warren Wilson
* Waynesburg
* Westminster (Missouri)
* Westminster (Pennsylvania)
* Westminster (Utah)
* Whitworth
* William Peace
* Wilson (Pennsylvania)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Israel

People|

* ISIL: OCLC-OKT

Other|

* IdRef
* Yale LUX

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