Catholic women's college in Washington made a university

Published: 2004-09-15

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Trinity College, a Washington institution for more than a century, was renamed Trinity University Sept. 10, reflecting its growing enrollment and expanded educational programs. "Today we launch a new name and a new identity for Trinity," said Patricia McGuire, the institution's president, who unveiled a large Trinity University sign on the front lawn of the campus. In 1897, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur founded Trinity College in Washington as one of the nation's first liberal arts colleges for women. The undergraduate liberal arts college will keep the name Trinity College and continue as an all-women's school, but the overall institution -- which includes coeducational schools of education and professional studies -- will be called Trinity University. Those two schools offer a range of undergraduate and graduate programs for men and women in the workforce. Trinity now serves 1,700 students. It hopes that number will grow to 2,700 in years to come through an online program that will begin next fall and through its continuing education offerings. Of the 355 degrees it awarded in 2004, 220 were master's degrees.

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