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University of Tulsa
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| Motto: | Wisdom, Faith, Service |
| Established | 1894 |
| Type: | Private |
| Religious affiliation: | Presbyterian |
| Endowment: | $1.3 billion (February 2007) |
| President: | Dr. Steadman Upham |
| Staff: | 306 (full-time) |
| Students: | 4,165 |
| Undergraduates: | 2,987 |
| Postgraduates: | 1178 |
| Location | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Campus: | Urban, 230 acres (930,000 m²) |
| Sports: | Golden Hurricane |
| Colors: | Old Gold, Royal Blue, and Crimson |
| Mascot: | Captain Cane |
| Website: | www.utulsa.edu |
The University of Tulsa is a private, comprehensive university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is currently ranked 91st among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by the Princeton Review. The university is historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA.
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The University of Tulsa was founded in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls in 1882 under the leadership of Alice Mary Robertson, but was re-chartered as the Henry Kendall College in 1894 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Women's Board of Home Missions. In 1907, the college moved to its current site in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A university was formed in 1920 when the college merged with the proposed McFarlin College to become the University of Tulsa.
The University of Tulsa is noted for having one of the world's premier programs in petroleum engineering, and has distinguished programs in English, computer science, natural sciences, Clinical and I/O Psychology, and several engineering disciplines. The university also maintains a school of law[1], which is one of the few to specialize in Native American legal issues. The University of Tulsa College of Law Review[2] ranks in the top 15% of most cited legal periodicals as ranked by Washington and Lee University.[3]
Currently, there are six colleges, programs, and departments at the University of Tulsa:
- Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences
- College of Business Administration
- College of Engineering and Natural Sciences
- College of Law
- Graduate School
- Division of Continuing Education
In 2008, Tulsa was ranked ninth in "Quality of Life" by the Princeton Review's "The Best 366 Colleges" guide. The University of Tulsa also placed sixth among all colleges for "Happiest Students," was ranked eleventh in the "Lots of Class/Race Interaction" category, and in "Town-Gown Relations" Tulsa was ranked fifth in the country. In the 2006 edition, the university was described as follows: “The University of Tulsa is one of the sleeper gems of the Great Plains, a private school large enough to house numerous top-flight programs but small enough to facilitate one-on-one instruction provided in a homey atmosphere.”
TU is one of 150 colleges to be included in the inaugural edition of “Colleges of Distinction” and is also included in "The Unofficial Biased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges, 2005 edition." Cosmo Girl magazine named TU one of the top 50 schools in the country for women in its October 2004 edition. U.S. News and World Report also ranks TU as a top 100 national university.
The campus of the University of Tulsa centers on a wide, grassy, quad-like space known as "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.
At the top of The U sits one of the campus' most notable landmarks, the McFarlin Library, which is named after Robert and Ida McFarlin, the library's primary benefactors. Ground breaking ceremonies took place on May 3, 1929 and the edifice was dedicated on June 1, 1930. The library continued to grow over the years and had added two five-story additions by 1979. Currently, the library houses over three million items, and is noted for its excellent collections of twentieth-century British, Irish, and American literature, including the world's second largest collection of works by James Joyce. It also is home of the papers of Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul. The library also houses a vast collection of books on Native American history. In 2005, the library celebrated its 75th anniversary.
The original chapel of the university was housed in the now-demolished Kendall Hall (the existing Kendall Hall is a different building). This arrangement lasted until November 27, 1959, when Sharp Chapel was completed as one of the final buildings to be constructed on The U. It is named for its principal donors, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Sharp. Today, the main sanctuary, which is flanked by beautiful and distinctive French stained glass windows, is used not only as a place of worship, but has become a much sought-after spot for the weddings of students and alumni.
In the spring of 2004, additions to Sharp Chapel were opened. These include The Westminster Room (for Westminster Society members), an atrium, kitchen, administrative offices on a second floor, as well as a second floor conference room, complete with an elevator to travel from floor to floor. These elements combine to make Sharp Chapel one of the most architecturally beautiful and elegant buildings on the campus.
On-campus housing consists of six residence halls and several university-owned apartment buildings.
Residence halls:
- John Mabee Hall - All male residence hall located at the Northwest end of the U. It is known on-campus as "The John".
- Lottie Jane Mabee Hall - All female residence hall located at the Southwest end of the U. It is known on-campus as "The Jane" or "Lottie".
- LaFortune Hall - Coed residence hall close to the athletics areas.
- Twin South - Coed freshman residence hall immediately adjacent to Twin Towers, first opened to students in the fall of 1984.
- Honors House - Coed residence hall on Fraternity Row. It is known on campus as "the Ho-Ho"
- 5th Place House - Coed residence hall behind the Center for Global Education. It is an alternative living environment, formerly known as the CHOICE house.
There are 5 IFC fraternities and 6 NPC sororities on campus. The back of the sorority houses are considered to be residence halls, however only current members may live in the houses.
Fraternities:
Sororities:
There are also the historically black sororities and fraternities on campus that fall under the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Currently, there are five active organizations:
Sororities:
Fraternities:
Tulsa's sports teams are called the Golden Hurricane, and participate in the NCAA's Division I-A Conference USA. Tulsa's current athletic director is Bubba Cunningham. The Tulsa teams are supported by The Sound of the Golden Hurricane marching band.
Tulsa has the smallest undergraduate enrollment of all schools that participate in NCAA Bowl Sub-Division football. The football team is coached by Todd Graham. Graham replaced Steve Kragthorpe, who led the team to three bowl games in four seasons before accepting the head coaching job at the University of Louisville after the 2006-7 season. Graham, a former Tulsa defensive coordinator, returned to the team after serving as the head coach at Rice University for one season. Graham is largely credited with the Owls' first bowl appearance since 1961.
Tulsa defeated University of Central Florida 44-27 in Conference USA's inaugural championship game on December 3, 2005. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane also defeated the Fresno State Bulldogs 31-24 on December 31, 2005, at the Autozone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee. This win brought their first bowl victory in 15 years. In 2006, the team went to the inaugural Armed Forces Bowl, but lost to the Utah Utes, 25-13. On October 15, 2006, Tulsa earned its first ranking in the BCS, breaking in at No. 25. This marked TU's first ranking since the end of the 1991 season, when it was ranked No. 21 in both the AP and the USA Today polls.
Notable in Tulsa football tradition are the Missouri Valley Conference teams of 1964 & 1965 which compiled records of 9-2 & 8-3 & played in the Bluebonnet Bowl of both years; the passing attack famously featured Jerry Rhome to Howard Twilley, both of whom achieved lengthy careers in professional football; Rhome polled 2nd in the 1964 Heisman Trophy; Rhome & Twilley are in the College Football Hall of Fame. The 1952 Missouri Valley Conference team with its 8-2-1 record climbed to 11th in the AP Poll & was invited to the Gator Bowl, then 1 of only 5 post-season bowl games, although not one of the 4 major ones. Steve Largent was another talented Tulsa receiver who graduated to a long NFL career (1976-1989 Seattle), was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame because of numerous enduring records as a receiver, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1994-2002, and then ran as one of the two major candidates for governor of Oklahoma in 2002.
Tulsa also was handed one the worst defeats in college football history when they were beaten by Houston 100-6 in 1968. TV personality Dr. Phil was the Middle Linebacker for the team during this loss.
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane basketball program has had a history of success, including NIT championships in 1981 and 2001, an Elite Eight appearance in 2000, three Sweet Sixteen appearances, and 14 trips to the Big Dance. Tulsa is also known for developing many coaches who have gone on to great success in the NCAA, including Minnesota's Tubby Smith, who won a national championship while he coached at the University of Kentucky, Kansas' Bill Self, and one of Arkansas' most notable former coaches, Nolan Richardson, who is the only head coach to win the NJCAA tournament (with Western Texas Junior College), the NIT (with Tulsa), and the NCAA tournament (with Arkansas). The current men's basketball head coach is Doug Wojcik.
In 2006, the Tulsa women's basketball team earned its first appearance in the NCAA tournament by winning Conference USA's regular-season and tournament championships. The Golden Hurricane's accomplishment came after back-to-back 19-win seasons and WNIT appearances.
The Tulsa Men's Soccer team has had a strong program for the past few years. In the 2004 season it made it to the elite-eight in the NCAA national tournament, and has been consistently ranked in the top 25 in the country. The head coach is Tom McIntosh, a prominent figure in Tulsa soccer for over 20 years. The team plays in the Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium, as does the track team.
In the 2005-2006 season showed that Hurricane women's teams were on the rise. In addition to success in women's basketball, the 2006 season also saw the Golden Hurricane secure a Conference USA championship in women's softball.
The Men's Tennis team has also had recent success, including the 2006 Conference USA championship and a first-round victory in the NCAA tournament. Tulsa's top-ranked player Arnau Brugues also advanced to the round of sixteen in the NCAA Singles tournament. The University of Tulsa also boasts one of the nation's top tennis facilities, the Michael D. Case Tennis Center, which was host to the 2004 NCAA tennis championships and will host them again in 2008.
Since 1994, Tulsa's mascot has been Captain Cane, an anthropomorphized golden hurricane with human attributes such as biceps, clothes, and a perpetual smirk. From 1978 to 1994, the mascot was Huffy.
University of Tulsa sports teams had been known by many different names in the past such as the Kendallites, Presbyterians, Tigers, and the Tulsans. In 1922, Howard Archer, the newly-hired football coach, wanted to use new uniforms to garner publicity for then-named Tulsa "Yellow Jackets." One day, he overheard someone during practice announce that the team would be "roaring through opponents." As the new uniforms were yellow, Archer quickly seized upon the name "Golden Tornadoes," but upon hearing that Georgia Tech had already claimed the moniker, he changed it to the now-familiar Golden Hurricane, which was quickly accepted by the team.
The Nimrod Literary Journal is published at the University.
The school's colors are Old Gold, Royal Blue, and Crimson.
In 2003, Tulsa joined the efforts of Brown University on the Modernist Journals Project, an online archive of early twentieth-century periodicals. Tulsa has contributed various modernist texts from McFarlin Library’s Special Collections to the project's website.
Dr. Sean Latham, editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, brought the 2003 North American James Joyce Conference to the University of Tulsa.
The University of Tulsa Collegian is the independent and student-run newspaper on campus.
TU also hosts several meetings of the Tulsa Computer Society, including the Linux SIG.
The university's motto used to read, in full, "Faith, Wisdom, Service: For Christ, For State."
Tulsa's faculty includes the famous Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and renowned dramatic soprano Linda Roark-Strummer.
- Gail Farrell (BA, 1969) - Singer
- P. S. (Patrick) Gordon (BFA, 1974) - Painter
- S. E. (Susan Eloise) Hinton (BS, 1970) - Author
- Daniel Lang (BFA, 1953) - Painter
- Bob Losure (BA, Broadcast Journalism, 1969) - Former CNN Headline News anchor and author
- Tami Marler (BSBA, 1990; MBA, 1992) - Television news anchor, and former Miss Oklahoma
- Rue McClanahan (German and Theater Arts, 1956) - Actress
- Phillip McGraw, a.k.a. Dr. Phil (attended 1968?-1969?) - TV personality and psychologist
- Mary Kay Place (BA, Speech, 1969) - Actress and singer
- Linda Roark-Strummer (BME, Vocal Music Education, ?) - Operatic Soprano
- Carly Rush (BA, Broadcast Journalism, 1989) Radio Personality, KHTT-FM in Tulsa
- Gailard Sartain (BFA, 1969) - Actor
- Wade Williams (BA, Theatrical Studies, ?) - Actor
- Mike Anderson (1982) - Former UAB and current Missouri Basketball Coach
- Dennis Byrd - Professional football player New York Jets
- Jim Finks - Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Gus Frerotte (1994) - Professional football player
- Todd Hays (BA, Physical Education, 1992?) - Olympic silver medalist in bobsled
- Carin Koch, Professional golfer on the LPGA Tour
- Steve Largent (1975) - Seattle Seahawks receiver, Pro Football Hall of Famer, former U.S. Congressman
- Nancy Lopez (attended 1974-1977) - Professional golfer
- Garrett Mills (2006) - Tight End/Fullback for the New England Patriots
- Barry Minter - Former Chicago Bears linebacker
- Jerry Ostroski - Former Buffalo Bills offensive lineman
- Chris Penn - Former San Diego Chargers Wide Receiver
- Drew Pearson (BS, Recreation Administration, 1973) - Sportscaster and former Dallas Cowboys football player
- Stacy Prammanasudh (BS, Exercise & Sports Science, 2002) - Professional golfer on the LPGA Tour
- Paul Pressey - Former Milwaukee Bucks player, unofficially the first NBA point forward
- Dave Rader (BS Mechanical Engineering, 1975-1980) - Former college and professional football player, Head Football Coach of the University of Tulsa from 1988-1999, and current Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at the University of Alabama
- Ray Rhodes, former NFL head coach
- Steve Rogers - Former Montreal Expos starting pitcher
- Michael Ruffin - Professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards
- Tracy Scroggins - Former Detroit Lions linebacker
- Lovie Smith - Head Coach, Chicago Bears
- Howard Twilley (1965)- Former Wide Receiver Miami Dolphins 1966-76
- Kaye Vaughan - Hall-of-Fame football player, Canadian Football League
- Drew Edmondson (JD, 1978) - Oklahoma Attorney General
- David Hall, former Oklahoma Governor
- Jim Inhofe (BS, Economics, 1973) - U.S. Senator (R-Oklahoma), former Mayor of Tulsa
- Bill LaFortune (JD, 1983) - Former Mayor of Tulsa
- Steve Largent (BS, Biology, 1975) - Former U.S. Congressman (R-Tulsa) and Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Robert E. Lavender (JD. 1953) - Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice
- Daniel Sullivan (JD, 1988) - Oklahoma State Representative (R-Tulsa)
- Kathy Taylor (JD, ?) - Current Mayor of Tulsa
- Tareq Al-Suwaidan (PhD, Petroleum Engineering, 1990) - Renowned Muslim scholar, reformer, TV personality and management expert.
- Gordon Matthews (BS, Engineering Physics, 1959) - Pioneer of voicemail technology
- http://www.utulsa.edu/ Official university site
- http://tulsahurricane.collegesports.com/ Official athletics site
- http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/ Official independent newspaper of TU
- http://www.utulsa.edu/sa/ TU Student Government Website
- http://www.utulsa.edu/alumni/honors/da/ University Distinguished Alumni Award winners
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