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Regis College

Established	1927
Type:	Private
Endowment:	US$11 million (2007)^[1]
President:	Mary Jane England
Faculty:	50 full-time, 60 part-time
Undergraduates:	843
Postgraduates:	460
Location	Weston, MA, USA
Campus:	Suburban, 130 acres
Athletics:	13 varsity teams
Colors:	Red and Gold
Website:	www.regiscollege.edu

Regis College is a fully accredited, small, private, Roman Catholic liberal arts and sciences college located in Weston, Massachusetts. Regis College has more than 10,000 graduates worldwide with alumnae in over forty countries around the world. Traditionally a women’s college, Regis became a co-ed institution in 2007. It was the last Roman Catholic women’s undergraduate college in the Boston area. The graduate and adult programs have been co-ed for many years. Regis College takes its name from Reverend Mother Mary Regis Casserly, who established the Sisters of St. Joseph in Boston in 1873.

1 Establishment
2 Majors and Programs
3 Enrollment
4 Faculty
5 Residence Life
6 Future Plans
7 Co-Education Issues
8 External links
9 References

Establishment

Regis College was founded in 1927 by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston when they purchased the 130-acre (53 ha) suburban campus, the Morrison estate, from Fannie Edson Demmon Morrison. It was the first residential Catholic college for women in the Boston area. For a time, Regis also managed a satellite campus in Manchester, NH, which housed the master’s program in pastoral ministry. However, it was closed in May 2004.

Majors and Programs

The college grants associate, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees, as well as post-master’s nursing certificates. In January 2007, Regis also began offering a doctorate in nursing practice. Regis offers undergraduate degrees in biochemistry, biology, chemistry and physics, communication, computer science, economics, education, English, graphics and art, history, management, mathematics, museum studies, music, nursing, physical education, political science, psychology, religious studies and philosophy, social work, sociology, Spanish, theatre, and women's studies. Regis offers graduate programs in education, communication, management and leadership, health product regulation, public administration, and nursing. Regis College has a cross-registration agreement with nearby Babson College, Bentley College, and Boston College, which permits undergraduate juniors and seniors from one campus to register for courses on an affiliate campus. Regis also provides students an opportunity to study abroad, if desired, at designated affiliate colleges or universities. Currently, Regis is affiliated with Regent College in the United Kingdom, the University of Cork in Ireland, and Notre Dame Women’s College in Kyoto, Japan. Regis offers students an opportunity to study in Washington, D.C., through American University’s Washington Semester program. Regis College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have established a cooperative dual-degree program in which a Regis College student can receive an AB from Regis College and a BS (or MS) from WPI after 5½ years of study. Students must complete the first three years of study at Regis College and the last 2½ years of study at WPI. The Sisters of Saint Joseph College Consortium Student Exchange Program offers students the opportunity to study for a semester or a year at a Sisters of Saint Joseph consortium school:

Regis College also offers an internship program to provide students with professional experience in fields of study and interest throughout the Boston area and across the U.S. In some instances, students will also be able to participate in internships abroad.

Enrollment

There are currently more than 1,300 students enrolled at Regis College.

Full time undergraduate: 621
Part time undergraduate: 222
Full time graduate: 160
Part time graduate: 300

Faculty

The Regis College faculty consists of 50 full-time members and approximately 60 part-time members. Eighty-four percent of the full-time faculty hold terminal degrees. Small class sizes and a low student-faculty ratio (10:1) enable each student to receive personal attention, support, and academic advice.

Residence Life

Regis College has four residence halls: Angela Hall, Maria Hall, Domitilla Hall, and College Hall. On-campus housing is guaranteed by Regis for all students. Domitilla Hall is home to students who commute to the The New England Institute of Art. Alumnae houses the main dining hall, the Commuters’ Lounge, Tower Tavern, WRGS (the Regis College radio station), the bookstore, the post office, several lounge areas for meetings, lectures, and events. The Regis College Library offers a vast collection of books, periodicals, microforms, indexes, online databases, and more. Students can use the online library computer catalogs and systems to access nearly 475,000 volumes and 2,600 periodical subscriptions owned by the WEBnet Consortium libraries of Babson College, Bentley College, Olin College, Pine Manor College, and Regis College. The Fine Arts Center is comprised of classrooms for the study of music, art history, and theater. The Eleanor Welch Casey Theatre is also located here, and is where Regis theater students regularly host productions. The Carney Art Gallery is the central art exhibition space where artwork by faculty members, alumnae, and local artists is displayed nearly all year.

Future Plans

Regis plans to build a 362-unit multigenerational living and learning community on 60 acres it owns on its existing campus, referred to as the “East Campus”. The primary focus will be a mid-rise elder residential service center. It will have small footprint to preserve surrounding park land for recreational activity and minimize the suburban sprawl. The project is designed to meet elder residential and long-term care to area seniors as well as provide “real life” experience to the Regis students enrolled in related programs.

Co-Education Issues

With Regis college's plan to go co-ed for the 2007-2008 year, many issues have arisen that have since not been a problem for the school or general staff. For instance, the Campus Police forces inability to control large groups of either drunk students, or students under the influence of drugs. The RD (Resident Director) and RA (Resident Assistant) inability to control the flow of students in and out of the various dormitories. Not to mention the social of male/female interaction previously not presents. First, the Campus Police Force is an experienced one, although in capable of handling the large groups of students during school hosted events, especially events that involve the invitation of guests from the outside. The Campus Police force is just not numerous enough to handle the large flow of students and guests that convene. Large groups tend to develop when Large School hosted events takes place, where "guests" are allowed to be brought in from the outside world, although students are required to "register" these guests, most of the time it is not well enforced, and as a result most of these guests turn into vagrants, or otherwise trouble makers that introduce alcohol or drugs to the event. The reason that this is normally overlooked is because of the schools economic problems, and so most staff regulating the event overlook "unregistered" guests merely because it means more funds in there pockets. Only to find that these vagrants create the problem of introducing usually drugs and in some cases alcohol to the event. Not to mention that when the event ends that it normally ends outside and into the parking lot, and this is when the Campus Police are unable to control the event, because the large group, who of which a portion are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and so turns into a mob, which normally results into the assistance from the local police force to disperse the mob of drunk or "high" people, whether it be back to there respective homes or dormitories. Although what normally happens is that some of the vagrants, normally the ones that have come to the party looking for sex, or to sell drugs, end up going to one of the dorms, normally the dorm "Angela" since they host both male and female students. (Female students on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th floors and male students on the 3rd floor). Normally Campus police procedure at this point is to regulate the mob outside, these vagrants are able to sneak into the building, assuming the roles of male students that live at the dormitory, and since the Desk Duty assistants are not trained to check the ID's of everyone entering the building, the vagrants are essentially able to roam free around the building, and since the Campus Police force is under-manned it can take hours before they can respond to the vagrants that have migrated to the dorms. This is a very hostile arena, because the vagrants are normally selling drugs from the inner city or are looking for sex, and with the large female population, it opens up the possibility for rape, assault, and possibly murder or hospitalizing someone. Also the RD and RA staff is essentially just not trained to deal with these amounts of students in these close of quarters. Not to mention that when something negative (such as a party with a large amount of alcohol present, which is brought in normally illegally) happens, normally something is done at that point to possible prevent future occurrences, rather than establishing plans and edicts ahead of time from allowing it to happen in the first place. Although I would agree that with the introduction of male students, all of which were accepted to the college solely on the fact that they are male, is the result of at least 50% of all dormitory related violations. Since many male students are above the age of 21, and resulting from the campus being a "wet" one (meaning that the campus students are allowed to have alcohol as long as both roommates are 21 or above), the use of alcohol among the male and female students is at an all time high.