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History, Mission and Organizations
History || Mission
Statement || Goals and Objectives || Core
Values || Faculty || Scholarship ||
Governance || Enrollment ||
Campus || Location
History of the University and
Graduate Education: Marywood Experience
Marywood College was established by the Congregation
of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in
1915. In 1917 the College was incorporated under the laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in 1921 approval of
the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools was
secured. The College expanded to include graduate study in
1921, and the charter was extended on June 26,1922, to
include the Master of Arts degree. In the intervening years,
the College moved to expand graduate degree offerings in
those areas where it had particularly strong resources and
strong mission related needs. In the spring of 1997, the
Pennsylvania Department of Education approved the request to
change Marywood's status from college to university. By
definition, a university is a multi-unit institution with a
complex structure and diverse educational functions
including instruction, promotion of scholarship,
preservation and discovery of knowledge, research and
service. In addition, a university has a broad cultural
basis from which undergraduate and graduate units draw upon
the arts and sciences for basic courses. Currently the
University offers the widest
variety of professional degree programs in the region.
Marywood University Mission
Statement
A Catholic university sponsored by the Congregation of the Sisters,
Servants of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Marywood University roots itself in the
principle of
justice and a belief that education empowers people. Enacting its
ideals, Marywood
offers students a welcoming and supportive community that encourages
men and
women of all backgrounds to shape their lives as leaders in service
to others. Proud of
its liberal arts tradition and host of professional disciplines, Marywood
challenges
students to broaden their understanding of global issues and to make
decisions based
on spiritual, ethical, and religious values. Marywood calls upon students
to seek their
full potential and invites all to engage in a lifelong process of
learning. Witnessing the
efficacy of teaching and scholarship, Marywood educates students to
live responsibly
in a diverse and interdependent world.
 Goals
and Objectives
- Provide a values based context for university experiences.
- A majority
of students will participate in service opportunities in an
on-going way.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the
ethical dimensions of their
fields of study.
- A majority of students will participate in spiritual
development activities.
- Employees will demonstrate core values
in the work place.
- Foster an awareness and appreciation of the pluralistic
nature of contemporary society.
- Graduates will choose to study
or work in multicultural settings either at home
or abroad.
- Students will demonstrate a deeper appreciation for
cultural diversity and an
understanding of global issues.
- Enrolled students will travel
abroad during their college years.
- Employee groups and governing
bodies will reflect the pluralistic nature of
contemporary society.
- Provide a supportive and welcoming environment
to a diverse academic community.
- Students enrolled in any
program will fulfill their academic goals by successfully
completing their degree work.
- An increasing number of racially
and culturally diverse students and employees will
choose Marywood as a welcoming community.
- Students from a cross-section
of socio-economic groups will enroll in each
incoming class.
- Campus constituencies will express satisfaction
with all campus services.
- Prepare people for socially responsible
leadership roles.
- Students will participate in an internship
or practicum experience.
- Students will demonstrate a significant
level of co-curricular activities.
- Students will experience
positive interactions with faculty members outside of class.
- Employees
will serve as role models of socially responsible leaders.
- Provide a challenging instructional program.
- Students will demonstrate
achievement of cognitive skills at a level comparable to
peers on standardized tests.
- Students will demonstrate the ability
to think critically by engaging in research
activities and by developing problem solving strategies.
- Students
will demonstrate the ability to integrate the liberal arts
tradition with
their professional specializations.
- Students will demonstrate
competence in both information literacy skills and
communications skills.
- Faculty will provide evidence of ongoing
scholarly activity.
- Inspire a sense of personal responsibility for responding
to social justice issues.
- Faculty, staff, and students will
participate in projects designed to address social
inequities.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of both national
and international social
justice issues.
- Faculty, students, and staff will serve as advocates
for justice in their personal and
professional lives.
 Core
Values
- Catholic Identity. A commitment to spiritual,
ethical, and intellectual values in the context of faith community.
- Respect for Each Person. Respect for the value
of each human being, for diversity in the context of vibrant community,
and for the earth and all creation.
- Empowerment. Education to enable access and to
empower the underserved to take a full role in the life of the broader
society.
- Service. Rooted in the deep belief that learning
and scholarship serve the global community is the belief in the
value of the diverse types of work that support that service, and
the preparation of students for leadership by participation in service.
- Commitment to Excellence. The belief that the
work of educatoin has the capacity to forward the kingdom of God,
in broad and varied ways, leads us to care passionately for the
quality of the mission of Marywood.
Faculty
Marywood University has developed an excellent
three-fold faculty system to bring teaching and instruction
to the highest level possible. This three-fold system
involves full-time faculty, community professional
practitioners in the applied disciplines and field
site/practicum supervisors. Each of the three groups works
in consort to deliver the curricula. This approach
integrates and balances practice and theory in the
professions, keeping the curriculum current to practice, and
is reflective of the creative ideas generated in the various
disciplines.
The majority of Marywood's full-time faculty who teach graduate courses
are experienced teachers. Their experience and the University's long
history in adult professional and aesthetic education are factors
which have led, over the years, to an open and engaging faculty-student
relationship. At Marywood, the quality of faculty-student relationships,
both within and outside the classroom, has become the standard by
which educational excellence is measured.
Role and Practice of
Scholarship
Scholarship at Marywood supports and builds upon its
teaching and service activities. Faculty scholarship is
frequently linked closely to teaching and becomes integrated
into coursework on an ongoing basis. Faculty work with
students to improve research skills and a scholarly
orientation within the professional degree programs. Joint
publishing of students and faculty is an aspiration of all four
Colleges and is encouraged within the faculty.
Graduate programs, because of a curricular focus on the
human services and the professions, stress especially the
concrete application of theoretical and empirical findings
to local and regional needs whenever possible. The role of
scholarship is continuing to grow at Marywood with the
development of annual opportunities on campus via the
Graduate Research Forum in which faculty and students
present their findings each spring.
Governance
Each of the four colleges is led by a dean, aided by the advice and
wisdom of the
faculty, and provides specific structures and opportunities for student
and community
input. The standards and policies of graduate education evolve from
the openness of
discussion, self-criticism, and debate which graduate education embraces.
Formally,
the process of information gathering, judgment, and decision-making
occurs through
the following committees and organizations: Policy and Operations
Committees,
Curriculum Committee, various department-based advisory groups and
a Graduate
Student Council.
Enrollment
Marywood University has an enrollment of over 3,000
students; enrollment at the graduate level is
almost 1,600 students. Graduate students, both full-time and
part-time, represent a diversity of backgrounds. Actively
working to increase the diversity of the student body in
Marywood's graduate programs is a high priority. Marywood's
size permits a closeness in faculty-student relations,
uncommon in larger research-oriented graduate schools.
Campus
 Marywood
University is located on a scenic property of 115 acres on the edge
of the city of Scranton. Visitors to the campus in all seasons are
impressed with the natural beauty of the campus which has been designated
a national arboretum.
Nestled along well worn and scenic walkways, the campus' twenty centers
of living and learning create a relaxed and aesthetically pleasing
environment for studies. Buildings and resource centers at
Marywood blend with the natural beauties of the region,
through a program of planned and controlled growth.
Marywood's commitment to nature and an aesthetic learning
environment has been enhanced over the past decade with
major developments in communications technologies and
library and computer resources. The University operates its own
television and radio
stations and satellite
dish for
receiving programming from around the world.
The Visual Arts
Center, with its two outstanding galleries,
the Suraci and the Contemporary, provides the graduate student with
a variety of exhibits of outstanding character throughout the
year. Marywood's strong heritage in music programming
affords a rich repertoire of musical performances in the Sette-LaVerghetta
Performing Arts Center throughout
the year. In the fall of 1999, Marywood dedicated the William
G. McGowan Center for Graduate and Professional Studies. The Insalaco
Center for Studio Arts was dedicated in 2001, and the OâNeill
Center for Healthy Families was built in 2002. These buildings
provide state-of-the-art facilities for students in the art, athletic
training, and nutrition and dietetics programs, among others. To fulfill
student needs for meeting places and recreation, the Marywood
Student Center provides lounges, a cafeteria, snack bar, game
rooms, and bookstore.
The Health
and Physical Education Center houses an Olympic-size swimming
pool, gym, racquetball courts, weight room and dance studio. Open
air tennis courts
are nearby.
Marywood University is located in the
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area with easy access to
the Pocono Mountains and resort areas. It is conveniently
centered at the intersection of many
interstate highways. The campus is 120 miles west of New
York City and 115 miles north of Philadelphia.
The University's location in a metropolitan area of more
than 750,000 people, with reasonable access to the major
eastern cities, provides the best of two worlds for graduate
education -- access and self-sufficiency. The Scranton area
is home to a well-established off-Broadway series, offers a
noted ski facility in Montage Mountain and supports Triple A
baseball. The strong and continuing ethnic heritage of the
region affords excellent variety and outstanding restaurant
options. Several state parks and recreational areas are very
convenient to the city and provide excellent opportunities
for summer and winter sports, camping, picnicking and other
outdoor activities. Culture, recreation and educational resources are
blended well in Marywood's location. It is an area that, in recent
years, has been ranked high in national studies for its
quality of life and has been experiencing a strong and
sustained economic emergence in the past decade.
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