Regis College (Massachusetts)

Regis College is a private, non-profit university founded in 1927 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston. The university is located in Weston, Massachusetts, 12 miles outside of Boston, and offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies degree and certificate programs via on campus, fully online, and hybrid formats. Regis provides an academically rigorous education within the schools of nursing, arts and sciences, business and communication, and health sciences. Inspired by the social justice values of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston, Regis engages with service initiatives within the local community and around the world.

History
Regis College was founded in 1927 by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The college's name is inspired by the Reverend Mother Mary Regis Casserly, who established the Sisters of St. Joseph in Boston in 1873. After eight decades as a women's only college, Regis enrolled its first co-educational class in fall 2007.

As of fall 2022, approximately 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students were enrolled at Regis and the school had a 10 to 1 student/faculty ratio. Ninety-seven percent of Regis students are employed full-time or enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation (5-year average as of fall 2022).

Projects and programs 
The Center for Global Connections oversees academic and service-learning initiatives for students. The Regis Haiti Project is an international faculty partnership initiative to help elevate Haitian nursing education and empower Haitian nursing faculty through the master's degree to teach others across Haiti.

Regis offers an accredited pre-school and kindergarten program at its Children's Center. The program teaches children from the age of 15 months to six years old about science, math, engineering, and technology.

In 2005, Regis founded a Life Long Learning Program (LLARC) that offers courses taught by volunteers to older adults at the Regis College in Weston campus.

The school is also known for its pre-college Summer Scholars program which allows rising high school juniors and seniors to live and study on a college campus during the summer.

Academics
Regis currently offers degrees within four schools: The Richard and Sheila Young School of Nursing, the School of Health Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, and the Sloane School of Business and Communication. Specific Degree designations that can be obtained through the attendance of Regis include: A.S.N., B.S.N, B.A., B.S., B.S.W., M.A.T., M.S., M.S.N., D.N.P, M.A., Ed.D. as well as both undergraduate and graduate certificates.

Regis College has cross-registration privileges with Babson, Bentley, Brandeis University, and Boston College as well as a cooperative degree program with Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Regis is affiliated with the Sisters of Saint Joseph College Consortium, University College Cork in Ireland, and Kyoto Notre Dame University in Kyoto, Japan for study abroad, as well as American University’s Washington Semester program.

Regis offers 27 undergraduate academic programs, 28 graduate & doctoral programs, and 29 minors.

The Richard and Sheila Young School of Nursing is designated as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the National League of Nursing. The school offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in Nursing with multiple tracks. The School of Nursing offers a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), fully online Master of Science in Health Administration, a Master of Science in Nursing programs.

Regis also offers health care and information technology certificates through the Theresa Wood Lavine Division of Professional Studies to students preparing for industry-related certification exams and career advancement.

Student life
On-campus housing is guaranteed for all undergraduates in one of five residence halls: Angela Hall, Maria Hall, Domitilla Hall, St. Joseph Hall, and College Hall. The Student Center houses the Undergraduate Admissions Office, Main Dining Hall, Tower Tavern, WRGS (the Regis College radio station), the bookstore, a post office, and several lounge areas for meetings or events. The Fine Arts Center houses the Eleanor Welch Casey Theatre and the Carney Art Gallery. The campus also features a Science Center, the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History, and a Fitness Center housing: dance studios, weight and cardiovascular equipment, basketball courts, a swimming pool, and newly designed athletic fields.

There are currently over 25 clubs and organizations in which students may become involved, meet new people and stay active. Students are also free to start their own clubs on campus with help and may petition funding from the college.

Regis has multiple outdoor athletic facilities including an artificial turf field surface for field hockey, lacrosse, and soccer with an eight-lane track surface circling the fields. Nearby are six tennis courts, and a full softball diamond with lights. Within the athletic building are the gymnasium, a first class athletic training room, and the pool. The Mary Carr Simone Fitness Center, which holds Cybex equipment, six flat screen HD televisions, and multiple pieces of cardio equipment, can also be found inside the building.

Athletics
Regis College teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Pride are a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC), which they started competing in for the fall 2017 season. Regis was formerly a member of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) between the 1988–89 and the 2010–11 seasons and the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) between the 2011–12 and the 2016-2017 seasons. Men's sports include basketball, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball. In 2015, The Pride won NECC Championships in Women's Volleyball, Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving, Men's and Women's Tennis, Women's Field Hockey, Men's and Women's Basketball and Women's Lacrosse.

References

External links
 
 Official athletics website

 
Former women's universities and colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts
Catholic universities and colleges in Massachusetts
Sisters of Saint Joseph colleges and universities
Universities and colleges established in 1927
Universities and colleges in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Weston, Massachusetts
1927 establishments in Massachusetts