page_title: Albertus Magnus College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Albertus Magnus College / History
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Albertus Magnus. From a rare print. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Albertus Magnus; R. Cooper
context_page_description: Albertus Magnus College is a Catholic private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs, it is located in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, near the border with Hamden.
context_section_description: Albertus Magnus College was founded in 1925 by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs. The dedication speaker was James Rowland Angell, the president of nearby Yale University. All classes and offices were first housed in Rosary Hall, a Palladian-style mansion that has since been converted for use as the institution's main library. The college's first chaplain, Rev. Arthur Chandler, stated that the college's initial goal was to educate women "to become thinkers and leaders and the noble among the ladyhood of the future."
  By 1940 the campus had expanded to its current 50 acre size and absorbed a variety of surrounding gilded-era mansions for use as dormitories and office space. The school became known for its strict liberal arts curriculum that required four years of Latin or Greek study.
  Originally a women's college, the institution became coeducational in 1985 to some controversy. The 1980s also brought a series of construction projects to the campus, including new classroom space and a new athletic center. The first graduate program, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, was offered in 1992.
caption: St. Albertus Magnus, namesake of the college, was a medieval scholar and philosopher
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