Trinity Washington University


Trinity Washington University is a Catholic university in Washington, D.C.. There are five schools within the university; the undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences maintains its original status as a liberal arts women's college, while men attend Trinity’s other schools at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

History

Trinity College was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as the nation’s first Catholic liberal arts college for women.
For more than 70 years, Trinity educated middle-class Catholic women, who were underrepresented in America's colleges.
When many all-male colleges became co-ed, Trinity's full-time enrollment dropped - from 1,000 in 1969 to 300 in 1989. The school's 12th president, Sister Donna Jurick, responded in the early 1980s by opening a weekend college for working women from the District of Columbia, a racially diverse population the school had previously not served. The first such program in Washington, it became very popular; within three years, it had more students than the undergraduate program.
Under Patricia McGuire, a Trinity alumna, who became president of the college in 1989, Trinity became a multifaceted university that reached out to the Black and Hispanic women of Washington. McGuire split the college into three schools: the historic women's college became the College of Arts and Sciences; the higher-revenue teacher college became the School of Education; and the continuing education classes were folded into a School of Professional Studies. Trinity began recruiting at D.C. high schools. She expanded the professional schools, whose combined enrollment rose from 639 in 1989 to 974 in 1999. By the school's 1997 centennial, it had become the private college of choice for the women of D.C. public schools.

Academics

Five schools

Trinity has an annual enrollment of about 2,000 students in the University's five schools, which offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in a variety of academic areas.
As of early 2010, school enrollment was 67 percent African American, 21 percent Hispanic, 6 percent white and 6 percent international. Men made up 8 percent of total enrollment in all programs.
Trinity's annual tuition as of 2016 was $22,390, with the average student contributing $1,000 to $2,000 and the remainder coming from federal and local grants.

Athletics

Playing as the Trinity Tigers, Trinity competes in the NCAA Division III, in basketball, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.
The Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports was completed in 2003. It features a basketball arena; walking track; swimming pool and spa; fitness center with weight machines, free weights and cardio equipment and dance studio, tennis courts, and an athletic field. It is free for Trinity students and offers memberships to local residents.

Campus buildings

The campus includes the following buildings: