Highlights of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»'s History
- 1834: The Medical College of Louisiana is founded in New Orleans by seven young doctors.
- 1847: The state legislature establishes the University of Louisiana.
- 1847: The Medical College of Louisiana becomes the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana.
- 1847: The University of Louisiana adds a law department, the 12th such department in the United States.
- 1851: An academic department for men opens. Its first students are enrolled — 12 freshmen and two sophomores.
- 1861: The university closes its doors because of the Civil War. Classes resume in 1865.
- 1882: Paul Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» donates extensive real estate in New Orleans for the support of education. A Board of Administrators of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Educational Fund is appointed and holds its first meeting. The board decides to support and incorporate with the University of Louisiana rather than create a separate institution.
- 1884: The Louisiana Legislature passes a bill transferring the University of Louisiana at New Orleans to the control of the Administrators of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Educational Fund, thus creating the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» University of Louisiana, a private, nonsectarian university.
- 1885: The university establishes a graduate division, later to become the Graduate School.
- 1886: Newcomb College is established within Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» University. Josephine Louise Newcomb gave the gifts to found the college in memory of her daughter, Harriott Sophie Newcomb.
- 1894: The university organizes the College of Technology, which later will become the School of Engineering.
- 1894: The university moves to its uptown campus on St. Charles Avenue, five miles by streetcar from downtown New Orleans.
- 1894: The Newcomb Pottery is established.
- 1907: The College of Technology organizes an architecture department, which will evolve into the School of Architecture.
- 1912: The School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is established. It later merges with the College of Medicine.
- 1914: The College of Commerce is established. It is the first business school in the South and the forerunner of the A. B. Freeman School of Business.
- 1925: The Graduate School is established.
- 1927: The School of Social Work is established — the first in the Deep South.
- 1942: University College is founded as Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»'s division of continuing education.
- 1950: The Department of Architecture separates from the School of Engineering and becomes the School of Architecture.
- 1967: The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is established.
- 1976: The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Medical Center, a 300-bed teaching hospital and ambulatory clinic, opens.
- 1993: The name of the College of Arts and Sciences changes to Paul M. Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» College and is referred to as Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» College.
- 2005: The university cancels the fall semester because of Hurricane Katrina. Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» University announces a bold renewal plan in December.
- Strategic initiatives: Newcomb and Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» colleges are combined to form Newcomb-Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» College for all undergraduates.
- The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute is established.
- University College is renamed the School of Professional Advancement.
- The Faculty of the Liberal Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering are reorganized into two schools: the School of Liberal Arts and the School of Science & Engineering.
- A public service graduation requirement for all students is initiated.
- The Partnership for the Transformation of Urban Communities is established.
- 2006: Classes resume in the spring with 93 percent of all students returning to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» University after Hurricane Katrina.
- 2007: The university's incoming freshman class of 1,400 students is almost 60 percent larger than in 2006, marking the largest one-year increase in first-year students in the history of the university.
- 2010: "Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Empowers" begins, a campaign to build resources that will help people build a better world.
- 2014: Mike Fitts is named the 15th President of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» University.
- 2017: The School of Continuing Studies relaunches as the School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) with a renewed focus on working adults, career advancement, and applied and innovative programs that are relevant to the workplace.
- 2017: "Only the Audacious: The campaign for an ever bolder Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»" begins. This is the university's most ambitious fundraising campaign to date — with a goal of raising $1.3 billion.