University of Sainte-Chloé

Imperial and Pontifical University of Sainte-Chloé

Université Impériale et Pontificale Sainte-Chloé
Latin: Imperialis et Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a Sancta Chloea
Motto	Contemplare et Contemplata aliis Tradere
Motto in English	To Study, and to Hand on the Fruits of Study to Others
Type	Public Pontifical
Established	1543 (1543)
Chancellor	Louis Cardinal Merloix
Vice-Chancellor	Louis Thomas
Provost	Catherine Delacroix
Rector	Reginald Garrigou, OP
Academic staff	1,066 (2022)
Students	10,491 (2022)
Undergraduates	6,730 (2022)
Postgraduates	3,661 (2022)
Location	Port de la Sainte , Sainte Chloé Parish , Sainte-Chloé
Campus	Urban
Colours	Yellow and Blue
Affiliations	Roderican Order

The University of Sainte-Chloé (Gaullican: Université Sainte-Chloé), officially known as the Imperial and Pontifical University of Sainte-Chloé (Université Impériale et Pontificale Sainte-Chloé) is a public and Pontifical collegiate university in Port de la Sainte, Sainte-Chloé. Originally founded in 1523 as a seminary and studium conventuale by the Roderican Order, in 1543 the Pope elevated it to University status, and it recieved an Imperial charter in 1566. It is the oldest university in Sainte-Chloé and claims to be the oldest university in the Asterias, which is disputed with the National University of Saint Isidore in Aucuria. It has been in continual operation since its founding, making it the disputed oldest continuously operating university in the Asterias.

The University of Sainte-Chloé is divided into 12 constituent residential colleges, governed by a central faculty and university structure. Despite being publicly funded, the University since the beginning has been governed and overseen by the Roderican Order, although other religious orders have connexions certain colleges. The University is ranked as the top University in Sainte-Chloé, as as one of the premier educational institutions of the Arucian region. It is considered the parent university to Sainte-Chloé's other universities and a prominent centre of the Holistique movement, and many of Sainte-Chloé's most prominent figures have attended the institution. The University was central to the development of Arucian baseball and Arucian football. Due to the influence of the Holistique movement, the university does not follow the Weranic model but instead is compared by some commentators to be closer to the medieval university.

Organisation

Although the University is often considered a public school because the government provides part of the funds to ensure that Chloéois students do not have to pay fees to attend, the school itself is not administered by the government, but rather by the Roderican Order. Other sources of funding for the school's financial endowment come from the resources of the Order or donations of alumni or benefactors. Because of this, the University itself is in a middle position between being a private school (on account of independent management) and a public (on account of public funding), which is defined differently depending on the country in question. Although Chloéois students may attend free of charge, foreign students are required to pay a fee to attend.

Central Governance

Although the University of Sainte-Chloé is a collegiate university, the central administration has a great deal of oversight of the major operations and mission of the University. The University's ceremonial head is the Chancellor, which is held by the incumbent Archbishop of Sainte-Chloé, currently Louis Cardinal Merloix. The position is mostly ceremonial, but the Chancellor does still have authority to step in and make decisions. De facto administrative control of the university is overseen by the Rector, with further power shared between the Vice-Rector, Vice-Chancellor, and Provost. The Rector is the general executive of the university, including faculty affairs, instructional oversight, curricular management, and the academic studies of the university. The Rector is always a member of the Roderican Order, as is usually appointed by the Province. The Vice-Chancellor, currently Louis Thomas, is a layman responsible for the funding and financial affairs of the University, and oversees employment, scholarships and fundrasing for University activities as well as new projects and buildings. Most of the business and promotional staff serve under the office of the Vice-Chancellor. The Provost, currently Catherine Delacroix, is in charge of the aspects of student life throughout the university, from managing living arrangements for students, administering discipline, and all aspects of student welfare.

Colleges

The University of Sainte-Chloé, as a collegiate university, is divided in 12 semi-independent residential colleges. These colleges have certain rights and prerogatives, and conduct their own teaching. However, their instruction is heavily guided and watched over by the central administration to follow the principles of the Holisitique method and to abide by certain rules. Every student and faculty member must belong to a college, and students applying to the university must apply to one of the residents colleges. Each college is headed by a Maître du Collège, who in turn reports to the central administration, usually the Rector. Every college is still run by a religious order, and the master of each college being selected from the religious order responsible for it and the general rules and traditions being dictated by the religious community. Each college also has its own endowment and funding, although this has oversight from the Vice-Chancellor.

The College system initially was connected to various priories of religious communities in Saint Chloe, as the Univeristy also functioned as an educational place for the missionary clergy. In the first few centuries of the University's existence, the school was primarily dominated by Roderican, Franciscan and Jesuit clergy, with non-clerics and other clergy housing in Sacred Heart College. The three colleges remained in place until 1804, when the Benedictines founded St. Boniface College. The success of the Holistique movement in the latter 19th century necessitated the expansion of the University, which saw increasing number of priestly and lay students. With the increasing number of lay students, fewer religious began to reside in the colleges themselves, although some still do. The religious are seen as important guiding figures in the spiritual life of students, and many religious still undergo religious formation as part of the University structure.

Each college has the ability to oversee potential admissions, with some having stricter requirements than others, based on the resources and amount of space within a college, the student's interests and state of character. Out of the twelve colleges, 7 are co-educational, while 5 remain single-sex. All of the Colleges began as single sex, but after 1977 most Colleges became co-educational. While most Colleges are made up of both undergraduates and graduate students, Sotirias College is comprised entirely of graduate students, and Notre Dame only accepts undergraduate students. As a general rule, the older schools are more prestigious and generally have fewer spaces, which has lead to a tendency for some them, especially Roderic College, to be considered as the "elite" ones. In addition, each college maintains its own chapel, refectory, and common rooms, unique traditions and residential policies, as well as intermural clubs.

In a rather unique residential situation, unmarried students and faculty must reside in the college throughout the entirety of their study (either undergraduate or graduate), and may not live off of campus. This is because communal living is seen as paramount the thriving of students and faculty. Even married students are expected to attend certain social gatherings and important communal events of the colleges which they belong. In addition, although residential colleges may have their own particular policies on communal life, university requirements state that men and women cannot share dormitory space, and co-educational colleges must have separate residential areas.

No.	Name	Sex	Founded	Size	Notes
1	Roderic College	Male	1523 or 1578	367	Predates the University, was the name of the original Roderican Seminary and studium conventuale founded in 1523. Officially designated as a College in 1578. Named after St. Roderic, founder of the Rodericans. Although it has ceased being its own priory, it still functions as the studium provinciale of the Roderican Province. The smallest and hardest to get into, Roderic College is generally considered the most elite of the colleges.
2	Bonaventure College	Co-ed	1578	409	College run by the Franciscans. Named after Saint Bonaventure. Originally a Franciscan priory, which it still retains as part of its structure.
3	Sacred Heart College	Co-ed	1578	1,434	College run by the Jesuits. For most of its history it was the college of other clerics and most non-clerics until the University's expansion in the nineteenth century.
4	Boniface College	Male	1804	383	College run by the Benedictines of Saint Boniface Abbey in Port de la Sainte. Named after Saint Boniface.
5	Sotirias College	Co-ed	1866	1,379	College run by secular clergy. Comprised of graduate level students.
6	Augustine College	Co-ed	1872	723	College run by Canons regular. Named after Saint Augustine.
7	Notre Dame College	Co-ed	1884	1,071	College run by the Servites. Comprised of undergraduate students.
8	Michael College	Co-ed	1898	707	College run by the Norbertines. Named after Saint Michael.
9	Catherine College	Female	1907	401	College run by Roderican sisters. Founded as the first women's college. Named after St. Catherine.
10	Albertus Magnus College	Co-ed	1959	1,801	College run by Rodericans. Named after St. Albert the Great. Largest of the colleges.
11	Monica College	Female	1964	1,402	College run by Canonesses Regular.
12	Aquinas College	Male	2006	414	College run by the Canons of Sainte-Chloé. Named after Thomas Aquinas. Founded in response to the fact that some of the previous colleges were too large to adequately sustain a true community.

Academic Profile

Admission

Admission to the University, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, is primarily done through the colleges and not the central University, although the colleges must work out with the central administration the amount of available funding and positions it has open every year. Each college has some flexibility on admissions, with each focusing on different character virtues, activities or community service; for all, however, a strong performance on the Baccalauréat with a strong academic record is required to get into the University. Generally, has the most difficult entry requirements out of any of the Universities throughout the country, and is also highly sought after by students from across the country. For certain colleges, such as Roderic, the requirements are even stricter, and only the top performers are admitted. It also has the highest rejections rates of any university in Sainte-Chloé, only roughly offering 20% of its applicant pool a position. Conversely, it also has the highest yield rate of any University in country, due to its prestige as well as its resources.

Teaching

Although the University oversees the general curriculum and course of academic studies, the teaching itself is done within the colleges. On account of this, all faculty belong to colleges, and many live in the colleges, especially unmarried faculty. The University maintains a general student–teacher ratio of 10:1, although this fraction varies across the colleges. Teachers are called simply Maîtres or Tuteurs, although in borrowing from other educational systems occasionally Docteur or Professeur is used. Unlike other schools, the University does not have specific formal titles or ranks for its teachers, seeing them as guides to assist the students in the path towards truth than dedicated researchers who teach students on the side. On account of the school's principal concerns about teachers, the pressure to publish or perish is practically nonexistent at the University.

Most teaching centres around the tutoriel, which involves discussions around important texts of smaller groups of members within the same college. These form the bulk of lessons, although it is supplemented by lectures, as well as demonstations of propositions for mathematics and natural science. Classes are rarely larger than twenty students, although the lectures may be. In higher fields of specialised study at the graduate level, other means of teaching are used.

Research

Although not a strict research university because of its focus on pedagogy and following the Holisitique model of education, graduate level studies engage in research.

Notable Alumni

University of Sainte-Chloé Notable Alumni

Genevieve Chevallier,
Catherine College

Louis Cardinal Merloix,
Roderic College

Raymond Rivière,
Bonaventure College

Charles Saint-Pierre,
Sacred Heart College

 • Charles Saint-Pierre, Philanthropist and founder of the Holistique movement, Sacred Heart College
 • Camille Pétain, first President of Sainte-Chloé and one of the two "fathers of Sainte-Chloé", Michael College
 • Raymond Rivière, first Premier of Sainte-Chloé and one of the two "fathers of Sainte-Chloé", Bonaventure College
 • Louis Cardinal Merloix, Cardinal and Archbishop of Sainte-Chloé, Roderic College
 • Jean-Marie Leclercq, current President of Sainte-Chloé, Invictus Games gold medalist, hall of fame baseball player for both the ABL and the RBL, Roderic College
 • Genevieve Chevallier, current Premier of Sainte-Chloé, Catherine College