Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta

LUMSA University
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
Former name	Istituto Superiore di Magistero Maria SS. Assunta
Motto	In fide et humanitate
Motto in English	In the faith and in the humanity
Type	Private
Established	26 October 1939
Founders	Luigia Tincani, Venerable; Giuseppe Pizzardo; Pius XII
Affiliation	BioGeM
President	Giovanni Lajolo
Rector	Francesco Bonini
Students	7,200
Location	Rome (main campus), Palermo, & Taranto, Italy
Campus	Urban (multiple sites)
Language	Italian and English
Colors	Malachite and white
Sporting affiliations	LUMSA Sport United
Website	www.lumsa.it

The Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, often simply abbreviated as "LUMSA", is a private Roman Catholic university founded in 1939 in Rome. It is the second-oldest university in Rome after Sapienza.^[2]

Organization

The university began its life as the "Istituto Superiore di Magistero Maria Ss. Assunta", an educational institute for nuns founded in 1939 by Luigia Tincani (Royal Decree No. 1760 of 26 October 1939). In 1989, it was reconstituted as "Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta" (LUMSA), a university for women. The university was opened to men in 1991.^[3]

LUMSA is a private Catholic institution with autonomy at all levels of the university. As an Italian-accredited institution, its degrees are considered equivalent to those issued by Italian public universities.

The university is governed by a council which includes a President, a Rector, two Pro-Rectors, a Director General, and general council members. Since 2017, the President has been Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo.^[4]

University teaching is distributed across three departments:^[5]

Department of Law, Economics, Politics, and Modern languages (Rome)
Department of Law (Palermo)
Department of Human Studies, Communication, Education, and Psychology (Rome)

The educational structure of LUMSA is arranged around four divisions. The university offers, through the divisions, undergraduate degrees (Italian laurea) in various social science fields. In post-graduate education, LUMSA offers several graduate programs and two long-cycle programs in law and education sciences, as well as four PhDs (Italian dottorato di ricerca).^[6]^[7]^[8]

Notable people

Giuseppe Pizzardo, co-founder^[9]
Luigi Traglia, president^[9]
Mario Luigi Ciappi, president^[9]
Antonio María Javierre Ortas, president^[9]
Carlo Furno, president^[9]
Attilio Nicora, president^[9]
Cornelio Fabro, director^[9]
Giuseppe Dalla Torre, rector between 1991 and 2014^[10]

Honorary degrees

These people received an honorary degree, but did not attend the university.

Joseph Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI), honorary degree in Law, 1999^[11]
Liliana Segre, honorary degree in International relations, 2020^[12]
Sergio Cotta, honorary degree in law, 1999^[11]
Liliana Cavani, honorary degree in Communication sciences, 1999^[11]
Carlo Lizzani, honorary degree in Media studies, 2009^[11]

References

^ "Luigia Tincani". lumsa.it. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "The University". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "Our history". lumsa.it. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
^ "Governance". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "Departments". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "Academics". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "Corsi di laurea triennale, magistrale e a ciclo unico - Roma, Palermo, Taranto" [Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees and long-cycle degrees - Rome, Palermo, Taranto]. lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "PhD programs". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "I protagonisti" [The protagonists]. 80.lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "Il lutto. Addio al giurista cattolico Giuseppe Dalla Torre: fede, cultura e diritto". www.avvenire.it. 3 December 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "La storia - 1939-2019: 80 anni dell'Università LUMSA" [History - 1939-2019: 80 years of LUMSA University]. 80.lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "Awarding of the honorary master's degree to Senator Liliana Segre". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

External links

LUMSA University Website (in Italian and English)

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[1] "Luigia Tincani". lumsa.it. Retrieved 31 October 2020.

[about-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "The University". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[3] "Our history". lumsa.it. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[4] "Governance". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[5] "Departments". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[6] "Academics". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[7] "Corsi di laurea triennale, magistrale e a ciclo unico - Roma, Palermo, Taranto" [Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees and long-cycle degrees - Rome, Palermo, Taranto]. lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[8] "PhD programs". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[protagonisti-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "I protagonisti" [The protagonists]. 80.lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[10] "Il lutto. Addio al giurista cattolico Giuseppe Dalla Torre: fede, cultura e diritto". www.avvenire.it. 3 December 2020.

[storia-11] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "La storia - 1939-2019: 80 anni dell'Università LUMSA" [History - 1939-2019: 80 years of LUMSA University]. 80.lumsa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[12] "Awarding of the honorary master's degree to Senator Liliana Segre". lumsa.it. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

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