Editing University of San Diego (section)

== History ==
[[File:USD Immaculata Parish Church.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Immaculata Parish Church at USD showing the architectural style of the campus]]

Charters were granted in 1949 for the [[San Diego College for Women]] and San Diego University, which included the College for Men and School of Law.<ref>{{cite web|title=Congressional Record: Senate: Vol. 155 Part 5|page=6066|publisher=United States Government Printing Office|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grmuACR72w4C&q=%22Shortly%20after%2C%20the%20College%20for%20Men%20welcomed%2039%20students%20and%20the%20School%20of%20Law%20enrolled%20a%20co-ed%20class%20of%2030.%22&pg=PA6066|quote=However, it was in 1949 that the Most Reverend Charles Francis Buddy, first Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, and Reverend Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill, Vicar Superior of the U.S. Western Vicariate of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, obtained charters from the State of California to establish San Diego University and the San Diego College for Women, respectively.|access-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ristine|first=Jeff|title=University of San Diego at 50 Faith in Future|date=July 28, 1999|newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune|page=B-1|quote=Nov. 22, 1949 -- The State of California grants a charter for San Diego University (College for Men and School of Law) ... Dec. 2, 1949 -- The State of California grants a charter for San Diego College for Women.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTqgQrQQJTUC&q=usd+chartered+in+1949&pg=PA307|title=Insiders' Guide® to San Diego|last1=Mellin|first1=Maribeth|last2=Onstott|first2=Jane|last3=Devlin|first3=Judith|date=April 22, 2009|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|page=307|isbn=9780762755790|access-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref> The College for Women opened its doors to its first class of students in 1952. The Most Reverend [[Charles F. Buddy|Charles F. Buddy, D.D.]], then bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego|Diocese of San Diego]] and Reverend Mother Rosalie Hill, [[Society of the Sacred Heart|RSCJ]], a Superior [[Vicar]]ess of the [[Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus]], chartered the institution from resources drawn from their respective organizations on a stretch of land known as "Alcalá Park," named for [[Didacus of Alcalá]]. In 1954, the College for Men and the School of Law opened.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiego.gov/digital-archives-photos/university-san-diego-buildings-and-campus|title=University of San Diego Buildings and Campus {{!}} City of San Diego Official Website|website=www.sandiego.gov|language=en|access-date=September 25, 2018|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925215819/https://www.sandiego.gov/digital-archives-photos/university-san-diego-buildings-and-campus|url-status=live}}</ref> These two schools originally occupied Bogue Hall on the same site of University High School, which would later become the home of the [[University of San Diego High School]]. Starting in 1954, Alcalá Park also served as the diocesan chancery office and housed the episcopal offices, until the diocese moved to a vacated Benedictine convent that was converted to a pastoral center. In 1957, Immaculate Heart Major Seminary and St. Francis Minor Seminary were moved into their newly completed facility, now known as Maher Hall. The Immaculata Chapel, now no longer affiliated with USD, also opened that year as part of the seminary facilities. For nearly two decades, these schools co-existed on Alcalá Park. Immaculate Heart closed at the end of 1968, when its building was renamed De Sales Hall; St. Francis remained open until 1970, when it was transferred to another location on campus, leaving all of the newly named Bishop Leo T. Maher Hall to the newly merged co-educational University of San Diego in 1972. Since then, the university has grown quickly and has been able to increase its assets and academic programs. The student body, the local community, patrons, alumni, and many organizations have been integral to the university's development.

[[File:Universidad de Alcala.jpg|thumb|right|252x252px|The ''[[Universidad de Alcalá]]'' in [[Spain]], inspiration for Mother Hill's USD]]
Significant periods of expansion of the university, since the 1972 merger, occurred in the mid-1980s, as well as in 1998, when [[Joan B. Kroc]], philanthropist and wife of [[McDonald's]] financier [[Ray Kroc]], endowed USD with a gift of $25&nbsp;million for the construction of the Institute for Peace & Justice. Other significant donations to the college came in the form of multimillion-dollar gifts from weight-loss tycoon [[Jenny Craig]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0P8DAAAAMBAJ&q=university+san+diego+jenny+craig+endowment&pg=PA125|title=San Diego Magazine|last=LLC|first=CurtCo/SDM|date=December 2006|publisher=CurtCo/SDM LLC|language=en}}</ref> inventor [[Donald Shiley]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sdut-usd-given-20-million-create-engineering-school-2012sep25-story.html|title=USD gets $20 million for engineering school|last=Robbins|first=Gary|work=sandiegouniontribune.com|access-date=September 25, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925180607/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sdut-usd-given-20-million-create-engineering-school-2012sep25-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> investment banker and alumnus Bert Degheri, and an additional gift of $50&nbsp;million Mrs. Kroc left the School of Peace Studies upon her death. These gifts helped make possible, respectively, the [[Jenny Craig Pavilion]] (an athletic arena), the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Degheri Alumni Center. As a result, USD has been able to host the West Coast Conference (WCC) basketball tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2008, and hosted international functions such as the [[Kyoto Prize|Kyoto Laureate Symposium]] at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and at USD's Shiley Theatre. Shiley's gift has provided the university with some additional, and more advanced, teaching laboratories than it had previously. In 2005, the university expanded the Colachis Plaza from the Immaculata along Marian Way to the east end of Hall, which effectively closed the east end of the campus to vehicular traffic. That same year, the student body approved plans for a renovation and expansion of the Hahn University Center which began at the end of 2007. The new Student Life Pavilion (SLP) opened in 2009 and hosts the university's new student dining area(s), offices for student organizations and event spaces. The Hahn University Center is now home to administrative offices, meeting and event spaces, and a restaurant and wine bar, La Gran Terazza.

In 2022, students began taking classes at the new Knauss Center for Business Education, a 120,000-square-foot complex that serves as an innovation and collaboration ecosystem for business students.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sandiegomagazine.com/partner-content/knauss-center-for-business-education-is-san-diego-s-newest-ecosystem-of-innovation-and-collaboration/article_f18fc082-3b8e-11ed-b6f0-d73c0486c7b7.html|title=Knauss Center for Business Education Is San Diego's Newest Ecosystem of Innovation and Collaboration|date=September 1, 2022|work=San Diego Magazine|access-date=17 October 2022}}</ref>

In the spring of 2022, USD's total enrollment was 9,041 undergraduate, graduate, paralegal and law students from 85 countries and 50 US states.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University of San Diego Facts - University of San Diego|url=https://www.sandiego.edu/about/fast-facts.php|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=www.sandiego.edu|language=en}}</ref>