{"id":1167,"date":"2017-04-28T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=1167"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:40:38","slug":"maryville-becomes-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/maryville-becomes-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryville Becomes A University"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/04\/university.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/04\/university-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"university\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/04\/university-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/04\/university-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/04\/university-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/04\/university.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>With historic growth over the past decade, the University now welcomes students from all 50 states and 56 countries. Some students attend remotely, via online courses accessed from all corners of the world. Others attend classes on the Maryville campus or at satellite locations in the evening and on weekends. <\/p>\n<p>On the surface, today\u2019s Maryville would seem to bear little resemblance to the sparsely-populated campus that opened in 1961, dotted with few classroom buildings and one residence hall.  But, once again, a revolution in higher education is happening, and, like its founder Rose Philippine Duchesne, Maryville is leading the way. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maryville is pioneering new, personalized teaching methods that are designed for the way each student learns.<\/li>\n<li>Life Coaches advise and mentor students from before they set foot on campus and throughout their college experience, just as the Religious of the Sacred Heart once counseled each individual through their educational journey.<\/li>\n<li>Maryville is building partnerships throughout the community, both to strengthen its academic offerings, and to fulfill its obligation of being a good neighbor in a civilized society.<\/li>\n<li>And just as the Religious of the Sacred Heart sought to extend the basic right of education to all students, \u201crich and poor\u201d alike, Maryville seeks to provide necessary financial assistance to help all students achieve equity in their education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal post-bottom\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"\" data-rm-love=\"0\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nectar-love\" id=\"nectar-love-1167\" title=\"Love this\"> <i class=\"icon-salient-heart-2\"><\/i><span class=\"love-text\">Love<\/span><span class=\"total_loves\"><span class=\"nectar-love-count\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa icon-salient-x-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='pinterest-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Pin this'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Pin<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With historic growth over the past decade, the University now welcomes students from all 50 states and 56 countries. Some students attend remotely, via online courses accessed from all corners of the world. Others attend classes on the Maryville campus or at satellite locations in the evening and on weekends. On the surface, today\u2019s Maryville<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/maryville-becomes-university\/\">&#8230; read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maryville Becomes A University - Alumni<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/maryville-becomes-university\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maryville Becomes A University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With historic growth over the past decade, the University now welcomes students from all 50 states and 56 countries. 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