PEPPER PIKE, Ohio (WOIO) – The sixty acres of Ursuline\u2019s campus is now part of Gannon University after a merger that begins this school year with a record class.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, Ursuline College total is about one thousand students.\u201d said Gannon president Dr. Walter Iwanenko. \u201cIn his upcoming class, it\u2019s one-forty-eights. We\u2019d like to build the campus up to between twelve to fifteen hundred students over the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Founded in 1871 by the Ursuline Sisters as a women\u2019s college, the school merged with Gannon because of fewer college-age students and increased competition for those students, Ursuline\u2019s campus eventually using Gannon\u2019s strengths while continuing to focus on nursing and its health care partners in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority of our incoming class, nursing is the most popular major,\u201d added Dr. Iwanenko. \u201cOn the Gannon campus, in Erie, we have programs in science and engineering and additional health care, and we plan to bring those offerings to the Ursuline campus over the next couple years.\u201d<\/p>\n
With plans for even greater enrollment here on the Pepper Pike campus, one of the next challenges for the school: providing more housing for students.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to develop our plan,\u201d admitted Iwanenko. \u201cRight now, even if we wanted to admit more students, we don\u2019t have the room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Class started last Wednesday on the Ursuline campus, this school year truly a new day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the future is bright,\u201d concluded Iwanenko. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be expanding our residence halls, we\u2019re going to be expanding athletics, we\u2019re going to continue to bring more men on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ursuline became co-educational in 1969, and the Gannon\/Ursuline merger makes the combined campuses the largest Catholic university on the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n
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