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...THE VISION
Envision this Bellarmine University, 15 years from today.
We will have affirmed and improved our commitment to the University’s essential work of teaching and learning, scholarship and research, by building and supporting our faculty and students to enhance the Bellarmine educational experience.
We will have increased the size, quality, stature and reputation of our four excellent existing schools: Bellarmine College, the home of the liberal arts and the oldest school in the university; the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business; the Donna and Allan Lansing School of Nursing and Health Sciences; and the Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education.
We will have grown the number of our schools from five to 12 or more – adding a Graduate School, a Graduate School of Business, a School of Communications, Media & Culture (fall 2009), a School of Pharmacy, a School of Hotel, Food and Beverage Industry Management, a School of Law, a School of Architecture, and a School of Veterinary Medicine.
Our Carnegie classification will have grown from Masters I University to Doctoral/Research University – Intensive. That means we will be awarding at least 10 doctoral degrees per year across three or more disciplines, or at least 20 doctoral degrees per year overall.
Our enrollment will have grown from 2,500 now, to 8,000 in 15 years.
We will have doubled our facilities, from 30 to 60, in 15 years.
Bellarmine has a beautiful 135-acre campus on both sides of Newburg Road, a campus that is relatively undeveloped, and possible opportunities to grow. We could also put two or three new graduate and professional schools downtown.
Already our campus is being developed in a new tone and architectural style, with facilities and landscaping that become a part of our brand and image, based on the beautiful hill towns and monasteries of Tuscany, the home of our namesake, St. Robert Bellarmine.
Imagine Bellarmine’s campus as one of the most beautiful and distinctive locations in Louisville – to match the significance and spirit of the place. Imagine a campus with arches, cloisters, human scale towers, water features, gardens and art.
In athletics, we will be highly competitive in NCAA Division II, and we will compete for national championships in several sports. And, because this new vision will put us in the company of peer institutions that are NCAA Division I, we also will study moving Bellarmine to NCAA Division I. We are already Division I in men’s lacrosse.
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