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- EIN 47-0376583
- (402) 280-5750
- 2500 California Plz Omaha NE 68178-0133 USA
- www.creighton.edu
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Causes: Education, Universities
Mission: Creighton university is a catholic and jesuit comprehensive university committed to excellence in its selected undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. As catholic, creighton is dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms and is guided by the living tradition of the catholic church. As jesuit, creighton participates in the tradition of the society of jesus which provides an integrating vision of the world that arises out of a knowledge and love of jesus christ. As comprehensive, creighton's education embraces several colleges and professional schools and is directed to the intellectual, social, spiritual, physical and recreational aspects of students' lives and to the promotion of justice. Creighton exists for students and learning. Members of the creighton community are challenged to reflect on transcendent values, including their relationship with god, in an atmosphere of freedom of inquiry, belief and religious worship.
Programs: Higher education: instruction - creighton university, founded in 1878, is a private catholic, jesuit educational institution with more than 8,300 students of diverse faiths, races and ethnic backgrounds from across the united states and 50 countries. The university provides its more than 4,200 undergraduate and almost 4,200 professional and graduate students a balanced educational experience, a rigorous academic agenda and a broad range of disciplines. Creighton's distinctive approach to education instills not just information but ideals, imbues not just technical skills but critical and creative thinking, and inspires not just competence but professional distinction and faith-based leadership and service. In addition to the college of arts and sciences, the university's oldest and largest school or college, creighton university includes the heider college of business, the college of nursing, the graduate school, the schools of dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy and health professions, and university college.
higher education: health care services - creighton university's four health sciences schools-dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy and health professions-educate healthcare professionals who are highly trained in healthcare delivery. In addition, creighton university's school of medicine's southwest campus at st. Joseph's hospital and medical center in phoenix offers two years of clinical training to 84 medical students after they have completed their first two years of medical school in omaha. Creighton's health sciences schools provide healthcare education for almost 2,700 dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy and occupational and physical therapy students.
student life programs: auxiliary services - guided by jesuit, catholic values and in support of the creighton university mission, the division of student life provides programs and services enhancing all student experiences. In partnership with the campus, student life fosters holistic student development in the ignatian tradition, to produce students engaged in their communities with compassion, confidence and character. Student life programs include residential life; student counseling services; student health services; office of community standards and wellbeing; creighton intercultural center; the student life function of the encuentro dominicano study abroad program; student leadership and involvement center including welcome week, summer preview (new student orientation), creighton students union (student government), fraternity and sorority life, and over 200 registered student organization; recreation and wellness including intramurals, housing services (approximately 2500 students live in one of the 9 residence halls on campus); dining services, student center, and centralized reservations.
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