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<span>Student life</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Student_life-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Student life subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Student_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Charity_and_community_service_organizations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Charity_and_community_service_organizations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Charity and community service organizations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Charity_and_community_service_organizations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Student_Government_Association" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Student_Government_Association"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Student Government Association</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Student_Government_Association-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fraternities_and_sororities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fraternities_and_sororities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Fraternities and sororities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fraternities_and_sororities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Villanova_Emergency_Medical_Service" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Villanova_Emergency_Medical_Service"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Villanova Emergency Medical Service</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Villanova_Emergency_Medical_Service-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Campus_publications_and_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Campus_publications_and_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Campus publications and media</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Campus_publications_and_media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-NROTC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#NROTC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>NROTC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-NROTC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Student_performing_arts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Student_performing_arts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Student performing arts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Student_performing_arts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Athletics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Athletics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Athletics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Athletics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Athletics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Athletics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Men's_basketball" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Men's_basketball"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Men's basketball</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Men's_basketball-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Football" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Football"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Football</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Football-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Men's_lacrosse" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Men's_lacrosse"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Men's lacrosse</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Men's_lacrosse-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Track_and_field" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Track_and_field"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Track and field</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Track_and_field-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Traditions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Traditions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Traditions</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Traditions-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Traditions subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Traditions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-The_University_Seal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_University_Seal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>The University Seal</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_University_Seal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Liberty_Bell's_"Sister_Bell"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Liberty_Bell's_"Sister_Bell""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>The Liberty Bell's "Sister Bell"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Liberty_Bell's_"Sister_Bell"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alumni" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alumni"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Alumni</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alumni-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova_T%C4%81i-ha%CC%8Dk" title="Villanova Tāi-ha̍k – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Villanova Tāi-ha̍k" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova_University" title="Villanova University – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Villanova University" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Villanova" title="Universidad Villanova – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Universidad Villanova" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7" title="دانشگاه ویلانوا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دانشگاه ویلانوا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Villanova" title="Université Villanova – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Université Villanova" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%8C%EB%9D%BC%EB%85%B8%EB%B0%94_%EB%8C%80%ED%95%99%EA%B5%90" title="빌라노바 대학교 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="빌라노바 대학교" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universitas_Villanova" title="Universitas Villanova – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Universitas Villanova" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova_University" title="Villanova University – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Villanova University" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%98%D7%AA_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%91%D7%94" title="אוניברסיטת וילאנובה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אוניברסיטת וילאנובה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7" title="جامعة فيلانوفا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جامعة فيلانوفا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova-universiteit" title="Villanova-universiteit – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Villanova-universiteit" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8E%E3%83%90%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6" title="ビラノバ大学 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ビラノバ大学" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova_University" title="Villanova University – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Villanova University" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidade_Villanova" title="Universidade Villanova – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Universidade Villanova" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Университет Вилланова – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Университет Вилланова" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova_University" title="Villanova University – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Villanova University" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Универзитет Виланова – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Универзитет Виланова" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanovan_yliopisto" title="Villanovan yliopisto – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Villanovan yliopisto" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" 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org">Villanova University</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_University_seal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/Villanova_University_seal.svg/175px-Villanova_University_seal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/Villanova_University_seal.svg/263px-Villanova_University_seal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/Villanova_University_seal.svg/350px-Villanova_University_seal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="250" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Former names</div></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Saint Augustine's Academy (1811–) Augustinian College of Villanova (1842–1953)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Veritas, Unitas, Caritas</i> (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a></span>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Motto in English</div></th><td class="infobox-data">"Truth, Unity, Love"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Private_university" title="Private university">Private</a> <a href="/wiki/Research_university" title="Research university">research university</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1842<span class="noprint">; 182 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1842</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" title="Order of Saint Augustine">Order of Saint Augustine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Religious affiliation</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" title="Order of Saint Augustine">Augustinian</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Academic affiliations</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Financial_endowment" title="Financial endowment">Endowment</a></th><td class="infobox-data">$1.31 billion (2024)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/University_president" class="mw-redirect" title="University president">President</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_M._Donohue" title="Peter M. Donohue">Peter M. Donohue</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Undergraduate_education" title="Undergraduate education">Undergraduates</a></th><td class="infobox-data">6,791</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Postgraduate_education" title="Postgraduate education">Postgraduates</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3,108</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div style="display:inline" class="locality"><a href="/wiki/Villanova,_Pennsylvania" title="Villanova, Pennsylvania">Villanova</a></div>, <div style="display:inline" class="state"><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></div>, <div style="display:inline" class="country-name">United States</div><br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Villanova_University&params=40.03771_N_75.33755_W_region:US-PA_type:edu"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">40°02′16″N</span> <span class="longitude">75°20′15″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">40.03771°N 75.33755°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">40.03771; -75.33755</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Campus</th><td class="infobox-data">Large suburb<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, 408 acres (165 ha)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Other campuses</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Radnor_Township,_Pennsylvania" title="Radnor Township, Pennsylvania">Radnor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Villanovan" title="The Villanovan">The Villanovan</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/School_colors" title="School colors">Colors</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Blue and white<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#002664; color:white;"> </span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFFFFF; color:black;"> </span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Athletic_nickname" title="Athletic nickname">Nickname</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Villanova_Wildcats" title="Villanova Wildcats">Wildcats</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Sporting affiliations</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I" title="NCAA Division I">NCAA Division I</a> – <a href="/wiki/Big_East_Conference" title="Big East Conference">Big East</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Big_5" title="Philadelphia Big 5">Big 5</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Athletic_Association_Football_Conference" title="Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference">CAA Football</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Mascot</th><td class="infobox-data">Will D. Cat (current)<br />Count Villan (former)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://villanova.edu">villanova<wbr />.edu</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_University_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Villanova_University_logo.svg/240px-Villanova_University_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Villanova_University_logo.svg/360px-Villanova_University_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Villanova_University_logo.svg/480px-Villanova_University_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="722" data-file-height="139" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Villanova University</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Private_university" title="Private university">private</a> <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Research_university" title="Research university">research university</a> in <a href="/wiki/Villanova,_Pennsylvania" title="Villanova, Pennsylvania">Villanova, Pennsylvania</a>, United States. It was founded by the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" title="Order of Saint Augustine">Order of Saint Augustine</a> in 1842 and named after <a href="/wiki/Thomas_of_Villanova" title="Thomas of Villanova">Saint Thomas of Villanova</a>. The university is the oldest <a href="/wiki/Catholic_higher_education" title="Catholic higher education">Catholic university</a> in Pennsylvania and one of two Augustinian institutions of higher learning in the United States (the other being <a href="/wiki/Merrimack_College" title="Merrimack College">Merrimack College</a>). </p><p>The university traces its roots to the <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine_Church,_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia">old Saint Augustine's Church</a>, Philadelphia, which the Augustinian friars of the Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova founded in 1796, and to its parish school, Saint Augustine's Academy, which was established in 1811. It is <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education" title="Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education">classified</a> among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1841, two Irish <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" title="Order of Saint Augustine">Augustinian friars</a> from <a href="/wiki/Saint_Augustine" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Augustine">Saint Augustine</a>'s Church in Philadelphia, with the intention of starting a school, purchased 200 acres in Radnor Township, known as "Belle Air", the estate of the late John Rudolph, a merchant of Burlington, New Jersey and Philadelphia. The school, which was called the "Augustinian College of Villanova", opened in 1842.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Besides the <a href="/wiki/Novitiate" title="Novitiate">novitiate</a> and college, the Augustinians had pastoral care of Catholics living within a fifteen mile radius. Bishop <a href="/wiki/Francis_Kenrick" title="Francis Kenrick">Francis Kenrick</a> dedicated the chapel in 1844. Parishes at <a href="/wiki/Berwyn,_Pennsylvania" title="Berwyn, Pennsylvania">Berwyn</a>, Bryn Mawr, and Wayne developed from the Villanova mission.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> However, the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Nativist_Riots" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Nativist Riots">Philadelphia Nativist Riots</a> of 1844 that burned Saint Augustine's Church in Philadelphia caused financial difficulties for the Augustinians, and the college was closed in February 1845. The college reopened in 1846 and graduated its first class in 1847. In March 1848, the governor of Pennsylvania incorporated the school and gave it the power to grant degrees. In 1859, the first master's degree was conferred.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1857, the school closed again as the demand for priests in Philadelphia prevented adequate staffing, and the crisis of the <a href="/wiki/Panic_of_1857" title="Panic of 1857">Panic of 1857</a> strained the school financially. The school remained closed throughout the Civil War and was used as a military hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-Hoffman_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoffman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It reopened in September 1865; since then it has operated continuously.<sup id="cite_ref-vill-history1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vill-history1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its prep school later moved to <a href="/wiki/Malvern,_Pennsylvania" title="Malvern, Pennsylvania">Malvern</a>, a town along the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Main_Line" title="Philadelphia Main Line">Main Line</a>. Today it is called <a href="/wiki/Malvern_Preparatory_School" title="Malvern Preparatory School">Malvern Preparatory School</a> and is still run by the order.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oldnova.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Oldnova.jpg/250px-Oldnova.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Oldnova.jpg/375px-Oldnova.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Oldnova.jpg/500px-Oldnova.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1028" data-file-height="579" /></a><figcaption>Villanova College in 1849</figcaption></figure> <p>Villanova was all-male until 1918 when the college began evening classes to educate <a href="/wiki/Nun" title="Nun">nuns</a> to teach in <a href="/wiki/Parochial_school" title="Parochial school">parochial schools</a>. In 1938, a laywoman received a Villanova degree for the first time. When the nursing school opened in 1953, women began attending Villanova full-time.<sup id="cite_ref-Hoffman_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoffman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, the College of Engineering admitted its first female student; other colleges admitted women only as commuters. Villanova University became fully coeducational in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-vill-history1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vill-history1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, Villanova was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the <a href="/wiki/V-12_Navy_College_Training_Program" title="V-12 Navy College Training Program">V-12 Navy College Training Program</a> which offered students a path to a Navy commission.<sup id="cite_ref-villanova-v-12_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-villanova-v-12-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has since graduated 25 US Naval Admirals and Marine Corps Generals; only the Naval Academy in Annapolis has generated more.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After World War II, Villanova expanded, returning <a href="/wiki/Veterans" class="mw-redirect" title="Veterans">veterans</a> swelling enrollments and the faculty growing fourfold. Additional facilities were built, and in 1953, the college of <a href="/wiki/Nursing" title="Nursing">Nursing</a> and the School of Law were established. Villanova achieved university status on November 18, 1953. Between 1954 and 1963, 10 new buildings were built or bought on land adjacent to the campus, including Bartley, Mendel, and Dougherty Halls.<sup id="cite_ref-villanovan2405_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-villanovan2405-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Villanova and <a href="/wiki/Cabrini_University" title="Cabrini University">Cabrini University</a> issued a joint statement on June 23, 2023, announcing that Cabrini would cease operations in 2024 and be incorporated into Villanova.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campus">Campus</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Campus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Corr_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Corr_Hall.jpg/250px-Corr_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Corr_Hall.jpg/375px-Corr_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Corr_Hall.jpg/500px-Corr_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3886" data-file-height="2590" /></a><figcaption>Corr Hall from The Grotto</figcaption></figure> <p>The university is within the <a href="/wiki/Villanova,_Pennsylvania" title="Villanova, Pennsylvania">Villanova</a> <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated place</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Radnor_Township,_Pennsylvania" title="Radnor Township, Pennsylvania">Radnor Township</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Villanova University sits on 254 acres (1.03 km<sup>2</sup>) of land, situated 12 miles (19 km) from Center City <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-location_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-location-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The campus has roughly 1,500 trees.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The campus was formerly known as <a href="/wiki/Arboretum_Villanova" title="Arboretum Villanova">Arboretum Villanova</a>, but its status as an official arboretum was revoked after the university failed to meet rules and standards such as planting enough new trees and offering tours.<sup id="cite_ref-villanovan92508_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-villanovan92508-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main_campus">Main campus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Main campus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most prominent campus feature is <a href="/wiki/St._Thomas_of_Villanova_Church" title="St. Thomas of Villanova Church">St. Thomas of Villanova Church</a>, whose dual spires are the university's tallest structure. The cornerstone was laid in 1883,<sup id="cite_ref-Hoffman_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoffman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and construction ended in 1887.<sup id="cite_ref-St._Thomas_of_Villanova_Church_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-St._Thomas_of_Villanova_Church-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alumni Hall dates back to 1848 and stands as one of the oldest structures on campus. It was used as a military hospital in wartime and for influenza patients after World War I.<sup id="cite_ref-villanovan2405_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-villanovan2405-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>St. Mary's Hall was built in 1962. Laid out with long corridors and over a thousand rooms, there is a large, recently deconsecrated chapel and many partial floors, basements and sub-basements to feed the legends of blocked-off wings.<sup id="cite_ref-villanovan2405_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-villanovan2405-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Falvey Library, the campus's main research library, houses over 1 million books, thousands of periodicals, and television production studios.<sup id="cite_ref-Falvey_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Falvey-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academics">Academics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Academics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/National_Science_Foundation" title="National Science Foundation">National Science Foundation</a>, Villanova spent $26 million on research and development in 2022, ranking it 264th in the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG/250px-Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG/375px-Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG/500px-Villanova_alumni_hall.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Alumni Hall, the oldest building on campus</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><a href="/wiki/College_and_university_rankings_in_the_United_States" title="College and university rankings in the United States">Academic rankings</a></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender;">National</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Top_Colleges" title="America's Top Colleges"><i>Forbes</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_Forbes_NU_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_Forbes_NU-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">87</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report_Best_Colleges_Ranking" title="U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking"><i>U.S. News & World Report</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_USNWR_NU_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_USNWR_NU-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">58</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Monthly_college_rankings" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Monthly college rankings"><i>Washington Monthly</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_Wamo_NU_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_Wamo_NU-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">108</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal"><i>WSJ</i></a>/College Pulse<sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_WSJ_NU_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_WSJ_NU-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">79</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender;">Global</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report_Best_Global_Universities_Ranking" title="U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking"><i>U.S. News & World Report</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_USNWR_W_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_USNWR_W-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">894</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rankings">Rankings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rankings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a deliberate move to classify itself as a "national university", Villanova pushed in early 2010s to expand its doctoral programs to reach the Carnegie threshold of 20 PhDs per year.<sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_2016_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post_2016-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2016, the university's <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education" title="Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education">Carnegie Classification</a> was changed to classify Villanova among "R2: Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity".<sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_2016_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post_2016-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report" title="U.S. News & World Report">U.S. News & World Report</a></i>, which relies on this classification to define which schools should be called "national universities", included Villanova in its "National Universities" rankings for the first time in fall 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For more than a decade, Villanova University had been ranked No. 1 by <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> in the Best Masters Universities-category, Northern Region, a ranking for schools which offer undergraduate and masters programs but few doctoral programs. <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> in 2016 also ranked Villanova as second for "Best Value Schools" and fourth for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" in the Best Masters Universities-category, Northern Region, and ranked the engineering school No.11 among all national undergraduate engineering programs whose highest degree is a masters.<sup id="cite_ref-USNews_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USNews-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>U.S. News & World Report</i> ranked Villanova as tied for the 51st best National University in the U.S. for 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> removed Villanova from its list of "Best Value Colleges" in July 2022 due to incorrect data having been reported. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Villanova_School_of_Business" title="Villanova School of Business">Villanova School of Business</a> was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in <i><a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_Businessweek" title="Bloomberg Businessweek">Bloomberg Businessweek</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s 2016 rankings of undergraduate business schools, but this led to controversy and challenge. As a result Bloomberg no longer ranked undergraduate business schools after 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007 Villanova was No. 29 in the <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a>'</i> ranking of top executive <a href="/wiki/MBA" class="mw-redirect" title="MBA">MBA</a> programs.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, for the 2023 <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> Rankings of best business schools, Villanova was unranked. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Villanova_University_School_of_Law" title="Villanova University School of Law">Villanova University School of Law</a> was ranked tied for 65th among all U.S. law schools by the 2019 edition of <i>U.S. News & World Report</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s "Best Law Schools".<sup id="cite_ref-USNews_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USNews-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The School of Law had previously suffered a drop in ranking in 2011, after it was determined that law school admissions staff had engaged in inflating reported LSAT scores for admitted students. According to the ABA, these infractions were enough to justify a removal of the school's accreditation, however the quick response to the issue by the university resulted only in a censure of the school.<sup id="cite_ref-ABA_report_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABA_report-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Admissions">Admissions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Admissions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Admission to Villanova has been deemed "most selective" by <i><a href="/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report" title="U.S. News & World Report">U.S. News & World Report</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The university offers three ways to apply: Early Decision (binding), Early Action and Regular Decision.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For fall 2023, Villanova received 23,721 freshmen applications; 4,870 were admitted (21%) for a class of 1700. The middle 50% GPA range: 4.20–4.58 on a weighted 4.00 scale. The middle 50% SAT scores of the recently admitted class: 1450–1520/1600, ACT: 33–35/36.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, Villanova announced new recruiting partnerships with The <a href="/wiki/Posse_Foundation" title="Posse Foundation">Posse Foundation</a>, Philadelphia Futures and the Guadalupe Center.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Student_life">Student life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Student life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"> <caption style="font-size:90%">Student body composition as of May 2, 2022 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race and ethnicity<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2" data-sort-type="number">Total </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites" title="Non-Hispanic whites">White</a> </td> <td align="right">72% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">72</span><div style="width:144px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:gray"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic</a> </td> <td align="right">9% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">9</span><div style="width:18px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:green"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> </td> <td align="right">6% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">6</span><div style="width:12px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:purple"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">Black</a> </td> <td align="right">5% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">5</span><div style="width:10px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:mediumblue"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">4% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">4</span><div style="width:8px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:brown"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Foreign_national" title="Foreign national">Foreign national</a> </td> <td align="right">2% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">2</span><div style="width:4px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:orange"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" data-sort-type="number"><a href="/wiki/Economic_diversity" title="Economic diversity">Economic diversity</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/American_lower_class" title="American lower class">Low-income</a><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">10% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">10</span><div style="width:20px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:red"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">Affluent</a><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">90% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">90</span><div style="width:180px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:black"> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Villanova's student organizations include standard club sports, cultural organizations, Greek-letter fraternities and sororities, and more.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Villanova students participate in charitable and philanthropic activities and organizations, including the largest student-run <a href="/wiki/Special_Olympics" title="Special Olympics">Special Olympics</a> in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-special_olympics_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-special_olympics-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charity_and_community_service_organizations">Charity and community service organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Charity and community service organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Being a Catholic Augustinian school, the university has an active Campus Ministry. </p><p>The annual Special Olympics Fall Festival at Villanova University is the largest and most successful student-run Special Olympics in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It draws more than 1,000 athletes and 400 coaches from 44 Pennsylvania counties. Athletes may advance through the festival to regional and international competition. Students apply to be a part of the 82-volunteer planning committee, which works for more than nine months alongside Special Olympics Pennsylvania (SOPA), which oversees more than 300 events statewide.<sup id="cite_ref-special_olympics_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-special_olympics-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Villanova University holds an annual NOVAdance year-long fundraising effort that culminates with a 12-hour dance marathon each Spring, raising money in support of the Andrew McDonough B+ (Be Positive) Foundation. NOVAdance began in 2014, and has since then become a yearly event.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Villanova University community is noted for its participation in <a href="/wiki/Habitat_for_Humanity_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Habitat for Humanity International">Habitat for Humanity</a> In 2004, Villanova had more participants in the Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge than any other U.S. university.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Villanova's School of Engineering maintains a student chapter of <a href="/wiki/Engineers_Without_Borders_(USA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Engineers Without Borders (USA)">Engineers Without Borders</a>, a non-profit organization that focuses on helping to improve the living conditions of communities worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The chapter's inaugural project was to design and build a playground for a grade school in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> following the tragic events of <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a>. Villanova EWB was the only student organization to win an award from the regional <a href="/wiki/Project_Management_Institute" title="Project Management Institute">Project Management Institute</a>, receiving an Honorable Mention from PMI for project of the year.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most recent project involved designing and building a water treatment and distribution system which provided an orphanage and surrounding villages in northern <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> with drinking water and irrigation for their crops.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Blue Key Society consists of around 200 volunteer campus tour guides who work with the Admissions Office to give three tours each weekday, various special tours as needed and selected weekend tours throughout the school year.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Student_Government_Association">Student Government Association</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Student Government Association"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VillanovaMonastery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/VillanovaMonastery.jpg/250px-VillanovaMonastery.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/VillanovaMonastery.jpg/375px-VillanovaMonastery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/VillanovaMonastery.jpg/500px-VillanovaMonastery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>St. Thomas of Villanova Monastery</figcaption></figure><p>Founded in 1925, the Student Government Association (SGA) operates through its three branches (the Executive Branch, the Senate, and the Judicial Council). The Executive Branch is led by the President of the Student Body and Executive Vice President, and consists of the Chief of Staff and Directors of Athletics; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Finance; Programming; and Public Relations. The Senate is led by the Speaker of the Senate and consists of thirty-four Senators total, twenty-two elected representatives from the classes and schools and twelve appointed representatives from University offices and student organizations. The Judicial Council is led by the Chief Justice and consists of four Associate Justices and a Judicial Clerk.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fraternities_and_sororities">Fraternities and sororities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Fraternities and sororities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Roughly 30% of Villanova students identify with one of eleven <a href="/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities" title="Fraternities and sororities">fraternities</a>, twelve <a href="/wiki/Sorority" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorority">sororities</a>, and one service fraternity.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are no fraternity or sorority houses on-campus. The first Greek organization at the school was established in 1902 as a social organization and circle of individuals interested in classical studies.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg/250px-Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg/375px-Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg/500px-Villanova_University_A_panoramic_shot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3452" data-file-height="1462" /></a><figcaption>A panoramic view of the Main Campus in early spring</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Villanova_Emergency_Medical_Service">Villanova Emergency Medical Service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Villanova Emergency Medical Service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Villanova Emergency Medical Service (VEMS), is a student-run ambulance service licensed and dedicated to serving the campus community. VEMS membership consists of more than 40 undergraduate student volunteers; the majority of whom are certified as <a href="/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Technicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Emergency Medical Technicians">Emergency Medical Technicians</a>, volunteering more than 25,000 hours annually. Villanova is one of only a handful of colleges to provide EMS services to their campus, and one of only 52 who provide emergency response and transport to at least the Basic Life Support (BLS) Level.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VEMS has been recognized on a national level multiple times by the <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_EMS_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="National Collegiate EMS Foundation">National Collegiate EMS Foundation</a> (NCEMSF), specifically being named 2001 Campus Organization of the Year and receiving EMS website of the year in 2000, 2004, and 2006. Their skills competition team also placed in second at the 2011 Annual Physio-Control BLS Skills Competition. VEMS hosted the second annual NCEMSF Conference in 1995 as well as the twelfth annual conference in Philadelphia in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campus_publications_and_media">Campus publications and media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Campus publications and media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AKSM_EM_2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AKSM_EM_2005.jpg/200px-AKSM_EM_2005.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AKSM_EM_2005.jpg/300px-AKSM_EM_2005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AKSM_EM_2005.jpg/400px-AKSM_EM_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3840" data-file-height="5760" /></a><figcaption>St. Thomas of Villanova Church</figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Villanovan" title="The Villanovan">The Villanovan</a></i> has been an officially recognized and accredited student newspaper since its founding in 1916. The university's newspaper of record, the tabloid-sized weekly usually produces 12 issues per semester, at 6,500 copies per issue.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Belle Air Yearbook</i> is the official yearbook of the university and has been a student made production since 1922. The book is published by the <a href="/wiki/L.G._Balfour_Company" title="L.G. Balfour Company">L.G. Balfour Company</a>. The book has won numerous awards over the years including the prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown Award in 1988<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1989<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Yearbook Award for their 2017 book and the National Yearbook Sample Award for their 2019 publication.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><i>The Villanova Times</i>, the independent bi-weekly student newspaper, won the <a href="/wiki/Collegiate_Network" title="Collegiate Network">Collegiate Network</a> Award for Layout and Design in 2005–06, 2007–08 and 2008–09.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>VTV is the student-run campus television station. Starting in 1999 as the Villanova TV Production Club, the station produces news, events, films and other programming for the Villanova community, and can be seen on the campus television network.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/WXVU" title="WXVU">WXVU</a>, the FCC-licensed student-operated <a href="/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM radio station</a>, operates at 89.1 <a href="/wiki/Megahertz" class="mw-redirect" title="Megahertz">megahertz</a>. With an output of 75 watts, WXVU can be heard for 8 miles (13 km) around the campus and globally via the internet. Since 1991, the station has offered a varied program of music, news, sports, public affairs, and specialty programming.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>POLIS Literary Magazine, a student publication printed once a semester by the Villanova University Honors Program, features writing and artwork by Villanova students and professors. Each issue features creative nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and black-and-white photography focusing on a central theme.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Concept</i> is an interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies sponsored by the Graduate Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2009 student film <i><a href="/wiki/Price_of_Life" title="Price of Life">Price of Life</a></i> received critical attention.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NROTC">NROTC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: NROTC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since its inception in the summer of 1946, the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Reserve_Officers_Training_Corps" title="Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps">NROTC</a> unit on campus has produced 25 Admirals and Generals in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. At one point, there had only been two four-star generals in the U.S. Marine Corps, one of them the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and they had both been graduates of Villanova NROTC. In 2004, the commanders of both <a href="/wiki/U.S._Atlantic_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Atlantic Fleet">U.S. Naval Forces Atlantic</a> (<a href="/wiki/William_J._Fallon" title="William J. Fallon">Admiral William J. Fallon</a>) and <a href="/wiki/U.S._Pacific_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Pacific Fleet">U.S. Naval Forces Pacific</a> (<a href="/wiki/Walter_Doran" title="Walter Doran">Admiral Walter F. Doran</a>) were Villanova NROTC graduates.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Admiral Fallon was later assigned as Commander, U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. ADM Fallon was the first Navy officer to hold that position.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Student_performing_arts">Student performing arts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Student performing arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg/170px-AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg/255px-AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg/340px-AKSM_MEM_0182.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3840" data-file-height="5760" /></a><figcaption>The Special Olympics Torch arrives at the Quad of Villanova University in November 2018.</figcaption></figure> <p>Villanova University is without a formal music department; therefore, the Office of Student Performing Arts is charged with the organization of the student <a href="/wiki/Performing_arts" title="Performing arts">performing arts</a> groups on campus. Due to the lack of a music department, student musicians are from every school in the university.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nearly 10% of the student body participates in various music related organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Villanova Band is the largest and oldest musical group at Villanova with over 100 members. The Villanova Band has four divisions: the Concert Band, the Scramble Band, the Pep Band, and the Jazz Ensemble. The Concert Band plays one concert at the end of each semester. It also performs throughout the Villanova community and on its annual "Fall Tour". The Scramble Band performs for Villanova Football games between plays and at halftime on the field. The Villanova Pep Band performs at Villanova Men's and Women's Basketball games, including post-season games such as the Big East Tournament. The Jazz Ensemble and Orchestra have end-of-semester concerts and perform on campus and around the Philadelphia area several times a year. The band is made up of students of every school within Villanova.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second-largest musical group at Villanova, the Pastoral Musicians have about 60 voices and 35 instrumentalists, primarily undergraduates, up from 30 musicians in 1995. Their musical selection shows the diversity of style within the Catholic tradition: contemporary praise music from different cultures, <a href="/wiki/Bach" class="mw-redirect" title="Bach">Bach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina" title="Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina">Palestrina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mozart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozart">Mozart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morten_Lauridsen" title="Morten Lauridsen">Lauridsen</a>, and others. </p><p>Villanova's <a href="/wiki/Men%27s_chorus" title="Men's chorus">men's chorus</a>, the Villanova Singers, was founded in 1953 by Dean Harold Gill Reuschlein, then Dean of the <a href="/wiki/Villanova_University_School_of_Law" title="Villanova University School of Law">Law School</a>. The Singers were established for the stated purpose of singing various types of music and enriching the cultural life of the university.<sup id="cite_ref-vusinghist_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vusinghist-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Entirely student-run, the Singers are governed by a nine-member board of students and sing a wide range of musical styles and types, ranging from classical to contemporary. Within the Singers, there exists a smaller, student-directed <i><a href="/wiki/A_cappella" title="A cappella">a cappella</a></i> group known as the Spires. Alumni of the Spires include <a href="/wiki/Jim_Croce" title="Jim Croce">Jim Croce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tommy_West_(producer)" title="Tommy West (producer)">Tommy West</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Manhattan_Transfer" title="The Manhattan Transfer">Manhattan Transfer</a> member <a href="/wiki/Tim_Hauser" title="Tim Hauser">Tim Hauser</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vusinghist_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vusinghist-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Villanova Voices <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_chorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's chorus">women's chorus</a> is the oldest women's organization at the university. Originally called the Villanova Women's Glee Club, the group was founded by 20 women from the university's College of Nursing in 1960, shortly after Villanova became coeducational. Their attendant <i>a cappella</i> group, the Haveners, is student-directed.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Athletics">Athletics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Athletics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Villanova_Wildcats" title="Villanova Wildcats">Villanova Wildcats</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg/200px-Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg/300px-Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg/400px-Villanova_Wildcats_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="223" /></a><figcaption>Villanova Wildcats logo</figcaption></figure> <p>Villanova University teams are known as the Wildcats. They compete as a member of the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I" title="NCAA Division I">NCAA Division I</a> level, primarily competing in the <a href="/wiki/Big_East_Conference" title="Big East Conference">Big East Conference</a>. The Wildcats previously competed in the Eastern 8 Conference from 1975 to 1976 to 1979–80. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball and water polo.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The football and rowing team<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> competes in the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Athletic_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial Athletic Association">Colonial Athletic Association</a>, while the women's lacrosse team competes in the <a href="/wiki/Patriot_League" title="Patriot League">Patriot League</a>. </p><p>The Wildcats are also part of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Big_5" title="Philadelphia Big 5">Philadelphia Big 5</a>, the traditional Philadelphia-area basketball rivalry. Their fiercest crosstown rivalry is with <a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_University" title="Saint Joseph's University">Saint Joseph's University</a> ("St. Joe's"), the city's <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> university, and matches between them are called the "<a href="/wiki/Holy_War_(Villanova_vs._St._Joe%27s)" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy War (Villanova vs. St. Joe's)">Holy War</a>". </p><p>In the NCAA graduation report released on November 17, 2020, Villanova has a graduation-success rate (GSR) of 97 percent rate in the NCAA GSR method.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the GSR release, Villanova had 12 of its athletic programs post a perfect 100 percent graduation success rate for the 2010-2013 cohort. This data measures the percentage of student-athletes who entered college on institutional aid (whether athletics-based aid or otherwise) between those years and graduated within six years. Villanova had seven women's programs and five men's programs earn a 100 percent GSR in the release.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Villanova women's and men's basketball team are among the athletic program's 14 teams with a 100 percent graduation rate for 2010–13.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Men's_basketball"><span id="Men.27s_basketball"></span>Men's basketball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Men's basketball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Villanova_Wildcats_men%27s_basketball" title="Villanova Wildcats men's basketball">Villanova Wildcats men's basketball</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg/275px-Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg/413px-Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg/550px-Villanova_Parade_2018_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2499" data-file-height="1666" /></a><figcaption>Championship parade in Center City, Philadelphia on April 5, 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1985, under the direction of coach <a href="/wiki/Rollie_Massimino" title="Rollie Massimino">Rollie Massimino</a>, the men's basketball team won the <a href="/wiki/1985_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="1985 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament</a> in the first year of the 64-team field. The final game, against defending champion and ten-point-favorite <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_Hoyas" title="Georgetown Hoyas">Georgetown</a>, is often cited among the greatest upsets in college basketball history.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, the Wildcats won the 2016 NCAA Championship by defeating North Carolina 77–74. The game included the only buzzer-beater in NCAA Championship game history, when Kris Jenkins sank a three pointer to win the game.<sup id="cite_ref-Hoffman_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoffman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, Villanova defeated the Michigan Wolverines 79–62 to win the 2018 NCAA Championship in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>. The game was notable for featuring the highest scoring bench-player in NCAA Championship history in Donte Divincenzo, who scored 31 points and was awarded the Final Four MVP Award. </p><p>The home venues for the Wildcats include the on-campus 6,500 seat <a href="/wiki/Finneran_Pavilion" title="Finneran Pavilion">Finneran Pavilion</a> for smaller attendance games, as well as the larger 20,478 seat <a href="/wiki/Wells_Fargo_Center_(Philadelphia)" title="Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)">Wells Fargo Center</a> (known formerly under a variety of bank names) within the <a href="/wiki/South_Philadelphia_Sports_Complex" title="South Philadelphia Sports Complex">South Philadelphia Sports Complex</a>. The February 13, 2006 meeting between Villanova and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Connecticut" title="University of Connecticut">University of Connecticut</a> set the record for the highest attendance at a college basketball game in Pennsylvania, with 20,859 attendees.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Football">Football</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Football"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Villanova_Wildcats_football" title="Villanova Wildcats football">Villanova Wildcats football</a></div> <p>The Villanova men's football team competes in the NCAA <a href="/wiki/Football_Championship_Subdivision" class="mw-redirect" title="Football Championship Subdivision">Football Championship Subdivision</a> (formerly Division I-AA) in the <a href="/wiki/Coastal_Athletic_Association_Football_Conference" title="Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference">Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference</a>. The university continues to play in the Colonial Athletic Association for football as the <a href="/wiki/Big_East_Conference" title="Big East Conference">new, restructured Big East Conference</a> does not include football as a conference sport. </p><p>According to some sources, the 1906 Villanova team is credited with completing the first legal <a href="/wiki/Forward_pass" title="Forward pass">forward pass</a> in football history.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Men's_lacrosse"><span id="Men.27s_lacrosse"></span>Men's lacrosse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Men's lacrosse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Villanova_Wildcats_men%27s_lacrosse" title="Villanova Wildcats men's lacrosse">Villanova Wildcats men's lacrosse</a></div> <p>The Villanova men's <a href="/wiki/Lacrosse" title="Lacrosse">lacrosse</a> team competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Big_East_Conference_(1979%E2%80%932013)" title="Big East Conference (1979–2013)">Big East Conference</a>. Through 2009, Villanova men's lacrosse was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Athletic_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial Athletic Association">Colonial Athletic Association</a> and in 2009, Villanova won the CAA tournament as the fourth seed (the lowest-seeded championship team in conference history)<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for its first title.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team also made its first NCAA tournament appearance that year.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Track_and_field">Track and field</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Track and field"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Villanova University's track and field team has a long history of athletic success that has spanned from <a href="/wiki/Big_East_Conference_(1979%E2%80%932013)" title="Big East Conference (1979–2013)">Big East Conference</a> Championships to NCAA Championships.<sup id="cite_ref-trackandfield_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trackandfield-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The men's team has produced 69 NCAA Championships, 36 Indoor and 33 Outdoor. The team has had eight NCAA team Championships (four Cross Country, three Indoor, one Outdoor). Villanova has produced 28 athletes who have made appearances in the Olympics, 10 of whom have medaled (seven gold medals, three silver medals). The men's team has also won 112 Penn Relay Championships, which stands as the most wins by any school. The men's current coaches include head coach <a href="/wiki/Marcus_O%27Sullivan" title="Marcus O'Sullivan">Marcus O'Sullivan</a> and assistant head coach Anthony Williams.<sup id="cite_ref-trackandfield_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trackandfield-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The women's team has also had a multitude of success, producing 11 Big East team Championships and nine NCAA team Championships, most recently winning the 2009 and 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships. They have also produced nine Olympians including <a href="/wiki/Ron_Delany" title="Ron Delany">Ron Delany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eamonn_Coghlan" title="Eamonn Coghlan">Eamonn Coghlan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vicki_Huber" title="Vicki Huber">Vicki Huber</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonia_O%27Sullivan" title="Sonia O'Sullivan">Sonia O'Sullivan</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kim_Certain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kim Certain (page does not exist)">Kim Certain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kate_Fonshell" title="Kate Fonshell">Kate Fonshell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jen_Rhines" class="mw-redirect" title="Jen Rhines">Jen Rhines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carmen_Douma" class="mw-redirect" title="Carmen Douma">Carmen Douma</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Carrie_Tollefson" title="Carrie Tollefson">Carrie Tollefson</a>. The Women's team has won 28 Penn Relay Championships, which is the most wins by any women's team. The current women's coaches include head coach Gina Procaccio and assistant head coach Anthony Williams.<sup id="cite_ref-trackandfield_84-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trackandfield-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At least one Villanovan athlete has competed in every <a href="/wiki/Summer_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics</a> since 1948, winning a total of 13 medals (nine gold, four silver).<sup id="cite_ref-NovaMagSum2008_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NovaMagSum2008-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Traditions">Traditions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Traditions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_University_Seal">The University Seal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: The University Seal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An adaptation of the seal of the Order of St. Augustine, the seal of Villanova University is one of the campus's most ubiquitous images, adorning everything from buildings to chairs to backpacks.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A ribbon carries the university motto: <i>Veritas, Unitas, Caritas</i> (<a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cooperation" title="Cooperation">Unity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Charity_(virtue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charity (virtue)">Charity</a>), <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtues</a> to which every member of the Villanova community should aspire. A book symbolizes Augustine's dedication to education and the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> where he found Christianity. A <a href="/wiki/Cincture" title="Cincture">cincture</a> is part of the <a href="/wiki/Religious_habit" title="Religious habit">habit</a> worn by members of the Order of Saint Augustine. Hovering above is the flaming heart, symbol of Augustine's search for God and his love of neighbors. Behind the book is the <a href="/wiki/Crosier" class="mw-redirect" title="Crosier">crosier</a> – a staff traditionally held by a Bishop – commemorating Augustine's service as Bishop of <a href="/wiki/Hippo_Regius" title="Hippo Regius">Hippo</a>. Above and behind the book are two <a href="/wiki/Christian_cross" title="Christian cross">crosses</a>, symbolic of Augustine's conversion and the university's commitment to Catholicism. Framing the central portion of the seal is a <a href="/wiki/Laurel_wreath" title="Laurel wreath">laurel wreath</a> exemplifying victory through the pursuit of knowledge, and 1842 is the year of the university's founding. Surrounding the seal is the incorporated fide of the university: <i>Universitas Villanova In Statu Pennsylvaniae</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Liberty_Bell's_"Sister_Bell""><span id="The_Liberty_Bell.27s_.22Sister_Bell.22"></span>The Liberty Bell's "Sister Bell"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: The Liberty Bell's "Sister Bell""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG/250px-Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG/375px-Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG/500px-Villanova_Old_Falvey.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The old wing of the Falvey Library</figcaption></figure> <p>Villanova University was home to the <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Bell" title="Liberty Bell">Liberty Bell</a>'s "Sister Bell", the replacement bell ordered from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry after the original bell cracked in 1753.<sup id="cite_ref-sisterbell1_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sisterbell1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This new bell was installed at the Pennsylvania State House, now known as <a href="/wiki/Independence_Hall" title="Independence Hall">Independence Hall</a>, and attached to the State House clock. The Sister Bell rang the hours until the late 1820s, when the bell was removed during a renovation and loaned to the <a href="/wiki/Olde_St._Augustine_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Olde St. Augustine Church">Olde St. Augustine Church</a> in Philadelphia. In 1829, the bell was hung in a new cupola and tower designed by architect <a href="/wiki/William_Strickland_(architect)" title="William Strickland (architect)">William Strickland</a>. There it remained until May 8, 1844, when it was destroyed, along with the Olde St. Augustine Church, during the Philadelphia Nativist riots. The friars of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" title="Order of Saint Augustine">Order of Saint Augustine</a> had the "Sister Bell" recast and transferred to Villanova University.<sup id="cite_ref-sisterbell1_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sisterbell1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bell was moved off campus in 2011. </p><p>At the university's centennial celebration, the bell was rung by <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Joseph_Dougherty" title="Dennis Joseph Dougherty">Archbishop Dennis Joseph Dougherty</a> to open the ceremonies. In 1954, the bell was displayed as part of an exhibit at <a href="/wiki/Gimbels" title="Gimbels">Gimbels</a> department store in Philadelphia that focused on the growth and development of the university.<sup id="cite_ref-sisterbell2_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sisterbell2-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Sister Bell is currently enshrined in the Heritage Room on the basement floor of the St. Thomas of Villanova Monastery on the university's campus.<sup id="cite_ref-sisterbell1_87-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sisterbell1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sisterbell2_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sisterbell2-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alumni">Alumni</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Alumni"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Villanova_University_alumni" title="List of Villanova University alumni">List of Villanova University alumni</a></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-nolines center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jalen Brunson, NBA All-Star basketball player"><img alt="Jalen Brunson, NBA All-Star basketball player" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg/80px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg/120px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg/160px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Jalen_Brunson_bringing_the_ball_upcourt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1114" data-file-height="1671" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Jalen_Brunson" title="Jalen Brunson">Jalen Brunson</a>, NBA All-Star basketball player</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States and former Second Lady of the United States"><img alt="Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States and former Second Lady of the United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg/80px-Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg/120px-Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg/160px-Jill_Biden_official_portrait_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Biden" title="Jill Biden">Jill Biden</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States" title="First Lady of the United States">First Lady of the United States</a> and former <a href="/wiki/Second_Lady_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Lady of the United States">Second Lady of the United States</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Maria_Bello_(31621213980).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Maria Bello, actress"><img alt="Maria Bello, actress" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Maria_Bello_%2831621213980%29.jpg/90px-Maria_Bello_%2831621213980%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Maria_Bello_%2831621213980%29.jpg/135px-Maria_Bello_%2831621213980%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Maria_Bello_%2831621213980%29.jpg/180px-Maria_Bello_%2831621213980%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Maria_Bello" title="Maria Bello">Maria Bello</a>, actress</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Ed Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania and former Mayor of Philadelphia"><img alt="Ed Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania and former Mayor of Philadelphia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG/120px-Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG/180px-Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG/240px-Ed_Rendell_ID2004_crop.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3030" data-file-height="2808" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Ed_Rendell" title="Ed Rendell">Ed Rendell</a>, former <a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Pennsylvania">Governor of Pennsylvania</a> and former <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of mayors of Philadelphia">Mayor of Philadelphia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Glasto17-44_(35547413626)_Cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bradley Cooper, actor"><img alt="Bradley Cooper, actor" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Glasto17-44_%2835547413626%29_Cropped.jpg/80px-Glasto17-44_%2835547413626%29_Cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Glasto17-44_%2835547413626%29_Cropped.jpg/120px-Glasto17-44_%2835547413626%29_Cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Glasto17-44_%2835547413626%29_Cropped.jpg/160px-Glasto17-44_%2835547413626%29_Cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="734" data-file-height="1101" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Cooper" title="Bradley Cooper">Bradley Cooper</a>, actor</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Toby Keith, country music singer"><img alt="Toby Keith, country music singer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg/78px-TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg" decoding="async" width="78" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg/117px-TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg/156px-TobyKeith_CampLeMonier.jpg 2x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="473" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Toby_Keith" title="Toby Keith">Toby Keith</a>, country music singer</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kyle_Lowry_(26715268738).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kyle Lowry, NBA basketball player"><img alt="Kyle Lowry, NBA basketball player" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kyle_Lowry_%2826715268738%29.jpg/71px-Kyle_Lowry_%2826715268738%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="71" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kyle_Lowry_%2826715268738%29.jpg/106px-Kyle_Lowry_%2826715268738%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kyle_Lowry_%2826715268738%29.jpg/142px-Kyle_Lowry_%2826715268738%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1732" data-file-height="2929" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kyle_Lowry" title="Kyle Lowry">Kyle Lowry</a>, <a href="/wiki/NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a> basketball player</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Xavier_Suarez.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Xavier Suarez, former Mayor of Miami, Florida"><img alt="Xavier Suarez, former Mayor of Miami, Florida" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Xavier_Suarez.jpg/94px-Xavier_Suarez.jpg" decoding="async" width="94" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Xavier_Suarez.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="120" data-file-height="153" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Xavier_Suarez" title="Xavier Suarez">Xavier Suarez</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Miami,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Miami, Florida">Mayor of Miami, Florida</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jim-Croce-r01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jim Croce, folk and rock singer-songwriter"><img alt="Jim Croce, folk and rock singer-songwriter" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Jim-Croce-r01.jpg/85px-Jim-Croce-r01.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Jim-Croce-r01.jpg/128px-Jim-Croce-r01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Jim-Croce-r01.jpg/171px-Jim-Croce-r01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1458" data-file-height="2044" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Croce" title="Jim Croce">Jim Croce</a>, folk and rock singer-songwriter</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Denver_Riggleman,_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Denver Riggleman, former U.S. Representative"><img alt="Denver Riggleman, former U.S. Representative" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Denver_Riggleman%2C_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg/80px-Denver_Riggleman%2C_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Denver_Riggleman%2C_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg/120px-Denver_Riggleman%2C_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Denver_Riggleman%2C_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg/160px-Denver_Riggleman%2C_official_116th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1584" data-file-height="2375" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Denver_Riggleman" title="Denver Riggleman">Denver Riggleman</a>, former <a href="/wiki/U.S._Representative" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Representative">U.S. Representative</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chad Wolf, former Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security"><img alt="Chad Wolf, former Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg/91px-Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="91" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg/136px-Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg/182px-Chad_Wolf_official_portrait_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1819" data-file-height="2400" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Chad_Wolf" title="Chad Wolf">Chad Wolf</a>, former Acting <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Secretary of Homeland Security">United States Secretary of Homeland Security</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Donte DiVincenzo, NBA basketball player"><img alt="Donte DiVincenzo, NBA basketball player" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg/80px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg/120px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg/160px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Donte_DiVincenzo_watches_free_throw.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1249" data-file-height="1873" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Donte_DiVincenzo" title="Donte DiVincenzo">Donte DiVincenzo</a>, NBA basketball player</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Howie Long, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end and sports analyst"><img alt="Howie Long, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end and sports analyst" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg/73px-Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg" decoding="async" width="73" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg/110px-Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg/147px-Howie_Long_-_American_Football_Player_TV_host.jpg 2x" data-file-width="531" data-file-height="867" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Howie_Long" title="Howie Long">Howie Long</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame">Pro Football Hall of Fame</a> <a href="/wiki/Defensive_end" title="Defensive end">defensive end</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sports_analyst" title="Sports analyst">sports analyst</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sonia O'Sullivan, former track and field Olympian"><img alt="Sonia O'Sullivan, former track and field Olympian" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg/80px-Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg/120px-Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg/160px-Sonia_osullivan_2000-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="577" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Sonia_O%27Sullivan" title="Sonia O'Sullivan">Sonia O'Sullivan</a>, former track and field Olympian</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis"><img alt="Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg/96px-Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg/144px-Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg/192px-Jacob_Frey_at_Nicollet_Mall_reopening_2017-11-16_-_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4906" data-file-height="6133" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Frey" title="Jacob Frey">Jacob Frey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Minneapolis" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Minneapolis">Mayor of Minneapolis</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Don McLean, singer and songwriter"><img alt="Don McLean, singer and songwriter" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg/120px-Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg/180px-Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg/240px-Don_McLean_in_Gateshead_UK_May_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="383" data-file-height="383" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Don_McLean" title="Don McLean">Don McLean</a>, singer and songwriter</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Josh Hart, NBA basketball player"><img alt="Josh Hart, NBA basketball player" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg/86px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg/129px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg/172px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Josh_Hart_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1602" data-file-height="2231" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Josh_Hart" title="Josh Hart">Josh Hart</a>, NBA basketball player</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mikal Bridges, NBA basketball player"><img alt="Mikal Bridges, NBA basketball player" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg/80px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg/120px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg/160px-20170213_Villanova-Depaul_Mikal_Bridges_on_the_move.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1011" data-file-height="1517" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Mikal_Bridges" title="Mikal Bridges">Mikal Bridges</a>, NBA basketball player</div> </li> </ul> <p>Villanova University has produced many notable alumni: </p><p><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe">Golden Globe</a>-nominated actress <a href="/wiki/Maria_Bello" title="Maria Bello">Maria Bello</a>, <a href="/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News">NBC News</a> (<a href="/wiki/WCAU" title="WCAU">WCAU</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Award</a>-winning news anchor <a href="/wiki/Keith_Jones_(broadcaster)" title="Keith Jones (broadcaster)">Keith Jones</a>, actor <a href="/wiki/Jon_Polito" title="Jon Polito">Jon Polito</a>, <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> Hall of Famer, longtime FOX commentator and actor <a href="/wiki/Howie_Long" title="Howie Long">Howie Long</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/The_Manhattan_Transfer" title="The Manhattan Transfer">Manhattan Transfer</a> <a href="/wiki/Tim_Hauser" title="Tim Hauser">Tim Hauser</a>, singer-songwriters <a href="/wiki/Jim_Croce" title="Jim Croce">Jim Croce</a> and <a href="/wiki/Don_McLean" title="Don McLean">Don McLean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony Award</a>-winning playwright and screenwriter <a href="/wiki/David_Rabe" title="David Rabe">David Rabe</a>, fashion model and entrepreneur <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Parr" class="mw-redirect" title="Katherine Parr">Katherine Parr</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> professional athletes <a href="/wiki/Brian_Westbrook" title="Brian Westbrook">Brian Westbrook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Szczur" title="Matt Szczur">Matt Szczur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Kittles" title="Kerry Kittles">Kerry Kittles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Williams" title="Alvin Williams">Alvin Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Reilly_(American_football)" title="Kevin Reilly (American football)">Kevin Reilly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Lowry" title="Kyle Lowry">Kyle Lowry</a>, professional wrestler <a href="/wiki/Wheeler_Yuta" title="Wheeler Yuta">Wheeler Yuta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Bradley_(basketball)" title="Michael Bradley (basketball)">Michael Bradley</a>, and Boston Celtic <a href="/wiki/Allan_Ray" title="Allan Ray">Allan Ray</a>. </p><p>Villanova has produced several military and governmental officials, including former Pennsylvania Governor <a href="/wiki/Ed_Rendell" title="Ed Rendell">Ed Rendell</a>, former New Hampshire Senator <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Ayotte" title="Kelly Ayotte">Kelly Ayotte</a> (Villanova Law), and former Connecticut Governor <a href="/wiki/John_G._Rowland" title="John G. Rowland">John G. Rowland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wife to the governor and <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge">federal judge</a> for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Rendell" title="Marjorie Rendell">Marjorie Rendell</a>, is also a graduate. Numerous Marine generals and Naval Admirals are products of Villanova's <a href="/wiki/NROTC" class="mw-redirect" title="NROTC">Naval ROTC</a> program, including <a href="/wiki/William_J._Fallon" title="William J. Fallon">William J. Fallon</a>, Admiral in the United States Navy and Commander of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Central_Command" title="United States Central Command">United States Central Command</a>; <a href="/wiki/George_B._Crist" title="George B. Crist">George B. Crist</a>, Marine General and the first Marine to be designated Commander in Chief, Central Command; and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Clancy_(Secret_Service)" title="Joseph Clancy (Secret Service)">Joe Clancy</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Director_of_the_United_States_Secret_Service" title="Director of the United States Secret Service">Director of the United States Secret Service</a>. Another graduate, <a href="/wiki/Paul_X._Kelley" title="Paul X. Kelley">Paul X. Kelley</a>, served as Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. </p><p>In business, alumni include <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_J._Darretta,_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert J. Darretta, Jr. (page does not exist)">Robert J. Darretta, Jr.</a> – chief financial officer and vice chairman of <a href="/wiki/Johnson_%26_Johnson" title="Johnson & Johnson">Johnson & Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Drosdick" title="John Drosdick">John Drosdick</a> – former CEO of <a href="/wiki/Sunoco" title="Sunoco">Sunoco</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_G._Labrecque" title="Thomas G. Labrecque">Thomas G. Labrecque</a> – former chairman and CEO of <a href="/wiki/Chase_Manhattan_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Chase Manhattan Bank">Chase Manhattan Bank</a>. </p><p>Other notable alumni include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll" title="Sean M. Carroll">Sean Carroll</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Cosmologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmologist">cosmologist</a> and science popularizer.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Hennessy</a>, former president of <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deirdre_Imus" title="Deirdre Imus">Deirdre Imus</a>, oncologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_O%27Connor_(cardinal)" title="John O'Connor (cardinal)">John Joseph O'Connor</a>, Cardinal Archbishop of the <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdiocese of New York">Archdiocese of New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emellia_Prokopik" title="Emellia Prokopik">Emellia Prokopik</a>, Superior General of a nuns' congregation<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Villanova_University&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: See 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Schulte</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Edward_Thomas" title="Daniel Edward Thomas">Daniel Edward Thomas</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jerome_Welsh" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Jerome Welsh">Thomas Jerome Welsh</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Edward_Michael_Deliman" title="Edward Michael Deliman">Edward Michael Deliman</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Fitzgerald_(bishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael J. Fitzgerald (bishop)">Michael J. Fitzgerald</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Timothy_C._Senior" title="Timothy C. Senior">Timothy C. 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>Cathedral</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul_(Philadelphia)" title="Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia)">Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Parish churches</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_churches_in_the_Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Philadelphia" title="List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia">List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Immaculate_Conception_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Northern_Liberties),_Philadelphia" title="Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church (Northern Liberties), Philadelphia">Immaculate Conception</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Old_St._Joseph%27s_Church" title="Old St. Joseph's Church">Old St. Joseph</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Philadelphia)" title="St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)">Old St. Mary</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Adalbert_in_Philadelphia" title="St. Adalbert in Philadelphia">St. Adalbert</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Agatha_%E2%80%93_St._James_Church" title="St. Agatha – St. James Church">St. Agatha and St. James</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saint_Anne_Church_(Philadelphia)" title="Saint Anne Church (Philadelphia)">St. Anne</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Augustine_Church,_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia">St. Augustine</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Basil_the_Great,_Kimberton" title="St. Basil the Great, Kimberton">St. Basil the Great</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Cyprian_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Philadelphia)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Cyprian Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)">St. Cyprian</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Donato_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Philadelphia)" title="St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)">St. Donato</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Francis_de_Sales_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Philadelphia)" title="St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)">St. Francis de Sales</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Joachim_Church,_Philadelphia" title="St. Joachim Church, Philadelphia">St. Joachim</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Philadelphia" title="St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia">St. Michael</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St_Nicholas_of_Tolentine,_Philadelphia" title="St Nicholas of Tolentine, Philadelphia">St. Nicholas of Tolentine</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Thomas_the_Apostle_Church_(Glen_Mills)" title="St. Thomas the Apostle Church (Glen Mills)">St. Thomas the Apostle Church</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._William_Parish_(Lawncrest)" title="St. William Parish (Lawncrest)">St. William</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Chapels and shrines</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Ges%C3%BA_(Philadelphia)" title="Church of the Gesú (Philadelphia)">Church of the Gesú</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_Shrine_of_Our_Lady_of_Czestochowa" title="National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa">National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_Shrine_of_Saint_John_Neumann" title="National Shrine of Saint John Neumann">National Shrine of St. John Neumann</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Former</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church_(Philadelphia)" title="Holy Trinity Church (Philadelphia)">Holy Trinity</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:gold;width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>Seminary</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Charles_Borromeo_Seminary" title="St. Charles Borromeo Seminary">St. Charles Borromeo Seminary</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Higher education</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chestnut_Hill_College" title="Chestnut Hill College">Chestnut Hill College</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gwynedd_Mercy_University" title="Gwynedd Mercy University">Gwynedd Mercy University</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Holy_Family_University" title="Holy Family University">Holy Family University</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Immaculata_University" title="Immaculata University">Immaculata University</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Salle_University" title="La Salle University">La Salle University</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neumann_University" title="Neumann University">Neumann University</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rosemont_College" title="Rosemont College">Rosemont College</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_University" title="Saint Joseph's University">Saint Joseph's University</a></dd> <dd><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Villanova University</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>High schools</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Notre_Dame_de_Namur" title="Academy of Notre Dame de Namur">Acad. of Notre Dame de Namur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_John_Carroll_High_School" title="Archbishop John Carroll High School">Archbishop John Carroll</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Prendergast_High_School" title="Archbishop Prendergast High School">Archbishop Prendergast</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Ryan_High_School" title="Archbishop Ryan High School">Archbishop Ryan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Wood_Catholic_High_School" title="Archbishop Wood Catholic High School">Archbishop Wood</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bishop_McDevitt_High_School_(Wyncote,_Pennsylvania)" title="Bishop McDevitt High School (Wyncote, Pennsylvania)">Bishop McDevitt</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bishop_Shanahan_High_School" title="Bishop Shanahan High School">Bishop Shanahan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cardinal_O%27Hara_High_School_(Springfield,_Pennsylvania)" title="Cardinal O'Hara High School (Springfield, Pennsylvania)">Cardinal O'Hara</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Conwell-Egan_Catholic_High_School" title="Conwell-Egan Catholic High School">Conwell-Egan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Country_Day_School_of_the_Sacred_Heart" class="mw-redirect" title="Country Day School of the Sacred Heart">Country Day School of the Sacred Heart</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Devon_Preparatory_School" title="Devon Preparatory School">Devon Prep</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Father_Judge_High_School" title="Father Judge High School">Father Judge</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gwynedd_Mercy_Academy_High_School" title="Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School">Gwynedd Mercy Academy</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Holy_Ghost_Preparatory_School" title="Holy Ghost Preparatory School">Holy Ghost Prep</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/J._W._Hallahan_Catholic_Girls_High_School" title="J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School">John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Salle_College_High_School" title="La Salle College High School">La Salle College HS</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Lansdale_Catholic_High_School" title="Lansdale Catholic High School">Lansdale Catholic</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Little_Flower_Catholic_High_School_for_Girls" title="Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls">Little Flower</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Malvern_Preparatory_School" title="Malvern Preparatory School">Malvern Prep</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mercy_Career_%26_Technical_High_School" title="Mercy Career & Technical High School">Mercy Career & Technical</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Merion_Mercy_Academy" title="Merion Mercy Academy">Merion Mercy Acad.</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Monsignor_Bonner_High_School" title="Monsignor Bonner High School">Monsignor Bonner</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mount_Saint_Joseph_Academy_(Flourtown,_Pennsylvania)" title="Mount Saint Joseph Academy (Flourtown, Pennsylvania)">Mount Saint Joseph Acad.</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nazareth_Academy_High_School" title="Nazareth Academy High School">Nazareth Acad.</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II_High_School_(Royersford,_Pennsylvania)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pope John Paul II High School (Royersford, Pennsylvania)">Pope John Paul II</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_High_School" title="Roman Catholic High School">Roman Catholic HS for Boys</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saint_Basil_Academy_(Jenkintown,_Pennsylvania)" title="Saint Basil Academy (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania)">Saint Basil Academy</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_Preparatory_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Joseph's Preparatory School">Saint Joseph's Prep</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saints_John_Neumann_and_Maria_Goretti_Catholic_High_School" title="Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School">Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Hubert_Catholic_High_School_for_Girls" title="St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls">St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Villa_Joseph_Marie_High_School" title="Villa Joseph Marie High School">Villa Joseph Marie</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Villa_Maria_Academy_(Malvern,_Pennsylvania)" title="Villa Maria Academy (Malvern, Pennsylvania)">Villa Maria Academy</a></dd></dl> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Closed" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Closed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Dougherty_High_School" title="Cardinal Dougherty High School">Cardinal Dougherty High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._James_High_School_for_Boys" title="St. James High School for Boys">St. James High School for Boys</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:gold;width:1%">Priests</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>Living</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Edward_Joseph_Adams" title="Edward Joseph Adams">Edward Joseph Adams</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Bevard" title="Herbert Bevard">Herbert Bevard</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Bransfield" title="Michael J. Bransfield">Michael J. Bransfield</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Coffey" title="Joseph L. Coffey">Joseph L. Coffey</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/James_Green_(bishop)" title="James Green (bishop)">James Green</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Pepe" title="Joseph A. Pepe">Joseph A. Pepe</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nelson_J._P%C3%A9rez" title="Nelson J. Pérez">Nelson J. Pérez</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Deceased</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Anthony_Galante" title="Joseph Anthony Galante">Joseph Anthony Galante</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Francis_Brennan_(cardinal)" title="Francis Brennan (cardinal)">Francis Brennan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Byrne" title="Edwin Byrne">Edwin Byrne</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/George_Aloysius_Carrell" title="George Aloysius Carrell">George Aloysius Carrell</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hubert_James_Cartwright" title="Hubert James Cartwright">Hubert James Cartwright</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._Corrigan" title="Joseph M. 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