University of Louisville

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The University of Louisville is a state-supported research university located in Kentucky's largest metropolitan area. It was a municipally supported public institution for many decades before joining the university system in 1970. The University has three campuses. The 287-acre Belknap Campus is three miles from downtown Louisville and houses seven of the University's 12 colleges and schools. The Health Sciences Center is situated in downtown Louisville's medical complex and houses the University's health-related programs and the University of Louisville Hospital. The 243-acre Shelby Campus is located in eastern Jefferson County.

The University of Louisville pursues excellence and inclusiveness in its work to educate and serve its community through:

1. It teaches diverse undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to develop engaged citizens, leaders, and scholars.
2. Practicing and applying research, scholarship, and creative activity.
3. Providing engaged service and outreach that improve the quality of life for local and global communities.

The University is committed to achieving preeminence as a nationally recognized metropolitan research university.

The University of Louisville offers more than 200-degree programs allowing for a personalized learning experience that equips you with the knowledge and resources to be successful and make your unique impact on the world. Find your one-of-a-kind learning experience with access to 12 schools and colleges. With that many areas of study, you have the flexibility to explore multiple career options and determine the path that is right for you.

The Office of Study Abroad and International Travel, located in the International Center, can help you find a program that will allow you to use your financial aid to help you find scholarships to help you receive academic credit and make sure you do not lose any time towards graduation.

The University of Louisville is a premier, metropolitan research institution bursting with creativity and ideas. The vision of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation is to support those ideas, helping them grow and spread so they can change, improve, and even save lives.

We do this by providing support for our scholarly community as they work to explore and increase our collective understanding of the world through art, science, business, and many different disciplines. We also teach our students the value of those pursuits, molding them into the next generation of thinkers, creators, explorers, and leaders. UofL is an ambitious institution continuously meeting the bar, then set it higher. Our national and international vision and scope recognize our campus' leadership role in advancing the understanding and transforming the lives of the people and institutions both on- and off-campus throughout the city, state, country, and world.

As such, we seek to be a leader of academic research, artistic exploration, scientific and technological innovation, and economic growth. We develop and attract talented, energetic people and ideas with a thorough understanding of our global community. And we promote a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation that inspires and energizes the creativity of the region.

The ambitious goal of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation is to promote and support research, scholarship, and creative activities to assist faculty and staff in obtaining intramural and extramural support to serve as an advocate for the value of research and scholarly activity in an educational setting to enhance the vitality of campus-based research and to encourage its use to enrich education, enhance technology transfer and serve the community.

On April 3, 1798, eight men declared their intention to establish the Jefferson Seminary in Louisville. They called upon their fellow citizens to join them in pledging funds for land, buildings, and teachers. Occurring a few weeks after the Kentucky legislature had chartered this academy and several others in the new state, this event marked the beginning of an advanced education level for the young people of a frontier settlement barely two decades old. Near the end of the eighteenth century, these early Louisvillians took the first steps on a journey that would link them with succeeding generations to the modern University of Louisville in the twenty-first century.

Jefferson Seminary struggled. It did not open until the fall of 1813, and in 1829 it closed. The Louisville Medical Institute (LMI), chartered in 1833, opened in 1837, and the Louisville Collegiate Institute (LCI) was chartered the same year. In 1840 LCI was renamed Louisville College, and in 1844, it inherited the portion of the estate of Jefferson Seminary designated for the use of higher education in Louisville. LMI attracted large enrollments and prospered financially, but the college had difficulty remaining open. Proponents of grassroots democracy wanted to divert a portion of the medical school's resources to the college. They won a partial victory in 1846, when the Kentucky legislature created the University of Louisville proper, combining the medical school, the college, and a newly created law school. Although there was now a joint board of trustees, each division retained financial autonomy, and the college did not survive.

Neeli Bendapudi became the University's 18th president in May 2018. She leads a university that has become known for its academic excellence, transformational research, service to the community, and educational opportunity advancement. Its academic programs attract students from every state and around the world. The University is well-positioned to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the state legislature: to become a premier, nationally recognized metropolitan research university.

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