The Order of Society of Jesus in Central Java decided to find a teacher-training institute. By then, the Order had run a one-year diploma course in education. With the support of the Congregatio de Propaganda Gide, Father Kester, S.J., then Superior of the Jesuit Missionaries, united these courses into a higher learning institution and was born Santa Dharma Teacher Training Institute with four departments: Education, English, History, and Exact Sciences. The Superior of the Jesuit Missionaries appointed Father Nicolaus Drijarkara, S.J. as the Dean and Father H. Loeff as his Vice-Dean.
Santa Dharma was renamed Santa Dharma Faculty of Teacher Training and Education and was a member of the Association of Catholic Universities in Indonesia. This Faculty changed its name and became Santa Dharma Institute of Teacher Training and Education. This institute has run Bachelor and diploma level programs in Mathematics, Physics, Indonesian, English, and Social Sciences, especially History and Economics. Santa Dharma Institute of Teacher Training and Education became Sanata Dharma University. It runs seven faculties with twenty-three undergraduate study programs, three graduate programs, two professional education programs, and numerous language courses.
The meaning of the logo of Santa Dharma University:
- The frame is a five-angle lotus. Lotus = glory, five angles = Pancasila (the five basic principles of the Republic of Indonesia)
- The torch symbolizes high spirited life
- The opened book symbolizes constantly developing knowledge
- The brown lotus symbolizes mature behavior
- "Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam" means for the greater glory of God
The motto of the university is Excellent & Humanist. The university's vision is to be an excellent and humanistic truth-seeker for the realization of a more dignified society. The mission of the university are:
- To develop a holistic education system which integrates academic excellence and human values through a personal-care-oriented, dialogical, pluralistic, and transformative approach
- To create a university academic community which respects academic freedom and scientific autonomy, can promote interdisciplinary cooperation, prioritizes scientific insight depth rather than breadth in an attempt for seeking truth through education, research, and public service activities and
- To bring about enlightenment that sharpens society's mind by the publication of the results of education, research, and public service activities, through the promotion of cooperation with various partners who have shared vision and concerns, and through the empowerment of graduates developing concrete commitment in the society.
Santa Dharma University aims to educate the youths by integrating academic excellence and humanistic values rooted in the universal Christian values and humanity as stated in Pancasila (the ideology of five principles) to obtain academic abilities following their primary and high integrity.
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