St. Catherine University
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St. Kate's hopes name change will attract more students
Click here for more take KARE of your EDUCATION ST. PAUL, Minn. -- For 104 years it has been a mainstay on the corner of Randolph and Cleveland in St. Paul. Sister Mary Virginia Micka, of the sisters of St. Joseph, is one of the oldest living graduates of the college. She graduated in 1941. Today, she joined hundreds to say goodbye. It is the end of the College of St. Catherine and the beginning of St. Catherine University. A name change sure, but a shift as well. The decision to become a University came last year when the school's board realized the word college wasn't boding well world-wide. "Certainly internationally college is thought of in a different way, we don't see it as more prestige, just more accurate," St. Catherine University president Andrea Lee said Monday. Being a University means offering just a little more in terms of post-graduate work, and a larger selection of programs. Plus, some just like the sound of it. "St. Catherine University, doesn't it have a nice ring to it," Lee said. It certainly does, and the only cost associated with the change is the aesthetic, new signs, banners, and stationary are all on order. But with all of this talk about a name, it's fair to address a question always abuzz in Highland Park. Why is it St. Catherine with a "c", and St. Kate with a "k"? "Why? You know I don't know the answer to that, I don't!" Lee said. The President didn't know, nor did much of the staff in our informal inquiry. It was only that elder Katie who held a clue. "We are not predictable, we never have been," Sr. Micka said with a laugh.
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