Immaculata University Information

Coordinates: 40°01′44″N 75°34′18″W / 40.02899°N 75.57169°W / 40.02899; -75.57169

Immaculata University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and located in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The university is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church through the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

The university is composed of 1,427 traditional undergraduate and adult undergraduate students, and more than 1,000 graduate and doctoral students. The university is located on more than 300 acres (120 ha).

Immaculata was founded as Villa Maria College, a womens college in 1920. It was the first Catholic college for women in the Philadelphia area. The name was changed to Immaculata College in 1929.

Founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Immaculata is part of the greater IHM community, which includes the neighboring House of Studies and an academy for girls (now split into two campuses, Lower School and High School). The University became co-educational in the fall of 2005.

The current location of Immaculata University is a tract of land in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the "Main Line" in Malvern, purchased by the sisters in 1906. The original 198-acre (0.80 km2) plot has grown to 373 acres (1.51 km2) since that time.

In June 2002, Immaculata College received confirmation of university status from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Effective August 2002, the college is now known as Immaculata University.

Barbara Lettiere assumed the office as the tenth president of Immaculata University on July 1, 2017, and is the first lay president of Immaculata.

The Immaculata Leadership Institute is a program which develops religious leadership.

A number of clubs and activities in which Immaculata students have the opportunity to participate include:

The Immaculatan is the student newspaper published with funds from the College of Undergraduate Studies.

The university sports teams are known as the Mighty Macs, their colors are blue and white. Immaculata is part of the Colonial States Athletic Conference through the 2017–18 school year, after which the school will become a charter member of the new Atlantic East Conference. Immaculata sponsors nineteen athletic teams, nine mens teams and ten womens teams. Immaculata Mens Basketball Team won the CSAC Championship in 2008. Immaculata women won the first three national championships (1972–74) under the banner of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), which was founded in 1971 and governed womens intercollegiate sports until the AIAW was supplanted by the NCAA in 1982. The school fields a number of sports teams.

Varsity Teams: 21 (10 mens, 11 womens)

Conference: Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) through 2017–18; Atlantic East Conference thereafterAffiliation: NCAA Division IIINickname: Mighty MacsColors: Blue and White

Draper Walsh Stadium (Sprint turf surface) for field hockey, lacrosse, and soccer – 1,000 capacityIU Softball Field (grass)IU Baseball Stadium (grass) – 600 capacity

There is a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) which encourages athletics.

The womens basketball team played in six straight AIAW basketball tournament final fours from 1972-1977, five straight finals from 1972-1976. They won three consecutive national championships from 1972 to 1974. The team was featured for its 1970s accomplishments on a SportsCenter special on March 23, 2008.

On January 26, 1975, Immaculata played in the first nationally televised womens intercollegiate basketball game. Facing Maryland at Cole Field House, Immaculata won 80-48 in a game noted more for its turnovers (70) than scoring (56 field goals, 16 free throws).

On February 22, 1975 they played in the first womens college basketball game ever played in Madison Square Garden. Immaculata won 65-61. On January 4, 2015, Immaculata and Queens College played in the Maggie Dixon Classic as a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the first game played between womens college basketball teams in Madison Square Garden.

The story of the basketball team was adapted into a movie, The Mighty Macs, which was released in 2011.

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