The College of St. Scholastica

The College of St. Scholastica

 



Our History


The College of St. Scholastica is a Catholic Benedictine institution and the only independent private college in northeaster Minnesota.

The College of St. Scholastica is a Catholic Benedictine institution founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters who offered college courses to six young women. Today St. Scholastica educates more than 3,250 men and women and has graduated more than 14,000 alumni.

St. Scholastica is consistently recognized for excellance by US News & World Report magazine. The magazine's 2008 "America's Best Colleges" ranks St. Scholastica in the Top Tier of regional universities in the Midwest. St. Scholastica has been called a "hidden gem" by the Washington Post.

The Master of Science in Nursing program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The College of St. Scholastica is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association.

Our Benedictine Heritage


Community: Sharing responsibility to create and support community. Creating a climate which promotes a sense of community while valuing the uniqueness of the individual. Manifesting an ability to adapt to circumstances without compromising our values.

Hospitality: Creating a welcoming atmosphere personally and institutionally. Listening and responding sensitively to all. Extending warmth and acceptance to all. Welcoming new ideas and being open to change.

Respect: Cherishing and promoting the worth of all human life. Treating persons with dignity and reverence without regard to age, gender, race, minority, sexual preference or economic status. Honoring and supporting the spirituality of each person. Valuing the dignity of all work. Promoting participation of all persons in the decisions affecting their lives.

Stewardship: Utilizing human resources responsibly. Providing wise and respectful use of all material and monetary resources. Promoting prudent use of resources and energy. Finding time for work, play and prayer in daily life, which will promote physical, mental and spiritual growth.

Love of Learning: Preserving the intellectual and material heritage entrusted to us by past generations. Transmitting the treasures of human culture to new generations. Creating scholarly, artistic and scientific works which enrich and enlarge human life. Integrating thought and action as complementary aspects of a full human life.

Mission and Philosophy


As an integral component of the College of St. Scholastica, the Department of Nursing embraces the Benedictine values of community, hospitality, respect, stewardship and love of learning. As a community of learners, we are committed to educating baccalaureate leaders prepared to care for others, in a manner that honors and respects the unity of body, mind and spirit. Through caring for one another and ourselves in a holistic way, we develop a deep level of compassion which allows us to respond to others in a manner that promotes the healing of individuals, families, communities, and our world.

Nursing is fundamentally a holistic endeavor on which the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual welfare of persons depends. It is the enactment of nurses' moral imperative to care for persons in health and illness at the most significant, vulnerable, and mundane moments of their lives, including birth and death. A person's experience of health and illness is inseparable from the nurse's intention, presence, and action at these moments.

Nursing does its healing work in a relational environment of connection, compassion, caring, creativity, and critical intention. The profession is informed not only by the liberal arts and sciences, technology, and integrative therapies, but also by the knowledge that relationships can be healing in and of themselves.

First and foremost, in its healing relationships with individuals, families, colleagues, communities, and populations, nursing respects and upholds the inherent dignity and worth of all creation. The least among us have been created by God and have infinite, if unrecognized, capacities for change and healing, balance and harmony. Nursing works in committed partnership with those it serves to use its specialized knowledge of health and illness to actualize those capacities.

Academic Quality and Value


Academic Quality and Value - Education to prepare students for:

  • CSS has over 100 years of providing nursing education
  • Shaped by the Catholic Benedictine heritage
  • Recognizes what registered nurses bring with them in terms of past education and experience
  • Nursing Portfolio allows students to receive credit for prior RN experience
  • Lifelong learning

Accreditation


The Department of Nursing and the College of St. Scholastica are fully accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and approved by the Minnesota State Board of Nursing.