1907 |
CICM missionaries arrived in the Philippines mandated by the Holy See to evangelize the northern part of the country. |
1911 |
Rev. Fr. Serafino De Vesse, CICM, made a dream come true when he founded the St. Louis Mission School, a one-room wooden shack with ten pupils. |
1915 |
St. Louis School soon became a trade school under Fr. Florimond Carlu, and with the Canonesses of St. Augustine, became a full-complement primary school with the start of the intermediate grades. |
1921 |
The school was named St. Louis School after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, patron saint of the University. St. Louis School was expanded to the high school level with a separate campus on Cathedral Hill for high school boys, and another at Campo Filipino for the elementary and high school girls. |
1951 |
After the outbreak of WWII, the school reopened and rose above the ruins. The Boys’ High School was placed under the care of CICM Missionaries, and the girls High School under the ICM sisters. |
1952 |
The Combined efforts of Msgr. William Brasseur and Rev. Fr. Rafael Desmedt founded Saint Louis College, then consisting of three departments: Education, Liberal Arts, Commerce and Secretarial. The school started with only 75 students. |
1954 |
The Colleges of Engineering and Law were started. |
1956 |
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was started. |
1963 |
Saint Louis College was renamed Saint Louis University after it was conferred with a University status by the Philippine government on May 16, 1963. It was the first private university in northern Philippines to be conferred such distinction. |
1967 |
The College of Liberal Arts expanded into the College of Human Sciences and College of Natural Sciences. |
1976 |
The College of Medicine and the College of Nursing were started. |
1977 |
Cognizant of the need to serve the health needs of the Baguio community, the SLU Hospital of the Sacred Heart was built and inaugurated. The hospital also serves as a training hospital for the students of the Colleges of Medicine and Nursing. |
1982 |
After undergoing a rigid period of evaluation, SLU was granted a deregulated status by the Philippine Association of Accrediting Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). |
1983 |
The Dr. Waldo S. Perfecto Building was erected and inaugurated. |
1985 |
The investiture ceremony of Rev. Fr. Joseph Van Den Daelen, CICM was held. |
1986 |
SLU celebrated 75 years Diamond Jubilee Year with the theme “Sharing Wisdom Building Values for God and Country.”. |
1990 |
The Institute for Information and Computer Science (IICS) was started. |
1993 |
The Center for Culture and the Arts was inaugurated on May 27. |
1994 |
The IICS became the College of Information and Computing Sciences. |
1996 |
The Covered Court was inaugurated. |
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Rev. Fr. Paul Van Parijs, CICM, was appointed as the 5th President of SLU. |
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The administration of the post-graduate and undergraduate levels was integrated. Each College assumed the responsibility for the administration of specific programs in all levels. |
1997 |
The SLU Laboratory High School was granted its five-year accreditation status by the PAASCU. |
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The SLU Hospital of the Sacred Heart acquired the most modern CT Scan Machine. |
1999 |
Phase I of the Partnership Program among SLU,BSU,Belgian Government Development Agency and the Flemish Inter-University Council was approved and signed. |
2000 |
The SLU Natural Sciences Research Unit was inaugurated through the support of the Flemish Inter-University Council of Belgium. |
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The SLU Internet Library was inaugurated. |
2001 |
SLU was granted Full Autonomy Status by the Commission on Higher Education(CHED) in accordance with the pertinent provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1994. |
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The SLU College of Nursing celebrated its Silver Jubilee. |
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SLU and the University of the Cordilleras signed a Memorandum of Agreement on April 6, 2001 for the offering of Master in Science in Civil Engineering major in Geotechnical Engineering. |
| 2002 |
SLU inaugurated the Sunflower Children’s Center, a center that promotes the welfare and rights of children. |
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SLU, University of the Cordilleras and Benguet Sate University signed a Memorandum of Agreement on April 24,2002 to offer the course in Master of Science in Mountain Engineering. |
| 2003 |
SLU signed the cooperation commitment with Flemish Universities in Belgium for the University Cooperation Programme involving SLU and Benguet State University and funded by the Belgian government. |
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The SLU College of Education celebrated its Golden Anniversary. |
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Inauguration of the Burgos Administrative Center, the Physical Education Building, SLU Laboratory High School New Annex Building and the bronze statue of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, SLU’s Patron Saint. |
| 2004 |
The SLU Museum of Arts and Cultures was re-opened to the public. |
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SLU was tapped by the ASEAN-EU University Network Programme to undertake a project on the establishment of a distance study course on Business Economics and Business Reporting. |
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SLU was ranked third among 296 schools nationwide with high passing rates in various licensure examinations covering the period 1999 to 2003 by the Professional Regulation Commission and the Commission on Higher Education. |
| 2005 |
The SLU Student Center was inaugurated. It is composed of a 268-bed men’s dormitory, a mess hall and a public canteen. |
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SLU and Sungkonghoe University in Seoul, Korea signed a partnership for the Special Program for English Language and Literature for the latter’s students. |
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SLU and BayanTel Communications signed a partnership for the establishment of a broadband Internet access platform in the university’s Internet Libraries. |
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Rev. Fr. Jessie M. Hechanova was installed as the 6th President of SLU. He is the first natural born Filipino Citizen to hold the highest position in the University. |
| 2006 |
SLU celebrates its 94th Foundation anniversary with the first-ever "Handog ng SLU sa Baguio" at the Melvin Jones, Burnham Park. |
