scoscox wrote:
It doesn't look like it's meant to be an official history page.
That was my point, scoscox.
The homepages of all ten of the official websites of the Big East schools have tabs at the top labelled ‘
About’. In the
About section, nine of the schools have a tab entitled ‘
History’. Xavier does not, which I believe is a poor decision by the university. XU would be well-advised to add a
History section to their official website containing something like the following, which has more information than either Xavier’s official website or the Wikipedia article about Xavier University.
Xavier University History – Ohio History Central.org
In 1831, Bishop Edward Fenick established a college called the Athenaeum in Cincinnati. This school was the first Roman Catholic college founded in Ohio. Nine years later, Bishop John Purcell determined that Cincinnati would make a good location for a Catholic university to be run by the Society of Jesus. He proposed that the Athenaeum's property would be a good site for the new university. As a result, in 1840 the Jesuits took control of the Athenaeum, renaming it St. Xavier College in honor of the founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Francis Xavier. The college received its charter from the state in 1842. Students were originally charged forty dollars a year for tuition at St. Xavier.
Read on …If I was a high school student who was considering Xavier University and other Big East institutions to further my education, I would be quite interested in learning about the history of each school I was considering. The official websites of nine Big East institutions provide me with that information with two mouse clicks . . .
About and
History. If I wanted to learn about Xavier’s history, I would have to Google it, and wonder why Xavier doesn’t have a school history webpage.
If I were a Xavier student or alumnus, I would be proud to read about the history of my school on the XU official website, and be proud to have others read about that history.