2014

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked Santa Clara University No. 20 on its list of best values among private universities in the West/Southwest for 2015, and No. 38 on its list of best values among private universities nationwide.

A veteran Silicon Valley tech-company founder and technology pioneer has donated $10 million in matching and direct funds to Santa Clara University School of Law to fund a new technologically advanced, collaboration-oriented law school building.

A Santa Clara University graduate is among good company, winning the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship announced this weekend. Aven Satre Meloy ‘13 joins a long list of successful leaders to win the prize including former President Bill Clinton and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff. Rhodes scholars receive funding to study at Oxford University in England.

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU, which includes the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, is creating eight new initiatives that will expand faculty and programs in the study of Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Mormon and Buddhist religions, as well as in Dharma Studies.

On Jan. 23, 2015, the Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal will bring together prominent scholars, practitioners, and entrepreneurs to discuss Open Source in the Legal Field.

Santa Clara University religious studies and pastoral ministries professor Paul Crowley, S.J., has been appointed the next editor of the journal Theological Studies, by its board of directors.

Santa Clara University received the generous gift of Phil and Peggy Holland's free online small business course content and business-training website, www.myownbusiness.org, and $10 million to expand and improve the course and create the My Own Business Institute (MOBI) and a fellows program.

A $2 million gift from Katharine V. Alexander in honor of her beloved late husband George J. Alexander, will help create the Katharine and George Alexander Professorship of Law.

Santa Clara University’s Board of Trustees elected a new trustee, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Haley.

Thirteen recent graduates of Santa Clara University are working across the country and the world in year-long stints with Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) and Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.

Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering added a new tool to its program that monitors and controls satellites. The Mobile Mission Control Lab (MMCL) is a 28-foot trailer loaded with equipment that allows students to communicate with satellites for longer periods of time than ever before.

It’s all about family at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University this season. Creative in Common, on view through March 15, 2015, explores creative ties among family members across generations and through chosen partnerships.

A new symbol of Santa Clara University spirit and pride made possible by SCU alumni now greets the Bronco community on the west side of campus. The newly dedicated bronze Bronco stands more than 10 feet off the ground and is a reminder of SCU’s renewed focus on Bronco pride, and building and supporting a national reputation for academic and athletic excellence.

Fourteen Santa Clara University art history students have teamed up with San Diego pharmaceutical scientist and art philanthropist Charles Betlach to create a student-curated exhibit "Interrupting Entropy."

Santa Clara University will celebrate two decades of representing workers, immigrants and consumers as it marks the 20th anniversary of The Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, a civil clinical program of the Santa Clara University School of Law.

The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University is among 10 schools that received grants for pilot programs integrating science into core theological curricula, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Thriving Neighbors Initiative is a one-year-old partnership between Santa Clara University and the Greater Washington community in San Jose. A celebratory Open House will be held at Washington Elementary School on Oct. 28.

Reflecting high demand for hands-on legal help for startup entrepreneurs, Santa Clara University School of Law’s year-old Entrepreneurs' Law Clinic has recently expanded in capacity, serving twice as many entrepreneurs and providing hands-on experience to 50 percent more law students.

The accounting program at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business was ranked 8th best in the nation by LinkedIn's "career outcomes" study.

Santa Clara University’s School of Education and Counseling Psychology is launching a new endeavor to promote the importance of developing leadership and life skills featuring one of the most successful coaches in collegiate soccer. The Jerry Smith Coaching for Life Academy (JSCFLA) is SCU’s first sports leadership program and will host its inaugural workshop next week on Thursday, Oct. 9. The Academy’s mission is to help educate and prepare coaches, players, and parents to achieve success in sports and life.

Santa Clara University's ethics and high-tech law programs will receive $346,000 for education and privacy-protection work, as a result of a lawsuit settlement.

Dozens of Silicon Valley employers will visit with students on Santa Clara University’s campus tomorrow in hopes of attracting some of the Bay Area’s brightest talent. The Fall Career Fair will feature more than 150 companies including Gap Inc., Cisco, Kaiser Permanente, The Walt Disney Company, Stryker, the Tech Museum, and Tesla, which will have a Model S on display.

Two California laws supported by the Northern California Innocence Project at SCU, to helps wrongfully convicted prisoners obtain DNA testing or overturn convictions based on outdated expert testimony, were signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Leaders from Janet Napolitano to Cornel West will speak on the role of social justice, faith and intellectual engagement in the lives of today's leaders, as part of the yearlong Bannan Institute speaker series at Santa Clara University's Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. The series runs from Oct. 3, 2014 through May 19, 2015.

A new program being offered by Santa Clara University and eBay Foundation will bring the best lessons from "social entrepreneurship" to 11 Bay Area organizations.