History
The predecessors for the modern university were Mount St. Scholastica College, an all-women's campus established in 1923 and named for Benedict of Nursia's twin sister Scholastica, and St. Benedict's College, an all-men's campus established in 1858 and named for Benedict of Nursia, founder of modern western monasticism. In 1970, Fr. Alcuin Hemmen, OSB, president of St. Benedict's College, announced that St. Benedict's would become a co-educational college, a move which blindsided Sr. Mary Noel Walter, OSB, president of Mount St. Scholastica College, who had been proposing a merger of the two colleges for over a year. Following Fr. Alcuin's announcement, Sr. Mary Noel organized discussion of a merger. It was agreed upon, and the universities merged on July 1, 1971 to form the current Benedictine College. The separate colleges' corporations remain in existence for scholarships and land ownership purposes and allowed the newly formed college a free 50 year lease of the separate colleges' facilities on their campuses. Benedictine College terminated the lease of the facilities on its South Campus from Mount St. Scholastica College on October 1, 1989 amidst financial hardship. It continues to lease property from St. Benedict's College.
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