Catholic University of Leuwen (Leuwen-the-New)

See also: catholic University of Leuwen

The catholic Université of Leuwen (UCL) is a Belgian university French-speaking.

Following the scission of the catholic University of Leuwen (founded in 1425) in two juridically independent entities (1968), the French-speaking university was established in its major Leuwen-the-New part with (the Walloon Brabant) since 1972 and with Woluwé-Saint-Lambert for the medical college, the Dutch-speaking university remaining with Leuwen, under the name of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).

Since the June 29th 2004, the UCL belongs to the Académie Leuwen, the network of the catholic universities French-speaking of Belgium. After almost three years of active collaboration in this network, the vice-chancellors of the four catholic universities, the FUCaM, FUNDP, FUSL and UCL, decided, the March 12th 2007, to start negotiations for fusion, in the medium term, of the four establishments in only one university, which will be called on all the sites catholic Université of Leuwen .

Description

The town of Leuwen-the-New was built by the university to accommodate the university, in order to make it possible the university to remain open on the world. Previously, the area was mainly agricultural. Leuwen-the-new is now a city in full expansion, whose Urbanisme clever attracts many inhabitants. The university buildings are established at several places of the city.

The administrative center of the university is placed in the university Markets (in Leuwen, it was in old markets with cloths), located place of the University, with the top of the station. In the center, in the neighborhoods of the Town square is the human Faculty of Science: faculties of theology, the institute of higher learning of philosophy, the faculty of philosophy and letters, the Faculty of Law, the faculty of political sciences, economic and social and the faculty of psychology and sciences of education. The institute of physical education and readjustment (attached to the medical college) is located in Hocaille while the sporting center is higher (Blocry). On the other side of the city, in Biéreau, are the science, Faculty of Science applied (civil engineers) and of biological, agronomic and environmental engineering (bio-engineers).

The university is financed by the French Communauté of Belgium and decrees diplomas recognized by this one. The faculty of theology decrees canonical diplomas, having value for the canonical Droit of the Roman Catholic church.

The Faculté of Médecine is with Brussels (Woluwe-Saint-Lambert). Other faculties are with Leuwen-the-New.

History

  • 1968 : following the linguistic problems, maintenance in Leuwen of the French section, the dissatisfaction with the Dutch-speaking students. Introduction of students into the councils facultaires. The University of Louvain is then divided into two distinct universities, one Dutch-speaking, always in activity with Leuwen, the other, French-speaking, which will settle in the Walloon Brabant, in the commune of Ottignies.

See also: Crisis of Leuwen

  • February 2nd 1971: pose first Leuwen-the-New stone with , new Ville intended for the establishment of the French-speaking people of “the Romance” ground UCL. Except the case of Charleroi (Spanish fortress of 1666), Leuwen-the-New is to date only the new Ville on the Belgian ground .

  • 1979 : Leuwen-the-New end of the transfer of faculties to , with the installation of the Faculty of philosophy and letters.

  • 1995 : creation of the university Institute of pedagogy and the multimedias.

  • 1999 : creation of the Leuwen Foundation and the Academic institute of continuing education.

21e century

  • 2004 : within the framework of the harmonization of the European higher learning decided by the Declaration of Bologna, the UCL starts an in-depth reform of its teaching in all faculties.

Vice-chancellors

  • of 1969 at 1986: Mgr Edouard Massaux (1920)

Starting from Pierre Macq, the vice-chancellors are named for a five years renewable mandate.

Personalities related to the UCL

Professors

Doctors honoris causa

Students

References

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