Creighton University

Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Over the summer months, the university’s Enterprise Applications Team has been working in collaboration with Campus EAI to design a portal website for the Creighton University community. Our focus has centered on creating a tool for students (our initial primary audience) which features single sign-on, campus news, social networking, and integration with grades and course schedules.

In the coming months, we will be meeting with various groups on campus to develop rich content and communities of users. We look forward to expanding the capabilities of this portal and further meeting the needs of students, staff, and faculty members. We are very excited about the possibilities for enhancing communication and allowing easier access to applications which are core to the daily interactions of the campus community.

The university was founded as Creighton University on September 2, 1878 through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who stipulated in her will that a school be established in memory of her husband, prominent Omaha businessman Edward Creighton. Edward’s brother, John A. Creighton, is credited with fostering and sustaining the university’s early growth and endowment.

Creighton boasts an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1 as well as 33 endowed chairs in various disciplines. Creighton University is included among colleges and universities that produced the most 2009-2010 U. S. Fulbright Fellows. The University also has had students awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship each year from 2006 to 2010.

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