De La Salle University De La Salle University ( fil, Pamantasang De La Salle or Unibersidad ng De La Salle), also referred to as DLSU, De La Salle or La Salle, is a private university, private, Catholic Church, Catholic coeducational research university run by the I ...

( tl, Pamantasang De La Salle) (DLSU) is a Catholic

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Lasallian university in Malate,

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

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. It was founded in 1911 by

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as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director. DLSU traces its founding to Manila Archbishop

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. He believed that the establishment of a La Salle school in Manila was instrumental in preempting the spread of

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through the arrival of the Thomasites and

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missions. His request would later be endorsed in 1907 by

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Pius X. An envoy of De La Salle Brothers arrived in 1910. More than a century ago, the De La Salle College (DLSC) was established as an exclusive all boys' elementary and

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. The pre-war grade school and high school departments of DLSC were finally dissolved in 1968 and 1978 respectively. DLSU currently offers

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and graduate degree programs through its seven colleges and one school specializing in varied disciplines, including business, engineering, computer sciences, education and liberal arts. DLSU, granted university status in February 1975, is the oldest constituent of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), a network of 16 Lasallian institutions established in 2006 to replace the

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. The Lasallians affiliated with De La Salle University include over 100,000 alumni, 888 faculty, honorary degree recipients and university administrators. Among them are

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ees, officials of the

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and the government of the Philippines

Alumni and faculty

Alumni

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Faculty

Honorary degree recipients

:''DA – Doctor of Arts; DBM – Doctor of Business Management; EdD – Doctor of Education; LHD – Doctor of Humane Letters; DHum – Doctor of Humanities; LLD –

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; LittD – Doctor of Letters; DMgt – Doctor of Management; DNatSc – Doctor of Natural Science; PedD – Doctor of Pedagogy; PhD –

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; ScD –

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Presidents

De La Salle University has had 21 presidents, including two acting presidents. The first,

Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn Brother Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn FSC was an American De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was Acting President of the De La Salle College in Manila while Brother Lucian Athanasius Reinhart ...

, acted in

Lucian Athanasius Reinhart Brother Lucian Athanasius Reinhart, F.S.C. was an American De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was a President of De La Salle College in Manila. Early life He was born James Hyde Reinh ...

's capacity during his return to the United States while the second, Naj Robosa, completed Reinhart's office when he died in 1950.

References

External links

De La Salle Alumni AssociationDe La Salle University
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