Loyola College in Maryland will next year become known as Loyola University Maryland.
The school’s executive committee of the Board of Trustees announced Wednesday that it affirmed and ratified the name change, which the full board approved in April. The change takes effect Aug. 15, 2009.
The university name “represents the comprehensive institution we are today,” Loyola’s president, the Rev. Brian F. Linnane, said in a statement.
He added: “That being said, the change does not signify a shift in philosophy or a move away from the sense of community that is a hallmark of a Loyola education, but rather a more complete and accurate description of the institution we are already.”
The Jesuit Catholic school on Charles Street in Baltimore becomes the fourth Loyola University, joining schools in Chicago, New Orleans and Los Angeles.
Graduate students make up more than 40 percent of the school’s about 6,000 students.
The change still needs to be endorsed by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and Loyola officials are expected to submit a petition within the next several days.
