International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas

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The International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Spanish: Consejo Internacional de Universidades Santo Tomás de Aquino) is a world-wide network of universities inspired by the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Generally known as ICUSTA, it promotes academic exchange between students, professors and researchers. ICUSTA unites some 23 universities, with over 200,000 students on the five continents.

International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas
AbbreviationICUSTA
Formation1993
TypeINGO
Legal statusAssociation
PurposeEducational, humanitarian and religious
HeadquartersUniversity of Saint Thomas
Location
Membership
30 universities
President
Hervé Magnouloux, President of Catholic Institute of Higher Studies – ICES
Main organ
Assembly/conference
Websitewww.stthom.edu/icusta

Mission

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ICUSTA has as its main mission, to unite all the Catholic universities based on the intellectual, pedagogical and methodologic principles of Thomism, the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas, in order to create and to integrate university policies. This takes the form of increasing the interchange between students and professors, the development of joint plans between the various institutions and the sharing of information and programs.

History

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ICUSTA grew out of a meeting in 1993 between representatives of the University of St. Thomas (Houston) and Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile. They were soon joined by the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, and the Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia. In 1995 in Rome, a second conference was held which was attended by 12 universities. There a permanent international organization was established with bylaws and protocols for the accomplishment of the ICUSTA mission.

In the successive conferences additional members were added. The later meetings were in Manila, in 1997; in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1999; in Rome, in 2001; in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 2003; and in Barcelona, Spain, in 2005, Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia (2007), and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland (2009).

ICUSTA returned to the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomás in the Philippines in 2011 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of this great university in 1611. In 2013, the conference will be held in France at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies - ICES. In 2015, ICUSTA hold its biennial meeting for the first time in Africa at the University of St. Thomas of Mozambique for the 12th Biennial.

Members

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Location University Website
  Luanda, Angola Universidade Católica de Angola www.ucan.edu
  Mar del Plata, Argentina Universidad Fraternidad de Agrupaciones
Santo Tomás de Aquino (FASTA)
www.ufasta.edu.ar
  Tucumán, Argentina Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino www.unsta.edu.ar
  Buenos Aires, Argentina Universidad Católica Argentina www.uca.edu.ar
  Sydney, Australia Campion College Australia www.campion.edu.au
  Sydney, Fremantle, Broome, Australia University of Notre Dame Australia www.nd.edu.au
  Sydney, Australia Australian Catholic University www.acu.edu.au
  New Brunswick, Canada Saint Thomas University www.stu.ca
  Santiago, Chile Universidad Santo Tomás www.ust.cl
  Bogota, Colombia Universidad Santo Tomás www.usantotomas.edu.co
  Santiago de los Caballeros,
       Dominican Republic
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra www.pucmmsti.edu.do
  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopian Catholic University of St. Thomas Aquinas [1]
  La Roche-sur-Yon, France Catholic Institute of Higher Studies - ICES www.ices.fr
  Tegucigalpa, Honduras Universidad Santo Tomás N/A
  Medan, Indonesia Universitas Katolik Santo Thomas www.ust.ac.id
  Limerick, Ireland Mary Immaculate College www.mic.ul.ie
  Rome, Italy Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) www.angelicum.org
  Ehime, Japan Sei Katarina Daigaku www.catherine.ac.jp
  Osaka, Japan Sei Tomasu Daigaku www.st.thomas.ac.jp
  Maputo, Mozambique Universidade São Tomás de Moçambique www.ustm.ac.mz
  Imo State, Nigeria Catholic University of Nigeria N/A
  Lima, Peru Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú www.pucp.edu.pe
  Legazpi City, Philippines University of Santo Tomás - Legazpi www.aq.edu.ph
  Manila, Philippines Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomás www.ust.edu.ph
  Madrid, Spain Universidad CEU San Pablo www.ceu.es
  Barcelona, Spain Abat Oliba CEU University www.uao.es
  Valencia, Spain Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera www.uch.ceu.es
  Lugano, Switzerland Facultà di Teología di Lugano www.teologialugano.ch
  California, USA Thomas Aquinas College www.thomasaquinas.edu
  Ohio, USA Ohio Dominican University www.ohiodominican.edu
  Texas, USA University of Saint Thomas www.stthom.edu
  Minnesota, USA University of Saint Thomas www.stthomas.edu

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