Mission and Practices
Historic Preservation identifies, preserves, restores, and adapts the best of our built environment.
It supports and enhances business, tourism, and home ownership by protecting and improving districts, neighborhoods, structures, works of art, and other significant elements of material culture throughout the nation.
In doing so, preservation contributes to the reduction of urban blight and encourages government and community participation in maintaining the integrity of cities and the built environment.
Establishing Philosophy and Practice
Preservation philosophy and best practices are established through conversation and consensus at national and regional conferences and through the offices of the Secretary of the Interior.
At the local level, preservation standards are interpreted and, when needed, modified to serve the best interests of the community's identity and history.
Preservation officers, government planners, community leaders, developers, architects, and trades people share in the responsibility of maintaining the integrity of the built environment with regard to the health, safety, and welfare of current and future occupants.
In preserving material aspects of our country's history, we are using the past in order to protect and strengthen the future.
Ursuline's Program
The program will develop preservationists who actively participate in, and assume responsibility for, maintaining and restoring the built environment by following the letter and the spirit of local, state, and federal preservation laws.
- Integrate the Ursuline Mission with emphasis on values and social responsibility
- Communicate effectively in the language of the discipline
- Accurately document buildings and historic sites
- Participate in preservation legal cases
- Write successful grant applications
- Prepare plans for adaptive reuse and rehabilitation
- Demonstrate the economic advantages of rehabilitation and adaptive reuse
- Dialogue with community and government leaders to champion a sustainable society
- Advocate the protection of vulnerable properties from demolition
- Compete successfully for employment in the field
- Become leaders in the field of Historic Preservation
For more information
Contact the Admissions Office at 1-888-URSULINE or 1-440-449-4203.
