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WYNNEFIELD
… its strength is its community members!
4900 Block Wynnefield Avenue
Wynnefield is a predominately, African American, middle-class neighborhood in West Philadelphia.
Its borders are 53rd Street at Jefferson to the south, Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park to the east, City Avenue (commonly referred to as “City Line”) to the north and the AMTRAK “Main Line” tracks to the west. Surrounding neighborhoods include Bala Cynwyd to the north, Wynnefield Heights, to the east, Parkside, to the south, and Overbrook, to the west. Its main commercial arteries are North 54th Street, Bryn Mawr Avenue (2200 block), and City Avenue. It is the home of St. Joseph’s University, a Catholic Jesuit University of some 7,000 students and the television station WPHL-TV (MY PHL 17).
Saint Joseph University also called SJU or St. Joe’s is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic University, was founded in 1851 by the Society of Jesus. The college is located partially in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. In 1927, in recognition of population shifts toward the western part of the city and into the western suburbs, the college moved to its current location, 54th and City Avenue, at the entrance to Philadelphia’s fashionable Main Line.
For the very first time, in the fall of 1970, the undergraduate day college opened its doors to women. The Institution was later recognized as a university by the Secretary of Education of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July 24, 1978. Saint Joseph’s has grown in physical size and scope since 2000, and as of 2008, was ranked eighth among Best Universities-Master’s (North) in U.S. News and World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges 2009″ edition while the Haub School of Business is ranked 57th nationally.
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