The current Campus Saint-Jean evolved from a series of institutional forms. It was first founded by the
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate as the , as a
juniorate or
Catholic school for boys considering the priesthood, in 1908 in
Pincher Creek in Southern Alberta. It moved to its present location in
Bonnie Doon, Edmonton in 1911. In 1942, Edmonton's
Jesuit College closed and the renamed became Edmonton's only French Catholic college, by this time affiliated with the
University of Ottawa. There was a girls' school run by the Convent of the
Sisters of the Assumption in Edmonton but girls did not attend the or until 1960. In 1963 the switched its affiliation to the
University of Alberta, becoming part of the Faculty of Arts in 1966. The University of Alberta then bought the school from the Oblates in 1976 and made it a separate faculty within the university in 1977 as the (often shorted to "the Fac"). In September 2005 the name was changed once again to in order to better represent the expansion it had undergone. It by then had four program sections that spanned what would be regarded as different faculties with the English section of the university: sciences, fine arts and languages, social sciences and education. There were also several programs that are offered as joint programs with the other faculties such as
engineering,
nursing and
business administration. In 2020 the filed a lawsuit against the university and the Government of Alberta alleging "chronic under-funding" that violated the terms of the 1976 sale agreement. ==Publications==