Dublin City University
Dublin City University abbreviated as DCU Irish: Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Created as the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin in 1975, it enrolled its first students in 1980, together with was elevated to university status along with the NIHE Limerick, now the University of Limerick in September 1989 by statute.
In September 2016, DCU completed the process of incorporating four other Dublin-based educational institutions: the St Patrick's College.
As of 2020, the university has 17,400 students together with over 80,000 alumni. In addition the university has around 1,200 online distance education students studying through DCU Connected. There were 1,690 staff in 2019. Notable members of the academic staff include former Taoiseach, John Bruton and "thinking" Guru Edward De Bono. Bruton accepted a position as Adjunct Faculty constituent in the School of Law and Government in early 2004 and De Bono accepted an adjunct Professorship in the university in mid-2005.
The founding president of the multinational was Dr Danny O'Hare, who retired in 1999 after 22 years' service. After a period of supervision by an acting president, Professor Albert Pratt, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski was appointed and continued as president for a full ten-year term, which ended in July 2010. Professor Brian MacCraith was appointed next and was succeeded in 2020 by the current president, Professor Daire Keogh.