of historic significance. The university is home to the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy.
Salve is a member of the NCAA Division III. In 2022 about 520 students – about 18% of the student body – participated in intercollegiate athletics.
== History ==
On March 6, 1934, the state of Rhode Island granted a charter to the Sisters of Mercy of Providence for a corporation to be named Salve Regina College (translated from the Latin as "Hail Queen"). The charter specified that the college would exist "to promote virtue, and piety and learning". In 1947 the corporation received the gift of Ochre Court, a 50-room Newport mansion from businessman Robert Goelet IV, and admitted its first class of 58 students in the autumn of that year. The college's first president was Mary Matthew Doyle (1870–1960), who was also the first Mother Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy of Providence.
During the 1950s two more buildings were added to the campus: Moore Hall, originally built in 1890, was donated to the …
