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Articles of Incorporation of DePaul University

We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, desiring to associate ourselves for the lawful purposes hereinafter stated, and for the purpose of forming a corporation (not for pecuniary profit) under the provisions of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations," approved April 18, 1872, and of the several acts amendatory thereof, do hereby state and certify as follows, to wit:

1. The name by which the corporation shall be known in law is DePaul University.

2. The particular objects for which said corporation is formed are to provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms; to establish, conduct and maintain one or more academies, preparatory schools, or departments; such academies, preparatory schools or departments, to be located in the City of Chicago or elsewhere, as may be deemed advisable; to establish, maintain, and conduct manual training schools in connection with such preparatory departments; to establish and maintain one or more colleges, and to provide instruction in all collegiate studies; to establish and maintain a university in which may be taught all branches of higher learning, and which may comprise and embrace separate departments for literature, law, medicine, music, technology; the various branches of science, both abstract and applied, the cultivation of the fine arts, and all other branches of professional and technical education which may properly be included within the purposes and objects of the university, and to provide and maintain courses of study, to employ professors, instructors and teachers, and to maintain and control the government and discipline in said University and in each of the several academies, preparatory schools, or other institutions subordinate thereto, and to fix the rates of tuition and the qualifications of admission to the University and its various departments; to receive, hold, invest and disburse all moneys or property, or the income thereof, which may be invested or entrusted to the care of the said corporation, whether by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, for educational purposes; to act as trustee for persons desiring to give or provide moneys or property, or the income thereof, for any one or more of the departments of the University, and for any of the objects aforesaid, or for any educational purposes; and generally to pursue and promote all or any of the objects above named and to do all and every of the things necessary or pertaining to the accomplishment of said objects or any of them.

3. The management of the corporation shall be vested in a Board of Trustees. The number of Trustees may be increased or decreased by the Membership at any of the meetings of the Membership. Trustees shall be elected by the Members in such a manner and for such terms of office as shall be provided in the By-Laws.

At least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting Membership of the Corporation shall be members of the religious society called in the Roman Catholic Church, The Congregation of the Mission.

No test of particular religious profession shall ever be held as a requisite for admission to said University, or to any department belonging thereto, or which shall be under the supervision or control of the Corporation or for election to any professorship, or any place of honor or emolument in said Corporation or in any of its departments or institutions of learning.

4. The authority to amend the By-Laws of the Corporation shall be vested in the Board of Trustees of the Corporation, provided, however, that no amendment thereof shall affect the authority, rights or duties of the Members of the Corporation, or the manner of exercise or performance of the same. The authority to amend the By-Laws of the Corporation which affect the authority, rights or duties of the Members of the Corporation, or the manner of exercise or performance of the same is reserved to the Members of the Corporation.

5. The principal office of this University shall be in the City of Chicago, County of Cook, and State of Illinois.

6. The following persons are hereby selected as Trustees to control and manage said Corporation for its first year of Corporate existence, to wit:

This Charter was granted by the Secretary of State, James A. Rose, 24th day of December, A.D., 1907.
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1. The above represents the Articles of Incorporation currently in force, August 1, 1986.

2. Articles 3 and 4 of the original Articles of Incorporation were amended on the following occasions:

a. Minutes of the Board of Members of the Corporation, April 26, 1967.
b. Minutes of the Board of Members of the Corporation, November 20, 1967.
c. Minutes of the Board of Members of the Corporation, September 14, 1981.

3. A copy of the original Articles of Incorporation is found in the Minute Book of the Board of Trustees, signed by Wm. P. Ponet, C.M., March 24, 1909.