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November 2015

November 24, 2015

Transcendence

I place before you two quotes: one from a Columbia scholar who has studied American...

November 12, 2015

Pluralism or catholicity?

Nicholas Kristof reflects intelligently on the problems faced by campuses like the University of Missouri and...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

The long view

I am reading a fine collection of essays entitled Christianity and the Disciplines, which invites...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

In loco parentis

Xavier University of Louisiana produces more black medical school students than any other institution in the...

September 08, 2015

Theologians as prophets

In his address to theologians in Argentina, Pope Francis said this: The theologian is a...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Peer review and the sin of pride

There's a recent fascinating story of a rising high-school freshman whose work exposed a professor's myth....

July 2015

July 08, 2015

Pope Francis address at Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador

Yesterday Pope Francis gave an address to representatives of schools and universities at the...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

College and vocation

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed recently interviewed Tim Clydesdale, professor of sociology at the College...

June 16, 2015

Guest post: two concepts of rationality, Francis M. McLaughlin

In the 1970s, while browsing in a Harvard Square bookstore, I found a thin volume...

June 10, 2015

Review Essay: Paul Shrimpton, The Making of Men

In 1848 an Oxford don named Charles Daman, a close friend of John Henry Newman...

June 04, 2015

Rich university getting richer

I wonder what good a $400 million gift for an engineering school might have done....

June 01, 2015

The faith that teaching requires

Amidst the eros for metrics in higher education, it is easy to lose focus on...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Knowing takes work

From John Henry Newman: The mind ranges to and fro, and spreads out and advances...

May 07, 2015

Can Catholic universities end poverty?

Sister Amata Miller, I.H.M. is a professor of economics, director of the Myser Initiative...

May 04, 2015

Babel or cosmopolis?

Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., the Endowed Chair for the Social Scientific Study of Religion at the...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Catholic universities and nonviolence

In light of the situation that has unfolded in Baltimore in recent days, we who...

April 24, 2015

Resisting the corporate imperative

Over at Commonweal, Jackson Lears, the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, has...

April 07, 2015

Become who you are

UCA News offers a compelling story of Rusty Quintana, a once-homeless boy who graduated from...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

The meaning of meaning

At the heart of any intellectual exercise is meaning-making. Whether I am using a microscope...

March 26, 2015

Catholic universities and ecology

Catholic universities are in a position to impact one of the areas of great need...

March 20, 2015

What’s the point of a Christian education?

Christiaan W. J. M. Alting von Geusau, president and rector of the International Theological Institute, a...

March 17, 2015

Benedict and Francis: two models for the modern Catholic university

The challenge to Catholic higher education today is different from those of a generation or...

March 09, 2015

Exploding the myth of religious violence

William Cavanaugh’s 2009 book The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Catholic universities and the state

While perusing news about Catholic universities today, I was struck by two stories that I...

February 25, 2015

New Catholic university in Kurdistan

From Zenit: a new Catholic university will open in the city of Erbil, northern Kurdistan....

February 14, 2015

I believe in order to understand

On this Valentine's Day, I offer a short post that simply suggests what I see...

February 11, 2015

Faith in higher education

Last Wednesday, the presidents of Catholic University of America, Yeshiva University, and Baylor University--three of the...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Cyberknowledge vs. the slow work of learning

Education is slow work. It resists quick conclusions, bumper stickers, facile politicization, sound bytes-- in...

January 28, 2015

Education for religious life

America Magazine has published a summary of the recent study of professed religious men and...

January 21, 2015

Cosmopolitanism and Catholicism

Universities are complex places that influence young minds. Sometimes that influence is scattershot: a little...

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