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June 2015

June 04, 2015

Rich university getting richer

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

May 2015

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 24, 2015

Resisting the corporate imperative

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

March 2015

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...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Faith in higher education

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

December 2014

December 05, 2014

The Case for Christian Humanism

The Theos Think Tank has released a lucid essay on Christian humanism in an effort to...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Theology Needs Science (and vice versa)

Theology needs science. So writes William C. Mattison, a moral theologian at the Catholic University...

October 09, 2014

God, knowledge, and the university

Stephen Hawking’s recent pronouncement that there is no God was unsurprising, given his past considerations...

October 01, 2014

The theology of the Mercy university

I'm energized by my attendance at the recent Conference of Mercy Higher Education gathering, which...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Bishops, presidents reviewing Ex Corde Ecclesiae

The US Bishops are convening a group of bishops and Catholic college presidents to review...

August 25, 2014

Welcome to the Capstone

Let me share with you a taste of what gets me excited about my work...