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Building a College from the Eucharist up
BY ANTHONY FLOTT Our Lady of Corpus Christi is ‘ready for scrutiny’
December 3-9, 2006 Issue 
If you want to get to know a college, get to know its buildings.
Towering research facilities,
gargantuan football stadiums and plush dormitories all speak to a university’s
focus and direction.
At a small, young campus in Corpus Christi, Texas,
they began with — and keep the spotlight on — a... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
December 3-9, 2006 Issue
The ‘Great Divide’
INSIDEHIGHERED.COM, Nov. 20 —
Students and instructors of introductory religious courses have strikingly
different priorities.
According to
a study conducted by Barbara Walvoord of the
University of Notre Dame, most students in such
courses want to develop their religious... READ MORE
Whither Cuba in John Paul’s Wake?
BY RAYMOND T. CORDANI A celebrated refugee is hopeful but not especially optimistic
November 26-December 2, 2006 Issue
Finding Mañana: A Memoir of
a Cuban Exodus
(Penguin, 2005) tells the story of the 1980 boatlift that brought more than
125,000 Cubans to the United
States. Its author, Pulitzer-winning
journalist Mirta Ojito, knows
their story from the inside: She was one of them.
Her tale is constructed in... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
November 26-December 2, 2006 Issue
Chastity Endorsed
CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY, Nov. 13 — Leaders of Catholic
educational institutions and other Catholic organizations have endorsed a
statement calling on Catholic colleges and universities to conform with Church teachings on sexuality.
The statement is titled
“Addressing Same-Sex... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
November 19-25, 2006 Issue
Sister Ross’ Legacy
SEATTLE TIMES,
Oct. 29 — Sister Kathleen Ross is making a big difference in the lives of
disadvantaged minority students in Washington
state.
Sister Ross has served as
president of Heritage University in Toppenish,
Wash., since it was founded 25
years ago.
The college,... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
November 12-18, 2006 Issue
Father Drinan’s
Chair
THE GEORGETOWN HOYA, Oct. 27 — Georgetown University has established an honorary
chair for dissenting Jesuit Father Robert Drinan.
Law
Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff announced Oct. 23
that a chair in human rights had been established for Father Drinan, a former... READ MORE
Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Scholarship
BY TIM DRAKE Rosary seller does what he can to aid Catholic education
November 5-11, 2006 Issue
With seven children
and a single income from a Catholic non-profit, Jennifer and Douglas Alles didn’t know how they would face the rising costs of
higher education: Over the past six years, college costs have nearly doubled.
The Alles’
two oldest sons are in college now. Nathaniel is a senior... READ MORE
Campus Watch
November 5-11, 2006 Issue
The Marriage Advantage
INSIDEHIGHERED.COM, Oct. 20 — In
a news item entitled “Want to Get Ahead? Get Hitched,” Inside Higher Ed reported that married men perform better than
their single counterparts when it comes to post-graduate success.
Joseph Price, a graduate student
in economics at READ MORE
What a Difference a Roman Month Makes
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Why Magdalen sends its juniors to Italy
October 29-November 4, 2006 Issue
Warner, N.H., is a beautiful place to study history’s greatest thinkers
and holiest souls in Socratic-seminar classes. (Socrates, of course, stressed
the value of open inquiry.)
But the minds behind Magdalen
College see the value in
expanding students’ reach geographically as well as... READ MORE
Campus Watch
October 29-November 4, 2006 Issue
Faithful Faculty
NOTRE DAME OBSERVER, Oct. 11 — Notre Dame University
is taking concrete steps to enhance its Catholic identity.
In late September, university
president Father John Jenkins announced that the Indiana school is seeking to raise the
percentage of faculty who are Catholic. Currently,... READ MORE
New Approvals and Programs for School
BY ANTHONY FLOTT The University of Sacramento to teach master’s-level business ethics
October 22-28, 2006 Issue
For years, accounting giant Arthur Andersen guided itself by
the motto of its namesake founder: “Think straight, talk straight.”
Somewhere along the
way, though, Andersen went crooked.
The company in 2002 was
prosecuted for obstructing justice after shredding audit documents of... READ MORE
Campus Watch
October 15-21, 2006 Issue
No Compromise
THE PILOT, Sept. 15 — In
a speech Sept. 11 at Boston
College, Archbishop
Michael Miller said Catholic educational institutions should offer society a
witness of “uncompromising Catholicity.”
Archbishop Miller, secretary of
the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, gave a... READ MORE
Discernment U.
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Vocational programs are abloom in Naples
October 15-21, 2006 Issue
In the three years
Ave Maria University has offered its pre-theologate
program for men discerning a possible call to the priesthood, enrollment has
zoomed from six students to 50-plus.
What’s more, some 70% of Ave
Maria’s pre-theologate grads have made the leap from Naples, Fla.,
to major... READ MORE
From Pennsylvania Avenue to Catholic Academia
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Jim Towey prepares to preside over a Catholic college
June 4-10, 2006 Issue
H. James Towey
— well known to Catholics as director of the Office of Faith-Based and
Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush — is soon to take office
as the 16th president of St. Vincent College, the 160-year-old Benedictine
school in Latrobe, Pa.
Previously, for 12 years... READ MORE
Campus Watch
June 4-10, 2006 Issue
Unbalanced Protest
THE NEW YORK POST, May 23 — Columnist Rich Lowry
observed that protesting students at Boston College “would be on firmer ground
objecting to [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice’s pro-choice position” than
the Iraq war.
This is because Church opposition
to war is not... READ MORE
Campus Watch
October 8-14, 2006 Issue
Catholic Group Shunned
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sept. 23 — Officials at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison have refused to recognize or fund the UW Roman
Catholic Foundation as a registered student organization.
The foundation’s application for
recognition was rejected last month because only three... READ MORE
Campus Watch
October 1-7, 2006 Issue
Religious Rights Upheld
THE LEGAL
INTELLIGENCER,
Sept. 8 — The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s
dismissal of sex-discrimination claims against Gannon
University, a Catholic diocesan
college in Erie, Pa.
The plaintiff, Lynette Petruska, claimed that Gannon was guilty... READ MORE
Theology of the Body, Clarified
BY ANTHONY FLOTT Scholar’s new translation is truer to John Paul’s original
October 1-7, 2006 Issue
There were no
slithering snakes or sword-wielding assassins, but Michael Waldstein still
experienced what you might call an “Indiana Jones” moment.
For years, the Austrian biblical
scholar had hoped to uncover the mystery of the original text of a crucial
papal teaching — radical thinking... READ MORE
Campus Watch
September 24-30, 2006 Issue
Georgetown’s Soldiers
U.S. NEWSWIRE, Sept. 8 — Georgetown University
in Washington, D.C., scheduled a halftime ceremony at the Jesuit school’s Sept.
9 football game with Stony Brook University to honor five soldier-scholars who
served in Iraq.
The five honorees are: Cadet
Richard Murphy, a... READ MORE
In the Shadow of the Church
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN A campus chapel grows in Santa Paula
September 24-30, 2006 Issue
The Chapel of Our
Lady of the Most Holy Trinity is already the most prominent building on the
campus of Thomas Aquinas
College in Santa Paula, Calif.
It’s looked on as a 21st-century
expression of classic traditional Catholic architecture that will inspire
future churches. It has received a... READ MORE
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