Liberal arts universities face the twin crises of an enrollment decline and a perception of irrelevancy. They should abandon any squeamishness about using better marketing techniques.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Teachers at Catholic schools should conform to church teaching, Vatican congregation says
But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic philosopher Alice von Hildebrand didn’t need to proselytize to bring her students to God
Alice von Hildebrand was one of the heroes of faith in our time. We should cherish her memory.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘It isn’t Latin or Greek I’m teaching, but how to think’: Memories of a formative Jesuit educator
As a young teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., John W. Donohue, S.J., worked with Thomas J. Jones, the senior member of the lay faculty: “From him I was to learn more about the practice of teaching than from any book or course in education.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
To understand our battles over critical race theory and liberation theology, look to Brazil’s fight over Paulo Freire’s legacy
The current mischaracterization of Freire by the political right in Brazil has parallels with the campaign of the political right in the United States against critical race theory.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Young women, #MeToo and clergy sex abuse: Lessons from my students
My students at a Catholic women’s college have taught me—and can teach the rest of the church—a great deal about living in a church marred by the scandal of sexual abuse by clergy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Remember your favorite childhood books? Read them again.
Why do most people stop reading children’s books they loved once they come of age? Books from our childhood can still do so much good work for us.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
It’s been 50 years since most Jesuit colleges went co-ed. But have they truly embraced their female students?
Taking women seriously as students, staff and faculty means that the Jesuit institution considers them as essential to its mission.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Chair’ was uncomfortable to watch as a recent college grad. And that’s the point.
Social justice scandals play out in Netflix’s newest hit “The Chair”, echoing college campuses across the country. The show’s empathy is remarkable, but as a recent graduate, some scenes hit too close to home.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
In defense of a classical education
Classical education provides students with exactly the analytical tools that they need—logic, philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, history—to both grasp and critique the great books, taking both their original context and their modern significance into account.