As we look ahead to our post-pandemic future, we need to think about the role that higher education must play in creating meaningful opportunities for students, especially those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Higher Education
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Predominantly Black and Hispanic Catholic college erases tuition debt for 540 students
Pat McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, said the school used funds from the American Rescue Plan to pay off more than $2.3 million in unpaid tuition balances for 540 students.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Forget Plato’s philosopher-kings. We need philosopher folks.
What if instead of a few philosopher-kings magnanimously steering the unruly mob, we focused on building a democracy full of philosopher folks?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A defense of learning Latin and Greek (Also: Why does it even need defending?)
Princeton University is dropping the requirement for knowing Latin and Greek to major in Classics. Its decision is a frightening one and augurs ill for the future of the field.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Dana Gioia’s love letter to teachers and mentors
Dana Gioia’s new book is a love letter attesting to the illuminating and poetic moments of his education.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How to celebrate with the graduate in your life who is grieving the loss of a loved one
What if you spent four years of college processing your grief?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement address to the Holy Cross Class of 2021
Your environment has encouraged you to—according to that Jesuit principle—be men and women for others.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Read: David Brooks’s message to the Boston College Class of 2021
‘You entered BC during one historical era which had one set of values. You graduate from BC at the start of a different historical era, with a new set of values, which you will write with the book of your lives.’
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan, teacher of the American soul
Bob Dylan, who turns 80 on May 24, expanded my musical and conceptual horizons from my college days onward.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1990: Doctoral programs in theology at U.S. Catholic universities
In 1990, Thomas F. O’Meara, O.P., addressed the need for Catholic university faculties of adequate number and quality as well as the problem of educating Roman Catholics in schools largely separate from the numerous Catholic areas and traditions.