Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., former superior general of the Society of Jesus, helped to recenter the role of imagination in Jesuit education and in the intellectual and spiritual formation of the whole person.
Higher Education
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Extreme caution tops checklists for Catholic colleges to reopen in fall
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported May 18 that 68% of 600 colleges and universities were planning to reopen with in-person education in the fall, while 10% were waiting to decide. An online format was the choice for 7% of schools.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New emergency aid bill would cut most benefits to Catholic schools
Disallowing emergency aid to one part of an affected community and allowing it for another runs contrary to long-held social policy, Catholic education advocates said.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Jia Tolentino on the realities of life
In a collection of nine essays, Jia Tolentino writes about a range of topics, including the advent of our internet culture, the modern wedding industry, megachurch evangelical Christianity, market-driven feminism and college rape culture.
Posted inFaith, Features
The coronavirus gives Catholic universities a chance to strengthen their identity
In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?
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No pomp, but a lot of circumstance for this year’s college graduates
In April, when many college leaders realized typical graduation ceremonies would not be feasible, they reached out to their school communities with apologies and an acknowledgement the situation was both unusual and very unpredictable.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How one graduating senior is choosing happiness over desolation in spite of coronavirus
The first in her family to attend college, a student reflects with her professor on her life of struggles and growth as she prepares to graduate from Loyola Marymount University.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic colleges and universities fight to avert fiscal disaster amid the coronavirus pandemic
What is the way forward for Catholic colleges? Most Catholic institutions are doing their best to survive on their own resources while hoping for an additional stimulus package from Congress.
Posted inFaith, Features
A visit to the rural Catholic college that has 171 students, 12 horses and zero textbooks
At Wyoming Catholic College, students study great books and the great outdoors.
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Federal relief leaves out DACA students
DACA was implemented in 2012 under an executive order from President Barack Obama, but in 2017, the Trump administration rescinded it and its future is now in the hands of the Supreme Court of the United States