Mark W. Roche is the Joyce Professor of German and former dean of arts and letters at the University of Notre Dame.
Higher Education
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How these students celebrated their senior year after Covid-19 closed Boston College’s campus
Returning home from school for the last time would not be easy for many.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic entities expect to receive aid under emergency relief bill
The bill includes $180 billion in health care spending, designating $100 billion for hospitals and care providers that are the hardest hit in responding to the coronavirus since the first U.S. case of the illness was confirmed Jan. 20.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Should colleges pay their athletes? What Catholic social teaching has to say.
A changing legal landscape in college sports has renewed the discussion of what is “fair” for college athletes when it comes to compensation.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. Catholic colleges adapt to online format during coronavirus
As of March 11, dozens of Catholic college and university leaders had announced plans to cancel public classes and offer online education amid concern over the coronavirus’ spread.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Jesuit schools respond to coronavirus with closures
Fordham University announced on March 9 that, in addition to a prior decision canceling all on-campus activities, the university would only conduct classes online beginning on March 11.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Coronavirus prompts some Catholic colleges to halt international programs
Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, canceled its spring break study abroad program to Italy and several colleges have posted warnings about individual travel during the break on their websites.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After student protest, Creighton University endorses plan to begin divestment from fossil fuels
Last November, 85.8 percent of voting students—2,438 in total—supported a nonbinding referendum that urged university trustees to sell off the then-10.6 percent of the university endowment that was invested in fossil fuel corporations by 2025.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic colleges finally win independence from the federal Labor Board
A federal court has ruled that religious colleges cannot be ordered to recognize adjunct faculty unions. John Garvey, the president of the Catholic University of America, explains why.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Appeals court says Catholic university not obligated to allow unionizing
The university argued in December 2018 that the National Labor Relations Act, when read in light of the religious freedom clause of the First Amendment, does not authorize the labor board to exercise jurisdiction in this matter.