The National Labor Relations Board recently suggested that graduate students are not entitled to the organizing rights guaranteed to similar workers. But Jesuit schools should not stop unionization efforts.
Higher Education
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Monks at Saint Anselm clash with college board over power
Monks at a Catholic college in New Hampshire faced off in court Monday against the school’s board of trustees in a dispute over an effort to limit the the monks’ power — a move some worry could lead to increased secularization.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Graduate students at Catholic universities need faith formation, too
There are now a large number of graduate students in Catholic higher education, and few of them encounter anything substantive in regards to faith formation, religious meaning-making or the role of spirituality in their lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
The humanities may seem pointless, but that is the point
Humanities education is imperiled and undervalued in an a society that worships short-term usefulness, writes Santiago Ramos. But there is a rebellion in defense of educating the soul.
Posted inFaith, Features
What Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish can teach us about American Catholicism
What has football contributed to American Catholicism? What has Catholicism contributed to American football? For Catholics, it is particularly worth revisiting Notre Dame’s unique story.
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What Theodore Hesburgh missed about Catholic universities
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh’s somewhat idiosyncratic relation to St. John Henry Newman’s capacious mind on Catholic higher education.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Loneliness isn’t something you can ‘fix’ (or need to)
A conversation with Gabriella Jeakle about learning to live with loneliness at college and beyond
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Christians urge California governor to veto bill for abortion pill access at colleges
Christian organizations are urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would require the state’s public universities to offer abortion medication through campus health clinics.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Five reasons John Henry Newman is a saint for our times
Newman, like all of the saints, is perennially relevant because holiness never goes out of style.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
‘There will be fireworks for her’: Tania Tetlow on Cokie Roberts
Tania Tetlow, president of Loyola University New Orleans, remembers her friend and mentor Cokie Roberts, who passed away on Sept. 17.