Fordham University’s student graduation speaker was motivated by her faith to call for “zero emissions, zero excuses and zero time to waste.”
Higher Education
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What is the role of religion in the academy?
In his book, “Religion in the University,” a reworking of a series of lectures given at Yale in 2001, Nicholas Wolterstorff examines a range of assumptions held by academics.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
How my mother helped mentor the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans
Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.
Posted inFaith, Features
Meet the women leaders who are transforming Jesuit higher education
Today, 16 of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the A.J.C.U. are led by lay presidents, three of whom are women. Their perspectives as lay women professionals in leadership has brought needed skills to their institutions and created opportunities to clarify their institutions’ Jesuit mission and identity.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How diversity in the classroom makes us better Catholics
Today, it is the rule—not the exception—that there are at least as many students of color in my classrooms as white students.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Confessions of a Creative Writing Director
Students who read literature have done so most of their lives because of beauty, not because of literary theory.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Tobias Wolff remembers John L’Heureux
Tobias Wolff pays tribute to John L’Heureux, a literary giant and a great teacher of essential human truths.
Posted inFaith, Features
Catholic colleges are searching for new homes in the Southwest. Can they succeed?
The next few years will be critical to whether or not Catholic higher education can bloom in the desert. If it does, it may provide a vital service to a population that represents the future of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Posted inFaith, News
Wheeling Jesuit University to end Jesuit affiliation
Wheeling Jesuit University will end its Jesuit affiliation at the end of the current academic year.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A contrarian focused on the larger questions: remembering Father James Schall, S.J.
Father Schall was often described as a contrarian, but he had his mind set on the “essential and ultimate” questions.