The report examined two distinct approaches to campus ministry. Degree-educated staff tend to emphasize public service, but missionary-trained staff are more likely to focus on students’ personal relationships with God.
Higher Education
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Dorothy Day: College Dropout
The only Americans under review for canonization to attend a public university, Day’s indiscretions and confusions, those awkward discoveries and repeated failures of youth, are our own.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Can a pro-life scholar survive in academia?
The lecture provoked no hostile reaction from the students who heard it. But a media firestorm erupted.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What—if anything—ensures a new college student will keep going to Mass?
It is in college that a young Catholic truly has to lay claim to her faith.
Posted inFaith, Features
The Uncertain Future of Jesuit Education
Jesuit institutions need to offer persuasive alternatives to the dystopian narratives that shape our personal and institutional psyches.
Posted inFaith, News
Stanford University to remove St. Junipero Serra’s name from some properties
California’s Stanford University will strip the name of 18th-century Franciscan friar, St. Junipero Serra, from some of its properties but keep a street named after him.
Posted inFaith, News
Jesuit schools place highly in U.S. News and World Report Rankings
Creighton, Fairfield and Santa Clara all earned the top spot in their respective geographic regions.
Posted inCommunity
A National Town Hall on Latinos & Catholic Education
Join America Media & The Catholic University of America as we host a national town hall on the future of Latinos and Catholic Education in the United States.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Stop saying ‘college isn’t for everyone’
A failure to expand access to higher education will widen the gap between the fortunate few and the disenfranchised many.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Don’t go back to your school without learning its real rules of discipline
Improve your academic experience by familiarizing yourself with the rights and responsibilities of students, parents and everyone in the school community.