Half of all students at Catholic colleges identify as Catholic, and 62 percent of all students are women.
Higher Education
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Why churches should support community colleges
For minority, first-generation and low-income students community college can be a ticket to the middle class.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The high cost of free speech on campus
Freedom of expression is close to an all-or-nothing proposition.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Teaching America’s discarded youth
Review: Michelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick: a Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The university is not supposed to be elite. It’s meant to serve.
I want to be able to serve the state better. I want to be able to serve more of the state.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Is it time to pledge farewell to fraternities?
Rhetoric does not always meet reality in the world of fraternity life.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
An ‘America’ reading list: 150 short essays on 270 books
Reading suggestions from scholars—some long, some short…
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What Thomas Aquinas can teach students about happiness (and theology)
When it comes to how they spend their free time, why they study and what they envision for their life beyond the classroom, students are trying to pursue happiness. Too often, however, this wrestling does not go far enough.
Posted inColumns, Faith
Freedom in Discipline: Vince Lombardi
While the Super Bowl is a distant memory (in the age of day-trading, instant e-mails and online newspapers, anything that took place more than a month ago is a distant memory), it is by no means too late to talk about a book and a man intimately connected to championship football games.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
John Tracy Ellis and Catholic Intellectual Life: From June 3, 1995
In These Pages: From June 3, 1995