Saint Peter’s stands out for living out its commitment to justice in real time, primarily serving first-generation college students from diverse backgrounds.
Higher Education
Posted inArts & Culture, GoodNews
March Madness starts with a Catholic school miracle: Saint Peter’s upset of Kentucky
A small Jesuit school—Saint Peter’s University of Jersey City, N.J.—upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: The Jesuits are reinventing college education (again)
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with Steve Katsouros, S.J., founder of the Come to Believe network, which makes a two-year college degree affordable for poor and underrepresented students.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Catholic students who build a chapel out of ice—and celebrate Mass in the snow
When winter regularly throws you more than 200 inches of snow, make an ice chapel.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Tania Tetlow named Fordham University’s first lay woman president
Tania Tetlow, who in 2018 became the first woman and first layperson to serve as president of Loyola University New Orleans, is set to repeat history.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis goes to college: Vatican announces virtual meeting with university students across the Americas
The historic event will be hosted by Loyola University Chicago in collaboration with Emilce Cuda, the new head of the office of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, who convinced the pope to participate.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Worried about the future of Catholic higher education? Look to our students for hope.
Students like these represent the bright future of Catholic higher education, but we in university administration must be sure our institutions adapt to help them thrive.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The economic model for college is broken. Catholic social teaching points a way forward.
Catholic universities must make a coordinated effort to engage bigger economic questions, like why a college degree is valuable and how to fund education.
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How do we prepare Catholic universities for success? Focus on the marginalized.
To secure a more promising tomorrow, institutional presidents should reclaim a commitment central to the founding of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States: a special focus on the needs and the dignity of the marginalized.
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The solution to the culture wars on campus? Radical inclusion.
The model for today’s university must involve working for true societal transformation.