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Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, canceled its spring break study abroad program to Italy and several colleges have posted warnings about individual travel during the break on their websites.
FaithFaith and Reason
Matthew D. Walz
Anyone dissatisfied with the current state of elementary and high school education might ask why we don't return to classical educational models.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ryan Di Corpo
Last November, 85.8 percent of voting students—2,438 in total—supported a nonbinding referendum that urged university trustees to sell off the then-10.6 percent of the university endowment that was invested in fossil fuel corporations by 2025.
Lala Bonner and River Parks are all smiles at Chicago’s St. Ethelreda Catholic School. St. Ethelreda’s is among 30 schools that will benefit from a new financial partnership between the Big Shoulders Fund and the Archdiocese of Chicago. Photo courtesy of the Big Shoulders Fund.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Smiles have been plentiful at St. Ethelreda since Jan. 29, when the Big Shoulders Fund and the Archdiocese of Chicago announced a partnership that will inject more than $92 million into 30 Catholic schools.
Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario members working in the Ottawa-Carleton, Toronto, Toronto Catholic and York Region District School Boards take part in a one-day full withdrawal of services strike on Jan. 20. Photo courtesy of E.T.F.O.-Ontario.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
The job actions, which come alongside strikes by other teachers’ unions across the province, reflect a new breaking point in relations between public educators and the Progressive Conservative government of Ontario, led by Premier Doug Ford.
A graduation ceremony at The Catholic University of America on May 14, 2018. (CNS photo/Dana Rene Bowler, courtesy The Catholic University of America)
FaithShort Take
John Garvey
A federal court has ruled that religious colleges cannot be ordered to recognize adjunct faculty unions. John Garvey, the president of the Catholic University of America, explains why.