Principle: In the face of widespread sexual promiscuity and strong negativity toward official Catholic teaching, the church needs to connect with the deepest...
Higher education
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on higher education—coverage of Catholic colleges, universities, and the role of faith in academic life.
Catholic colleges and universities fall behind their secular counterparts in an effort to recruit, accept, and keep poor students. Many Catholic colleges and...
A new approach to student ministry is changing the Catholic presence on the quad. A young man and woman stop short of the Arizona State University Memorial...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a pastoral letter on campus ministry, pledging their support for the ongoing effort to enrich the faith in...
The mission of Catholic Newman Centers has changed over more than 100 years. In the 1800s, Blessed John Henry Newman wrote that “religious truth is not only a...
Catholic colleges are learning the right way to answer when a victim of sexual assault calls for help. Student Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg committed suicide on...
The jury’s out on whether Catholic law and business schools give students a higher degree of faith. When Brian Chan was applying to graduate business schools...
For graduates of peace studies programs at Catholic Universities, the career track can lead to all kinds of interesting places. In her first job out of...
Many recent peace studies graduates, like Erin Hivner, spend a year or two volunteering with programs such as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Catholic Relief...
The first Catholic college to launch a peace studies program was Manhattan College in New York, which opened its Pacem in Terris Institute in 1965, offered its...
