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- Gleason, P. (1995). Contending with modernity: Catholic higher education in the twentieth century. New York: Oxford University Press.
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- MacIntyre, A. C. (2009). God, philosophy, universities: A selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition. Lanham, Md: Sheed and Ward Book/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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- Collins, P. M., & John, P. (2010). A twentieth-century collision: American intellectual culture and Pope John Paul II’s idea of a university. Lanham, Md: University Press of America.
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- Newton, R. R. (Ed.) (2015). American Catholic higher education in the 21st century: Critical challenges. Chestnut Hill, MA: Linden Press at Boston College.
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Supplemental documents:
Pope Saint John Paul II. (1990, August 15). Ex Corde Ecclesia: Apostolic Constitution of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on Catholic Universities.
Congregation for Catholic Education (2014). Educating today and tomorrow: a renewing passion. Instrumentum Laboris.
Royal, R. (2015). A deeper vision: The Catholic intellectual tradition in the twentieth century. San Francisco: Ignatius Press (for those who wish to delve deeper into Catholic philosophy and history).
Zwierlein, F. (1925). The life and letters of Bishop McQuaid: Prefaced with the history of Catholic Rochester before his episcopate. (covers the founding and early years of Seton Hall University).