Universities Today Compared to John Henry Newman’s University Ideas

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Higher Education, Summer 2022 Volume I

Raffi Manjikian Education today can be acquired in many different ways. People can attain credentials, certificates, and degrees from public two-year institutions, public and private four-year institutions, non-profit institutions, for-profit institutions, trade...

Newman and Lonergan on The Idea of a University

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I

Richard M. Liddy No work in the English language has had more influence on the public ideals of higher education.  No other book on the character and purposes of universities has received so frequent citation and praise by other academic commentators…Like the...

John Henry Newman and Baccalaureate Nursing Education

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Nursing, Summer 2022 Volume I

by Josephine DeVito Nursing education was initially based in a school of nursing associated with a hospital.  Students were educated during the day with classes on nursing skills and immediately placed in hospital units to work long hours on various day or night...

A Catholic University: More than an Idea

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Higher Education, Summer 2022 Volume I

by Matthew Higgins  There appears to be an identity crisis in higher Education the United States, and within it,  Catholic higher education. As institutions evaluate their place in the ever-transitioning world of higher learning, they encounter both crisis and...

Integrated Learning and Newman’s “Idea of a University”

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I

by Anthony L. Haynor A major takeaway for me from the 2021 Faculty Summer Seminar with Jeremy Wilkins, “From Facts to Truth to Wisdom with Thomas Aquinas,” involved the pivotal position of the senses and reason in the understanding of Being in its varied forms.  In...