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Thursday, August 28, 2008
 

Advisory Board

William H. Dempsey, Esq.
President, Project Sycamore; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Railroads

John P. Hittinger, Ph.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Rev. Leonard A. Kennedy, C.S.B., Ph.D.
Former President, Assumption College of the University of Windsor, and St. Thomas More College of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Rev. Joseph Koterski, S.J., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University

Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland, S.T.D.
Vice President for Catholic Identity and Mission, Mount St. Mary’s University

Hon. Kenneth D. Whitehead
Former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; author




Welcome!

Welcome to The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education, a new division of The Cardinal Newman Society. The Center's mission is to study Catholic colleges and universities in accordance with the guidelines of Ex corde Ecclesiae and in a manner faithful to the Holy Father and Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

As the in-house research arm of The Cardinal Newman Society, The Center will help facilitate the ongoing renewal of Catholic higher education by providing unique analysis and data available nowhere else. 

The Center publishes the quarterly Bulletin of Catholic Higher Education, produces the biennial Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College and works with leading Catholic educators and other leaders to conduct research and publish reports on the most pressing Catholic higher education issues.
 

The Center blogged from Sydney during World Youth Day 2008.  Read more and see our extensive photo journal.


The Center in the News


Research and Publications
In celebration of World Youth Day, The Center published an article from the upcoming Fall 2008 Bulletin of Catholic Higher Education by His Emminence George Cardinal Pell entitled World Youth Day and Catholic University Students.

In May The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education released a timely follow-up to Pope Benedict's visit entitled Reflections on Pope Benedict XVI's Address to Catholic Educators.

The Cardinal Newman Society's Center co-hosted a panel discussion with The Heritage Foundation on Academic Freedom in Catholic Higher Education the day after the Pope's address to Catholic college presidents. The entire video of the event is available here.

The Center released its first publication in mid April entitled Pope Benedict XVI and Catholic Higher Education: Commentaries in Advance of the Holy Father's April 2008 Address to Catholic College Presidents.

The next report to be released by The Center in the coming weeks will be “The Past, Present and Future of the Catholic Core Curriculum,” by Dr. R. E. Houser, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

For information on The Center's 2008 research priorities, click here.
Newman Fellows Announced

The Center is pleased to announce the appointment of its first two Newman Fellows—distinguished academics primarily drawn from Newman Guide colleges.

The 2008 appointments were awarded to Dr. Brennan Pursell, Associate Professor of History at DeSales University and author of Benedict in Bavaria: An Intimate Portrait of the Pope and His Homeland, and Dr. Peter Kwasnieswki, Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Wyoming Catholic College.
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