Enhancing Religious Identity: Best Practices from Catholic Campuses

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John R. Wilcox, Irene King
Georgetown University Press, Oct 4, 2000 - Religion - 416 pages

Catholic colleges and universities have achieved a prestigious place in American higher education, but at the risk of losing their religious identity. This book confronts challenges facing all members of the college community, from presidents and trustees through the faculty and deans to student-life professionals, in making a renewed commitment to that mission.

Developing the vision of Catholic higher education expressed in the Vatican statement Ex Corde Ecclesiae, these essays provide a framework for enhancing Catholic identity across the campus and in the curriculum. The contributors address significant aspects of the culture of Catholic higher education in order to prescribe the best practices that can help colleges and universities maintain their distinctive religious character and ethical vision.

 

Contents

Defining a Catholic University
1
What Is a Great Catholic University?
4
What Is Meant by a Catholic University?
12
The Sides of Catholic Identity
18
Leadership and the Board or Trustees
27
The Moral Core of Trusteeship
36
Conflicting Basic Duties
56
A Report of a Faculty Seminar on the Jesuit and Catholic Identity of Georgetown University
69
Conflict Compromise and the Role of Academic Freedom
211
Catholic Studies at Catholic Colleges and Universities
218
Catholic Studies at the University or St Thomas
226
Graduate Business Faculty in the Catholic University
235
Theology and the Integration of Knowledge
241
In the Beginning Was the Word
250
Student Life
257
Paradigms of Justice and Love
264

Integrating Mission into the Life of Institutions
91
A Case Study of a Departments Search
106
Is Jesuit Education Fulfilling Its Mission?
112
The Integrity of a Catholic Management Education
115
The Faculty and the Disciplines
143
A Strategy for Its Identity
158
What Kind of Curriculum Does It Require?
166
An Interdisciplinary Seminar
175
One Generation after Land OLakes
200
Shaping the Vision or Catholic Higher Education
282
A CollegeWide Strategy
292
Meeting Religious Diversity in a Catholic College
302
Behavior to Consciousness A Paradigm Shift
315
Strategies for Change
335
The Values Program Process
339
The Values Audit
355
Index
365
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About the author (2000)

John R. Wilcox is chair and professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. Irene H. King is director of the Community Partnerships and Service Learning program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

Irene H. King is director of the Community Partnerships and Service Learning program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

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