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Conference on Catholic higher education to be held in Arlington

For the first time in Arlington, the Institute of Catholic
Culture and The Cardinal Newman Society are co-sponsoring a
presidential conference entitled “CRISIS:
Catholic Higher Education and the Next Generation.”

The conference will be held Jan. 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
Burke Hall at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington.
The conference is free and open to the public but
registration is required.

With hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists descending
on the nation’s capital for the March for Life Jan. 22, this
conference invites attendees from around the country to come
head-to-head with the ever increasing crisis in Catholic
higher education.

Conference speakers and topics include: Timothy O’Donnell,
president of Christendom College in Front Royal, “Catholic
Higher Education, the Church’s View”; Michael McLean,
president of Thomas Aquinas College, “Catholic Education and
the Order of Learning”; George Harne, president of Northeast
Catholic College, “The Human Person, Culture, and the Promise
of Catholic Higher Education”; Kevin Roberts, president of
Wyoming Catholic College, “False Egalitarianism: Problems
with American Education”; and Father Sean Sheridan, president
of Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Catholic Higher
Education and the New Evangelization.”

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