After being canceled last year due to COVID-19 restrictions, the new student luau organized by the Catholic campus ministry at George Mason University in Fairfax returned, drawing more than 800 students to the lawn of St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel for food, music, dancing and games last month.
WASHINGTON — More than 40 percent of Trinity Washington University’s full-time undergraduate students opened their emails from the university July 23 to learn they will start the school year with a clean financial slate, because the university paid off their outstanding debts.
A new program helps students work with marginalized communities.
Over the summer, students from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington participated in two different service learning camps — Food-for-Life and Housing-for-Life — where they volunteered for three days at local nonprofits and participated in community initiatives.
Going off to college is one of the scariest and most exciting parts of young adulthood. Having gone through it recently myself, and now working closely with college students as a FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) missionary, I have found that the first few weeks of a new fall semester are unlike any other experience. Freshmen in college have a unique opportunity to begin to split from their families and to decide what is truly important to them. For the first time in their lives, they have a much freer rein to do what they want. They have so many new choices in front of them: what to study, how to spend their free time, what they will eat for dinner and, more importantly, what faith (if any) they will practice.
A couple weeks before my three sons left for college, I took each to supper. They chose the restaurant, reflecting their personalities: a Thai place, a steak house, a premium burger grill. I picked up the tab, but I wasn’t there for dinner. I wanted to talk.
The Office of Youth, Campus, and Young Adult Ministry creates Encounters to let youths leave screens behind and experience God’s presence around them.
Christendom College in Front Royal welcomed a record-setting student body to campus last month with an opening Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge for the 2020-21 academic year.
This fall, Marymount is offering four distinct modes of instruction: face-to-face delivery with more space between students and an increased number of class sections; hybrid delivery that combines in-person and online instruction; remote delivery that allows students to participate from a distance simultaneously; and online delivery that allows participation from a distance at their convenience.
Evan Heitman entered college a nominal Christian. Five years later, he’s a Catholic missionary.
