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.
Presidents and school officials from Catholic colleges and universities around the country kicked off their recent four-day meeting in Washington by looking squarely at the challenges they face.
Divine Mercy University is partnering with the Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) to offer tuition reductions to the AMS for its online psychology and counseling degree programs. The partnership will provide financial support to chaplains and laity who desire to provide mental health services for military personnel and their families.
Nearly 25 students from The Catholic University of America in Washington gathered last month in prayer to remember the death of a homeless friend, Ms. Bobbie, whom the students met and befriended while participating in the Office of Campus Ministry’s weekly homeless food runs. The service took place at the K Street underpass, where Ms. Bobbie lived for five of her nine years of homelessness, on the same day that residents of the encampment there were forced by the Washington government to vacate the area and relocate permanently elsewhere.
Work crews laid the final beam of steel on the 114-foot-tall main tower for the new Christ the King Chapel at Christendom College in Front Royal last month, topping out the structure that can now be seen for several miles due to its height and location on campus.
Marymount designated as one of the partner schools of TheDream.US.
The heavy rain that had started the night prior ceased 10 minutes before the gates opened, just in time for the roughly 1,000 students arriving for the new student Luau hosted by the Catholic Campus Ministry Center at George Mason University in Fairfax last month. Months of planning lead up to the Luau, but as students flooded in, filling out raffle tickets, sipping sodas and tossing frisbees, the hard work for the campus ministry staff organizing the event was just starting.
Father Joseph M. Rampino and Youth Apostle Father Thomas M. Yehl traded places this summer — Father Rampino left his role as parochial vicar at Blessed Sacrament Church in Alexandria to become chaplain at Marymount University in Arlington. Father Yehl, former chaplain and director of campus ministry at Marymount, is now parochial vicar at Blessed Sacrament.
While the Office of Youth, Campus, and Young Adult Ministries puts on several big events each year — the high school youth RALLY, WorkCamp, Life is Very Good — Director Kevin Bohli said they are trying to do much more.
Jeidy Delarosa Luperon left her home country for the chance to get an education in the U.S.
