VATICAN CITY — At the Pontifical North American College, new student orientation is not just a weekend or even just a week — it includes almost a month of intensive Italian studies, punctuated with occasional gelato sampling and one big shoutout from Pope Francis.
A poll conducted by the market research firm YouGov made headlines last month when it reported that one in five millennials said they have no friends. This study makes evident the cultural undercurrent of isolation.
Marymount University in Arlington is now partnering with TheDream.US National Scholarship program to provide financial support for immigrant youth attending the university, beginning this fall. The university joins more than 75 partner institutions assisting the program participants, or “DREAMers,” to graduate from college with career-ready degrees.
Participants at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities had to know they were getting down to brass tacks with the theme of this year’s gathering: “Mission, Myth, Money: Securing Catholic Higher Education for the Future.”
The sixth biennial roundtable Feb. 8-9 drew 16 presidents to Christendom’s Front Royal campus to discuss important issues and to strengthen Catholic higher education in America.
Fourteen students from Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass., understood this adage all too well and sacrificed a significant portion of their winter break in January to help rebuild the ravaged houses of families who had seen their hearts and lives broken by the widespread damage caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
The Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the United States recently named the Marymount University Saudi Student Association (SSA) as the third best Saudi Student Association in the United States among 300 and number one in the Washington metro area. This designation celebrates their highly effective participation inside and outside the Marymount community for the 2017-18 school year.
When an American priest leading a tour group entered the Basilica of San Bartolomeo in Rome recently, he noticed the interpretive signs in the six side chapels had been translated into English since his last visit.
The Office of Youth, Campus, and Young Adult Ministries gears up for new and time-honored initiatives.
A cohort of new graduate students at The Catholic University of America in Washington tried their hand at small business ownership last week during an orientation program for students entering the Master of Science in Business Analysis (M.S.B.A.) program within the Tim and Steph Busch School of Business.
