Campus Notes

From April 11 to 12, The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., will host a two-day symposium to “examine the ways in which virtue shapes how and what people learn.”

The article on CUA’s website indicates that President Garvey enlisted the assistance of ten other Catholic college presidents to plan the symposium.  They include three presidents of institutions featured in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College.

The symposium is part of a series of events stemming from new CUA President John Garvey’s inaugural theme of “Intellect and Virtue: The Idea of a Catholic University.”

From the CUA website:

“This semester at Catholic University we have been hosting a series of 20 events centered on how intellect and virtue inspire the life of Catholic institutions of higher learning,” said Garvey. “The intentional focus on this topic by a number of distinguished speakers has enriched our campus community. This two-day symposium will be the capstone of these important discussions.”

The April 11-12 symposium topics include: Virtue and Intellect at Catholic Universities Today, Virtue and the Intellectual Life, Virtue and Faith Life and Virtue and Campus Life…

Speakers will include:

• Most Rev. Thomas J. Curry, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education
• John Rist, professor emeritus of classics and philosophy, University of Toronto, and visiting professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum
• John Haldane, director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Christopher Kaczor, professor of philosophy in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University
• Paul J. Griffiths, Warren Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School
• Joseph Kaboski, David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame
• Helen M. Alvaré, associate professor of law at George Mason University
• W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University

Catholic University of America is also included in the Guide for its strong Catholic identity.  Read its profile here.

Learn more about this event here.