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March 29, 2017
Building Catholic Higher Education: Unofficial Reflections from the University of Notre Dame
- Author
- Smith, Christian
- Publisher
- Cascade Books, Eugene, OR
- ISBN
- 9781625642523
- Table of Contents
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Introduction
ch. 1 Lofty Visions
ch. 2 The Apparent Assumptions behind and Implications of Notre Dame's Catholic Mission for Its Faculty: An Interpretive Commentary in Ten Proposals
ch. 3 How Faculty Can Support the Catholic Mission (Even If They Are Not Catholic or Do Not Understand or Personally Endorse the Cathoilic Mission)
ch. 4 Social Science in Catholic Higher Education: What Difference Does Catholicism Make?
ch. 5 The Nearly Impossible Balancing Act: Achieving Undergraduate Excellence, Catholic Education, and Premier Research University Scholarship (Simultaneiously)
Conclusion
Appendix: The Role of Theology at a Catholic University or College
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Abstract: American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian. Major challenges are faced when trying to simultaneously build and sustain excellence in undergraduate teaching, strengthen faculty research and publishing, and deepen the authentically Catholic character of education. This book uses the particular case of the University of Notre Dame to raise larger issues, to make substantive proposals, and thus to contribute to a national conversation affecting all Catholic universities and colleges in the United States (and perhaps beyond) today. Its arguments focus particularly on challenging questions around the recruitment, hiring, and formation of faculty in Catholic universities and colleges. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian. Major challenges are faced when trying to simultaneously build and sustain excellence in undergraduate teaching, strengthen faculty research and publishing, and deepen the authentically Catholic character of education. This book uses the particular case of the University of Notre Dame to raise larger issues, to make substantive proposals, and thus to contribute to a national conversation affecting all Catholic universities and colleges in the United States (and perhaps beyond) today. Its arguments focus particularly on challenging questions around the recruitment, hiring, and formation of faculty in Catholic universities and colleges. (From the Publisher)