/ .1 DOCONENT.RESUNE HE 911 646 tv> ,11 TITLE'' Education for Justice. OcCasional Papers-on Catholi,c : Higher Education. VQ4Alie v, liumber 10 Sumner 1979. INSTITUTION Association of.Catholid Colleges andi-Universities, Washington, D.C. .E1081DATE 7 79 NOTE 38p; 4VAILABLE PEON Association of CathIii,c Colleges and Universities, One DupOnt Circle. e 770.washington, p.p, ,20016 !DRSPRI& orpliRcu Plus Ovitage. -DESCRIPTORS *Catholic4ducatdcS; Christianity; nhUrch Relate4 Calleg,,s: *Church Role; College Administration4 College Plantingt ?Collegeitole; EdUcational Econoilics; Ed4cational,QuaIityNGovernance: Elfgher Education.; trumanismt. Rumanfties:-Liberal Arts: Political Inflpinces: *Private. Colleges;.2eligiouS Education: Social PrObleks: Theelogical Educatipni( IDBMTIFIERS' Saint'Johris Onivermity EN , ABSTRACT *. The rble ofCatholicism inAmerican higher'educition is addressie this.collection ef papers.,The historicaltragtion of the Cat university,is discussed:As well a$ the problems- they . must-face es examined itcluderiaolitical andfinanciAl concerns; of;church-r, ed,colleges and universities, the role of the university in higher. .educationi aut! the role of the .Catholic colleges and'utiversities. The governance o/ Catholic institutions, their . relationShip to'the church hierarchy,'andiaanning for,the.future are also Considered.1"ndluded are4.Toward a.Tr* University,Truly _Catholic (EdmUnd D. Pellegrino); Teward a Theology of, Learning .(Thotax.Trotter)1 The University and. Change in theCatholic.gorld 4Sargent Shriver1;:gemily.for. a Baccalaureate.Ceremeny(John Tracy Ellis): The'Catholic College: A Question of Identity(Xavier-G. ColaveChit);,The.. Emerging Guardianship of American,Catholic pigher Education (Martin J. Stain); InstitutionallitalitY, Up Against the Ei.ghties (Jamei A..Ebben):and The. NEN ChristianHumani'im Preject at SaintJohnls. Collegeville (R. W. Franklin).' gsF) S :************44**********ig****** *s ReOroductions supplied by BURS are the best that.can be made *. from the original document. ". -***************************************************.*****c************** " Invocatibn for the ACCU Annual Meeting Inside Front Cover Irene Woodward, WM I. Preface 1 Alice-Gallin, OSU Toward a True University, Truly Catholic , 3 Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. - Toward a Theology of Learning Thomas Trotter I The University and Change iryhe Catholic Workel 12 Sargent Shriver Homily for a Baccalaureate,Ceremony. 16 John TracyEllis The Catholic College: A Questiorrof Identity Xavier G. Colavechio, 0. Prfiern. 0 1 cf The Emerging Guardianship of Amencan Catholic Higher Education D Alartin J. Stamm Illuj CL l CI < 14 Institutional Vitality, Up Agairist the Eighties 30 O LI James A. Ebben 17= r ) r ' 4 D 0 C)t- The NEll Christian Humanism Project at Saint John's CollegeVille tii.tt R. W. Franklin Volume V, 'Numb& Summer :1979 (4' ASSOCATION OF CATHOLIC C011EGES VERSJTSE r K. e ATION AT THEANNUAL MEMING OF ACtU,FEBRUARY,1979 Irene Wodward;SN311 0 0 and Father of us-all, we come together as a o- pie wIlo tiave heard your word through Jesus, your and oug Brother, and as people;whote joy is in seeking to plumb the meaning ofrthat watt by, shating it wjlIfiothers through the ministry ot higher education. Father, we cherish this message and we hold in esteem all of the Peoples of this planet whom you have created.Come' to Os in a special way in these days of ourre-commitment. to our ministries'. Weembark.on a newer task to learn how beit, at this time, to participate in our history in the life of the polls, to insert ourselves iito the plic life as 'a leaven; I pot demeaning that society by whic we arenurtured, but by enlivening it. t We arc tempted eitlir to the.arrogance which puts qs above the city of man or to the privacy which shuts osoff irom the world. ,Help us theirefore, Lord, to be stewalds in the spiritof your Son. Ficip us as we seek to do yourwill by'granting us the 'humility, \whiGh gendes our arrogance, thecourage which drives us beyond our privacy, and'the -respect itor the works of human endeavor which enables us to love and act as your people. , 1 / a" PREFACE , ) Of all our petennial queitions, the. Incist enduring one the Second Vatican .CounCil emphasized thefrnique colatri- seems to be:. "Whit :makes a college or university Catho- bution of culture: lic?" In previous isiueS-of Occasional Papers we have pro- it is as 'fact bearing on lite veryiverson of man posed possible answers-in a.variety of ways. We have dealt that .he can come to an authentic and full - with Campus Ministry (Winter '76), the Ministry of Facul- humanity only through culttitii, thrills Through ty as they arc engaged,Di,their particular. disciplines the cultivatioh of natural goods qnd valuq: (Winter '77, Summer '78), and we have described effOrts at The word "dulture" in its .genePal sense =kink Education fdr Justice central to. our institutions cafes all thoie fackors by which man refines and (Winter. '78).- Theology programs have been analyied frunfolds his manifold spiritLal and bodily quail-. (Winter, Summer /5); Teaclier Education exeinined ties. It Means his effori to bring the world itself ..(Summer 17). Naturally, the question cpntinues to stand wider his Control os jig& knowledge and 'his before us to c nge ouvreficctiOM and our decisions. laisor....finally, it is a:feature of culture that In this c pull together some .fiirther reflections.on throughout tk-course of 'time man expiesses1 the topic. These were not prepared around a theme for the communicates, and 'conserves in his Works.great specific purposes of Occasional PaPers; therwere, rath r spiritual experiences and desires, so that thee . I selected from many presentations heard lor read ov4 he may he of advantakto lhe progress of many, past. few years because they seem to ptili the parameters a even of theithole hunain fatnily. bit further and expand ow vision of what, a Catholic col- lege or ii ersity might,look lite. The whole section on culture and its relation to humail actiVity ahcl faith is well worth readiN and re-marlingy, , '- It' larly timely to engage in suctiieflection as we p r:tipa r e for a 'first in American Higher cdcat,ionthe those who ,seek to understarrei the mirsion of the ,Catholic National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Uni- university. Simultaneously broadening ibur concept of versities to be held at the-University of Notre Dame Ju e "education" in the modern world and, specifing the role 21-23. ,True ecumenicil dial3gue presupposes some cla±y of the different academic disciplines in tile smelt for about diribininational tradition. -Tvienty-two different truth, goodness' and beauty: the Council urges us to deal Chriltian denominations Are sponsoring this' Congress in with the inevitable tettsions present in contemporary cul- ;the hope that it will reneiv an4 revitalize church-related tural pluralism. The questions .raised might well be,con- education. Study Cbaamissions ire alreafsly preparing posi- sidered by our administrators and fActitles'as an agenda tion on a range of topics:.educational purpose and :for the '80's: r, pr ,the church-related college abd .publk polkieS, What must he done to prevent the increased ,..-le eli, finances, thechurch-refi-W-kcollege confront- exchangeN between cultures, which ought to ing socidissues, forms of relationship betv-;ten church and lead to a true and fruieful dialogue between college. We gripe to be able to bring some of them to, you groups and nations, from distyrbing the life cif in Occasional vers. communities, destroying qtrcestral,wkiclom, or Of the y institutions that might be designated je pargizing the uniqueness ofeach people? church-related, the, university has its own role to play,. its How can the vitality and growth- of a new cul- own peculiar identity to.develop. Howsitall we describe it? lure be fostered,without the Iasi of living fidel- All can agree, no doubt, that cultiVation of the things of ity to the heritage of tradition? The questiOn is the mind sis basic to the growth: of the huinan spirit and especially urgent when a culture resulting from - therefore fundamental to human life: In Gaudium et Spes, thenormous. scientific arid technological pro- OcaationalPapers, &mite 79 -V Oiss must betharfioniied with an education, in several events in the next two years...the gaiiOiezal,!cot)- nourished by classical studiis as adapted to gress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities airka4ly WiriOUS traditions. mentioned., the International Federation of CathOlk Uni- versities meeting at Louvain-la-Neuve in-1980 on t4topic. As special branches of knowledge continue to "The Catholic Upiversity Confronting the Ethical 'Frob- shoot out so rapidly, how caw the necessary lerps of the Technological Society," and the United syrithesis of fihem' be worked oia,, and ,how can men preser4 the ability to contemplate and, to Nations Conference on Seience and Technology schcduled far Vienna in 1980. The.Hastinis Center in its many Semi- ,wonder, from which wLs4m comes? , iuu:s and publications on Ethiial Values will also provide What aan be done to,kkéall men oniarth stimulation for our thinking and our discussion. In all, the share in culturill values Atm, the culture' of the moment seems ripe for a revitalization of the very heattb of mot; sophistkatefigrows ever more refined and the University, its-academic program. The call to Christian complex? scholarship and Christian teaching, far from being muted' Finally, how is the independence which culture by the societal chana 4Laround us, is only flarffied nd claim for itself 10 be recognized as, legitimate strengthened. The article contained in this' issue qf Occa- without the pmmotion of a humanism which.is sional Papers will provide, we hope, additional 6.ist for merely, cart's-bolt:1dr and even contrary W reli- the mill. gitip itself? (Ciaudunt et Spes, para. 57) Confrontation of these questionseach of which re- Alice Gallin, OSU quires erofound studywill be.furthered by.participation Associate Executive Director - f 6 6 occasional Paper$, olumt* 1979 s "4.0.- TQWARD A TRUE UNWERSITY, TROIX.CATHOPC inaugural AddleFsManth 30, 1979 .