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Catholic Higher Education: A Culture in Crisis. Five Perspectives - II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Daniel P. Sheridan
Daniel P. Sheridan
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Saint Joseph's College of Maine
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Horizons , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , Spring 2008 , pp. 117 - 123
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 2008

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2 See Heft, James L. S.M., Katsuyama, Ronald M., and Pestello, Fred P., “Faculty Attitudes and Hiring Practices at Selected Catholic Colleges and Universities,” Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education 21, #2 (Spring 2001), 59Google Scholar: “A second correct conclusion that Burtchaell draws is a corollary of the first: it is critically important for a college or university to sustain its religious tradition as an intellectual force, strong and articulate enough in the minds and hearts of its faculty to raise questions for their individual disciplines, to transcend the boundaries of their disciplines, and to help form a community amongst them as strong if not stronger that the disciplinary communities they form with other faculty with whom they share the same discipline.”

3 http://www.sjcme.edu/academics/geninfo.htm

4 See Burtchaell, James T., The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmanns, 1998).Google Scholar Burtchaell accused the leaders of Catholic higher education of failure of nerve in their reluctance to hire Catholics.

5 Holtschneider, Dennis H. C.M., and Morey, Melanie M.. “Relationship Revisited: Catholic Institutions and Their Founding Congregations,” Occasional Paper No. 47, September 2000, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 15–16.Google Scholar

6 See Shea, William M., “Tradition and Pluralism: Opportunities for Catholic Universities,” Current Issues in Higher Education 16, #1 (Summer 1995), 34–48Google Scholar; O'Brien, David J., From the Heart of the American Church: Catholic Higher Education and American Culture (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994).Google Scholar

7 See Gallin, Alice, Independence and a New Partnership in Catholic Higher Education (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).Google Scholar

8 Shea, William M., “Tradition and Pluralism,” 48.Google Scholar