New Catholic College starting in Michigan!

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what they say and what they do may not be the same thing, but by browsing their website it looks like this will be an actual Catholic school, not catholic like notre dame. good for them, i hope it works.
 
They have some high profile names on their Board of Advisors, so they seem to have convinced some important persons of their good intention and of their ability to succeed.

But the website doesn’t provide much information about the college. Granted, it doesn’t open its doors until this fall, but still I would like to learn more about it.
 
I’m from SE Michigan, too! Thanks for letting me know about this! 🙂
 
Massively liberal Ann Arbor has a lot of faithful catholics as well.
 
thomasf said:
Massively liberal Ann Arbor has a lot of faithful catholics as well.
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I never said it didn’t - but in the past AA has made it extremely difficult for faithful Catholics (with a big C) to exist there.

~Liza
 
Thanks for the link. I hadn’t heard about this one and am trying to direct my high school freshman toward a Catholic College. She is interested in U of M, but having gone there myself, I am not enthusiastic about that idea!

When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about the Newman College slated to open in Otsego, Mich. next year. mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/04/opening_of_catholic_college_de.html

I guess there are a lot of good things happening in Michigan!
 
AnotherChance said:
Thanks for the link. I hadn’t heard about this one and am trying to direct my high school freshman toward a Catholic College. She is interested in U of M, but having gone there myself, I am not enthusiastic about that idea!

When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about the Newman College slated to open in Otsego, Mich. next year. mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/04/opening_of_catholic_college_de.html

I guess there are a lot of good things happening in Michigan!
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Look also into John Paul the Great University in San Diego. They are a very conservative university that focuses on the media profession. They are new so classes are small - a major plus in my book.

~Liza
 
Will it be accredited–by anyone? What courses will it offer? How much will it cost? Will it provide value for what it offers? Where can you transfer? What school of higher education will recognize it? There are a lot of other ‘orthodox’ poor quality unaccredited tiny schools with no endowment-- Christendom, Ave Maria, St. Mary’s–and those listed in the Newman guide, which includes two schools with fair national rankings–St. Thomas Aquinas in CA and Catholic Univ of America–why found this one?
 
anode said:
Will it be accredited–by anyone? What courses will it offer? How much will it cost? Will it provide value for what it offers? Where can you transfer? What school of higher education will recognize it? There are a lot of other ‘orthodox’ poor quality unaccredited tiny schools with no endowment-- Christendom, Ave Maria, St. Mary’s–and those listed in the Newman guide, which includes two schools with fair national rankings–St. Thomas Aquinas in CA and Catholic Univ of America–why found this one?
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If you follow the link you’ll get most of your questions answered.

If you’re only interested in cost and “value” I can see why you would think that this is unnecessary. It’s all a matter of what you consider “quality”.
 
I attend school at the University of Michigan. Don’t make the mistake of confusing liberal for un-catholic. The student parish at UM is quite dynamic and has wonderful priests. Frankly many liberal policies are much more strongly aligned to catholic values than conservative ones.

In terms of this article- the school will simply have a hard time attracting top-students away from UM. I for one consider myself a strong Catholic but never considered a Catholic college in Michigan for that very reason.

Given that Aquinas already exists I don’t know the value of starting another.
 
RoncalliM said:
I attend school at the University of Michigan. Don’t make the mistake of confusing liberal for un-catholic. The student parish at UM is quite dynamic and has wonderful priests. Frankly many liberal policies are much more strongly aligned to catholic values than conservative ones.

In terms of this article- the school will simply have a hard time attracting top-students away from UM. I for one consider myself a strong Catholic but never considered a Catholic college in Michigan for that very reason.

Given that Aquinas already exists I don’t know the value of starting another.
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Thanks, Ron! (after my fav John XXIII)

I often travel to Ann Arbor, a beautiful city, where I visit a long-time member of the faculty. I am very impressed with this university, pre-eminent among the land-grant universities. It offers an especially good education for the cost for residents of Michigan.

I did a review of all the colleges–all 13 of them–in the Newman Guide’s approved Catholic schools of higher learning in the US, (of which there are hundreds)–cross-referencing them with the rankings in the US News& World Report Guide to colleges and universities in the US. The best two were Catholic U of A and Thos Aquinas in CA with St Catherine’s in MN ranking well. Many of the 13 were unaccredited, not listed at all, and on their websites were very small, offered a very limited curriculum, most suitable for pre-seminarians–Latin, philosophy, theology–but didn’t offer accredited degrees in theology. In this time of severe recession, it is particularly difficult to see how a new college can raise adequate funds for buildings, dorms, facilities and endowment.
 
“… the school will simply have a hard time attracting top-students away from UM …”

I find this a very odd comment. For many top students, quality of education and of the entire college experience is vastly better at a small, supportive college than at a huge institution like U-M that employs graduate assistants to teach many classes, a multitude of which are gigantic lecture sections. As someone with over a quarter century in higher education, I always council parents and students to choose a small, high-caliber college over the Brobdingnagian ones — unless there is a desired major at the latter not available at smaller colleges. Many professors so council friends and family.

Add to that the fact that a genuine Catholic college will build everything on a foundation of true values rather than relativistic claptrap, and you have a winner.

I have no doubt that students will get a far better education at SS. Peter and Paul than at U-M, and the news will spread like wildfire, at least within the Christian community.
 
Thinking in advance (waaay in advance!) It’s nice to here that there’s going to be a Catholic college college close to home for my Daughter to attend when she’s old enough (she’s only 2 so we’ll have time to see if it will be a good Catholic college). I attempted to attend a Catholic college before I wound up having to transfer to a state school to complete my degree but they were about as UN-Catholic as you could get. They had a 3 credit requirement in what they called “theology” but could be satisfied by completeing a Religions of the World, Native American Studies, or Philosophy (which was tought by a devout athiest who’s absolute hatred of any type of organized religion made the class almost intollerable for those who dared take it.) I was told by all my “friends” to take Native American Studies. I spent the rest of the semester learning about sweat lodges and Indian “magic” and the Medicine Man.

Please don’t take this as a bash against Native Americans or cultural differences or anything like that. It is exactly what I say. I hated the clas because it wasn’t what it portrayed to be. It wasn’t even tought by a woman with her TEACHING liscense. The class was supposed to be a Study on all Native American cultures-- not on this woman’s particular Tribe and her journey to become their first femal medicine man.
 
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