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colleges and universities

Dax House provides home to DePaul University’s housing-insecure students

Dominique Coronel wasn’t a stranger to housing insecurity before he arrived at DePaul University. By the time he was in high school, he was having trouble finding a secure place to live. He lost the care of his parents when he was young, he said, his mother to addiction and his father to incarceration.

Campuses prepare to help freshmen keep the faith in college

As college students across the country head off to school, whether for the first time or as returning students, campus ministers say they are ready to welcome them to a new phase of their faith lives.

So what?

I never wanted to teach. In fact, when I was a Jesuit scholastic in formation, I became a community organizer and worked wherever I studied.

Learning the value of education

I grew up as a member of a Brooklyn working-class family of seven (my father was a police officer, my mother a homemaker and a typist turned administrator). We lived in a Catholic neighborhood where each of us attended the parochial school.

Newman centers provide faith hubs for college students

For Israel Lopez, it was a casino night and a dashboard Jesus. For Meghan Grill, it was a place to live when she moved away from home to go to school. For Father Connor Danstrom, it was the place where he began to discern his vocation to the priesthood.

Dominican conference looks at ways to welcome Latino students

Yolanda Franco knows about being a Latino student in a Catholic institution of higher education.

The scandal of ‘contingent’ faculty

In my Feb. 11 column, I wrote about race and diversity on U.S. college campuses. Now I want to look at another campus population, the faculty. In higher education today, we distinguish between two types of faculty. On the one hand, there are tenured faculty and new professors hired to apply for tenure at the end of their six-year “track.” On the other, there are those classified as “contingent” or “adjunct faculty.”

Race and diversity on college campuses

The longer students are in college, the less interested they become in promoting racial understanding. This was the central finding of a long-term, comprehensive 2013 study in which students were asked throughout their college years, “How important to you personally is helping to promote racial understanding?” The question was posed to students upon their arrival at college, at the end of their freshman year, and at the end of their senior year.

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