Programs,
News & Events:
Breaking News:
The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education is pleased to announce
a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Foundation to fund our Academic
Retreat for Teachers program next summer in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Look
for more on this in our next issue.
November News:
Late September found me flying to Riverton, Wyoming, a charming small
town on the western edge of Wyoming, where the bright yellow cottonwoods
reminded me of the autumn that Southern California never experiences. The
occasion was to lead an in-service workshop for St. Margaret’s Catholic
Elementary School. The program was held at St. Stephen’s Missionary
Indian Reservation, whose grounds contained the ruins of a fine old
convent-run high school. It symbolized for me what Catholic education
has lost, together with the Holy Spirit-inspired desire to see it flourish
again that I witness in so many.
Fr. Andrew Duncan provided chaplain services for our summer Academic
Retreat for Teachers, and wanted to share the experience with his entire
school. As is usual with our in-service workshops, the program
was tailored to fit Fr. Duncan’s specific requests, which included
an experience of Socratic discussion seminars. From a number
of suggestions I made, Father selected Plato’s Apology, Socrates’
defense of his way of life which he gave at the trial that led to his
death. We also used Archbishop Miller’s book on Catholic schools
(see the September
edition of Beyond the Test), along with a rhetorical analysis
of the Gettysburg Address.
Fr. Andrew reports, “Your workshop offers the teachers, whose background
is mostly from secular universities, an experience and a description
of a curriculum, in which the sacramental and doctrinal elements of the
faith are integrated and united with the classroom. I am grateful
that all our teachers were able to experience first-hand the kind of
education that is growing throughout the nation…an education that seeks
to preserve and make available the best of our cultural inheritance.”
Andrew Seeley, Ph.D.
Director, The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education
The 2009-2019 Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) Honors
Program
"Meaning in History: Learning From the Past"
The ISI Honors Program is a highly selective year-long mentoring fellowship
for fifty of the nation’s most promising undergraduates. Honors
Fellows are assigned an academic mentor who guides them through reading
projects, and advises on intellectual questions and career options.
Fellows explore the West’s intellectual tradition at a week-long, all-expenses-paid
summer conference, at weekend colloquia, and through an online listserv.
Application Deadline: Friday January 16, 2009
Summer Conferences: June 25-July 1 and July 23-29, 2009
Colonial Williamsburg
Contact:www.isihonorsprogram.org, honors@isi.org,
(800) 526-7022, ext. 122
Any college student who will be an undergraduate during the 2009-10
academic year is eligible to apply. |
