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Iona College Selected for "Teaching Catholic
Social Teaching" Project
Joins Other Prominent Institutions of Higher Education at Notre Dame New Rochelle, New York, April 28, 2000 - Iona College has been selected to participate in "Teaching Catholic Social Teaching," a project sponsored by the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Funded through a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, it is designed to facilitate the development of pilot programs in Catholic social teaching at fourteen U.S. Catholic colleges and universities. "Catholic social teaching" is the body of teachings found in papal, episcopal, and Vatican Council II documents regarding human dignity and rights, peace, social justice, and solidarity with the poor. Michael W. Hovey, coordinator of Peace and Justice Education at Iona, will represent the College in this yearlong project. He will consult with administrators and faculty members prior to his departure to Notre Dame in August 2000. While there, he will join other participants for a three-day working session to exchange and develop program plans, that will be implemented during the 2000-2001 academic year at the participant's home institutions. The participants will return to the University of Notre Dame during the summer of 2001 in order to assess programs and to draft a "white paper" on the teaching of Catholic social teaching in U.S. Catholic colleges and universities. Other colleges and universities involved with this project include Calumet College, DePaul University, Dominican University, Loyola College of Baltimore, Regis University (Denver), Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT), St. John's University (New York), St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia), St. Peter's College (Jersey City), Seattle University, Trinity College of Vermont, University of St. Thomas (Houston, TX) and Villanova University.
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