Following up on yesterday wherein I considered the place of an academic inaugural address essentially a nbsp commencement speech at the beginning not the end of college I remembered a speech from Professor Jacob Neusner that was basically just that Included in Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeche

On the Ignatian Educator, the merits of giving "commencement" addresses to incoming freshman

William Deresiewicz's 'Excellent Sheep' takes aim at the Ivy League.

Matt Emerson's latest on The Ignatian Educator

At the Catholic Moral Theology blog Nichole Flores remembers James Foley nbsp the American journalist beheaded by ISIS terrorists It 39 s so horrible to write those words May God be with his family quot I did not know James Foley personally quot writes Flores quot but as a Catholic educa

A helpful thought for the upcoming academic year from Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.