Today, 16 of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the A.J.C.U. are led by lay presidents, three of whom are women. Their perspectives as lay women professionals in leadership has brought needed skills to their institutions and created opportunities to clarify their institutions’ Jesuit mission and identity.

Students who read literature have done so most of their lives because of beauty, not because of literary theory.

Today, it is the rule—not the exception—that there are at least as many students of color in my classrooms as white students.

Tobias Wolff pays tribute to John L'Heureux, a literary giant and a great teacher of essential human truths.

The next few years will be critical to whether or not Catholic higher education can bloom in the desert. If it does, it may provide a vital service to a population that represents the future of the Catholic Church in the United States.

Wheeling Jesuit University will end its Jesuit affiliation at the end of the current academic year.