Universities’ Purpose and Catholic Identity : Examining Governance, Communication, and Core Curriculum (Hardcover)

Introduction: Why universities? Key socio-cultural players in the twenty-first century?1. The origins of the university: Questions of identity and historical continuity?2. Catholic universities: Political power, cultural paradigms, and identity from early modernity to the ‘long 1960s’: A historical overview?3. The Catholic university’s integral purpose: A multi-dimensional perspective?4. Research and the Christian identity of universities?5. Teaching and catholic identity: Wisdom and sound critical thinking?6. Third Mission and identity in a Catholic university: The Universidad de La Sabana case?7. Governance, identity and freedom in Christian-inspired universities?8. Enacting Christian identities in Catholic colleges and universities: An organizational studies perspective on core practices, challenges, and discernments?9. The business of Catholic universities: The renewal strategy?10. Normative framework of Catholic institutions of higher education?11. Character education in universities?12. Intellectual and ethical education of university students through core texts seminars: The case of the Great Books Program at the University of Navarra?13. The role of theology in a university curriculum?14. An Expanded Reason university course for professors: A case study for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue between reason and faith?15. Discovering communicational DNA for expressing the identity of a university?16. Scientists lost in declaration: Unacceptable remarks and the pursuit of sustainable positioning?17. Relevance of universities in a complex context: Purpose and identity as strategic and inspirational elements of institutional communication?18. Strathmore’s Macheo programme: A cause for social good?19. Interview: A conversation on academic freedom and freedom of expression at the university

?

?

?