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on Catholic HigherEducation 1.I(November 1995):11-19.Also inOrigins25.I(August 24,1995):174-78  \nTlwenty-eight years and two weeks ago,about two dozendistinguished Catholic educators,bishops,and religious leaders gatheredat Land O'Lakes,Wisconsin,and issued a statement declaringthat \"the Catholic university today must be a university in the full modernsense of the word,with a strong commitment to and concern for academic excellence.\"  \nThe Catholic university,the statement continued,\"must have a trueautonomy and academic freedom,\"but it must also be an institutionwhere \"Catholicism is perceptibly present and effectively operative.\"  \nNo book on Catholic higher education,indeed no history of AmericanCatholicism,is complete without reference to this Magna Carta for modernCatholic higher education.It is there in the record books,so tospeak,like the Third Council of Baltimore with its decree on parochialschooling or the founding of The Catholic University of America in 1887.  \nMy thesis today is a simple one:You are attending a gathering that ispotentially as important as Land OLakes--a gathering that,if you sochoose,has every likelihood of entering the history books as signaling anew moment in Catholic higher education,in American Catholicism and,just maybe,in our society's effort to achieve an authentic pluralism  \nIf this meeting is to be historic,it will not be due to anything that wecan cram into the next 67 hours.It will be a landmark because more than450 educators,many of you presidents—key people in a web of over 200schools across the United States and by that very fact key people in achurch of 56 million members--because you leave here not with a statement,not with all the answers,but with a collective will to focus on a commonset of questions.  \nLand O'Lakes,we should remember,did not just happen at a four-daymeeting.It was the crystallization of a process long under way.We cantrace it in the title of Philip Gleason's forthcoming history of Catholic  \nNOVEMBER 1995·ACCU  \nhigher education in the 20th century,\"Contending With Modernity,\"andwe can trace it in the subheadings of his closing chapters:\"Self-Criticismand the Search for Excellence,\"\"The Splintering of the ScholasticSynthesis,\"\"The Contagion of Liberty,\"and \"The Acceptance ofModernity.\"  \nEvery step in that process was subject to misrepresentations andexaggerations.Every step elicited fears and accusations.Not all those fearswere baseless.No great change comes about without introducing orskirting serious problems,problems that the beneficiaries of that changewill eventually have to address.  \nNor was that earlier process ever unanimous.It was carried forward bya core of farseeing,risk-taking educators and church leaders.There wereonly 26 signatories of the Land O'Lakes statement,all male and representingonly nine universities.  \nI believe that a similar process is now taking place.Well over five yearsago,I began an investigation that,after many months of interruptions,became a front-page story in The New York Times.I began with the intentionof reporting on the challenges faced by all sorts of colleges and universitiesin maintaining a religious identity:Southern Baptist,Baylor andSouthern Methodist;Mormon,Brigham Young;and Jewish,Yeshiva;noless than Catholic,Fordham,DePaul or Santa Clara.In the end we limitedthe story to Catholic schools.That was where the action was,where awhole family of schools seemed to be tottering on the edge of fatefulchange.  \nFrankly,what I discovered as I spoke with deans and presidents and facultymembers left me stunned  \nAt the higher levels,there were repeated assurances that the commitmentto Catholic identity had in no way weakened,although there waswidespread admission that it might be more difficult to implement undercurrent circumstances.  \nAt the faculty level,in some quarters I found frustration and anger at","cbCainN7Q6rxws4Y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainN7Q6rxws4Y","pdf",382377,11,"English","# 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