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s Monsignor Sokolowski introduced the roundtable
What Faith Has
To Do with
Intellectual Life:
two terms as a disjunction. That is so true. Often, we
A Faculty Roundtable Discussion
The topic of the roundtable discussion was the perfect
discussion, he said when it comes to faith and
intellect, we might be tempted to think of these
think of our academic pursuits and our faith pursuits
as separate. They are activities that we participate in at
different times.
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choice to begin the semester and lead all of the Intellect
• Monsignor Robert S. Sokolowski, Elizabeth
Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy
• J. Steven Brown, associate professor of mechanical
engineering
and Virtue events. It got me thinking about how religion
can be an all-encompassing way of life, instead of an activity.
Virtue should be behind every action, even in our academic
pursuits.
• Joseph E. Capizzi, associate professor of theology
and religious studies and area director of moral
theology/ethics
What I liked most about the faculty roundtable was the
• Ann T. Cederna, associate dean for graduate studies
and professor at the School of Architecture and
Planning
was particularly interested to hear from professors of law,
• Lucia A. Silecchia, professor of law at the
Columbus School of Law
diversity of disciplines represented. I had expected to hear
from professors representing theology and philosophy, but
engineering, and architecture.
Professor Cederna talked about how faith fueled the
creativity of some of the best artists and architects in
history. Dr. Brown said that engineering is based on
• Ernest Suarez, chair and professor of the
Department of English
empirical data, but ultimately it is a human endeavor,
which means it is tied to God. To hear these professors talk
about how faith and reason go together was quite thought
provoking.
In addition to presentations by each faculty member, I
enjoyed the question-and-answer segment and even asked
one myself. There were many different perspectives on how
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Christian faith makes
an appeal to human
understanding. It enlarges
and confirms understanding
and does not extinguish it.
For Christian faith, the more
understanding the better.
”
— Monsignor Robert S. Sokolowski
faith and academics complement each other, and it was
refreshing to hear from so many students and academicians
who understand how important that relationship is.
President Garvey’s inauguration theme was well chosen.
It says a lot about why we go to college in the first place:
We are trying to become better people and that should
never be measured by just jobs and money. They can
certainly be a consequence of our choices, but they should
not be the point.
Regina Conley
Class of 2013
History Major
Raleigh, N.C.
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been blessed through a creative profession can,
through his or her artistry, glorify God and use
that gift to serve others. He also said that if the aim of one’s
creativity is to assert one’s own ego, then that work becomes
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destructive.
Music and Faith in
My Life and Vision
reflections
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etropolitan Alfeyev said that anyone who has
As a composer myself, I felt a connection to these statements.
The creative process should never be governed by egotistical
initiatives.
Of course no painter wants to see his work put in a drawer,
never to be viewed by others, and no composer wants to write
a cantata that is never performed. But there must be
recognition that the artistry is a gift. An artist should be
Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Volokolamsk
Chairman of the Department of External Church
Relations and permanent member of the Holy Synod
of the Patriarchate of Moscow
Noted theologian, church historian, and composer
humbled by that. When I hear a beautiful piece of music
or when I compose a piece myself, I often wonder where
that inspiration came from. And the answer inevitably
takes me to the Holy Spirit of God. It is a mystery that
cannot be fully explained.
Composing is a participation in the act of creation. Like
parents who, through their mutual love in the Holy Spirit,
give life to a child, so also a composer gives birth to a piece
of music under the same divine inspiration.
It was interesting to hear Metropolitan Alfeyev share his
views on some of our greatest composers, from Bach to
Shostakovich. And I also enjoyed hearing about his own
“
The language of music
transcends many boundaries
and speaks directly to people’s
hearts.
”
— Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
path as a composer of sacred music, including such beautiful
works as his St. Matthew Passion.
Sacred music has a great tradition at The Catholic University
of America. It is appreciated and cherished and is at the
core of our traditions, celebrations, and pageantry. This
topic resonated with so many of us at the University and
specifically for us at the School of Music.
Joseph Santo
Assistant Dean of Academics and Graduate Studies
Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
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of America have a long history of contribution to
the arts. Any discussion of intellect and virtue would
not be complete without highlighting and exploring their
relationship in literature.
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Dana Gioia is a significant and accomplished poet and
The Catholic
Writer Today
literary critic. I have been reading his work for more than
reflections
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oth the Catholic Church and The Catholic University
20 years. He is known for being provocative and he did not
disappoint.
He challenged us to think about the role of the Catholic
writer in contemporary society. He argued that Catholic
literature has been in decline in the past 40 to 50 years. In
Dana Gioia
Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Pop Culture,
University of Southern California
the not-too-distant past, writers who could be identified by
Winner of the 2002 American Book Award for Poetry
vast reservoir of imagery, symbols, and traditions related to
Former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
their Catholicism played a prominent role in society. Even
if they weren’t engaging Catholics directly, they drew on a
Catholic culture. These writers are largely absent today.
Among the reasons for this change, he noted that the Church
no longer supports the arts vigorously enough and that we
live in a culture in which a writer with a connection to the
Church is hesitant to draw attention to that affiliation. He
said we have given the arts over to a secular society.
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For every true artist, a problem
presents a possibility. If we
learn nothing else from the lives
of saints, we should know the
power their work had to change
the world.
”
— Dana Gioia
There is a great role for the Catholic Church to play in
promoting and invigorating the arts. Gioia challenged us
— Catholic artists and Catholic University — to reach out
and engage the broader culture. And that goes back to the
interplay of intellect and virtue. We can be proud of our
faith and engage our faith without sacrificing intellectual
rigor and aesthetic standards.
Ernest Suarez
Chair of the Department of English
Professor of English
School of Arts and Sciences
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for his presentation, I met Edward O. Wilson, a
Harvard colleague and co-author of his, at a
conference. Dr. Wilson is one of the world’s preeminent
scientists. As I asked him to sign his Pulitzer Prize-winning
book for me, I told him I would be introducing Martin Nowak
at a lecture in a few weeks. He told me “Martin Nowak is quite
simply the greatest evolutionist ever.”
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reflections
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efore Martin Nowak came to Catholic University
I used that extraordinary statement in my introduction. I
Evolution and
Christianity
had not met Dr. Nowak prior to his lecture, and I looked
forward to hearing what he had to say. It was very special
to have him on our campus.
Intellect and virtue are the ideals of this University.
Dr. Nowak embraces these ideals. His work straddles both
Martin Nowak
Director of Harvard University’s Program for
Evolutionary Dynamics
science and the arts and humanities. He is a renowned
Professor at Harvard University
Science and religion need to work together in order for us
scientist and mathematician who has given much thought
to religion and personal life.
to understand life and the human condition. One doesn’t
rule out the other. Religion and scientific progress should
not oppose one another, he told us.
We know the universe began with a big bang some 13 billion
years ago. Dr. Nowak gave a concise overview of what
scientists know about evolution, from the creation of the
solar system to the existence of bacteria to the beginning
“
Scientists should admit that
science does not provide every
answer … Religion and
science must work together.
”
— Martin Nowak
of human language. But he also pointed out what we do
not know.
There is a tendency — hubris actually — with each
generation of scientists to believe they have solved the
great questions before us. But as we accumulate more and
more evidence, we are presented with more questions.
And sometimes these questions require us to have faith.
This was Dr. Nowak’s message. It was very powerful for
those in the audience to hear from this widely respected
and meticulous scientist that science and religion can be
in harmony.
Frank Portugal
Director of the M.S. in Biotechnology Program
Clinical Associate Professor of Biology
School of Arts and Sciences
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Intellect and Virtue:
The Idea of a
Catholic University
Symposium: Day One
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s I sat in the audience listening to all of these
leading intellectuals speak about virtue and its
role in academia, I felt hopeful. How we live —
body, mind, and soul — and how this affects the way we
carry out our professional work in service to society is
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absolutely essential to the mission of a university. And in a
world that has become increasingly materialistic, it is more
important than ever to encourage the academic community
Featured Speakers
Bishop Thomas Curry,
chairman of the Committee
on Catholic Education,
United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops
John M. Rist, professor
emeritus of classics and
philosophy, University
of Toronto, and visiting
professor at the Institutum
Patristicum Augustinianum
John Haldane, professor
of philosophy and director
of the Centre for Ethics,
Philosophy and Public
Affairs at the University of
St. Andrews, Scotland
Christopher Kaczor,
professor of philosophy
in the Bellarmine College
of Liberal Arts at Loyola
Marymount University
to consider these issues.
Paul J. Griffiths, Warren
Professor of Catholic
Theology at Duke Divinity
School
did that, but none more so than through the symposium.
Joseph Kaboski,
David F. and Erin M. Seng
Foundation Associate
Professor of Economics at
University of Notre Dame
Bishop Thomas Curry, John Rist, John Haldane, Helen
President Garvey wanted to engage our University as well
as universities across the country and in other parts of the
world in a discussion about the interaction of intellect and
virtue. With every one of his inauguration-year events he
We worked with an advisory committee of presidents of
Catholic universities in the United States and from other
countries to bring together such exciting speakers as
Alvaré, Paul Griffiths, Christopher Kaczor, and Joseph
Kaboski. They, and so many other wonderful speakers from
universities around the world, were pleased to join in the
discussion, each bringing a unique perspective.
The conversations continued during lunch and on breaks
and in the evening. Attendees and speakers alike expressed
gratitude for the opportunity to explore the relationship of
intellect and virtue, and to hear from others and share ideas
on the interplay of academics, faith, values, and student life.
“
“It is the job of Catholic
universities not to train students
to enjoy shaking hands with the
great and the good, but to
teach them to encourage the
great and the good to become
greater and better than they
usually are.
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In all of the discussions, there was a shared excitement about
continuing the conversation.
Maria Sophia Aguirre
Professor of Economics
School of Arts and Sciences
Co-Chair of the Inaugural Year Planning Committee
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Intellect and Virtue:
The Idea of a
Catholic University
Symposium: Day Two
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he symposium showed us there is not just one way
to understand the relationship between intellect
(what and how we learn) and virtue (how we live).
Speakers from Catholic universities as well as secular
universities in the United States and around the world
shared their views on the intersection of intellect and virtue.
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We learned how others do it well. But we also heard that it
is not easy to bridge the gap between intellect and virtue.
It is certainly an easier choice to treat them as separate
Featured Speakers
Helen M. Alvaré,
associate professor of law
at George Mason University
W. Bradford Wilcox,
associate professor of
sociology and director
of the National Marriage
Project at the University
of Virginia
Roundtable: Presidents
from Catholic Universities
Rev. Borys Gudziak,
Ukrainian Catholic
University
Rev. Terence Henry, T.O.R.,
Franciscan University of
Steubenville
Thomas Keefe,
University of Dallas
aspects of higher education.
President Garvey’s ideal of academic excellence is to bring
together the best and most creative to share their respective
points of view. And he did just that through the symposium,
which, in his words, proved to be the “capstone” event of
his inaugural year.
We had great success in getting the people we asked to
accept our invitation to speak. They wanted to be here and
to be part of this discussion.
It was fascinating to hear so many respected intellectuals
talk about the direct relationship between our scholarship
Rev. Johan Yeong-Sik
and how we live. They quoted from literature that supports
Pahk, Catholic University
of Korea
the importance of helping students foster the right moral
Rev. Brian Shanley, O.P.,
Providence College
academic success. What came to the forefront was how all
choices and the direct impact of those choices on their
facets of a university must work together: resident life,
campus life, and academic life. They must be interconnected.
Living the academic life in a manner informed by faith
should be the overarching narrative for any Catholic
“
Today, Catholic education is
presented with an historic
opportunity to play an unprecedented role in the struggle for
human freedom and dignity,
and in providing a person with
a reliable tool to measure the
value of a person’s actions.
”
university. Throughout the symposium, there was a sense
of pride in seeing The Catholic University of America take
the lead on this important mission in such a meaningful
way.
William C. Mattison III
Associate Professor of Moral Theology
School of Theology and Religious Studies
Co-Chair of the Inaugural Symposium Planning Committee
— Rev. Terrence Henry, T.O.R.
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philosophical basis for human rights, spoke
with objectivity and clarity that invited each
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When Might
Becomes Right
How the interplay of intellect and
virtue defines and promotes
human rights
person in the audience to think about the meaning and
development of human rights.
As she spoke, I was wishing all the students in my
Contemporary Moral Issues class for undergraduates were
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r. Janne Haaland Matlary, presenting a
in the audience. A few of them were, as I had alerted them
to the lecture during our class that morning. Dr. Matlary
spoke about texts and ideas which were familiar to them,
such as The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an
amazing document that was adopted and proclaimed in
1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations. She
mentioned that she is working to include a bill of rights in
Janne Haaland Matlary
Professor of international politics at the University
of Oslo
the Norwegian constitution.
Member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
read and study. She told us man is endowed with reason,
Former deputy foreign minister of Norway
fundamentally a moral being, knowing not only facts but
She also spoke about Aristotle’s understanding of the human
being in his Nicomachean Ethics, which all CUA freshmen
lives in society, and develops a conscience. Man is
also values, the difference between right and wrong. From
this ability, she said, comes human dignity, the basis of
human rights.
What then is the “might,” the power that “becomes human
right?” Ideally, the “might” is each person’s well-developed,
well-reasoning intellect that discerns what is morally right
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for humans. It is accompanied by our will fortified with
There is no perfect solution to
say ‘Let the judges decide’ or
‘Let the politicians decide.’
Ultimately, it is we who must
use reason [to decide what is
just].
”
virtue to carry it out.
After the lecture, one of my students came up to me beaming
with satisfaction and said, “Wasn’t that great!” He was thrilled
to have understood her message. A week later when he gave
me his term paper, he said, “I hope you notice that I
mentioned some of her ideas in my paper.” Seeing a student
make that kind of connection is what every teacher hopes for.
— Janne Haaland Matlary
Sister Marian Brady, S.P.
Director of the Core Program in Philosophy
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy
School of Philosophy
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Garvey’s inaugural year. The most important word in
the phrase is “and.” Nobody is really against intellect
or virtue, but it cuts across the cultural grain to put them
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together like that. We children of the Enlightenment like
Newman’s Idea of a
University — Some
Misunderstandings
to chop ourselves into pieces — mind or body, thought or
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ntellect and Virtue was a brilliant theme for President
action, thinking or feeling — but the great message of the
Catholic faith is that we are a unity.
Students need to know that being good — practicing
virtue — is not just some optional add-on to intellectual
attainment or professional skill. It is fundamental to
succeeding in those efforts. If you cannot be honest,
Rev. Ian Ker
Senior Research Fellow in Theology at Oxford
University
Author and editor of more than 20 books about
Cardinal John Henry Newman, including the Oxford
critical edition of The Idea of a University and John
Henry Newman: A Biography
responsible, caring, generous, courageous, humble,
hopeful, you do not know how to think well. It is also both
a precondition and an effect of having your life be a temple
of the presence of God.
Father Ker is the world’s premier expositor of the work of
Blessed John Henry Newman. His lecture pointed out that
Newman’s goal for higher education was also the marriage
of intellect and virtue. Newman advocated that a university’s
purpose was not fulfilled in teaching particular areas of
knowledge or science or skill. The university does teach
these things, but always in service of a higher goal, the
development in students of what Newman called the “liberal
mind,” which Father Ker described as the “cultivation of
the mind,” by exercising all of its potential, including the
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The fundamental principles of
Newman are still of value. If
you stray too far from them,
you can’t be a university.
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— Rev. Ian Ker
formation of virtue.
I was thrilled that we were able to attract a scholar of
Father Ker’s stature to Catholic University. I have a shelf full
of his books. One of the best things about the Intellect and
Virtue lecture series was that it offered students a great
opportunity to come face to face with such worldrenowned scholars as Father Ker.
Rev. D. Paul Sullins
Associate Professor of Sociology
School of Arts and Sciences
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segments of the Catholic world when it was issued
May 2 and 3
120th Anniversary
of Rerum Novarum:
Church, Labor, and
the New Things of
the Modern World
Two-day conference sponsored by
Catholic University’s Institute for
Policy Research & Catholic Studies
by Pope Leo XIII in 1891: priests and religious,
laypersons of all classes, laborers and corporate tycoons,
politicians and intellectuals. Indeed, it has inspired many
individuals affiliated with Catholic University across the
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he encyclical Rerum Novarum held a message for all
20th century to think deeply about not only the relationship
between capital and labor, but also about how economic,
social, and governing structures relate to the nature of work
in the modern world. Individuals in the local Catholic
community, such as Monsignor John A. Ryan, Linna
Bressette, and Monsignor George G. Higgins, drew from
Rerum Novarum and other labor encyclicals to write, speak,
and work on behalf of American labor. The May conference
continued this tradition of integrating the teachings of the
Church into the life of the University and beyond.
Striking was the range of backgrounds of the presenters as
well as the audience itself. Union leaders and staff members
were in abundant attendance as both presenters and
attendees. In addition to CUA faculty and other scholars,
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This moment in American history
is not just an anniversary, it is a
good occasion for reviving this
important text. Many of the
problems that concerned Pope
Leo are problems that persist
today. In the last few years alone,
we have seen what happens when
the effort to acquire wealth
succeeds without the benefit of
conscience.
”
— President John Garvey
representatives of a range of unions, the bishops’
conference, the government, the media, and the clergy
were thoughtful and engaged in understanding the
encyclical in context and its continuing relevance for our
times.
The conference showed that Catholic University is still
engaged with this seminal document issued 120 years ago,
that it continues to engage a cross section of society in issues
of work and quality of life issues, and that these individuals
can have vibrant conversations across their respective
specialties.
Maria Mazzenga
Education Archivist/Instructor
American Catholic History Research Center
and University Archives
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Justice
promote right
relationships with
God and humanity
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s part of the inaugural-year theme, “Intellect
and Virtue: The Idea of a Catholic University,”
the four cardinal virtues were highlighted
throughout the semester. The University focused on
one of these virtues each month: justice, prudence,
temperance, and fortitude. The events included lectures,
intellect and virtue
The Idea of
a Catholic
University
service opportunities, celebrations, and pledges. In
addition, the University awarded its first-ever Cardinal
Medal for Fortitude to nine individuals from the University
community who exemplify this virtue.
Prudence
discern and pursue
the good
Temperance
master the balanced life
“
A Catholic university should be
concerned with the formation
of its students. … The measure
of our success is how our
graduates live their daily lives:
do they pray and receive
sacraments; do they love the
poor; do they observe the rest
of the beatitudes?
”
— From the inaugural address of
President John Garvey
Fortitude
live with strength
of character
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highlights
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he following pages contain selected highlights of notable events at the University
and of accomplishments by its administrators, faculty, staff, and students during the
period following commencement 2010 through commencement 2011 (May 2010–
May 2011). It is by no means an exhaustive list.
On June 4 Very Rev. David M. O’Connell, C.M., outgoing president of
The Catholic University of America, is appointed coadjutor bishop of
the Diocese of Trenton, N.J., by Pope Benedict XVI.
Catholic University announces June 15 that John Garvey, dean of
Boston College Law School since 1999, has been appointed Catholic
University’s new president effective July 1. He is inaugurated as the
15th President on Jan. 25.
Most Rev. Donald W. Wuerl, archbishop of Washington and University
chancellor, is named to the College of Cardinals on Oct. 20.
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl
The School of Architecture and Planning explores the concept of
“emergence” in today’s contemporary architectural practices in its
2010 Summer Lecture Series (E)MERGE.
An educational website created by CUA and the United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops titled “U.S. Catholic Bishops and Immigration”
features primary documents and historical photographs detailing the
American Catholic immigration experience.
Twenty nursing students from Japan and Korea immerse themselves in
the U.S. health care system as part of a two-week exchange program
sponsored by CUA’s School of Nursing.
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
The Metropolitan School of Professional Studies introduces three new
academic programs in the field of health information technology and
offers $1.5 million in scholarship grants for those entering the programs.
CUAdc, a program providing architectural design services to deserving
organizations that could not otherwise afford them, is recognized in
August with an UNBUILT Award, which recognizes excellence in projects
that to date remain unbuilt, from the Washington, D.C., chapter of the
American Institute of Architects.
New Voices @ CUA
The redevelopment of South Campus into a mixed-use community
advances with an Aug. 16 announcement that Abdo Development has
teamed with The Bozzuto Group, a Washington, D.C., area-based
residential real estate company, and Pritzker Realty Group, a Chicagobased real estate investment company, to finance the project.
The University welcomes its largest freshman class in history, more than
1,000 students. For four of the last five years, CUA has achieved record
enrollment.
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“New Voices @ CUA,” a festival of new vocal music, is presented
by CUA graduate students from the Benjamin T. Rome School
of Music Sept. 10 and 11, showcasing new works by 17
composers from across the country and abroad.
More than 20 faculty members and students of the Benjamin
T. Rome School of Music are featured in a three-day series of
performances at Carnegie Hall, Nov. 1 to 3.
The School of Philosophy presents the Fall Philosophy Lecture
series, “The Modern Turn,” lectures by 12 scholars on the chief
thinkers and most compelling topics of modern philosophy.
CUA’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
presents its sixth annual Frank R. Mastrangelo Lecture.
Roberto Dainotto, professor of romance studies at Duke
University, speaks on the topic “What is European Literature?”
More than 150 faculty and staff and 90 concelebrating priests
lead the processional that begins the annual Mass of the Holy
Spirit, which is televised live on EWTN-TV. The pews of the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
overflow with about 2,500 CUA students, faculty, and staff.
The staff of CUA’s Orientation program is honored with two
awards by the National Orientation Directors Association
during its conference Nov. 6–9 in St. Louis. The Orientation
newsletter wins best newsletter, and the program’s theme of
“Doors Opening” takes first place as outstanding theme.
In honor of Constitution Day on Sept. 17, the University hosts
a series of lectures, including one by President John Garvey.
The National Catholic School of Social Service begins
enrolling students Dec. 1 for its new Employee Assistance
Online Educational Program, the first such Web course
offered by a U.S. school of social work.
The CUA Chapter of Best Buddies is honored by the
international parent organization with its Outstanding
Chapter Award at the 21st Annual Best Buddies Leadership
Conference.
Items from Catholic University alumni who attended the
University between 1915 and 1959 are displayed in an exhibit
in the John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library titled
“Portal to the Past: Reflections of Student Life.”
The Department of Art honors Alexander Giampietro (1912 –
2010) with a showing of his life’s work. The internationally
known artist was an art professor at Catholic University from
1950 until 1992.
The art department displays six exhibits during the 2010–2011
academic year, including “Crafting a Legacy: A Half Century
of Art at CUA” in October, which features the work of nine
artists affiliated with the department.
The Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies presents
an Oct. 13 panel discussion on “Religion & 2010 Elections:
The Impact of Religious Issues and Religious Voters” at the
National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Approximately 300 members of the CUA community —
including President John Garvey and his wife, Jeanne —
participate in a day of community service on Jan. 17 in honor
of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday,
President and Mrs. Garvey join more than 500 CUA students
on Jan. 24 for the 38th Annual March for Life in downtown
Washington, D.C.
Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, O.P., the secretary of the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the
Sacraments, is the principal celebrant and homilist at the
Mass in honor of Catholic University’s patron St. Thomas
Aquinas on Jan. 27.
As part of the “Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th
Anniversary Celebration,” students in the musical theatre
program at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music perform
“The Age of Dreams: Musicals from 1961” at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 27.
The School of Nursing receives the American Association
of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Innovations in Professional
Nursing Education Award for its Bridge to Practice clinical
model on Nov. 1 at the AACN Fall Semiannual Meeting in
Washington, D.C.
Rev. Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., of the Pontificio Ateneo Sant’
Anselmo in Rome and Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict,
Ore., receives Catholic University’s annual Johannes Quasten
Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in
Religious Studies on Feb. 1. Afterward he delivers a lecture
titled “Liturgy Characterized by Logos: Romans 12: 1-2 in
Paul, Patristics, and Liturgy Today.”
The School of Canon Law sponsors the Fourth Annual
Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture, presented by
Rev. John F. Baldovin, S.J., professor at Boston College’s
School of Theology and Ministry. His lecture explores the
question “Is the Liturgy Hitting Its Target?”
Wade Davis, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic
Society, speaks at CUA at the invitation of the School of
Architecture and Planning on Feb. 7 about work from his
most recent book, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters
in a Modern World.
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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures presents its
23rd Annual Robert N. Nicolich Lecture on Feb. 23. Georgia Cowart,
professor of music at Case Western Reserve University, speaks on
“Watteau and the Satiric Stage.”
CUA Cares collects donations and solicits prayers for
victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The movement has mobilized in the past after Hurricane
Katrina and other catastrophes.
The Catholic University of America appears as No. 13 on the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Top 20 College and University list
of the largest green power purchasers. Catholic University is among the
most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and
Canada, according to “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green
Colleges: 2011 Edition.”
Eric Gregory, professor in the religion department at Princeton
University, presents an April 4 lecture, “Num Tertium Quid?
Civic Virtues and Augustinian Eudaimonism,” part of the
School of Theology and Religious Studies’ Moral Theology
and Ethics Area Annual Lecture Series.
Approximately 900 people attend the Feb. 25 Mass of Christian Burial
in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception for Rev. Kurt Pritzl, O.P., dean of the School
of Philosophy. One month later, University President John Garvey
announces that an endowed chair in the School of Philosophy has been
named in Father Pritzl’s honor.
Anne M. Butler, trustee professor emerita at Utah State University,
lectures on the history of Catholic sisters in the American West for the
Catholic Daughters of the Americas Annual Lecture on Feb. 27.
Jane Pesci-Townsend Tribute
The School of Nursing hosts a series of events in the spring to mark the
75th anniversary of its founding. The School of Library and Information
Science celebrates two anniversaries: 100 years of library science
instruction and 30 years as a school.
Friends and colleagues of Jane Pesci-Townsend fill Hartke Theatre for
a March 21 musical tribute to her life. Pesci-Townsend taught musical
theatre at CUA from 1994 until her death in 2010.
John Boehner
E.C. Coppens, professor of history of law at Radboud University in
Nijmegen, Netherlands, gives the 8th annual James H. Provost Memorial
Lecture, sponsored by the School of Canon Law, on “Misericordia: extra
Codicem, in justitia. A historical view on the jurisdictional limits of
codified law” on March 24.
More than 50 professionals participate in the annual spring canonical
seminar for practicing canon lawyers, finance officers, and diocesan
attorneys, sponsored by the School of Canon Law on March 25 and 26.
The Hispanic Civic and Global Engagement Talk Series draws upwards
of 100 students at each of seven lectures.
John Golin
The late Mathilde Rovelstad, a professor of library and information
science who taught at Catholic University for 30 years, leaves a bequest
of more than $892,000 to add to the largest scholarship in the history
of CUA’s School of Library and Information Science.
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, archbishop of Washington and University
chancellor, presents a March 28 lecture titled “Why a ‘New Evangelization’
Now?”, hosted by the CUA Knights of Columbus and D.C. State Council
of the Knights of Columbus.
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The Columbus School of Law is recognized on April 13 by
the Archdiocesan Legal Network of the Archdiocese of
Washington for its volunteer efforts with the network, which
serves close to 5,000 residents of the Washington, D.C., area
with a wide variety of legal services.
America’s Catholic cardinals gather to raise scholarship
funds for The Catholic University of America in Phoenix
on May 6 at the 22nd American Cardinals Dinner. Most
Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, bishop of Phoenix, and President
Garvey co-host the dinner, which raises nearly $900,000 for
CUA scholarships.
John A. Boehner, the 61st Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives, addresses the Class of 2011 at
the 122nd Annual Commencement Ceremony on May 14.
The University confers more than 1,500 degrees at the
ceremony.
The Columbus School of Law holds its Commencement on
May 27, conferring 275 degrees. Kevin ‘Seamus’ Hasson,
founder and president of the Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty, is the speaker.
Duilia de Mello, associate professor of physics, receives a
$31,404 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute for
“First Resolved Imagining of Escaping Lyman Continuum.”
John Golin, professor of biology, receives a three-year
grant of $497,728 from the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to study the biochemistry of a particular type of
cellular protein that enables the cell to protect itself from
toxic compounds.
Tanja Horn, assistant professor of physics, receives two NSF
grants totaling more than $775,000. The larger award is to
develop a detector that will help unlock the mysteries of the
smallest particles of matter.
James H. Howard Jr., professor of psychology and Father
Mathew Scholar, receives a five-year $2,185,976 grant from
the National Institute of Aging for “Aging and the Cognitive
and Neural Bases of Implicit Associative Learning.”
David A. Jobes, professor of psychology and associate director
of clinical training, receives a $3.4 million grant from the
Military Operational Medicine Research Program to conduct
a four-year randomized clinical trial of his clinical intervention,
“Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality.”
The study will be conducted with suicidal Army soldiers at
Ft. Stewart in Georgia.
Vadim Knyazev, associate professor of chemistry, receives a
$290,500 grant from NSF to work with three colleagues on
“MRI: Acquisition of a 400 MHz FT-NMR for Undergraduate
Research and Education at the University of the District of
Columbia.” This is a joint project between CUA, the University
of the District of Columbia, and Gallaudet University.
The Department of Business and Economics announces the
creation of a new master’s program in Integral Economic
Development Management, the first to create and implement
an integrated perspective to measure and evaluate development
programs, taking into account the social dimension of every
person.
Angela Knobel, assistant professor of philosophy, directs
research on “Theology of Character” as part of “The Character
Project.” The project, led by professors at Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and supported by a $3.67
million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, uses
perspectives of psychology, philosophy, and theology to learn
more about human character.
Grants
Steven Kraemer, associate professor of physics and assistant
director of the Institute for Astrophysics and Computational
Sciences, receives a $75,880 grant from NASA for
“Spectroscopic Studies of the Interstellar Medium of the
Milky Way and External Galaxies.”
Vladimir Airapetian, physics research associate, receives
a $15,952 grant from NASA for “Atmospheric Dynamics of
Evolved Late-Type Giants: A Tau.”
Gregory Brewer, associate professor of chemistry, receives a
$275,727 grant from NASA for “Chemical/Physical Properties
of Molecules in Laboratory Astroscience: Astrobiology,
Astrochemistry, and Geoscience.”
Alexander Kutepov, research associate in the Institute for
Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, receives a
$10,000 grant from Johns Hopkins University for “The
Role of Atomic Oxygen in the Energy Balance of the
Mesopause Region.”
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Alexander Levin, professor of mathematics, is awarded a three-year
NSF grant of $143,074 to develop constructive methods for the analysis
and solution of systems of difference-differential equations.
V. Bradley Lewis, associate professor of philosophy, is awarded the Mary
Ann Remick Fellowship at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
at the University of Notre Dame for the 2011–2012 academic year. In
conjunction with that award, he receives a $20,000 research fellowship
grant from the Earhart Foundation. These awards support a research
project on the common good and the modern state.
Maryann Cusimano Love, associate professor of politics, is selected as a
Crapa Fellow at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
and receives $35,000 to support her research and writing on religious
actors and factors in U.S. foreign policy.
George P. Mavroeidis, assistant professor of civil engineering, receives a
$174,981 grant from the NSF to research “Characterization of Translational
and Rotational Strong Ground Motions in the Near-fault Region, and
Their Impact on the Dynamic Response of Buildings.”
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Timothy Meagher, associate professor of history and University archivist,
receives a Fulbright fellowship to spend the 2011–2012 academic year at
Dublin City University, where he will work on a history of Irish Americans,
to be published by Yale University Press.
Krister Nielsen, research assistant professor in the Institute for
Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, receives a $54,805 grant
from the Space Telescope Science Institute for “Modeling of the H2
Fluorescence spectrum in Eta Car’s ejecta.”
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, physics research associate, receives a
$17,208 grant from NASA for “Research and Development of Low
Power Processors in FPGA for CUBESAT Missions.”
Claes Ryn
Leon Ofman, physics research professor, and Seiji Yashiro, physics
research associate, are awarded NASA grants totaling almost $850,000 to
study the relationship between the sun and Earth. They are probing for a
deeper understanding of solar activity and its effects on everything from
electrical power outages to GPS tracking devices.
Judit Pap, associate research professor of physics in the Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, receives a $50,414 grant from
NASA for “The Fine Structure of Active Regions and Weak Magnetic
Fields and MDI Images.”
School of Nursing at Northwood High School
Antti Pulkkinen, research associate in the Institute for Astrophysics
and Computational Sciences, receives a $30,051 grant from the Finnish
Meteorological Institute for “European Risk from Geomagnetically
Induced Currents.”
Venigalla Rao, chair and professor of biology, is awarded $100,000 from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to design a new vaccine against
the virus that causes AIDS.
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Claes Ryn, professor of politics, is awarded a $51,500 grant
from the Liberty Fund to direct a conference on “The History
of Liberty According to Benedetto Croce” to be held in San
Diego in October 2011.
Pamela Tuma, associate professor of biology, receives $42,624
to supplement an ongoing grant from the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The money
is designated for the advancement of minority students in
science careers and will provide salary and travel money for
one year for Julia Omotade, a post-baccalaureate researcher
in Tuma’s laboratory.
Geronimo Villanueva, research professor of physics, receives
a $25,409 grant from NASA for “Swift UVOT Observations
of STARDT’s Comet 81P/WILD-2.”
Shavaun Wall, professor of education, and Carole Williams
Brown, research associate professor of education, are
awarded a grant worth more than $1.1 million to develop
a master’s program in early childhood education and
special education that prepares teachers to serve young
children with special needs from low-income, multicultural families.
Tongjiang Wang, research associate in the Institute for
Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, receives $38,427
as part of a subcontract from Montana State University
for “An Observational Study of Loop Oscillations in Active
Corona.”
The Catholic University of America is awarded a cooperative
agreement worth more than $8 million from NASA to
establish a science center for collaborative research in solarheliospheric sciences at the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, Md.
The School of Nursing is awarded $97,000 by Montgomery
County (Md.) to continue to provide school-based health and
wellness services at Northwood High School in Silver
Spring, Md., in a partnership with Children’s Hospital and
Holy Cross Hospital.
Faculty and Staff
Maria Sophia Aguirre, professor of economics, presents a
paper titled “Private Property and Economic Sustainability”
at the Summer Institute of the James Madison Program at
Princeton University on June 24. She also delivers a talk on
“The Potential of Populations: How Investing in the Human
Person Can Lead to Economic Growth” at the International
Solidarity Forum held March 23 at the United Nations.
Four professors from the Department of Media Studies
participate in the annual Society for Cinema and Media
Studies conference in New Orleans, March 10–13. Niki
Akhavan presents a paper titled “Feeding into It: Social
Media and Iran’s 2009 Election Campaign.” Jennifer Fleeger
presents on “Selling Jazz Short: Warner Bros. Makes Film
Sound American.” Jennifer Horne presents on “The Boy
Public: Rights of Performance in Edison’s ‘Conquest
Program’(1917).” Alex Russo is part of a workshop titled
“Teaching Television Today.”
Lourdes Alvarez, chair and associate professor of modern
languages and literatures, participates in a panel discussion,
“History, Culture, Religion, & Arts,” at the East Meets West
conference held March 23–25 at the Virginia Military Institute.
Jon Anderson, professor and chair of anthropology, presents
a paper titled “Networked Audiences: Public Spheres of
Networked Communication in the Middle East” at the World
Congress for Middle Eastern Studies in Barcelona, Spain,
July 19–24. He is invited to give a series of lectures on social
media in the Middle East at Sweden’s new National Center
for Middle East Studies at Lund University in November.
Rev. Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap., John C. and Gertrude
P. Hubbard Professor of Religious Studies, receives an
honorary doctorate for his contributions to Franciscan
literature from Felician College on Jan. 27.
William Barbieri, associate professor of theology and religious
studies, participates in a panel discussion titled “Charles
Taylor and the Hermeneutics of Intercultural Dialogue” at
World Catholicism Week at DePaul University in Chicago,
April 11–14.
Margaret Martin Barry, professor of law, is appointed acting
associate dean for clinical and experiential programs and
visiting professor of law for the 2011–2012 academic year at
Vermont Law School.
Rev. John Beal, professor of canon law, participates in a seminar
on “Canon Law for Media” at the United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C., on May 25.
Rev. Christopher Begg, Katharine Drexel Chair in Religious
Studies, delivers a paper titled “The Rewritings of the Book of
Joshua in Josephus and Pseudo-Philo” at the 69th Colloquium
Biblicum Lovaniense in Louvain, Belgium, July 26–28.
Joshua Benson, assistant professor of theology and religious
studies, gives a lecture titled “Fons sapientiae verbum Dei in
excelsis: John Pecham’s Lost Inaugural Lecture at Paris?” at
the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference held
Oct. 22–24 at Villanova University.
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Marshall Breger, professor of law, participates in a panel discussion,
“Sharing the Message of Auschwitz: Muslims Bear Witness to the
Holocaust,” at Seton Hall University on Nov. 14.
J. Steven Brown, associate professor of mechanical engineering, receives
the Journal Paper Award from the American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers at its annual meeting in
June, honoring “HFOs: New, Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants”
as the best paper or article published in ASHRAE Journal.
Diane Bunce, professor of chemistry, is selected as one of 50 scientists
and engineers who go into local middle and high schools in October to
ignite a passion for science and engineering as part of the Inaugural
USA Science & Engineering Festival.
During the summer, Ronald Calinger, professor of history, presents a
paper titled “Euler: The Final Berlin Years” at the annual meeting of the
Euler Society at Adelphi University, July 19–21.
J. Steven Brown
Joseph Capizzi, associate professor of theology and religious studies,
gives a presentation titled “On the Structural Coherence of Just War
Theory” at the symposium War and Peace: An Orthodox-Catholic
Conversation, held March 25–26 at Loyola Marymount University.
Youngok Choi, assistant professor of library and information science,
presents a paper titled “Investigating Variation in Querying Behavior for
Image Searches on the Web” at the annual meeting of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology in Pittsburgh, Oct. 22–27.
Thomas Cohen, associate professor of history and curator of the
Oliveira Lima Library, presents a paper on “Judaism and Islam in
António Possevino’s Bibloteca Selecta” at the Sixteenth Century
Studies Society Conference held Oct. 14–17 in Montreal.
Tanja Horn
John Convey, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education, receives
the O’Neil D’Amour Award from the National Catholic Educational
Association at its annual meeting in New Orleans on April 27 in
recognition of his outstanding contribution in establishing and supporting
collaborative leadership through boards of Catholic education.
Jennifer Davis, assistant professor of history, is awarded two fellowships
to conduct research for her book Charlemagne’s Practice of Empire, using
sources in Italy and Germany. She gives a lecture titled “Charlemagne’s
Practice of Empire” at the Freie Universität in Berlin on Nov. 11.
David Jobes
Duilia de Mello, associate professor of physics, gives a presentation
titled “The Role of Dwarf Galaxies in Galaxy Evolution” at the XIII
Latin American regional meeting of the International Astronomical
Union held in Morelia, Mexico, Nov. 7–11. In the spring she is a visiting
scholar at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile.
Robert Destro, professor of law, and Mark Rienzi, assistant professor of
law, participate in a panel discussion titled “New Conscience Regulations
from the Department of Health and Human Services: Do They Strike
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the Right Balance between Conscience and the Medical
Profession?” held April 14 at Georgetown University.
Cara Drinan, assistant professor of law, participates in a panel
discussion “Access to Justice: Paths to Achieve Indigent
Defense Reform,” held at the American University Washington
College of Law, on Sept. 8.
Ono Ekeh, clinical assistant professor of theology and religious
studies, and Sister Chau Nguyen, O.P., doctoral candidate in
theology and religious studies, deliver papers on Aug. 6 at the
National Newman Conference at the National Institute for
Newman Studies in Pittsburgh. Ekeh’s paper is titled “Solitude
and Journey: Two Central Themes in the Spirituality of John
Henry Newman.” Sister Nguyen’s paper is titled “Encountering
Truth: A Study of the Theological Method of John Henry
Newman’s ‘An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine.’”
Sarah Ferrario, assistant professor of Greek and Latin,
participates in an inter-institutional faculty development
seminar at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.,
for the development of a multi-campus undergraduate course
on Greek oratory and law of the fourth century B.C. In the
spring of 2011, she teaches a cross-institutional collaborative
graduate seminar on Greek historical writing with a professor
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Clifford Fishman, professor of law, gives the 2010 James Otis
Lecture at the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law
at the University of Mississippi on Oct. 5. He speaks on Fourth
Amendment rights in the workplace.
Jennifer Fleeger, assistant professor of media studies, presents
a paper titled “Metropolitan Women: Geraldine Farrar and
Marion Talley Silence Opera on Screen” June 24 at the
conference Women and the Silent Screen VI, which is held at
the Università di Bologna in Italy.
Rev. John Ford, C.S.C., professor of theology and religious
studies, gives two presentations — “Newman’s Reasonable
Approach to Faith” and “Newman’s Personalist Argument for
Belief in God” — at the Newman-Scotus Symposium held at
Washington Theological Union, Oct. 22–24.
Jody Gatwood, associate professor of music, performs a violin
recital on Aug. 23 at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, with
pianist Alison Matuskey for the Music Leadership Team of the
Howard County Public School System.
John Grabowski, associate professor of theology and religious
studies, gives a lecture titled “Caught in a Bad Romance? Reexamining Allegations of Romanticization in the Theology of
the Body’s Account of Sex and Gender” at Assumption
College on March 21.
Matthew Green, assistant professor of politics, participates
in a Nov. 15 panel discussion, “The Role of Minority Parties in
Congress,” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Tobias Hoffmann, associate professor of philosophy, delivers
lectures on “Duns Scotus on Why Ethical Knowledge is
Untainted by Bad Habits” and “Peter Auriol on Free
Decision”at the Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy held Oct. 28 and 29 at Marquette University.
Eleanor Holdridge, head of the M.F.A. directing program,
directs the production of Something You Did at Theater J in
Washington, D.C.
Tanja Horn, assistant professor of physics, organizes the
8th Electron-Ion Collider Collaboration Meeting held at
CUA July 29–31. Horn and Nathaniel Hlavin, a freshman
physics major, give a presentation at the Thomas Jefferson
Lab National Accelerator Facility Hall C Users Meeting held
Jan. 14 and 15 in Newport News, Va., that focuses on their work
on a particle detector for a research equipment NSF grant.
Jennifer Horne, assistant professor of media studies, presents
a paper June 13 titled “Agencies of Relief: The Educational
Image and the American Red Cross” at the 11th International
Domitor Conference held at Ryerson University and the
University of Toronto in Canada.
Monsignor Kevin Irwin, dean of theology and religious
studies and the Monsignor Walter J. Schmitz, S. S. Professor
of Liturgical Studies, delivers six lectures and engages in
discussions at the annual meeting of the Federation of
Diocesan Liturgical Commissions held Oct. 6 and 7 in
Alexandria, La. The convention theme is on the third edition
of the Roman Missal.
Katherine Jansen, associate professor of history, gives a
lecture titled “The Politics of Peacemaking in Late Medieval
Florence” at Princeton University on Feb. 15.
David Jobes, professor of psychology and associate director
of clinical training, delivers two presentations, “Suicide,
Contemporary Media and Rock ’n Roll” and “CAMS –
Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality,” at
the Show Me You Care About Suicide Prevention conference
in Jefferson City, Mo., July 29–30.
Charles Jones, associate dean for graduate studies and
associate professor of theology and religious studies,
presents the concluding remarks at The World of Matteo
Ricci: An International Colloquium on Jan. 15 at Penn
State University.
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Sung Un Kim, assistant professor of library and information science, gives
a presentation titled “Preparing Students from Immigrant Families for
Postsecondary Education” at the Virginia Educational Media Association
Conference in Hampton, Va., Oct. 28–30.
than a dozen categories. She receives the Distinguished
Alumni Achievement Award from the New York University
School of Law’s Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law
Alumni Association on April 1.
Law professors Catherine Klein and Leah Wortham are keynote
plenary speakers at the Eighth International Clinical Legal Education
Conference held at Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne,
England, July 7–9. Klein and Wortham discuss the factors that motivate
people to perform at a high level in the discharge of creative and
complex tasks.
Hellen Mardaga, assistant professor of theology and religious
studies, is invited to become an external research collaborator
of the research unit of the Faculty of Theology of the NorthWest University in South Africa.
Michael Kimmage, associate professor of history, gives a lecture titled
“Toward a Definition of American Conservatism” at the University of
Bremen in Germany on June 30.
Vadim Knyazev, associate professor of chemistry, gives a June 23
presentation titled “Kinetics and Mechanisms of Gas Phase Reactions of
Chlorinated Organic Compounds and Their Roles in the Pollution of
the Environment” at the Institute of Chemical Physics at the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Mary Leary
John Kromkowski, associate professor of politics and associate director
of the CUA Center for the Study of Culture and Values, is appointed to a
three-year term on the Archdiocesan Planning Commission by St. Louis
Archbishop Robert Carlson.
Bill Kules, assistant professor of library and information science, presents
a poster titled “The Influence of Search Stage on Gaze Behavior in a
Faceted Search Interface” at the annual meeting of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology in Pittsburgh, Oct. 22–27.
Julius Levine
Mary Leary, associate professor of law, participates in a discussion on
“Sexting: A Multi-Disciplinary Response to a 21st Century Phenomenon”
at a conference on America’s children in the Internet era held April 9 at
Syracuse University.
Amanda Leiter, associate professor of law, participates in the ninth
annual Legal Times/National Law Journal review of Supreme Court cases
on July 7 in Washington, D.C.
Julius Levine, professor of architecture, is appointed to serve on the
2011 American Planning Association National Planning Awards Jury.
Leo Nestor
V. Bradley Lewis, associate professor of philosophy, presents a paper
titled “The Common Good and Legal Authority According to the
Natural Law: On Jean Porter’s Ministers of the Law” at the Joseph T.
McCullen Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law at the
Villanova University School of Law on Oct. 22.
Suzette Malveaux, associate professor of law, writes “Class Actions at the
Crossroads: An Answer to Wal-Mart v. Dukes” for the Harvard Law and
Policy Review. After its publication in March 2011, the article is listed on
the Social Science Research Network’s top 10 download list in more
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Rev. Frank Matera, Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of
Biblical Studies, delivers five lectures on St. Paul’s letter to
the Galatians at the 47th Annual Institute for Sacred
Scripture held at Georgetown University, June 21–25.
William Mattison, assistant professor of theology and
religious studies, gives a lecture titled “Imago Dei:
Simultaneously Ineradicable Possession and Exalted
Calling” at Columbia University School of Law on Oct. 19.
Laura E. Nym Mayhall, associate professor of history,
participates in a roundtable discussion on “TwentiethCentury Britain: Teaching and Research” at the North
American Conference on British Studies in Baltimore on
Nov. 13.
Monsignor Paul McPartlan, Carl J. Peter Professor of
Systematic Theology and Ecumenism, delivers two keynote
addresses — “The Eucharist Makes the Church” and “Praying
with Creation: The Cosmic Aspects of Eucharist,” — and
leads workshops at a conference on prayer in Brisbane,
Australia, July 7–10.
Veryl V. Miles, dean of the Columbus School of Law,
presents “The Future of Legal Education: Get Real” at
the 2010 D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference held June 10
in Farmington, Pa. She is elected to the American Law
Institute.
Robert Miller, associate professor of theology and religious
studies, delivers a paper on “Oral Tradition in the Old
Testament” to the International Organization for the Study
of the Old Testament Congress in Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 1–6.
He is appointed coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic Region of
the Society of Biblical Literature for a three-year term.
Nelson Minnich, professor of theology and religious
studies, gives a presentation titled “The Fifth Lateran
Council as a Theatre for Demonstrating Papal Power” at
a conference on June 23 at the Westfälische WilhelmsUniversität Münster in Germany.
Rev. Mark Morozowich, associate professor of liturgical
studies and sacramental theology and associate dean of the
School of Theology and Religious Studies, delivers addresses
on “The Mystery of the Resurrection: Lent-Easter-Pentecost”
and “Liturgical Time in the Eastern Church” at the Notre
Dame Center for Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame,
June 14–17.
Jerry Muller, chair and professor of history, presents a paper
titled “Leo Strauss: A Portrait of the Political Philosopher as
a Young Zionist” at the conference Culture and Catastrophe
in Modern European History at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem on June 9.
Virgil Nemoianu, William J. Byron Distinguished Professor
of Literature and professor of philosophy, receives the Star
of Romania — the country’s highest civilian honor —
on Sept. 18. He gives two lectures in Romania on global
humanism on Oct. 26 and 27.
Leo Nestor, Justine Bayard Ward Professor of Music, receives
a commission to compose a new work for the national
convention of the American Guild of Organists. “Joy!
Because the Circling Year” for chorus and organ receives
its premiere at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in
Washington, D.C., and is published by the E.C. Schirmer
Music Company in Boston.
Charles Nguyen, dean of engineering, delivers a keynote
address titled “The Impact of Globalized Education on
College Students” at a Feb. 26 awards banquet in Silver
Spring, Md., sponsored by the District of Columbia Council
of Engineering and Architectural Societies.
James P. Ogilvy, professor of law, completes his year as
chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Section on Pro Bono and Public Services Opportunities
at the AALS annual meeting in January.
Chad Pecknold, assistant professor of theology and
religious studies, participates in a panel discussion on
“Catholicity in the Fathers of the Church” at World
Catholicism Week at DePaul University, April 11–14.
Kenneth Pennington, professor of law and Kelly-Quinn
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, is the first recipient of
the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American
Catholic Historical Association on Jan. 8 in Boston. He
gives a lecture at Columbia University on “The Evidence
of Torture” on April 21.
Erion Plaku, assistant professor of electrical engineering
and computer science, serves as associate editor of
IEEE/RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems for 2011.
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Antti Pulkkinen, associate professor of physics and associate director
of the Institute for Astrophysics and Computorial Sciences, is named
Outstanding Young Finnish Person of the Year by Finland’s chapter
of Junior Chamber International, a federation of young leaders and
entrepreneurs.
Murry Sidlin, professor of music, presents his concert-drama
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín before a sold-out crowd at
the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Concert Hall
on Oct. 6. He is awarded the Excellence in the Arts Award
from the City Choir of Washington on Jan. 30.
Enrique Pumar, associate professor of sociology, serves as a member
of the editorial boards for Sociological Forum and The Delaware Journal
of Latin American Studies.
Karla Simon, professor of law, speaks on the legal and policy
environment for civil society in today’s China, with an emphasis
on philanthropy, at the “Conference on Civil Society and
Nonprofits in China” held by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit
Organizations at Harvard University, Jan. 21–23.
Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, clinical associate professor of theology
and religious studies, delivers a June 18 address titled “The Relationship
of Priests and Bishops Today” at the U.S. Catholic bishops’ spring
meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Philip Rousseau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian
Studies, presents a paper titled “Articulating the Convert’s Goal in the
Sixth-Century West: Psychological and Social Vocabulary” at the third
Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on Conversion in Late Antiquity:
Christianity, Islam and Beyond at Oxford University in England on
July 2.
Philip Rousseau
Christopher Ruddy, associate professor of theology and religious
studies, delivers the Rev. Vernon Robertson Annual Lecture at
Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., on March 31. The title of his
lecture is “Truth vs. Love?: Yves Congar and Hans Küng on Reforming
the Church.”
Janet Selway, assistant professor of nursing, assumes the presidency
of the American College of Nurse Practitioners. She receives a 2010
Dermatology Nursing Annual Writer’s Award for her article “Case Review
in Adolescent Acne: Multifactorial Considerations to Optimizing
Management.”
Andrew Yeo
Jason Sharples, assistant professor of history, is appointed a visiting
scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for the 2010–2011
academic year. Sharples is one of seven people nationally to receive the
appointment.
Michael J. Sheridan, associate professor of social work, is honored Oct.
16 at the Council on Social Work Education 2010 annual meeting for
writing the Best Empirical Article of 2009. The award from the Journal
of Social Work Education is for “Understanding the Pathways of Factors
Influencing the Use of Spirituality Based Interventions.”
James Zabora
Caroline Sherman, assistant professor of history, participates in a panel
discussion titled “The Holocaust and Jewish Studies” at the Mid-Atlantic
Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Bowie State University in Maryland on
April 2.
David Shumaker, clinical associate professor of library and information
science, delivers a keynote address titled “Breaking Out of the Box:
The Promise of Embedded Librarianship” at the South African Online
Information Meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, Aug. 3–6.
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Andrew Simpson, associate professor of music, participates
in Cinefest 31 — a festival featuring screenings of silent and
early “talkie” films — held March 17–20 in Syracuse, N.Y. He
provides accompaniment to some of the silent films.
Gary Sloan, associate professor of drama, is the narrator
for an Oct. 2 performance of Enoch Arden by the Virginia
Chamber Orchestra at Northern Virginia Community
College in Annandale. Sloan also narrates the concert-drama
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín at the Kennedy Center on
Oct. 6.
George Smith, professor of law, delivers a lecture
titled “Bioethics and Human Rights: Toward a New
Constitutionalism” at the Sydney Law School at the
University of Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 19.
Monsignor Robert Sokolowski, Elizabeth Breckenridge
Caldwell Professor of Philosophy, is the inaugural speaker in
a program to be held annually in honor of Rev. Ernest Fortin
at Boston College. The title of his April 1 lecture is “Words,
Pictures, and the Truth of Things.” He also is the recipient of
the fourth annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Award for
Teaching and Humane Letters, given to him by
Georgetown University’s Tocqueville Forum on April 28.
Rev. Paul Sullins, associate professor of sociology, is named
the Loyola Fellow for Catholic Identity at the Center for the
Advancement of Catholic Higher Education.
Leslie Tentler, professor of history, gives a talk titled “American
Catholic History: The State of the Conversation” at the
American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Boston
Jan 6–9. Tentler presents a paper titled “An Almost Chosen
People: Will Herberg’s Catholics” at the Organization of
American Historians conference in Houston on March 20.
Stephen West, associate professor of history, gives a lecture
on “‘The Stupendous Folly of the Fifteenth Amendment’:
Agitating the Repeal of a Reconstruction Amendment in
Virginia and the Nation, 1890–1910” at the Virginia Forum
conference held March 24–26 in Lexington, Va.
John Kenneth White, professor of politics, gives a lecture
titled “The 2010 Midterms and the Future of the Obama
Presidency” to a gathering of the American Politics Group at
the Embassy of the United States in London on Nov. 12. He
delivers the talk via satellite from the U.S. Department of
State. He is named an honored member in the 2011 edition
of Who’s Who in American Politics.
Jeffrey Dirk Wilson, clinical assistant professor of philosophy,
gives a lecture titled “Political Theology, a Clear and Present
Danger: Lessons from Nazism to the Present” at Washington
College in Chestertown, Md., on March 8.
Rev. Michael Witczak, assistant professor of theology
and religious studies, speaks as part of a panel on “The
Implementation of the New Roman Missal” at the annual
meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy held
Jan. 6–9 in San Francisco.
Andrew Yeo, assistant professor of politics, is awarded a
fellowship from the East Asia Institute to participate
in the Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and
Development in East Asia. He also is selected as a finalist
for the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs
Fellowship.
James Zabora, dean of the National Catholic School of
Social Service (NCSSS), and Sister Mary Vincentia Joseph,
professor emerita in NCSSS, are inducted into the Social
Work Pioneer Program of the National Association of Social
Work Foundation in October.
As the panel discussion moderator at a Feb. 16 Congressional
briefing, James Zabora outlines ways the social work
profession can affect health care reform by designing
interventions and programs that would significantly reduce
health care spending.
Michaela L. Zajicek-Farber, associate professor of social
work, and Lynn M. Mayer, assistant professor of social work,
present a research study on maternal depression at the
Society for Social Work and Research annual conference in
Tampa, Fla., in January.
Four faculty members of the School of Theology and Religious
Studies provide commentary for the documentary series
“Living Your Faith.” Monsignor Kevin Irwin, dean; associate
professors Joseph Capizzi and Sister Mary Ann Clarahan;
and Assistant Professor William Mattison participate in this
co-production of the Order of Malta and Telecare, the TV
service of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y.
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Books
Susanne Bennett, associate professor of social work, edits Adult
Attachment in Clinical Social Work: Practice, Research, and Policy, published
in October by Springer. She also writes four of the book’s chapters.
Leonard DeFiore, Brother Patrick Ellis Professor of Education, writes
Story of the Storm: Catholic Elementary Schools from the 1960s to the Present,
published in April by the National Catholic Educational Association.
Victor Frenkel, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, edits
Therapeutic Ultrasound: Mechanisms to Applications, published in February
by Nova Science Publishers.
Will Haun
Dung Nguyen
Joan Tasker Grimbert, professor of modern languages and literatures,
publishes Chrétien de Troyes in Prose: the Burgundian Erec and Cligés,
published by Boydell & Brewer in April.
The New Jacobinsim: America as Revolutionary State by Claes Ryn,
professor of politics, is published in a second, expanded
edition by the National Humanities Institute.
Sandra Hanson, professor of sociology, and John Kenneth White,
professor of politics, edit The American Dream in the 21st Century,
published in April by Temple University Press.
Michael V. Smith, associate professor of music, writes Handbook
for the Music Educator together with Colleen Conway, published
in August by GIA Publications.
Rev. John Paul Heil, S.S.D., professor of theology and religious studies,
writes Hebrews: Chiastic Structures and Audience Response, published by
the Catholic Biblical Association of America as Vol. 46 in the Catholic
Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. He writes Philippians: Let Us
Rejoice in Being Conformed to Christ and Colossians: Encouragement to Walk
in All Wisdom as Holy Ones in Christ, both published by the Society of
Biblical Literature in the Early Christianity and Its Literature series.
Tarmo Toom, associate professor of theology and religious
studies, writes Sest Sinu Silmale Pole Suletud Süda Kättesaamatu:
Saateks Augustinuse Pihtimustele (The Closed Heart Does Not
Shut Out Your Eye: A Companion to Augustine’s Confessions),
published by Allika in Tallinn, Estonia.
Katherine Jansen, associate professor of history, co-edits Charisma and
Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching, published in
July by Brepols.
Rett Ludwikowski, professor of law, writes Polish Political Thought of the
XIX and XX Century, forthcoming from Wolters-Kluwer.
Rev. Frank Matera, Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of Biblical Studies,
writes Preaching Romans: Proclaiming God’s Saving Grace, published in
June by Liturgical Press. He writes Romans, published in November by
Baker Academic.
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Chad Pecknold, assistant professor of theology and religious
studies, writes Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the
History, published by Cascade Books in September.
Enrique Pumar, associate professor of sociology, edits
Hispanic Migration and Urban Development: Studies from
Washington, D.C., published by Emerald Press.
The 18th edition of Annual Editions: Race and Ethnic Relations, by John
Kromkowski, associate professor of politics, is published by McGrawHill.
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Mario Ortiz, assistant professor of modern languages and
literatures, edits La autobiagrafia espiritual de la Madre Maria
de san José (1656–1719) (The Spiritual Autobiography of Mother
Maria de San José), published by Juan de la Cuesta Press.
The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership (Yale University Press),
written by Matthew Green, assistant professor of politics, is named
“Outstanding Academic Title” for 2010 by Choice: Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries.
David A. Jobes, professor of psychology and associate director of clinical
training, co-edits Building a Therapeutic Alliance with the Suicidal Patient,
published in November by the American Psychological Association Press.
Students selected for Teach for America
Rev. Raymond O’Brien, professor of law, writes Decedents’
Estates: Cases and Materials with Michael T. Flannery
(Carolina Academic Press, second edition) and Family Law
Statutes, International Conventions and Uniform Laws with
Walter Wadlington (Foundation Press, fourth edition).
The Modern Philosophical Revolution, a 2008 book by David Walsh,
professor of politics, is the subject of a six-article symposium
in the July 2010 issue of Perspectives on Political Science.
Susan Wessel, associate professor of theology and religious
studies, translates the book The Greek Life of St. Leo Bishop of
Catania, published by the Société des Bollandistes.
Rev. Michael Witczak, assistant professor of theology and
religious studies, writes The Sacrament of Baptism, published
by Liturgical Press in March as part of the Lex Orandi series.
Holger Zaborowski, assistant professor of philosophy, edits
Natural Moral Law in Contemporary Society, published in
September by The Catholic University of America Press. The
book features contributions by three other CUA
philosophy faculty members: Jean DeGroot, V. Bradley
Lewis, and Monsignor Robert Sokolowski.
the work of four biblical scholars affiliated with The Catholic
University of America who serve as editors and translators
for the project. Serving on the project are Rev. Christopher
Begg, Katharine Drexel Chair in Religious Studies; Rev.
Joseph Jensen, O.S.B., professor of Scripture; Robert Miller,
associate professor of Old Testament; and Rev. Alexander Di
Lella, O.F.M., a retired member of the CUA theology and
religious studies faculty.
Students
Katelyn Browher, a senior history and secondary education
major, is awarded an English teaching assistantship at Ovidius
University in Constanta, Romania, by the Fulbright program
for the 2011–2012 academic year.
Second-year law school student Will Haun is selected by
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
to serve as an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law
and Public Policy’s National Symposium Board.
Dung Nguyen, a senior electrical engineering and computer
science major, presents his prize-winning 3D imaging design at
a worldwide conference in computer graphics in Los Angeles,
July 25–29.
Brandon Parlopiano, a doctoral candidate in medieval and
Byzantine studies, is funded to conduct research on his
dissertation, “Madmen and Lawyers: The Development and
Practice of the Jurisprudence of Insanity in the Middle Ages.”
Angela Rasmussen, a doctoral candidate in theology and
religious studies, presents a paper titled “Versions of Esther:
Hebrew Satire and Greek Drama” at the Society of Biblical
Literature annual meeting held Nov. 20–23 in Atlanta.
Catholic University seniors Andrea Baick, Veronica Diaz,
Rachael Staab, and Ryan Winn join the 2011 Teach for
America program following graduation and will teach for two
years at an urban or rural public school in the United States.
Twenty-three students from CUA’s Spirit of Place/Spirit of
Design program in the School of Architecture and Planning
build The Shaman’s Haven of the Kalevala in Finland in
August. In nine days, they contruct a 15-foot x 40-foot retreat
center of wood, glass, and stainless steel.
The work of seven CUA graduate students in music and
playwriting is featured in the ninth annual Page-to-Stage
Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
over Labor Day weekend.
The New American Bible, Revised Edition, released in March
by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, reflects
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financials
T
he fiscal year 2011 financial statements included in this annual report reflect the
University’s financial growth and strengthening of its balance sheet. The positive
financial results are due to careful stewardship and prudent decisions. As we look
toward the future, we are committed to continuing our practice of conservative financial
management.
Other Operating Revenues
1.5%
Investment Return
4.3%
Contributions
5.5%
Grants and Contracts
11.4%
Financial Results
The University ended the year with a positive operating net of $13.3 million. Budget cost
reductions initiated in fiscal year 2009 totaling $5.2 million continued through 2011. The
University maintained its budgetary discipline by efficiently managing its operating cost
structure. Total net assets increased $45.4 million, to $405.4 million, as a result of the positive
operating net combined with investment gains. Exhibit I illustrates the changes in net assets
over the past nine years.
Tuition and Fees, net
60.5%
Sales and Services of Auxiliary
Enterprises and Departments
16.8%
$450
$405.4
Exhibit II: Sources of Revenue
$400
$340.3
$350
$308.7
$250
$243.5
Operating expenses totaled $208.9 million, representing a $6.5 million, or 3.2 percent, increase over last year. Exhibit III depicts
the breakdown of expenses by function. It is worth noting that 58.3 percent of these expenses directly benefited students in the
areas of academic instruction and student services. Instructional expenses for fiscal year 2011 were at 47.9 percent and student
services totaled 10.4 percent of total expenses.
$293.3
$284.3
$300
$360.0
$342.3
$263.0
$200
Libraries
6.3%
$150
$100
Public Service
1.3%
Sponsored Research
8.3%
$50
$0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Student Services
10.4%
Instructional and
Departmental
Research
47.9%
Exhibit I: Total Net Assets ($ millions)
As shown in Exhibit II, the University derives its operating revenue from five major sources;
net student tuition and fees, sales and services of auxiliary enterprises, grants and contracts,
contributions, and investment return on the endowment (designated for current-year operations).
Total operating revenues increased from fiscal year 2010 by $9.8 million, or 4.6 percent. Net
tuition and fee revenue represents the largest source of operating revenue, providing the
University with $134.4 million, or 60.5 percent of total revenue. Net tuition and fee revenue
increased by $5.6 million, or 4.3 percent, due to the record number of incoming freshmen and
a tuition increase of 5.8 percent for full-time students. Auxiliary revenue represented $37.2
million, or 16.8 percent of total operating revenue. Endowment spending in support of
operations, coupled with working capital earnings, totaled $9.6 million, or 4.3 percent of total
operating revenue.
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Institutional
Support
10.8%
Auxiliary Enterprises
15.0%
Exhibit III: Expenses by Function
Exhibit IV shows operating expenses by type of expense. The largest category of expenses — salary, wages, and employee
benefits — represents 61.2 percent of the University’s total operating costs. Salaries, wages, and employee benefits rose 4.2
percent, in line with the University’s overall plan to support merit-based increases for faculty and staff. This increase will aid
the University in remaining competitive with its peers.
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Interest and Depreciation
7.9%
Utilities
3.3%
The market value of the endowment rose to $236.8 million for the period ended March 31, 2011. Since inception in fiscal year 1995,
the endowment has seen an increase of approximately $163.4 million in the market value, as shown in Exhibit VI. The endowment’s
annual return for the one year ending March 31, 2011, reflects a 13.7 percent gain. While investments have grown, performance is
directly tied to market dynamics.
Materials and Supplies
6.9%
$250,000
Salary, Wage, and
Employee Benefits
61.2%
Services and Other
20.7%
$200,000
$150,000
$100,000
Exhibit IV: Expenses by Type
$50,000
The change in net assets from nonoperating activities was a positive $32.1 million, due primarily
to positive investment gains of $29.5 million. Net asset growth is dependent on investment
market performance. To minimize the risk inherent with fluctuating markets, the University has
an overarching strategy to build net assets from operations through conservative budgeting.
$0
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Exhibit VI: Endowment Market Value ($ millions)
Endowment
The primary financial objective of the endowment is to provide funds for current and future
support of the operations of the University. Implicit in this objective is the financial goal of
preserving and enhancing the endowment fund’s inflation-adjusted purchasing power. The
University’s approach to endowment management is to have a diversified asset allocation and
hire quality investment managers. In accordance with the University’s investment policy, the
endowment maintains an allocation to fixed income to protect assets in times when equity markets
are falling. Other assets are diversified among publicly traded equity securities, alternative
assets, real estate, and emerging markets, with a global diversification within these asset classes.
The majority of the assets in the endowment are readily available for sale so the University has
adequate liquidity. The asset allocation strategy for fiscal year 2011 is provided in Exhibit V.
Emerging Markets Equity
6%
Domestic Equity
25%
Private Equity/Venture Capital
10%
Hedge Funds
10%
Each year a portion of the accumulated endowment investment returns and working capital earnings is designated to support
operational activity. The endowment amount designated for current operations is computed in accordance with an endowment
spending policy that has the effect of providing a stable source of funding for the operating budget while protecting the real
value of the endowment and preserving intergenerational equity to meet the University’s long-term needs. The University’s
endowment spending policy provides that 5 percent of the trailing 12-quarter average of the market value of the endowment
be allocated to the operating budget, thereby carefully balancing the need for current operations support with future needs.
Facilities
In 2011, the University prioritized spending for capital projects to complete the renovation of Father O’Connell Hall and
the classroom upgrades in McGivney Hall that integrate “smart” technology with the building’s renovation. Other capital
improvements were completed for the Raymond A. DuFour Athletic Center, Gibbons Hall, and Gowan Hall. In addition, three
residence halls — Conaty, Spalding, and Spellman — were demolished on the nine-acre site south of Michigan Avenue in
preparation for the South Campus development project. Continued investment to address deferred maintenance of existing
buildings remained a key priority. As a result, the use of capital funds earmarked in the operating budget for this purpose will
continue.
The University has initiated development of its 10-year Strategic Plan, which will define University-wide priorities in areas such as
academics and student life. The Strategic Plan runs parallel to the development of a campus Master Plan that will define the use
of space, physical appearance, and footprint of the campus over the next 10 years. The University’s goal is to have both the
Strategic Plan and the Master Plan completed in the spring of 2012.
Real Estate/
Natural Resources
10%
Global Excl.
U.S. Equity
19%
Fixed Income
20%
The University is looking forward to the future, confident that with careful resource management and planning we will meet
the challenges ahead and advance the distinctive Catholic mission and culture of the University. It is anticipated that in the
next several years, the campus will undergo many physical changes. The quality of student life will continue to improve as
resources are invested in providing students with a fulfilling educational experience.
Exhibit V: Asset Allocation by Strategy
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financials
Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
(in thousands) — For the years ended April 30, 2010 and 2011
2011
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 31,554
Accounts receivable:
Student fees and other, net of allowance
6,889
U.S. government and other agencies, net of allowance
3,263
Notes and student loans receivable, net of allowance
7,395
Contributions receivable
6,647
Investments
304,933
Deposits with bond trustee
2,015
Deferred charges and other assets
5,406
Property and equipment, net
189,143
Interest in perpetual trusts
2,179
Total assets
$559,424
Liabilities and Net Assets
Liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$ 19,394
Deferred revenues, student deposits, and other liabilities
4,162
Refundable advances from the U.S. government
7,311
Split-interest agreements
1,413
Asset retirement obligations
9,313
Indebtedness
112,454
Total liabilities
154,047
Net assets:
Unrestricted
256,149
Temporarily restricted
65,113
Permanently restricted
84,115
Total net assets
405,377
Total liabilities and net assets
$559,424
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Consolidated Statements of Activities
The Catholic University of America
(in thousands) — For the years ended April 30, 2010 and 2011
2010
$ 25,924
6,672
4,089
8,497
6,260
258,144
3,804
4,913
197,551
1,985
$517,839
$ 18,416
4,528
7,076
1,318
10,010
116,509
157,857
227,269
50,235
82,478
359,982
$517,839
2011
Operating Revenues and Support
Student tuition and fees, net
$ 134,387
Federal and private grants and contracts
25,400
Contributions
12,135
Investment return designated for current operations
9,595
Sales and services of departments
1,365
Sales and services of auxiliary enterprises
35,884
Other operating revenues
3,373
Total operating revenues and support
222,139
Operating Expenses
Educational and general:
Instruction and departmental research
Sponsored research
Public service
Libraries
Student services
Institutional support
Total educational and general expenses
Auxiliary enterprises
Total operating expenses
Change in net assets from operations
2010
$ 128,830
22,639
11,370
10,167
1,206
35,617
2,537
212,366
99,945
17,292
2,676
13,223
21,827
22,500
177,463
31,414
208,877
13,262
97,890
15,671
2,517
13,547
21,053
21,157
171,835
30,554
202,389
9,977
Contributions
4,384
Investment return in excess of amounts designated
for current operations
29,541
Realized gain on the interest rate swap
–
Changes in the value of split-interest agreements
219
Other nonoperating losses
(2,011)
Change in net assets from nonoperating activities
32,133
Increase in net assets
45,395
Net assets at beginning of year
359,982
Net assets at end of year
$ 405,377
5,461
Nonoperating Activities
50,822
497
66
(157)
56,689
66,666
293,316
$ 359,982
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senior officers and trustees
Senior Officers
Academic Deans
Board of Trustees
John Garvey
President
Randall Ott, M.Arch.
School of Architecture and Planning
Carl A. Anderson
New Haven, Conn.
James F. Brennan, Ph.D.
Provost
Lawrence R. Poos, Ph.D.
School of Arts and Sciences
Richard D. Banziger
Cathy R. Wood, M.F.A.
Vice President for
Finance and Treasurer
Rev. Robert J. Kaslyn, S.J., J.C.D.
School of Canon Law
Susan D. Pervi, M.A.
Vice President for Student Life
Frank G. Persico, M.A.
Vice President for University Relations and
Chief of Staff
W. Michael Hendricks, Ed.D.
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Victor Nakas, M.Phil.
Associate Vice President for Public Affairs
Christine Sportes, B.S., SPHR
Associate Vice President/
Chief Human Resources Officer
Lawrence J. Morris, J.D.
General Counsel
Charles C. Nguyen, D.Sc.
School of Engineering
Veryl V. Miles, J.D.
Columbus School of Law
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Ph.D.
School of Library and Information Science
Grayson Wagstaff, Ph.D.
Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
Patricia C. McMullen, Ph.D.
School of Nursing
John C. McCarthy, Ph.D.
School of Philosophy
Sara M. Thompson, Ph.D.
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
James R. Zabora, Sc.D.
National Catholic School of Social Service
Rev. Mark Morozowich, S.E.O.D.
School of Theology and Religious Studies
Michael Mack, Ph.D.
Dean of Undergraduate Studies
James Greene, Ph.D.
Dean of Graduate Studies
Vice Chairman
New York, N.Y.
Lee Ann Joiner Brady
Skillman, N.J.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Raleigh, N.C.
Timothy R. Busch, Esq.
Irvine, Calif.
Joseph L. Carlini
Malvern, Pa.
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson
St. Louis, Mo.
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Robert F. Comstock, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
Oakland, Calif.
Leo A. Daly III
Washington, D.C.
Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo
Houston, Texas
Sister Janet Eisner, S.N.D.
Boston, Mass.
John Garvey, President
Washington, D.C.
Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I.
Chicago, Ill.
Edward W. Gillespie
Alexandria, Va.
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Archbishop José H. Gomez
Los Angeles, Calif.
Timothy C. Scheve
Philadelphia, Pa.
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory
Atlanta, Ga.
Rodger D. Shay
Miami, Fla.
Stephen J. Kaneb
South Hampton, N.H.
Victor P. Smith, Esq.
Burlingame, Calif.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz
Louisville, Ky.
Anthony R. Tersigni
St. Louis, Mo.
Bishop Paul S. Loverde
Arlington, Va.
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin
Providence, R.I.
Bishop Gregory J. Mansour
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mark H. Tuohey III, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
Bishop Robert J. McManus
Worcester, Mass.
Monsignor Peter J. Vaghi
Bethesda, Md.
James Moye
Fairfield, Conn.
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron
Chairman
Detroit, Mich.
Mark A. Murray
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
St. Paul, Minn.
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien
Baltimore, Md.
Anne E. O’Donnell, M.D.
Arlington, Va.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted
Phoenix, Ariz.
Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.
Braintree, Mass.
Bishop Joseph A. Pepe
Las Vegas, Nev.
Neil J. Rauenhorst
Tampa, Fla.
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski
Miami, Fla.
Anthony A. Williams, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl
Chancellor
Washington, D.C.
Frank G. Persico
Secretary of the Board
Fulton, Md.
Catholic University is governed by a selfperpetuating Board of Trustees. Members
are listed as of Sept. 1, 2011.
Andrea Roane
Washington, D.C.
Monsignor Walter R. Rossi
Washington, D.C.
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Mission Statement
s the national university of the Catholic Church in the
United States, founded and sponsored by the bishops
of the country with the approval of the Holy See,
The Catholic University of America is committed to being a
comprehensive Catholic and American institution of higher
learning, faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ as handed on by
the Church. Dedicated to advancing the dialogue between faith
and reason, The Catholic University of America seeks to discover
and impart the truth through excellence in teaching and research,
all in service to the Church, the nation, and the world.
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Celebrating 125 Years
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Washington, D.C.
2010–2011 Annual Report