美国天主教大学｜The Catholic University of America

美国天主教大学The Catholic University of America (简称CUA)成立于1887年，是美国罗马天主教会官方大学，也是美国天主教高等教育中心所在，全校有九成学生都笃信罗马天主教。 USNEWS全美大学排名120，《美国新闻与世界报道》选为二级国家级大学，《纽约时报大学指南》给予三颗星的学术评分。

《纽约时报大学指南》指出，大学最好的学科是历史、英文、心理学和宗教，最热门的学科则是政治和经济。学生选修最多的学科，分别是社会科学(4%)、工科(2%)、健康职业 (10%)、商科(7%)、教育(5%)、计算机及自然科学(5%)、生物科学(5%)。

英文版介绍

The Catholic University of America (CUA), located in Northeast Washington, D.C., is the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and the only higher education institution founded by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. Established in 1887 following approval by Pope Leo XIII as a graduate and research center, the university began offering undergraduate education in 1904.

CUA s programs emphasize the liberal arts, professional education, and personal development. Besides academics, the school always stays closely connected with the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations. The American Cardinals Dinner is put on by the residential U.S. Cardinals each year to raise scholarship funds for CUA. The university also has a long history of working with the Knights of Columbus, and the university s law school and the university s basilica have dedications to the involvement and support of the Knights of Columbus.

The university s campus lies within the Brookland neighborhood, known as Little Rome , that contains 60 Catholic institutions, such as the academic institutions of Dominican House of Studies and Trinity Washington University.

The university has been visited twice by reigning Popes. Pope John Paul II visited on October 7, 1979.[1] On November 12, 2007, it was announced that Pope Benedict XVI would visit the campus on his visit to the United States in 2008. On April 17, 2008, the Pope came to campus after saying Mass in the Washington Nationals stadium and addressed representatives of Catholic education gathered in the Pryzbyla Center from throughout the country. The Pope used the opportunity to revisit the topic of Catholic education and academic freedom, which the university had been involved with years earlier.

Campus

The CUA campus is in the residential community of Brookland in Northeast Washington, DC; its main entrance is 620 Michigan Ave., NE. The campus is bound by Michigan Avenue to the south, North Capitol Street to the west, Hawaii Avenue to the north, and John McCormick Road to the east. It is three miles north of the U.S. Capitol Building.

The tree-lined campus is 193 acres. Romanesque and modern design dominate among the university s 55 major buildings. Between McMahon and Gibbons halls and alongside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception runs The Mall, a large strip of grass that is often the site of kickball games and sunbathers. Conte Circle is in the middle of Centennial Village, a cluster of eight residential houses.

The Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center was opened in the spring of 2003, bringing student dining services, the campus bookstore, student organization offices, an 800-person ballroom, a convenience store, and more student services under one roof. The Pryzbyla Center was also host of Pope Benedict XVI s speech to the U.S. Cardinals, U.S. Archbishops, and U.S. Catholic educators.[3] The John K. Mullen Library completed a $6,000,000 renovation in 2004, significantly improving the lighting and aesthetics of the interior and allowing the classical architecture to better shine through.

The Columbus School of Law is on the main campus and is self-contained in its own building with mock courtrooms, a library, chapel, classrooms, and offices. On the Pryzbyla Center side of the building is the Law School Lawn, where the ultimate Frisbee team can often be found. Theological College, the United States s national seminary, is located across Michigan Avenue from the main campus and sits between the Dominican House of Studies, a seminary for the Order of Preachers, and offices for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Trinity Washington University is also near the university and is a quarter mile south along Michigan Avenue.

In April 2004, the University purchased 49 acres of land from the Armed Forces Retirement Home. The parcel is the largest plot of open space in the District and makes CUA the largest university in DC by land area. There are currently no plans for the parcel other than to secure the property for future growth.

In 2007 the University unveiled plans to expand the campus by adding three new dorms to the north side of campus. Groundbreaking for the first building, Opus Hall, was held in March 2007. Construction began in the summer of 2007 and is set to be finished bore the 2008-2009 school year. Opus Hall will house 420 upper-class students and will be seven stories tall, making it the largest dorm on campus. The three new dorms, when completed, are set to replace the two still functioning dorms on the south side of campus, Conaty and Spellman.

The Campus is served by the Brookland-CUA station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Union Station, Capitol Hill, and the Smithsonian museums are only a few minutes ride away. Near campus is the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, the Franciscan Monastery, and the offices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Academics

Catholic University has 11 schools and the Metropolitan College in addition to 21 research centers and facilities. The 11 schools offer Doctor of Philosophy degrees (or appropriate professional degrees) in 41 programs and Master s Degrees in 90 programs. Undergraduate degrees are awarded in 83 programs by six schools: architecture and planning, arts and sciences, engineering, music, nursing and philosophy.

Undergraduates combine a liberal arts curriculum in arts and sciences with courses in their major fields of study. Metropolitan College provides programs for adults who wish to earn baccalaureate degrees or participate in continuing education and certificate programs.

Catholic University is the only U.S. university with an ecclesiastical faculty of Canon law and is one of the few U.S. universities with ecclesiastical faculties of philosophy and sacred theology. Theological College, the university seminary, has prepared men for the priesthood in many dioceses of the United States.

Over 98% of professors have doctoral or terminal degrees and 74% teach undergraduates. Of the full time faculty, 59% are Catholic. Faculty experts regularly appear in the news media.

Also see the List of Schools and Academic Programs at The Catholic University of America.

Research centers and facilities

Over time, the university became the home to many national Catholic scholarly associations, including the Catholic Biblical Association of America, publisher of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and (for many years) the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

It also is the home to many research institutes, including:

Center for Advanced Training in Cell and Molecular Biology

Center for Advancement of Catholic Education

Center for American Catholic Studies

Center for Catalan Studies

Center for Irish Studies

Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies

Center for Pastoral Studies

Center for the Study of Culture and Values

Center for the Study of Early Christianity

Center for the Study of Energy and Environmental Stewardship

Center for Ward Method Studies

Homecare and Telerehabilitation Technology Center

Institute for Biomolecular Studies

Institute for Christian Oriental Research

Institute for Communications Law Studies

Institute for Sacred Music

Institute for Social Justice

Institute of Musical Arts

Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music

Life Cycle Institute

Vitreous State Laboratory

Academic freedom

The University has made a general statement of policy that the academic freedom of its faculty and students will be respected.It considers academic freedom a fundamental condition for research and dissemination of information. The policy sets forth its respect for the right and responsibility of its faculty and students to (i) conduct research, (ii) publish their findings, and (iii) discuss ideas according to the principles, sources and methods of their academic disciplines.The University further sanctions the investigation of unexplored phenomena, advancement of knowledge, and critical examination of ideas, old and new and accepts the responsibility of protecting both teacher and student from being forced to deny truth that has been discovered or to assert claims that have not been established in the discipline.

However, the University specifically provides that theologians in the University are expected to give assent to the teachings of the magisterium in keeping with the various degrees of assent that are called for by authoritative teaching. It should be noted that the Catholic University of America does not offer general studies in theology. Instead it offers doctorates in historical theology and systematic theology, the latter of which undertakes the task of a comprehensive and synthetic understanding of the Christian faith as mediated through the Scriptures and the Catholic Tradition and as interpreted by the conciliar and papal magisterium In addition it offers ecclesiastical degrees (i.e., licensees to teach Catholic Theology) in Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology, Moral Theology/Ethics, and Historical and Systematic Theology In order to teach theology at The Catholic University of America, one must be licensed to teach Catholic Theology by the Vatican.

AAUP censure

In 1986, the Vatican declared that Charles E. Curran could no longer teach theology at Catholic University of America schools, because clashes with church authorities finally culminated in a decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by then-Cardinal Jos Ratzinger, that Curran was neither suitable nor eligible to be a professor of Catholic theology. .

In 1989, he filed suit against Catholic University and it was determined that the University had the right to fire him for teaching views in contradiction to the school s religion. However, this was not the first time Curran was removed from his position.

In 1990, the American Association of University Professors dended Curran and first censured the Catholic University of America due to its failure to adhere to the AAUP s Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and that it found that unsatisfactory conditions of academic freedom and tenure have been found to prevail at the Catholic University of America. As of today, the Catholic University remains on the list of censured institutions. The two conditions for having the censure removed are inviting Curran, whose license to teach Catholic Theology had been suspended by the Vatican, back to campus and changing the University s Statement on Academic Freedom. Very Rev. David M. O Connell, University president, ruses to do either stating, Every American university has a right to govern itself according to its own identity, mission, standards and procedures.

However, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools stood against the American Association of University Professors, and declared the right of an institution to pursue its established educational purpose, supports the governing board decisions on upholding the interests of the founders, the supporting religious group, the supporting governmental agency, or other supporting party.

Speaker policy

The University as a policy does not allow outside guests to speak on campus to any audience if they have previously expressed an opinion on abortion rights (as well as other issues) that conflicts with the Catholic Church s official position. In 2004, CUA came under fire for forbidding Stanley Tucci from presenting in a seminar about Italian cinema (after he was already scheduled to do so), because he had lent past support for Planned Parenthood, a pro-choice organization.

In a letter to the campus that next month, CUA President David O Connell wrote:

I consider any pro-choice advocacy whether deliberate or accidental, whether presented under the guise of academic freedom or right to free speech as incompatible with that fidelity and not worthy of The Catholic University of America.

The next year, in 2005, the school was criticized for initially rejecting an application for a student chapter of the NAACP; one of the reasons officials cited in its rejection was the national organization s pro-choice stance. In 2006 the CUA administration barred a student-run on-campus performance of Eve Ensler s The Vagina Monologues. The Editorial Board of the student newspaper The Tower, in supporting the decision to ban the production, stated that as much as we love variety, diversity and open-mindedness, this University is not the best place for that to flourish.

University rectors and president:

Bishop John J. Keane (1887 1896)

Bishop Thomas J. Conaty (1896 1903)

Bishop Denis J. O Connell (1903 1909)

Bishop Thomas J. Shahan (1909 1927)

Bishop James Hugh Ryan (1928 1935)

Bishop Joseph M. Corrigan (1936 1942)

Bishop Patrick J. McCormick (1943 1953)

Bishop Bryan J. McEntegart (1953 1957)

Bishop William J. McDonald (1957 1967, last Rector)

Clarence C. Walton, Ph.D. (1969 1978, first President)

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. (1978 1982)

Rev. William J. Byron, S.J. (1982 1992)

Brother Patrick Ellis, F.S.C. (1992 1998)

Very Rev. David M. O Connell, C.M., J.C.D. (1998 present)