Christendom College
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| Motto | Instaurare Omnia In Christo (Latin: To Restore Everything in Christ) |
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| Established | 1977 |
| Type | Private; Lay-run Catholic |
| Endowment | US$3 million |
| President | Timothy T. O'Donnell, STD, KGCHS |
| Faculty | 44 |
| Staff | 41 |
| Undergraduates | 379 |
| Postgraduates | 67 |
| Location | Front Royal, Virginia, USA |
| Address | 134 Christendom Dr, Front Royal, VA 22630 |
| Telephone | 540-636-2900 |
| Campus | Rural, 100 acres (.40 km²) |
| Founder | Warren H. Carroll |
| Mascot | The Crusader |
| Affiliations | Roman Catholic Church |
| Website | www.christendom.edu |
Christendom College is a small Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, Virginia, United States, in the scenic Shenandoah Valley.
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[edit] Educational Mission
Christendom College is a Catholic coeducational college institutionally committed to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.
The College provides a Catholic liberal arts education, including an integrated core curriculum grounded in natural and revealed Truth, the purpose of which at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is to form the whole person for a life spent in the pursuit of Truth and Wisdom. Intrinsic to such an education is the formation of moral character and the fostering of the spiritual life. This education prepares students for their role as faithful, informed, and articulate members of Christ’s Church and society.
The particular mission of Christendom College, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, is “to restore all things in Christ” by forming men and women to contribute to the Christian renovation of the temporal order. A temporal order infused by the spirit of Christ and Catholic teaching is generally called "Christendom," meaning those places in which Christ's teachings are considered the basis for society and its governance. This mission to restore all things in Christ, or in other words to rebuild Christendom, gives Christendom College its name.
The College's Vision Statement reads in part:
The only rightful purpose of education is to learn the truth and to live by it. The purpose of Catholic education is therefore to learn and to live by the truth revealed by Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, "the Way, the Truth and the Life," as preserved in the deposit of faith and authentically interpreted in the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by Christ, of which the Pope is the visible head. That central body of divine truth illumines all other truth and shows us its essential unity in every area of thought and life. Only an education which integrates the truths of the Catholic Faith throughout the curriculum is a fully Catholic education.
[edit] History
Christendom College was founded by Dr. Warren H. Carroll in 1977 in Triangle, Virginia, with only $50,000.[1] The original campus was an abandoned elementary school in Triangle, housing a total of only 26 students[2] and six faculty.[3] The founding faculty consisted of Dr. Carroll himself, Dr. William Marshner (then Mr.), Dr. Jeffry Mirus, Dr. Kristin Burns, Dr. Robert Hickson, and Mr. Ray O'Herron.
In 1979, the College acquired its new campus in Front Royal, Virginia, overlooking the Shenandoah River.[4] It still occupies this site today.
[edit] Student Life
As a Catholic liberal arts collge, Christendom's essential purpose is to place students on the path to Christian wisdom, a wisdom born from the contemplation and love of both natural and divinely revealed truth. Toward this end, the academic and other programs at the College work in conjunction. The chief goal of the academic program is to form intellectual virtues in the students. The activities, events, community and spiritual life on campus also foster the cultivation of wisdom, helping students to form the moral virtues, the habits of Christian living, which will enable them to order properly the goods and things of the body and the higher goods and things of the soul.
At Christendom, the athletic program seeks to complement the College's higher goal of the moral and intellectual perfection of man. As a member of The United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), Christendom fields intercollegiate teams in both men and women's soccer and basketball as well as men's baseball and women's softball. The athletic department maintains facilities and equipment to support a variety of student interests, such as tennis, racquetball, handball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball, weightlifting, archery, and fencing. Plans are currently underway to establish a crew program, which would make use of the beautiful Shenandoah River that adjoins the campus.
Christendom encourages its students to take part in the many organized recreational activities that the College has to offer, and to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities presented by its location in the Shenandoah Valley.
[edit] Academic degrees
Christendom College has two schools offering graduate and undergraduate degrees.
Undergraduate students combine a liberal arts core-curriculum with eventual upper-level courses in their major field (or fields) of study.
[edit] Undergraduate College
Dr. Patrick Keats, Dean
All graduates of the undergraduate college are awarded the bachelor of arts degree. The fields of study are:
- Theology
- Political Science and Economics
- Philosophy
- History
- Classical and Early Christian Studies
- English Language and Literature
[edit] Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College
Dr. Kristin Burns, Dean
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[edit] Rome Program
Each undergraduate has the option of going to Rome in his or her junior year as part of the college's Rome Program. The college offers this program at a loss so that students can have the opportunity to go to the heart of Christendom, to explore the epicenter of Western Civilization, and to be at the center of the Church and its 2000 year history. Students report this as being a life changing experience. The Program includes a continuation of the College's core curriculum program for juniors (PHIL 301 Medieval Philosophy and THEO 301 Moral Theology during the Fall, PHIL 302 Modern Philosophy and THEO 302 Apologetics in the spring), as well as courses in Italian, Roman Art & Architecture, and a general catch all course that highlights Rome as a center of culture, intellectually, spiritually, and physically. The Program also includes a week's pilgrimage to Assisi and Florence.
[edit] College Presidents
- Dr. Warren Carroll
- Dr. Damian Fedoryka
- Dr. Timothy O’Donnell (current)
[edit] Campus
[edit] Residence halls
Men's Dormitories:
- St. Benedict Hall
- St. Joseph Hall
- St. Francis Hall
- St. Pius Hall
- St. Augustine Hall
- St. Kevin Hall
- John Henry Cardinal Newman Apartments
Women's Dormitories:
- St. Edmund Campion Hall
- Blessed Margaret Hall
- St. Theresa's Hall
- St. Catherine of Sienna Hall
[edit] Academic buildings
- St. Thomas Aquinas Hall
- The Crypt of the Chapel of Christ the King
- St. Lawrence Commons
- St. John the Evangelist Library
[edit] Other buildings
- Crusader Gymnasium
- McCarty Hall
- Regina Coeli Hall
- Madonna Hall
- John Paul II Student Center
[edit] External links
- Christendom College official site
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ The Founding, the Building, and the Glory of Christendom College by Dr. Warren H. Carroll (2002).
- ^ The Founding, the Building, and the Glory of Christendom College by Dr. Warren H. Carroll (2002).
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- ^ The Founding, the Building, and the Glory of Christendom College by Dr. Warren H. Carroll (2002).
