Pit Stop #77 came about as a bit of an odd twist. On Saturday, November 16, a group of my wife’s family convened on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA to watch the Crusaders host Bucknell University in football. My grand-nephew, Sam Milligan, plays for the Bucknell Bisons (and scored two touchdowns in the first half!) — a great way…Continue readingPit Stop #77: College of the Holy Cross
Category: Catholic Colleges
Founded in 1942, Fairfield University is a coeducational, comprehensive Jesuit institution thatprepares students for leadership and service in a constantly changing world. Since its inception,the University has grown from an initial class of 303 undergraduate male students, admitted tothe College of Arts and Sciences, into a vibrant coeducational university with this year’s incoming class totaling more than 1,450 first-time,…Continue readingPit Stop #75: Fairfield University
Recently, I made the two-hour drive from Boston to visit St. Joseph’s College in Maine, located fifteen miles northwest of the booming city of Portland. It was cloudy, and then the skies erupted in a downpour, so my photos don’t quite do the campus justice, but trust me — St. Joseph’s campus is both beautiful and…Continue readingPit Stop #67: St. Joseph’s College
Providence College (or PC as it is known to Friartown aficionados) is home to one of NECHE’s commissioners, John Sweeney, and I’ve owed John and PC a visit for too long. John is finishing his sixth and final year volunteering with NECHE and his service to the organization has been extraordinary. In his “day job”…Continue readingPit Stop #59: Providence College
On the heels of visiting St. Michael’s College in Vermont, I traveled south to another of NECHE’s liberal arts campuses, Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. One couldn’t ask for a more majestic setting for a college, as Salve’s 80-acre campus is literally perched on the cliffs of the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, the…Continue readingPit Stop #48: Salve Regina University
I haven’t been on the road with NECHE since we visited the African Leadership University, so I welcomed the chance to make the drive north to visit St. Michael’s College (affectionately known as St. Mike’s) located just outside Burlington, Vermont. For a late February day, it was relatively balmy (41 degrees), but with almost no…Continue readingPit Stop #47: St. Michael’s College
Once Betty and I staggered back to Boston after 13 days on the road, I realized we had only 23 posts in the bank, but had promised 25. A problem easily fixed, of course. I decided to request a visit with President Tom O’Reilly at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, thirty minutes from…Continue readingPit Stop #24: Pine Manor College
I suspect my visit to Thomas More College of Liberal Arts will be among the most surprising stops on my road trip. I admit that I knew nothing about the college when I came to New England, and though I learned a bit more about Thomas More in my first months on the job, I…Continue readingPit Stop #7: Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
The middle stop on Day 2 of the NECHE road trip was in Nashua, New Hampshire, home of Rivier University, a four year Catholic institution offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs. Rivier was founded in 1933 and named after the Blessed Anne-Marie Rivier, Foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary. Her mission, which very much lives on…Continue readingPit Stop #5: Rivier University