In 2010 College Dean Brian T. Kelly began a series of presentations to the Board of Governors about why the curriculum includes particular authors and subjects. Those talks are presented below, and new ones will be added as they are delivered.
- Defending Damascene
- Reckoning with Rousseau (and other “Bad Guys”)
- Why We Study Mathematics
- The Gods in the Kitchen (Why We Study Jean Henri Fabre)
- The Poet of Catholic Liberal Education (Why We Study Dante Alighieri)
- A Great Apostle for Philosophy (Why We Study Plato)

