Intercollegiate Studies Institute Commends
Thomas Aquinas College
Santa Paula, California; September, 1998— Describing the
College's curriculum as "virtually unparalleled for providing
its students with a rigorous liberal arts program," the Intercollegiate
Studies Institute has numbered Thomas Aquinas College among
its choices for the 1999 college guide, Choosing the Right
College: The Whole Truth about America's 100 Top Schools.
The guide calls the academic program of the College "both
interdisciplinary and cohesive — in short, the very essence
of liberal education." In his forward to the book, former
Secretary of Education William Bennett points out that Choosing
the Right College fills a void among the array of college
guides: it analyzes and evaluates colleges and universities,
academic departments, and professors on the basis of principled
instruction and intellectual rigor.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute was founded in 1953
"to identify the best and brightest college students and to
nurture in these future leaders an allegiance to the American
ideal of ordered liberty." The Institute cites the attack
on the liberal arts tradition both from the proponents of
education for jobs and careers and from the rise of political
ideologies that seek to undermine the very foundation of Western
learning. As the editors of the guide note, "Choosing the
Right College has a definite point of view on this subject",
namely, that young people need to acquire the wisdom and depth
of judgement that arise from reflecting on the classic written
works of our civilization. The guide focuses on where students
and parents can find the liberal arts tradition at our nation's
elite institutions of higher learning. The editors of Choosing
the Right College note the growing recognition among parents
and educators that the liberal arts tradition is essential
in enabling young people to face the challenges of the modern
world.
Thomas Aquinas College was founded in 1971 as a restoration
of genuine Catholic liberal education. It is a coeducational,
undergraduate college offering a Bachelor of Arts degree in
liberal arts.
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Thomas Aquinas College
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