The Senior Thesis is an integral part of the curriculum. As compared with the other parts, it requires a greater independence on the part of the student. He frames a question of the sort the authors in the program themselves frame and, under the direction of a tutor, refines, explores, and answers that question. The student’s answer need not be ultimate, but it must not be superficial or simply the repetition of authority. The thesis is of greater length than the other compositions in the program and is defended before a committee of faculty examiners in a session open to all.

On Saturday, May 12, Mother Mary Assumpta Long, O.P., the foundress and prioress general of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor, Mich., will serve as Commencement speaker at Thomas Aquinas College’s annual graduation exercises. A friend of the College since its founding in 1971, Mother Assumpta will also receive the school’s highest award, the Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion, in recognition of her lifelong fidelity and service to the Catholic Church.