Thomas Aquinas College is unique among American colleges and universities, offering a faithfully Catholic education comprised entirely of the Great Books and classroom discussions.
Truth, and nothing less, sets men free; and because truth is both natural and supernatural, the College’s curriculum aims at both natural and divine wisdom.
The intellectual tradition and moral teachings of the Catholic Church infuse the whole life of Thomas Aquinas College, illuminating the curriculum and the community alike.
Do you enjoy grappling with complex questions? Are you willing to engage in discussions about difficult concepts, with the truth as your ultimate goal?
There is always something to do at TAC — something worthwhile, something fulfilling, and something geared toward ever-greater spiritual and intellectual growth.
Nothing speaks more to the versatility of the College’s academic program than the good that our alumni are doing throughout the Church and the world.
In 1970, Dr. Ronald P. McArthur made an enormous leap of faith. Leaving his home and a good job behind, he moved some 400 miles to become the founding president of Thomas Aquinas College — an institution which, at the time, had neither a campus, money, nor students.
By Dr. Andrew Seeley
Thomas Aquinas College (2000)
Thomas Aquinas College came into being in the late 1960s and early 1970s, during a time of great tumult in the United States that deeply affected the country’s institutions and its mores. The College’s founders, a seasoned group of lay Catholic educators, were concerned about the declining condition of higher education and, in particular, Catholic higher education.
US News Report: Thomas Aquinas College, “Most Popular” among Applicants and “Most-Loved” by Alumni
By Michael J. Paietta
Poetry is an imitation of human action or thought whose end is to please or delight by moving the passions. By poetry, I am including not just the narrow sense of it — the sense which includes metered verse — but the broader sense which includes imaginative literature.
The problem most people have in reading poetry is that they tend to read it for its doctrine. They ask: “What is this author saying; what’s the teaching here, what’s the argument?” I submit that this misses the point of what poetry is all about.
When R. James Wensley first came to know Thomas Aquinas College, it was as a seeker. A trained engineer and the retired CEO of the Capstone Turbine Corporation, his educational background was mostly technical in nature. The notion of a great books curriculum was foreign to him. Yet he found the idea intriguing; he wanted to learn more about it.
Mark E. Montgomery has been a member of the President’s Council of Thomas Aquinas College since 2001. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Montgomery Management Company, a real estate management and development business in Los Angeles founded by his grandfather in the 1930s.
There are many reasons why Angela (Andersen ’87) Connelly has “a passion,” as she puts it, “to promote Thomas Aquinas College.” She is an alumna who considers her time on campus to have been “an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual high.” Her eldest daughter, Catherine, is a member of the Class of 2011. And Mrs.
A fourth generation Californian and a business graduate of the University of Southern California, Milton F. (Bud) Daily, Jr., is the managing general partner of the M.F. Daily Investment Company, a Ventura County-based property.
