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Fidelity & ExcellenceThomas Aquinas College is unique among American colleges and universities, offering a faithfully Catholic education comprised entirely of the Great Books and classroom discussions.
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What Can You Do with a Liberal Education?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.
Top News
by Michael F. McLean, Ph.D.
President, Thomas Aquinas College
California Convocation
August 26, 2019
You freshmen are about to begin four years of Catholic liberal education. The pursuit of this education rightly requires a certain withdrawal from practical and political affairs for the sake of cultivating the habits conducive to serious thought and quiet contemplation.
Friday night, the members of the Thomas Aquinas College, California, Class of 2023 enjoyed a freshman social on the academic quadrangle.
The night consisted of egg-on-the-spoon relay races and tug-of-war battles. The outnumbered prefects even dared freshmen to a tug-of-war of their own, which the Class of 2023 won “in about two seconds,” according to one observer.
The ice now broken, the freshmen can enjoy a quiet weekend in preparation for Monday’s Convocation and the start of the academic year!
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On the morning of August 24, Thomas Aquinas College, New England, held its inaugural Convocation exercises, welcoming 28 freshmen and 30 sophomores from some 20 states and 5 countries — the very first students on the Northfield, Massachusetts, campus.
by Michael F. McLean, Ph.D.
President, Thomas Aquinas College
New England Convocation
August 24, 2019
Thomas Aquinas College accepted this campus from the National Christian Foundation in May of 2017 with deep humility and a profound sense of gratitude.
Thursday marked the first full day of Freshman Orientation for the members of Thomas Aquinas College’s California Class of 2023, who arrived Wednesday. The morning began with a student orientation, followed by Mass, registration, and the freshmen’s first seminar — an examination of C.S. Lewis’ “Learning in Wartime.” That evening the Freshman Soirée took place on the academic quadrangle:
Members of the Class of 2023 began arriving on the California campus Wednesday morning for the start of the 2019-20 academic year. That evening the College hosted a barbeque for freshmen and their families …
… and then an ice-cream social for the new students and their siblings:
Meanwhile, parents attended an orientation in St. Cecilia Hall, followed by a reception with members of the faculty on St. Gladys Plaza:
Orientation will continue today, in preparation for the start of the academic year at Convocation on Monday.