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About
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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A Liberating Education
Truth MattersTruth, 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.
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A Catholic Life
Under the Light of FaithThe intellectual tradition and moral teachings of the Catholic Church infuse the whole life of Thomas Aquinas College, illuminating the curriculum and the community alike.
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Is TAC Right for You?Do you enjoy grappling with complex questions? Are you willing to engage in discussions about difficult concepts, with the truth as your ultimate goal?
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Students & Parents
Mind, Body & SpiritThere is always something to do at TAC — something worthwhile, something fulfilling, and something geared toward ever-greater spiritual and intellectual growth.
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Alumni & Careers
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.
Current Students
“After much work and prayer by so many members of the College community, we gather now to bless and dedicate this new lecture and concert hall to St. Cecilia,” declared the Most Rev. José H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles, at Thomas Aquinas College on Monday. “It will be a center of the College’s lecture and concert series — and a place for its students’ performances and other wholesome entertainment.”
On the morning of August 20, Thomas Aquinas College held its annual convocation day, welcoming a new class of freshmen who hail from 5 countries and 31 states — the Class of 2022.
The morning began with a Mass of the Holy Spirit in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, with the Most Rev. Thomas Daly, Bishop of Spokane, Washington, serving as the principal celebrant and homilist:
by Michael F. McLean, Ph.D.
President, Thomas Aquinas College
Convocation Day
August 20, 2018
In his vitally important 1998 encyclical, Fides et Ratio, St. John Paul II wrote that “faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.”
by the Most Rev. Thomas Daly
Bishop of Spokane, Washington
Homily from the Mass of the Holy Spirit (prepared text)
Convocation Day
August 20, 2018
On Friday nights throughout the 2018-19 academic year, the students of Thomas Aquinas College will have the privilege of attending lectures from some of the nation’s most distinguished scholars — covering a wide range of topics — through the St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series.
In gratitude for the financial aid program that makes their Thomas Aquinas College education possible, a few students have put together the following video to thank the College’s benefactors:
Please say a prayer for Damian Cooper, the 8-year-old son of College tutor Dr. Travis Cooper and his wife, Briena (Dunkel ’06). Damian has been admitted to the City of Hope in Duarte, California, where he is being treated for bone cancer.
The College has recently received the following complete, albeit unpolished, videos of the Thomas Aquinas College Choir’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience this past spring:
Although it is summer, the members of the Thomas Aquinas College teaching faculty have kept busy these last five weeks, as they do each year, in the College’s Tutor Summer Program.
The program, which begins shortly after Commencement, consists of thrice-weekly, 90-minute morning seminars that run through the end of June. Meeting in the very classrooms where they usually teach, the tutors engage in conversations led by one of their peers.