Catholic University's academic year is filled with cultural events and stories that enrich the campus community and celebrate the diversity of our students.
The Catholic University of America’s first graduates of the Partnership Program — created in the wake of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — were featured in a documentary about the program.
The annual World Portuguese Language Day is an opportunity to celebrate the global connections at The Catholic University of America. This year, diplomats from several Portuguese-speaking countries attended a crowded May 5 event featuring live music, poetry readings, cultural awareness activities, and food.
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As the academic year comes to a close, Yung-Yung Chang, director of Asian Studies, reflected on her first year at The Catholic University of America and how the interest in studying Asian cultures has grown on campus.
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The Cardinal community celebrated Black History Month with open forums, panel discussions, a field trip to the National Museum of African American History, and movie and music nights.
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Gloria Purvis, an author, commentator, host and executive producer told a capacity crowd of students at Campus Ministry’s CUA on Tap, held Feb. 16, that Catholics have a critical role in defending life, religious liberty, and racial justice.
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At Catholic University, the campus celebrates Black History Month in a way that honors contributions and accomplishments with a series of events and experiences.
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Members of the Catholic University community gathered at dawn on Dec. 12 to sing to Our Lady of Guadalupe as the sun rose on her feast day, celebrating with the Mexican tradition of mañanitas (“little mornings,” in Spanish for the first time on campus).
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The Institute for the Transformation of Catholic Education (ITCE) at Catholic University co-sponsored a discussion and book signing with Classical Academic Press on Nov. 8 about efforts to reclaim the value of the Western canon for all students in light of the book The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature.
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It has been one year since the release of the Sister Thea Bowman Committee Report, which proposed a number of recommendations to embrace Catholic University’s racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity on campus.
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