Franciscan University of Steubenville News

On Saturday, Franciscan University of Steubenville graduated its second-largest class. Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, R. James Nicholson served as commencement speaker.

Franciscan University of Steubenville's outgoing President Fr. Terence Henry spoke about his 13-year tenure as president, highlighting his pro-life work.

Franciscan University of Steubenville will hold 18 sessions of its Steubenville Youth Conference this summer in 11 states and Canada, the University recently announced.

Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced that it is offering credit to students who participate in an intensive pro-life training program this summer, according to the University.

Grace Daigler, a Franciscan University of Steubenville social work major and human life studies minor, received the Young Leader Award from the Susan B. Anthony List.

Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced their line-up for the popular "Defending the Faith" summer conference, including 13 leading speakers.

Father Terence Henry, TOR, spoke to hundreds of young adults last month at the International Meeting of Young Catholics for Social Justice held at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

Salon writer Molly McCluskey attempts to draw a connection between a high school football rape case and the Franciscan University of Steubenville. The problem: there's absolutely no connection.

A recent survey of employers suggests that many graduates are leaving college without the basic skills necessary for employment. Solid liberal arts core curriculum, say leaders, is the answer.

At least 30 Franciscan University students and faculty will participate in the Washington, D.C. March for Marriage taking place today as the Supreme Court hears arguments on the protection of marriage between one man and one woman.

Franciscan University of Steubenville has vowed to appeal a federal judge's decision denying the University's lawsuit against the HHS contraceptive mandate.

Author Mary Eberstadt addressed the myths of the sexual revolution and contraception's damaging effect on society during a recent talk at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Entrepreneur Jim Van Eerden has developed a scholarship fund for parents looking to counter liberal indoctrination.

Five Newman Guide universities made Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine's Top 100 Private College list as "best values."

More than 300 students from Franciscan University of Steubenville will be spending their spring breaks serving those in need at home and abroad.

Fifteen Franciscan University of Steubenville students, faculty, and staff are attending the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women to defend the natural family.

Catholic sociologist Dr. Anne Hendershott has accepted a faculty position at Franciscan University of Steubenville beginning with the fall 2013 semester.

In response to Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, several Catholic university presidents participated in an exclusive Cardinal Newman Society symposium examining the Holy Father's legacy on Catholic higher education.

In another event observing the Year of Faith, Franciscan University of Steubenville brought Catholic apologist and author Steve Ray to campus for a talk recently.

Tim Drake, senior editor with the Cardinal Newman Society recently spoke with Fr. Terence Henry about his tenure, Catholic identity, and his contributions to the University.

Franciscan University of Steubenville announced today that Father Terence Henry, TOR, will leave the office of president at the end of the academic year in May.

This week’s 40th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade ruling is marked by the participation tomorrow of several faithful Catholic colleges and universities in the Washington, D.C., March for Life.

Seven buses and countless cars are expected to leave the campus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville just after midnight on January 25 for the 40th annual March for Life.

The role that culture plays in the horrific shootings that headline newspapers and dishearten us all is being underplayed, writes Franciscan University of Steubenville professor Stephen M. Krason. He writes in Crisis Magazine that our country may perhaps be wrongly focusing solely on gun control to the exclusion of confronting what he calls the “deep-seated moral decay” of our culture.

Prompted by alumni who were dissatisfied with a course description in the school’s catalog, Franciscan University of Steubenville faculty voted to change the description of the Social Work 314, Deviant Behavior course.

Anne Hendershott, Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member at The King’s College in New York City and the author of Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education, wrote a piece for Crisis Magazine on why the Franciscan University of Steubenville has become the target of some in the gay community.

Many Catholic colleges and universities are taking part in the “Year of Faith” proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, with spiritual and academic activities aimed at strengthening faith on campus, according to a new report published by The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS).

The Cardinal Newman Society today released the 2012-2013 edition of The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College with significant new features, as well as a new companion magazine for Catholic high school students and their parents titled My Future, My Faith.

The Franciscan University of Steubenville recently announced  faculty approval of a new liberal arts curriculum that will be implemented in the 2013-14 academic year, according to a news release from the university.

The Washington Post recently ran a long piece about the city of Steubenville. What they didn’t discuss was actually more interesting to the writers at Get Religion. 

Deal Hudson reports that a mother received a phone call from the Obama campaign asking specifically for her college-aged children. The caller reportedly told the mother that she was Catholic, and she didn’t understand how a Catholic could vote for a Mormon.

More than 100 students gathered in the Piazza dei Santi at The Franciscan University of Steubenville Friday as part of a  nationwide initiative spearheaded by an assortment of pro-life groups, urging college students to remember the importance of life when casting their ballots this November.

Back in July, we reported that the City of Steubenville, Ohio, had bowed to pressure to remove from the city logo an image of the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s chapel, which features a large cross on its roof. Now local friends of the University are pushing back.

An accrediting agency has challenged false media reports that the Franciscan University of Steubenville faces difficulties with the accreditor because of its sociology course on “Deviant Behavior,” according to the National Catholic Register.

The criteria used in most college rankings, like the ones newly released by U.S. News & World Report, don’t include some of the most important factors for Catholic families choosing a college.  These include quality of the core curriculum, study in authentic Catholic theology and philosophy, interdisciplinary study, ethical formation, morality of campus life, and more.

The Franciscan University of Steubenville was unfairly slapped Monday with a biased National Public Radio (NPR) report citing complaints from two homosexual alumni who graduated more than a decade ago.

The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) has added 15 new college campuses to its outreach program for the 2012-13 school year, including Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio.

After criticizing The Franciscan University of Steubenville for its stance on homosexuality, a gay alumni group with no official connection to the faithful Catholic university is being urged to cease publicly affiliating themselves with the college.

Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced that the Society of Catholic Social Scientists 20th annual national conference will be held this October in New York and feature nearly 200 presentations by Catholic scholars and social science practitioners.The Society of Catholic Social Scientists is located at Franciscan University.  Catholic scholars in the Society aim to “promote awareness of the social teachings of the Church” and compile “a body of distinctively Catholic social science scholarship,” according to the press release announcing the conference.

The federal government is seeking to have Franciscan University of Steubenville’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s HHS mandate thrown out of court.The government is seeking dismissal of the Catholic university’s lawsuit on the grounds that changes are already being made to meet the concerns of religious institutions. That argument has worked in the dismissal of previous lawsuits including the lawsuit by Belmont Abbey College even though those “changes” promised by the Administration have yet to be codified into the rule.

Freedom isn’t free.  And it turns out that religious freedom may become extremely expensive in the near future.

Franciscan University of Steubenville announced this week the launch of a new online hub of Catholic intellectual life intended to be “a resource for the new evangelization,” according to vice president Michael Hernon.

How can Pope Benedict XVI’s call for the New Evangelization be realized in Catholic schools? A conference at our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy slated for this summer will seek to answer that question.

FUS alumna founded Beijing hospice for dying and abandoned children

Highest non-academic award bestowed by FUS

Franciscan: Life issues "do not lend themselves to the prudential judgment of the voter."

More than 100 vocations directors will promote their way of life to students on campus.

Msgr. Stuart Swetland, vice president for mission at Mount St. Mary's University . . .

"Moral Conviction vs. Political Pressure" ... Dr. Patrick Lee, Franciscan's first endowed chair professor . . .

The Cardinal Newman Society congratulates Franciscan University of Steubenville on launching its first fully endowed chair, the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair in Bioethics.

The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) lauds the Franciscan University of Steubenville students who provided a pro-life witness during former President Bill Clinton’s appearance in the Ohio city on Sunday.

Two of the older colleges included in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College: What to Look For and Where to Find It have announced that they have record enrollment numbers for the 2007-08 academic year.