Towards an Arrupe Network

At the end of this november the Dean and Executive Director of Arrupe College (Chicago), Steve Katsouros, SJ, announced that after five years of work he has been assigned to design and start a network of Arrupe model colleges offering consulting and support to other universities desiring to implement our model on their campuses.

Arrupe College is a two-year college of Loyola University Chicago that continues the Jesuit tradition of offering a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse population, many of whom are the first in their family to pursue higher education. Using an innovative model that ensures affordability while providing care for the whole person—intellectually, morally, and spiritually—Arrupe prepares its graduates to continue on to a bachelor’s program or move into meaningful employment.

This model of high quality higher education at an affordable cost that started in 2014 has proved successful and many other Jesuit and Catholic universities have been showing interest about how to replicate it. One of the first inquiries came from St. Thomas University in St. Paul, MN. St. Thomas’s Doherty Family College, based on the Arrupe model, has enjoyed great success and graduated its first class last spring. Interest in replication grows. In the past few weeks, Fr. Katsouros has visited three campuses to discuss their model with presidents and provosts and participated in substantive conversations about replication with leaders from several universities.

Fr. Katsouros will work full time from New York City after Arrupe’s graduation in August 2020. For more info https://www.luc.edu/arrupe/about/missionmessage/

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