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What does it mean to live out one’s vocation as teacher and scholar in a Catholic college or university? What spiritual and intellectual wells can keep us fresh and nurtured throughout an academic career in such a place? Those are the questions Collegium explores.

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One Journey, Many Voices: Practicing Synodality Across Continents and Cultures

We would like to request this Collegium Catalyst Grant to initiate an international educational partnership between the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX and St. Claret College in Bengaluru, India based on the ideas of Synodality. The funding will cover travel expenses for the PIs’ initial site visit to Saint Claret College in January 2026.

An Online Academic "Alleluia" in Honor of Sr. Dorothy Kazel

This multi-phase project, which honors our alumna, Sister Dorothy Kazel, who was martyred while working with the poor, first provides a seminar to explain Catholic Social Teaching to interested faculty within the framework of the Ursuline charism. This will include a forum where faculty discuss Catholic Social Teaching as it relates to their individual academic vocations.

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New Collegium Booster Shot Podcast Episodes Available Now

Collegium alums are ingenious using the colloquy’s lessons to animate their teaching and scholarship in ways that fit with their distinctive campus cultures and their own personalities. These are highlighted in a handful of 20-minute podcasts released each semester on Collegium’s YouTube channel. Two recent conversations with Executive Director Karen Eifler are now available to be inspired by:

Interdisciplinary scholar Sharon Williams (St. John’s colloquy 2025) of Iona University offers highlights from her new volume of creative non-fiction essays exploring the intersection of religion, Black