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  • Lost on campus: Shattered minds and souls

    • Studies have shown that many students struggle through college because they experience their courses as isolated (and sometimes incompatible) fragments of knowledge.


      Knowledge can be trapped within disciplinary silos; classroom and dorm room are different worlds; faith is isolated from education.

    • Students report that they want to make sense of how their lives and education fit together.  College is critical to the formation of students’ habits and sense of the world.  They yearn, sometimes without realizing it, for an integration between belief, education, and practice.
       

      This is the moment—particularly for Catholic institutions—to reach out to Catholic students at public, private, and online universities and to offer them an integrative synthesis that prepares them for their majors, careers and lives.
       

    • We live at a time where Catholics have achieved great success in American society (business, entertainment, academia, politics). 
       
      Yet, over the last fifty (50) years fewer and fewer students have had the opportunity to integrate their faith with their professional lives because they have emigrated away from Catholic higher education.

  • Startling numbers in Catholic Higher Ed

    • Over 30% of all Catholic colleges and universities in the United States have closed or consolidated in the past fifty (50) years.

    • About 90% of the 4 million American Catholic undergraduates now attend public, private and online universities, where they tend to be both spiritually and intellectually unmoored.  

    • Catholic higher education now serves approximately 400,000 Catholic students and can no longer shoulder the burden of integrating knowledge with faith.

  • What Makes TNI Uniquely able to respond?

    • At The Newman Idea, we believe that Catholic students everywhere should have the option to be formed in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

    • What makes TNI unique is that it is the only nonprofit with accredited interdisciplinary IKON courses to Catholics at non-Catholic universities in New Orleans, and is planning to expand across the region and then across the U.S.
       

    • Our proven model, including the IKON courses and method as well as partnering with campus ministries and colleges, has the potential to reach thousands of Catholic students across the US.



The Newman Idea (TNI) is a religious and educational 501(c)(3) inspired by St. John Henry Newman, the great cardinal and patron of higher education.  TNI's mission is to teach the innovative IKON Program, which teaches Catholic students to think with faith as they seek truth.


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