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.
 

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.