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11/19/2024 1:54:33 PM Member News

Bold Christian and Catholic Colleges Make Gains

Bold Christian and Catholic Colleges Make Gains

Franciscan University of Steubenville just opened a new, 111,000-square-foot academic building and is in the process of expanding its Christ the King Chapel by 175 seats.

The Catholic institution in Ohio needs more space after enrollment rose 6 percent this year to 3,972 students, from 3,750 last year. Over the last decade, enrollment has grown a whopping 46 percent.

Timothy Reardon, vice president for enrollment management at Franciscan, attributes the university’s growth to its intensive, “dynamically orthodox” approach to Catholic education and identity. The university’s student body is about 97 percent Catholic. Four Masses are said every weekday—five on weekends—and are typically “standing room only,” he said. Daily lines to go to confession at the campus chapel snake out the door and around the street corner. The president’s executive team and the theology and philosophy professors all take an oath of fidelity to the Magisterium, a pledge to uphold Catholic Church teachings.

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