Our annual summer colloquies have welcomed 1,500 faculty and graduate students, of all disciplines and faiths, to engage in lively discussion about Catholic mission on campus.

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READ BLOGS BY OUR ALUMNI/AE

Carl Jylland-Halverson
Faculty Fellow 2007, Mentor 2009
One Pilgrim's Progress

Mathew Schmalz
Faculty Fellow 1999, Mentor 2005
On Faith

Brian Stiltner
Graduate Fellow 1994
Deep Down Things

Karen Eifler was a Collegium Fellow in 2001 and has served on the Board and as a mentor for a number of years since. At the University of Portland, where she teaches future teachers in the School of Education, her Provost jokingly refers to her as the “Collegium Poster Child.”

Like many other Fellows over the years, she went to the colloquy clueless about what would transpire, only to have it be “Lightning Bolt City transformative.” She laughs as readily as she cries, and both capacities are put to good use at Collegium. The greatest treasure culled from each colloquy Karen has participated in has been making a home in paradox, “the only basket large enough to hold the truth.”

There is no such thing as a trivial conversation at Collegium, she says. The questions posed and wrestled with by good people, treating each other gently, with kindness and respect, serve as inspiration for her work back in the classroom and in ongoing faculty formation and development among her colleagues.

Together with Collegium alum Norah Martin (Fellow, 2004), Karen founded the University of Portland’s Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, in which 20 faculty and staff, now from every unit on campus (a stat which makes Karen glow) regularly meet over wine and cheese to wrangle with readings and ideas that matter.

Learn more about Karen at her Web site.