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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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Reach Out to Your School’s 2026 Colloquy Participant

Campus liaisons are starting to send us the names of their participants for the June 5-12 colloquy at University of Portland. Remember when you were tapped? Remember having big and even bigger questions about what you’d just gotten yourself into? Please consider asking your campus liaison who has been tapped to head to Portland, and then take that person out for a kombucha, coffee or frosty adult beverage to hear their hopes and concerns for the week and share highlights of your own experience.

2026 Catalyst Grants Awarded

It was gratifying to receive a diverse array of campus project proposals for furthering the work of Collegium in inventive ways in this year’s Catalyst Grant applications, especially from first-time applicants and the most recent group of Collegium alums. Funded projects for 2026 are:

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Using Lectio Divina to Prepare For Teaching

Mentor alum Elizabeth Keenan talks with Collegium Director Karen Eifler about how to use the ancient prayer form of Lectio Divina (sacred reading) for a few minutes before class in order to be able to focus on the often overwhelming topics she explores with her Social Work students.