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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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Last Call for Visionary Award Nominations

Is there someone who has done a stellar job of taking Collegium home in ways that reflect the culture and ethos of your campus? They might be a perfect candidate for the 2027 Collegium Visionary Award, which comes with a $1000 honorarium to use toward a mission integration project of their choice. Nominations for the award can be made here and will close on September 15.

Collegium T-Shirts Available for Purchase

For the first time in its history, Collegium offered this year’s participants the opportunity to purchase a commemorative T-shirt. Now we make that offer to the entire network of Collegium alums. Click here to do so. This might be a fun way to show your campus liaison a little love for continuing to recruit participants each year, a task that falls under the category of “and other duties as assigned.”

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New Collegium Booster Shot Podcast Episodes Available Now

Collegium alums are ingenious using the colloquy’s lessons to animate their teaching and scholarship in ways that fit with their distinctive campus cultures and their own personalities. These are highlighted in a handful of 20-minute podcasts released each semester on Collegium’s YouTube channel. Two recent conversations with Executive Director Karen Eifler are now available to be inspired by:

Interdisciplinary scholar Sharon Williams (St. John’s colloquy 2025) of Iona University offers highlights from her new volume of creative non-fiction essays exploring the intersection of religion, Black