A novel Catholic trade college is on track to open in Ohio next year, aiming to teach students a skilled profession while earning a bachelor’s degree and deepening their faith.
Once students graduate from the Catholic College of St. Joseph the Worker, they will have earned a bachelor’s degree in Catholic studies while becoming carpenters, electricians, masons, or heating, ventilating, and air conditioning technicians.
“We’re forming these students so that the head, the heart, and the hands are all combined and working together,” said Mike Sullivan, the college’s first president.
In an effort to unburden students from debt, the cost of tuition for the three-year, in-person program in Steubenville is $15,000 a year, including housing. Students are paid a salary when they train, so they can graduate with the financial freedom to start their families and be productive members of their faith communities.
“A fundamental aspect of our mission is to empower students to grow up quickly and not perpetuate adolescence throughout college,” Sullivan added. “We want them to grow up and take responsibility for themselves and for their lives so that when they’re finished with their degree, they can get married and get started with a family and be productive members of society.” more here
Excellent common sense idea… If you want a liberal arts degree, then learning a real trade is a must in order to keep you and the liberal arts degree value alive.
I’m sure it is perpetuating the white supremacist patriarchy.😖
overdue!
A great idea! 👍
This is the kind of thinking we need. I’d like to see this kind of program all over the country.
This is a college I could get behind to send my children to. And I’m not even Catholic. (just keep the children away from the priests)
I hope they work with Mike Rowe !!
Excellent.
Amen!
Once the feds find out that 80% of the enrollment is male, the full weight of the federal government will fall on the school. Legal fees will bankrupt the university, and it will fold. They are exposing the higher education system for the fraud it is, and that cannot stand.
I’d love to see this thrive to the point where the school could offer at least a few more degree options – that could boost the appeal among non-Catholics (if desired), and could provide an additional career path in case illness or injury rendered a graduate no longer able to practice his or her trade. But this is a terrific start and a great concept.