Comments on: Passing the Plate

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:33:03 +0000

A good school, is a good school, no matter what it costs. They can’t have been too conservative or they wouldn’t have hired a UU. Ave Maria will probably require a letter from a bishop to get a job.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:56:36 +0000

UST-Houston has many strengths, including their hard sciences departments. I don’t know who is president there now, but in my days on the adjunct faculty, the president (a Basilian father, of course) was a physicist by trade. The school and its senior faculty are by no stretch liberal in the political sense, but they believe strongly in the notion of a liberal education (arts, letters and sciences) for every student. Students tend to be well-off; tuition ain’t cheap. I may not have done any good for poor people by teaching there, but the middle- and upper-middle-class kids I taught there were certainly bright, diligent and fun to teach. (Besides, I hadn’t started my computer consulting business yet in those days; I needed the extra money.)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:59:25 +0000

St. Leo’s has extensions at many military bases, and St. Thomas used to. They are the social science and straight liberal arts choices while the other universities with extensions seem to be for specific technologies. There are some good schools in the state, you just have to look for them, because we have more than our share of the “less than stellar”.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:39:38 +0000

This particular St. Thomas is in North Miami and is well-known for their education department and their link with Barry College. I hear it’s very good school.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:24:24 +0000

Nice, clean plate design. I used to teach music at the University of St. Thomas... in Houston (stthom.edu). It is run by the Basilian Fathers, whose name causes MS Word's spell checker to suggest "bazillion." There are quite a few universities in the world that have St. Thomas in the name. The one I taught at abbreviates its name UST, presumably to avoid confusion with STU.