US bishops encouraged to advance renewal of Catholic colleges

"The Catholic paradox is that we have a massive infrastructure of higher education, with average outcomes."

Catholic colleges and universities today are largely failing to fulfill their mission, and the bishops have an important role to play in correcting the problem, the provost of Dartmouth College said Wednesday.

Santiago Schnell, who is also a renowned mathematical biologist, spoke to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Orlando. He offered his refle…