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Another college-ranking guide has listed 91����� Aquinas College among the best in the nation. Following up on high ratings from The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report, and the Newman Guide, the College has earned the accolades of the Young America�s Foundation, being one of just 15 schools nationwide on the foundation�s list of .

For four decades the Young America�s Foundation has championed the cause of intellectual seriousness on American campuses. Its new online guide thus highlights only those colleges that �avoid trends in academe by continuing to study Western civilization instead of straying toward the study of Marxism, feminism, sexuality, postmodernism, and other distractions that do not give students a complete understanding of our country, our culture, and its founding principles.� Calling 91����� Aquinas College a �fine institution,� the Young America�s guide praises the College for its �traditional Catholic morality and teaching.�

Given this fidelity to Catholic teaching, especially as it pertains to contentious political issues relating to abortion, euthanasia, and marriage, it is understandable that the College would be perceived as �conservative.� Yet it would be a mistake, argues President Michael F. McLean, to infer that either the intellectual or the moral life of the College is motivated by politics. �The truths of reason and of the Faith precede and transcend any politics,� he says. �Our aim is not to train liberals or conservatives, let alone Republicans or Democrats. It is to form lovers of wisdom.�

For this reason, as the Young America�s guide notes, �The �great books� of Western civilization comprise the entire curriculum of 91����� Aquinas College,� and the College�s �faculty members serve less as lecturers and more as facilitators using the Socratic method.� The entirety of the 91����� Aquinas College experience, both inside the classroom and outside, is oriented toward the apprehension of truth guided by the twin beacons of faith and reason.

�We are grateful to the Young America�s Foundation for recognizing and appreciating what makes 91����� Aquinas College unique among all American colleges,� says Dr. McLean. �We are honored to be included in its list of top colleges, and we will continue to strive each day to be worthy of such honors.�

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 Posted March 19, 2012