William Fahey, President of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, explains what sets his college apart.

Catholic Herald: Could you give us  a sketch of the school and its history, where it is now, and how you came  to be involved?

William Fahey: So, Thomas More College was founded after the disintegration of Catholic higher education, after the Land o’ Lakes decision and certain structural changes occurred at the older established Catholic universities. There were several new projects, like Thomas More College, my friends at Christendom College, and Thomas Aquinas College – those would have been the three in the 1970s that were launched. So, we come out of a group of Catholic scholars who look at the turmoil in the Church, and especially the turmoil in the United States, and decide someone needs to take a stand defending and continuing traditional Catholic higher education. So, it was founded in 1978, formally by Peter V Sampo, who had been at St Anselm’s, and the Franciscan University in Biddeford, Maine. But the vision was a kind of traditional retrenchment. So that’s the  basic founding milieu.