William Cash on why small is beautiful for the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts.
When your educational headquarters is what the Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College calls more of a “colonial farmhouse” than a sprawling campus, it’s difficult to compare the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts with, say, Boston College.
But under President William Fahey, Thomas More College (known as TMC) has carved out a small and influential renegade niche in the US Catholic college landscape. With so many more famous “legacy” universities like Fordham, Georgetown or Notre Dame (which boasts an endowment of many billions) being dragged into the cultural and political wars of education, there is a growing demand for smaller and less culturally toxic colleges, where fidelity to Catholic culture and education is the priority, of which TMC is a prime example. Its mission is to “quest for what is true, good, and beautiful”.
