It’s Albert Week at Albertus Magnus College
Live the Pillars: Study, Prayer, Community, and Service November 11-17
New Haven, Conn.,November 7, 2024 - Albertus Magnus College celebrates “Albert Week” November 11-17. The tribute honors St. Albert the Great, the patron of the College, and promotes the Dominican Pillars of Study, Prayer, Community, and Service as part of our daily lives. Here are a few of the highlighted events of interest:
All Week:
Free coffee for Veterans: Bree Common.
Donation Boxes for VA Hospital: Collecting essentials in Bree Common, Rosary Hall, and Student Affairs Office.
Thanksgiving Food Collection: Donations of non-perishable food items for Centro San Jose.
November 11:
12:30 p.m. - Scarfing of St. Albert and Prayers for the Community: St. Albert Statue, Tagliatela Center.
3:30 p.m. - Veterans Remembrance Service: St. Catherine of Siena Chapel.
November 13:
5:30 p.m. - St. Albert the Great Lecture “Attuned to Charity and Justice”: Hubert Campus Center.
Paul D. Melley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. His research interests include sacramentality and justice, mystagogy, secularism and modernity, the theology of Karl Rahner, and liturgy and music. He is currently researching origins of mystagogy as praxis of sacramental imagination and how including the category of “experience” serves to contribute to theology. Dr. Melley is also a published composer with GIA Publications and Oregon Catholic Press with compositions in five hymnals internationally.
About Albertus Magnus College
Albertus Magnus College, founded in 1925, is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. As New England's most diverse Catholic College, Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For eight consecutive years, graduating classes at Albertus have achieved post-graduate employment and graduate school success at a rate of at least 95%. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and 12 graduate programs. Proud to enroll a student body where more than half of its students come from minority backgrounds with nearly the same percentage of undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants and being first generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, General Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Public Health, and Supply Chain Management; among its graduate programs is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program. Just two years from its historic 100 th Anniversary Year, the College is implementing its Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, which articulates an inspiring, bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.