CLASSICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION IN SAN ANTONIO, TX
(Posted 2010-02-16 16:59:12 by Ray Lopez)
This post is more or less a "message in a bottle".
Over the last year or so, I have been searching for groups or individuals
in the San Antonio, Texas area who might be interested in starting a
project to launch a Roman Catholic "classical education" college in the San
Antonio area.
A classical education college is one where the curriculum is based upon the
great works of Western civilization, and teaching is done in the Socratic
method. The best example of such a school is Thomas Aquinas College [
http://www.thomasaquinas.edu ] in California.
I've never done anything like this before, and have no idea what is
required. But I figured I would move forward in the following fashion:
1. Look for like-minded persons who might be interested in exploring the
possibility of setting up such a school.
2. Work with these folks on putting together a feasibility paper
describing the mission, goals, and plan for starting the school.
3. Once the feasibility study is done, and if it looks good, begin to shop
the idea around to the Archdiocese of San Antonio and to potential donors
4. Concurrently, look to put together a starting Board of Trustees and
teaching faculty, and perhaps begin operations on a small scale.
5. As part of the faculty hiring, find someone to manage the accreditation
process.
This could all be a pipe dream and completely unfeasible. But I figure you
don't know until you at least try.
Thus, as a first step, I'd like to ask anyone interested in working on such
a project to contact me via email at RL at WELL dot COM. Drop me a note,
letting me know what you background is, and why you'd be interested in
working on such a project. If I get enough people responding over the next
year or so, then maybe we can meet face to face and discuss things further.
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