Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Christopher Wolfe Quits Marquette University To Start A Real University

Professor quits to start dream university
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Christopher Wolfe is leaving his job as a professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee to pursue a risky venture -- he wants to start his own university.

Wolfe's vision -- a university with a unified and orderly curriculum based on the teachings of 12th-century theologian St. Thomas Aquinas, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday.

Most universities offer students an incoherent smattering of facts and teach that all ideas are equal, Wolfe told the newspaper. At his university, students would be taught that there is one truth to be discovered, as Aquinas argued.

The professor is well-regarded by his students at Marquette -- a Catholic institution run by the Jesuit order of priests -- but founding a university will be a difficult challenge, the Journal Sentinel said. Wolfe must recruit donors, professors and students to help him realize his dream.


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