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Montserrat Program[edit]

Holy Cross' nationally recognized Montserrat Program, previously known as the First Year Program, serves as a unique, interdisciplinary approach to curricula and courses for incoming first year students.[1] The Montserrat Program emphasizes discussion in a small, seminar format and promotes learning outside the classroom through a unique incorporation of residence hall life.[2]

Students choose from seminars and are encouraged to choose out of interest, not due to major or common area requirement. The seminar is a year-long course, although some professors team-teach a seminar and switch positions for the fall and spring semesters.[3] Each seminar is grouped into a residence cluster. For example, a student could be in either the "Industry and Empire" or "Islam and the West: Encounters" seminar but belong to the "Global Society" cluster.[4]

The Montserrat Program is an extension of the First Year Program, or FYP, created in 1992. By tradition, the FYP seminars incorporated 19th-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy's question: "How, Then, Shall We Live?" For example, the theme for the 2006 academic year was "With so many claims of what's good and true, how then shall we live?"[5] Even though each seminar covers different academic areas, all FYP students read six common readings. All FYP members lived within the same residence hall, Hanselman Hall, which distinguished it from other first-year efforts at colleges and universities nationwide that have no residential component.[5]

View of St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Holy Cross administration has stated that a unifying goal of the program is an effort to "bridge the gap" between the academic and social lives of students.[6] In its analysis of FYP participants in relation to the first-year class as a whole, evaluations showed that FYP students "rated their residence more favorably than did other first-year students, ... perceived a greater sense of community and tolerance among their floormates, ... and behaved more responsibly than other first-year students as evidenced by fewer disciplinary cases and alcohol-related incidents".[6] Additionally, after their first year, FYP students were more likely than other students to assume campus leadership positions, participate in the Honors and Study Abroad programs, achieve significantly higher grades, and be more active in community outreach programs.[6]

In March 2006, Holy Cross voted to implement a universal program for all first-year students.[7] In an effort to extend these favorable results, the college expanded FYP from the 150-student program to the Montserrat Program which includes all first-year Holy Cross students. Through Montserrat, the college hopes that "Placing new students into high-level courses that grapple with big-picture ideas, the college hopes, will promote self-discovery and reflections about what makes a life well-lived."[1] Like in the First Year Program, the college emphasizes better living through education and reflection through Montserrat.

Honors program[edit]

Holy Cross offers a distinct honors program for high ability undergraduates. The Honors program is open to students in all majors. This highly selective program is limited to 36 students in each of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes from any major, and incorporates an honors colloquium and a thesis.[8] An emphasis on independent research prepares students for their intensive thesis projects, the results of which are published within the college. Honors students also publicly present their findings at the annual academic conference, a highlight of the academic year.[8] Additionally, some academic departments offer their own honors programs.

Holy Cross students have been honored in recent years as Fulbright, Goldwater, Marshall, and Truman Scholars.[9]

Social justice and volunteerism[edit]

As noted by the college mission statement ("What is our special responsibility to the world's poor and powerless?"), a key focus of Holy Cross, as an institution, is the Jesuit philosophy of homines pro aliis, "men and women for others".[10] In 2010, Holy Cross obtained the highest rank of the 28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities in the percentage of its graduates who go on to serve in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.[11]

Holy Cross has embraced sometimes controversial schools of theological thought, including liberation theology and social justice. As a result, in 1974, Time magazine referred to Holy Cross as the "cradle of the Catholic Left" because it educated Philip Berrigan and socialist leader Michael Harrington, author of the influential book on poverty, The Other America.[12] Today, Holy Cross, similar to the religious order of the Jesuits as a whole, has been criticized by some parties for being overly liberal and deviating substantially from official Church teaching and papal directives, especially on such issues as abortion, homosexuality,[13] liberation theology, and in its sponsorship of events such as the Vagina Monologues.[14] Since 2000, the college has hosted a conference allowing seminars from Planned Parenthood and NARAL. In 2007, Bishop Robert McManus wrote the college asking Fr. McFarland to cancel the event, and threatened to remove the Catholic status of the college if the conference was not cancelled.[15] Bishop McManus has not followed through on this threat.

In 2001, Holy Cross was one of 28 colleges and universities in the country to receive a grant from the Lilly Endowment in the amount of $2 million.[16] With the grant, the school launched a five-year program to "make theological and spiritual resources available to students as they discern their life work, including consideration of vocations of ministerial service within religious denominations". The grant has also been used to fund internships within the city of Worcester and Worcester County for students considering career opportunities in ministry, government, and social service agencies.[16]

Campus[edit]

Fenwick Lawn, with Commencement Porch of Fenwick Hall in the foreground and the Chapel beyond

Holy Cross' campus, a registered arboretum, has won national awards for its landscaping. In 1977 Holy Cross was cited by the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) for having the best-maintained school or university grounds in the United States.[17] Holy Cross is marked by an irregular layout as its 175-acre (0.71 km2) campus is situated on the northern slope of a very steep hill named Mount Saint James, which offers it a panoramic view of the city of Worcester. The Princeton Review ranked the campus as #5 most beautiful campus in the nation in 2010 and consistently ranks the campus in the top 15. The design and landscape is ingrained into many themes and nicknames for the school which is commonly known as The Hill.

The 37 college buildings include residential housing and academic buildings in the middle sections of the campus and athletic and practice facilities on the outskirts on its northern and southern ends. Holy Cross also owns six non-campus properties.[18]

The college's flagship building, Fenwick Hall

Anchoring the traditional campus gateway of Linden Lane are Stein and O'Kane Halls, the latter of which is marked by a clock tower. The oldest part of campus lies in this area, as O'Kane is connected to Fenwick Hall, the first building designed in 1843; it also houses the admissions offices and the Brooks Concert Hall. This area contains manicured trees and landscaped greens which include on the hillside three nude bronze statues by Enzo Plazzotta, Georg Klobe, and Welrick. This is a popular spot for pranks as students take turns dressing up the statues. The area around Fenwick and O'Kane Halls is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[19]

Notable buildings north of this area are Dinand Library; Smith Hall, the Hogan Campus Center; the scientific complex housing O'Neil, Swords, and Haberlin Halls; and Beaven Hall, home to an assortment of academic departments. Smith Hall, opened in 2001, was financed in large part by Holy Cross alumnus Park B. Smith, and is architecturally impressive as it is built into a hillside of the campus.[20] Smith Hall connects the lower campus, where much of the academic life occurs, and the upper campus, where much of the social and residential life takes place on campus due to its design which incorporates Fenwick Hall.[21] A plaza outside Smith Hall, named Memorial Plaza, commemorates seven Holy Cross alumni who perished in the September 11, 2001, attacks.

To the western end of campus lies Millard Art Center, St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, the Chaplains' Office (Campion House), and Loyola Hall, which served as the Jesuit residence in the past, but has since been converted into another hall for student housing.[22] The Jesuit residence Ciampi Hall is now located in the northeast corner of the campus.

Residential life[edit]

Holy Cross operates 11 on-campus residence halls divided into three geographic clusters. More than 90 percent of students live on campus.[23] First-year students will often live in one of the residence halls situated near the top of the hill nicknamed Easy Street, Hanselman, Clark, or Brooks Halls. Healy and Lehy are also on Easy Street, but they are reserved for upperclassmen. Another housing option, near the center section of campus, is Wheeler Hall, a Sophomore Residence Hall. Upperclassmen students can choose, depending on the results of the housing lottery held in the Spring, between the Easy Street residence halls, minus Hanselman, or the upperclass residence halls in the lower portion of campus: Alumni, Carlin, and Loyola. Additionally, seniors have the options of Williams Hall, formerly known as "The Senior Apartments", and Figge Hall, the newest residence hall on campus.[24] Residence hall pride is prominent on campus; various residence halls have created clubs or other forms of co-curricular programs.

Carlin Hall, a junior residence, with O'Kane and Fenwick Halls behind.
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  5. ^ a b The FYP Theme: 2006–2007 Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b c Walker, Elizabeth (Summer 1998). "The First Year of the Rest of Their Lives". Holy Cross Magazine. 32 (4). Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  7. ^ "The HCCrusader News". Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  8. ^ a b Honors Program Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
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  13. ^ "Who Is Catholic?", The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 9, 2004.
  14. ^ Wholley, Meredith (August 5, 2006). "A Holy War in Catholic Higher Education". Campus Magazine. Archived from the original on August 6, 2006.
  15. ^ "Bishop asks Holy Cross not to rent space to teen pregnancy alliance". The Pilot. Boston. October 19, 2007.
  16. ^ a b Lilly Vocation Discernment Initiative Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
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  18. ^ Holy Cross Campus Map Archived 2006-11-17 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ "NRHP nomination for Holy Cross College". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  20. ^ Smith Hall Honored with Silver Hammer Award Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "Holy Cross Receives $10 Million Gift". Holy Cross Magazine. Spring 2000. Archived from the original on May 19, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  22. ^ "Photo Perspective- Building Exteriors- Loyola Hall – College of the Holy Cross". Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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