A One Girl Revolution

As some of you know, my sister Nicole is looking at colleges now, and I've pushed her hard to consider Fordham, in part because it's a Jesuit school. Until now, I had a little bit of a hard time articulating why, although a school that includes a good proportion of faculty who have taken a vow of dependence on the church is actually a pretty good start when you consider the quality of the teaching. The rest of it comes in the question of priorities and the teaching of what one should do with one's life. Did you see this op-ed in the New York Times? Say what we will about all the Joe Hoyas who run off to ridiculous consulting jobs, or law school and then ridiculous corporate law firms, the reality is that if you told someone that after Georgetown you were joining the Peace Corps, or Teach for America, or the State Department, people were perfectly supportive, even occasionally impressed, depending on the details. And more, it wasn't unusual. I think of that reaction as the flip side of that little tidbit they like to give on the campus tours--that the Foreign Service hires more Georgetown graduates each year than Harvard and Yale combined. That speaks not only to the quality of our education in international relations, but also to the development of our values.

See also the letters in reaction to the article. In this light, I'm downright thrilled with the size of the Hoya endowment, you know?