WINK-TV North Naples : Ave Maria College can now officially be called Ave Maria University. The Florida Commission for Independent Education gave the school a license on Monday. The license is a big step for the school’s goal of building a campus on 5,000 acres of land in Collier County.
The school has opened a temporary campus in the Vineyards in North Naples. This year, 100 students have signed up to be part of Ave Maria’s first class. “It will be almost like a family,” said incoming student Mary Megan Barone. “We’ll start out small and grow big together.” Barone is a graduate of St. John Neumann High School in Golden Gate, she will join students from 29 states in Ave Maria’s first freshman class.
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Good news. I love good news.
And Naples is such a nice place! I visited a friend there in October of 1995.
Let’s just hope that this new manifestation of the Ave MAria College creature finds itself less motivated by fear and puritanism, and more inspired by the genuine caritas of the Catholic ethos, than has it’s germ in Ypsilanti–thus far. We already have plenty of reactionary “Catholic” centers of “education” in this country. A true Catholic education should not bear within it the seeds of pride and condemnation. But even from dubious beginnings, I suppose, the Holy Spirit can bring about His work.
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