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Globalization and its Impact on Catholic Higher Education

Globalization has become a sort of fashionable buzz-word. It is quite often said but seldom with the same meaning. It is in fact one of those far-reaching concepts which are used by different people to explain facts which are of a completely different nature. Even when qualified as “economic”, globalization can still be associated with a variety of phenomena.

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The Ateneo Center for Educational Development

The Ateneo Center for Educational Development (ACED) was estab lished by the Ateneo de Manila University in 1997 in response to the call of “closing the gaps” – the gap between our country and our Asian neighbors, and at the same time the gap between Ateneo and the rest of the country. In a larger vision, as a Christian Catholic University, closing this gap means continuing Jesus’ mission to create a community, within our families, within our country and with our neighbors, to be able to share and care for one another, closing the gap between God and us.

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Happy and New? Think Again

Every beginning of a year I’m always tempted to call out, “We say, ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR!’ But is the yearly noisy merrymaking all there is to happiness? Are our new acquisitions, new cars, new clothes, new pairs of shoes, new year’s resolutions and other externals all there is to being new?”

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OTHER STORIES

The Persistence of Insurgency in the Philippines

Sex and Gender

STATEMENTS

In Truth, Peace

New Year’s Message