Founded by faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the University of Pennsylvania, the Collegium Institute is an independent scholarly foundation devoted to fostering the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the liberal tradition of humane studies more broadly. The Collegium Institute seeks to enrich our academic culture in two ways: first by making it possible for all its members, secular and r
eligious, to explore the Catholic intellectual tradition; second, by supporting scholarship, teaching, and learning that draws wisdom from a plurality of disciplines and reflects upon the inter-connectivity of truth across them. The institute’s name, collegium, serves as a reminder that the pursuit of knowledge, which is the principal object of all universities, is a communal enterprise. Its flourishing depends upon its members working together to cultivate certain virtues of mind and character, such as humility, trust, honesty, justice, and the love of truth. By witnessing to these enduring virtues, the Collegium Institute will serve contemporary academia and become a vibrant center of learning within it.
