ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that student life is the most dreary and dismal aspect of Catholic higher education, we are simply saying that Catholic schools are a little different from other schools. It suggests that the basic problem in Catholic institutions is that their relations with students are determined by traditional attitudes toward human nature that have held sway in the religious orders for the past couple of centuries. Many of the religious orders themselves are caught in an internal struggle over power between conservatives and progressives, and until the progressives definitely win control of the order, they will not be able to apply their own policies to student life. We cannot resist the temptation to observe that if religious orders are unable or unwilling to drastically reform their relationships with the students in Catholic colleges. Then it might be appropriate for someone in higher ecclesiastical authority to start knocking heads together.
