It’s Albert Week at Albertus Magnus College
Live the Pillars: Study, Prayer, Community, and Service November 11-17
New Haven, Conn.,November 7, 2024 - Albertus Magnus College celebrates “Albert Week” November 11-17. The tribute honors St. Albert the Great, the patron of the College, and promotes the Dominican Pillars of Study, Prayer, Community, and Service as part of our daily lives. Here are a few of the highlighted events of interest:
All Week:
Free coffee for Veterans: Bree Common.
Donation Boxes for VA Hospital: Collecting essentials in Bree Common, Rosary Hall, and Student Affairs Office.
Thanksgiving Food Collection: Donations of non-perishable food items for Centro San Jose.
November 11:
12:30 p.m. - Scarfing of St. Albert and Prayers for the Community: St. Albert Statue, Tagliatela Center.
3:30 p.m. - Veterans Remembrance Service: St. Catherine of Siena Chapel.
November 13:
5:30 p.m. - St. Albert the Great Lecture “Attuned to Charity and Justice”: Hubert Campus Center.
Paul D. Melley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. His research interests include sacramentality and justice, mystagogy, secularism and modernity, the theology of Karl Rahner, and liturgy and music. He is currently researching origins of mystagogy as praxis of sacramental imagination and how including the category of “experience” serves to contribute to theology. Dr. Melley is also a published composer with GIA Publications and Oregon Catholic Press with compositions in five hymnals internationally.
About Albertus Magnus College
Founded in 1925, Albertus is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money, and The New York Times, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For ten consecutive years, at least 95% of Albertus graduates have attained employment or gone on to graduate studies within six months of completing their degrees. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and graduate program levels. Proud to enroll a student body where nearly half of its undergraduate students receive Federal Pell Grants and are first-generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, including BSN and Connecticut's first LPN-to-BSN; General Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Public Health.
Among its graduate offerings is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program, and it is just one of three schools to offer a Master of Science in Human Services. In 2025-26, Albertus is celebrating its historic 100th Anniversary and completing implementation of the Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, with a bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.