Dear Parents and Prospective Students:

Before it was a place, providence was a theological term denoting God’s loving plan to bring each created being into fulfillment. Thus the name Providence College does not only reflect our location, but also our mission: to help students discover and embrace their role in God’s loving plan and pursue it with excellence.

At Providence College, we prepare you to make the best decisions for fulfilling your role within God’s plan. As a Catholic college rooted in the 800-yearold intellectual tradition of the Dominican Order, we teach you to love and live truth. We challenge you to ask tough questions, evaluate competing arguments, integrate diverse perspectives, and contemplate the meaning of truth both in and beyond the classroom.

We provide a rigorous liberal arts education with Core Curriculum requirements in the arts, sciences, philosophy, and theology and a two-year interdisciplinary course in the Development of Western Civilization. In the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, we introduce you to faith and reason as compatible and complementary and engage you in the lively intellectual debate we call “disputed questions.”

Transformed by wisdom and enabled by God’s grace, you are challenged to live a life of virtue and purpose that will transform society.

Yours in Christ,

Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., Ph.D.