This August 13-14, Magdalen College faculty will travel to New York City to lead seminars on classic texts at the First Things Intellectual Retreat on Solidarity. If you enjoy discussing questions of great significance in an environment animated by a spirit of friendship and a common purpose, this event is for you. It is a...

The Collegiate Honors Program at Magdalen College offers students the opportunity to advance their liberal education in new areas by embracing academic challenges and experiences beyond those of our core Program of Studies. Each semester, through an honors colloquium seminar, students explore selected texts, themes, authors, or media that complement our larger Program of Studies....

Magdalen College is delighted to announce the new Director of Admissions, Mrs. Michele McKenna. Mrs. McKenna is an experienced educational leader and is well-equipped to serve the college as ambassador and advocate. Having worked for over 25 years in admissions and school administration, she is poised to fully realize strategic goals that reflect and embrace...

You Are Invited to Celebrate the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalen at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts Join us for Mass, a procession to the statue of St. Mary Magdalen, and then lunch in our Dining Room. July 22nd, 11:00am Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel Mass will be celebrated by the college’s...

Dear Magdalen Community, As I begin my tenure as president, I want to share with you my excitement about this college and ask for your prayers. On my first day on campus, I walked into the beautiful chapel and sought the intercession of the Eastern Fathers, whose images appear in stained glass on the left...

Magdalen College is delighted to announce the new Director of Collegiate Choirs, Tristan Smith. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Magdalen College and is well-equipped to continue the beautiful sacred music traditions at the college. His musical background includes providing music for liturgies at parishes in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maryland. In addition to directing...

During their final year at the college, seniors have the opportunity to write a thesis and introduce the fruit of their study to their peers and members of the faculty through a sustained presentation and discussion of their work. This year’s senior theses included: Here I Am: A Reflection on Human Understanding and Divine Providence...

This year’s Cardinal Newman Teaching Institute included four students from Magdalen College: John Milliken ’22, Adriana Smith ’22, Ben Haefner ’22, and Zofia Joynt ’22. The Institute is a practical experience for students exploring a career in teaching and is the fruit of a partnership with Mount Royal Academy, a CNS Honor Roll school located in...

The Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts Class of 2021 graduated on May 8, 2021. Congratulations graduates! Here are excerpts from the event. Dr. Erik van Versendaal, professor at Magdalen College, called graduates to a poetic, beautiful and generative life: The truth of beauty, and the beauty of truth, can’t be seen all at once....

Collegiate Summer Program Session 1: July 11-24, 2021 Session 2: August 1-14, 2021 On the side of Mount Kearsarge in Warner, New Hampshire A unique approach to liberal arts education that integrates learning in the humanities with prayer, recreation, and community-life ordered to the pursuit of Wisdom. Our summer students live in the college’s residences,...