CAMPUS CHAPTERS

Our goal is to make the Catholic intellectual tradition vibrantly present to today’s universities.

Thomistic Institute chapters are on-campus, academic clubs formed and run by students to bring top-notch Christian intellectuals to their university campuses. These chapters organize lectures, seminars, and reading groups to explore the riches of the Christian intellectual tradition.

St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest philosophers and theologians of the Western tradition, stands at the heart of what we do. TI chapters sponsor many talks from many different (and non-Thomistic) perspectives, but Aquinas’s thought remains a touchstone for the project of bringing top-notch scholars from around the world to speak on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Students organize themselves as a chapter by forming a leadership team, receiving approach from Thomistic Institute staff, and achieving recognition from their university as a student group.

We began our campus chapters program in 2015, and it has now spread to more than 80 campuses. Each chapter is led by students, who organize themselves as a campus group and are the protagonists and main catalysts of their chapter’s on-campus events. We encourage undergraduate and graduate students to collaborate with each other, with us, and with their faculty to develop lectures, events, and programs built upon the Catholic intellectual tradition.