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Abbey Alumnas, Jennifer Joyner, recently launched Kurated Noire, an art collecting and interior design business, alongside her daughter, Kadijah, right here in Gaston County!
Jennifer studied business during her time at the Abbey and after 25 years of corporate and higher education experience, launched her business in June of 2020.
Click here to read the Gaston Gazette’s full account of Jennifer’s story.
At the Abbey, we believe that in all things God may be glorified. We find this glory especially revealed in the development of the whole person.
We live out our mission of developing the total person, in mind, body and spirit, in many ways – just ask Pope Saint John Paul II!
“Sports contribute to the love of life, teaches sacrifice, respect and responsibility, leading to the full development of every human person.” – Pope Saint John Paul II
Our 41 men’s and women’s teams compete in NCAA Division II and have a long-storied history of being competitive in regional and national titles. However, at the Abbey, we believe athletics are about more than just competition. We see sport as a way to develop virtue and promote excellence in all things for our student-athletes.
As Pope Francis said: sports serve as a stimulus to always improve as a person, in all of life’s aspects. Guided by the vision of the Abbey’s Sport Virtue Institute, our Department of Athletics values each of our Crusader student-athletes as a student first and an athlete second, putting our student’s personal development above competitive outcomes.
Our coaches, faculty, and staff continuously encourage academic excellence and virtuous characteristics while strengthening each’s talents and performance. Our commitment to the pursuit of excellence and virtue in our student-athletes has led to us being awarded in multiple years the Messick Award, the highest sportsmanship honor in our conference!
Belmont Abbey College is a place where athletics and glorifying God come together. An opportunity to be a Crusader athlete, while gaining a Catholic, liberal arts education at the Abbey, will help lead you to a “Home Run” of success.
Want to discover ways the Abbey instills virtue among students? Check this out.
The Belmont Abbey College Debate Team participated in the 10th Annual NCICU Ethics Bowl February 20th, focusing on compassionate decision-making in the context of a pandemic. Our students represented Belmont Abbey as a panel, weighing issues about vaccination policies and equity in public school education. The final presentations balanced ideal goals of government agencies with current limitations, advocating for the diverse needs of communities.
Belmont Abbey students spent the day refining their own advocacy among peers from NCICU institutions and learning from experienced practitioners in the field. This year, the NCICU Ethics Bowl did not have a competitive structure. While judges provided positive feedback to our students, no wins or losses were assigned. Instead, this year emphasized keynote speakers who have played key roles in managing North Carolina’s response to Covid-19. These included: Mike Sprayberry, Deputy Director of NC Emergency Management; Geoff Coltrane, Senior Education Advisor to Governor Cooper; and Mark Benton, Assistant Secretary for Public Health in the NC Department of Health and Human Services.
Our next competition will be the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament, beginning on March 19th. Pi Kappa Delta is among the oldest forensics honor societies globally and represents a uniquely large national competition. This will be Belmont Abbey’s first year at the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament, and we are hopeful to introduce our students to the full in-person experience next year.
To see our team in action, click one of the videos below:
“When we praise a poet,” says T.S. Eliot, too often we isolate out those aspects of his verse which resemble least anyone else’s—which depart most surely from his predecessors. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” Eliot challenges the critic’s inclination to “pretend to find what is individual, what is the peculiar essence of the man,” and fixate upon this singularity “with satisfaction” Truth be told, no artist “has his complete meaning alone,” for his significance is indissolubly tied to “his relation to the dead poets and artists”. To gain fulsome appreciation of his achievement, you “must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead”. When we rid ourselves of the penchant for originality and invention in favor of situating the new in the stream of tradition, we may just find that “not only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously.”
Join Dr. Joshua Hren as he hosts a seminar on former NEA Chairman, California Poet Laureate, and Catholic public intellectual Dana Gioia’s long poem “The Underworld.” The poem, written under the influence of Book VI of Virgil’s Aeneid, Seneca’s The Madness of Hercules (which Gioia has translated), Ovid’s myth of Orpheus, and Dante’s Inferno, nonetheless possesses an utterly contemporary idiom, and pictures an underworld defined by a peculiar blend of bureaucracy and mystery which may be more hellish than any of the monsters made by his predecessor poets.
On Tuesday, February 9th, Belmont Abbey College and Gaston College officially joined together to assist students in obtaining their Bachelor’s degree. Belmont Abbey Connect is a new initiative that will provide a seamless transition for Gaston College students to move forward at Belmont Abbey College to complete the required courses for their Bachelor’s degree.
Gavin Stewart of The Gaston Gazette covered the signing of the transfer agreement where Dr. Bill Thierfelder, President of Belmont Abbey College, and Dr. John Hauser, President of Gaston College, came together to make this partnership official.
Click here to find out more about the Belmont Abbey Connect.
So that we can take you to the right application form, tell us: are you a current North Carolina High School student?
*You will be taken to the College Foundation of North Carolina to create a free account to apply.
