engaging your mind
building your character.
A Mount education forms more than just the intellect; it helps to form your whole person. Our Veritas Program will provide you with a thorough liberal arts education, while you pursue a major tied to a chosen field. This combination of "core" preparation and training in a specific discipline provides just the right recipe for academic and professional success. At Mount St. Mary’s we are attentive to your development as a whole person while we do our best to prepare you with the skills and character you will need in the workplace.
"What do I love about the Mount? Nuclear fusion. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Hydrogen atoms, among the smallest structures in the physical universe, when bound together unleash nearly inconceivable energy and light of the sun. The Mount is like this—we take the basic elements of talented, determined students, a superb faculty, and a stunning campus, bind them together in harmony with the forces of collegiality, academic excellence, intellectual challenge, commitment to faith, and human compassion, thereby releasing a force which helps to illuminate the world with enormous power and purpose. The realization that I’m privileged to be a part of such a successful and exciting dynamic is what renews MY energy every day."
— Andy Rosenfeld, chair, Visual and Performing Arts Department
"Studying the liberal arts is not just about learning basic facts or getting a ‘general education.’ It’s partly about developing habits of mind: judgment, self-knowledge, insight, analysis. But it’s also more than training in critical thinking. A true liberal education instills wisdom and enlightens the moral imagination. This is especially important today: the dynamism of modern culture will place a premium on minds capable of steady comprehension and sound evaluation."
— Joshua Hochschild, Dean, College of Liberal Arts
