ST. MARY'S CITY, Md., Sept. 1 -- St. Mary's College of Maryland issued the following news release:
St. Mary's College of Maryland will launch the St. Mary's Athenaeum this fall, a new signature institutional platform designed to advance scholarship, intellectual engagement, civic dialogue and public leadership while reinforcing the College's identity as the National Public Honors College.
An athenaeum is traditionally an institution devoted to the promotion of literary or scientific learning. St. Mary's Athenaeum will build on that tradition by creating opportunities for students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the broader community to engage with ideas, scholarship and perspectives that illuminate important questions facing soci...