For 120 years, St. Thomas has embraced its goal, its passion, its obligation to provide a supportive academic environment for Eagle scholars to thrive, empowering them to create positive change everywhere life takes them. Prominent and central to that Basilian mission is furnishing need-based financial assistance and merit-based scholarships to ensure that St. Thomas can [...]
The Eagles’ Nest is the St. Thomas flagship vehicle for telling stories about the vibrant Eagle community. Through compelling narratives and striking visuals, we explore the institution, from the change and growth on campus to how St. Thomas is leaving its Catholic Basilian imprint on Houston and nationally. Our award-winning writing and design provide insights [...]
For 120 years, St. Thomas has embraced its goal, its passion, its obligation to provide a supportive academic environment for Eagle scholars to thrive, empowering them to create positive change everywhere life takes them. Prominent and central to that Basilian mission is furnishing need-based financial assistance and merit-based scholarships to ensure that St. Thomas can [...]
The Eagles' Nest is the St. Thomas flagship vehicle for telling stories about the vibrant Eagle community. Through compelling narratives and striking visuals, we explore the institution, from the change and growth on campus to how St. Thomas is leaving its Catholic Basilian imprint on Houston and nationally. Our award-winning writing and design provide insights [...]
Scholars enter St. Thomas caressing big dreams. A fortified faculty are required to make those dreams a reality. Even after two decades as social studies dean, Brett Mills continues to seize unique opportunities to develop as a scholar and teacher. Twice in 2019, he participated in prestigious fellowships, the latest in a series of transformative [...]
On Saturday, December 7, students from Jenny McConnell’s Theology Class visited the newly expanded Houston Holocaust museum. Since 2001, St. Thomas has offered the Theology elective, The Holocaust in Christian Jewish Dialogue, to senior students. Students enrolled in this course examine the roots, causes, events, and implication of the Holocaust, with emphasis on the historical [...]
The St. Thomas mission of educating the whole scholar in the Basilian tradition of teaching goodness, discipline, and knowledge is as relevant now to the demands of an ever-changing society as at its inception in 1900. In a culture of learning with passion and living with purpose, relationships are king and are at the forefront [...]
The St. Thomas faculty member tackles a speed round of questions. Before joining the ranks of college prep academia, you lived bright lights, big city in the frantic world of advertising. How did you land on Madison Avenue (or more accurately, West 33rd Street) as a talented, wide eyed LSU graduate? "I cold called agencies [...]
Director Dan Green embraced his sixth staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an inventive take, both saucy and sweet, worldly and enchanted, on William Shakespeare’s fantasy comedy. Dangerous and mysterious potions, fairy warfare, and crazy mixed-up love are the themes of this 400-year-old fusion of Greek mythology and cringe comedy. There was plenty of [...]
The search wasn’t for learning subjects but to learn how to think critically. To live ethically. To find people who think differently from the way you think, talk with them to find out why, and enrich yourself in the process. The destination wasn’t simply to pave a path leading to upcoming professional development but a [...]
