Why open a new Catholic university in Southern California in 2006?
On November 2nd, 2000, while visiting Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio I saw something that would change my life. I saw a campus full of students on fire for the Lord. I had never seen that level of excitement about Jesus Christ by so many on a college campus. Late that evening, sitting in front of the Blessed Sacrament in the Portiuncula chapel, I felt the Lord tugging at me to build a university like this in San Diego. I immediately gave the Lord my answer ‘Impossible, a university is too big and too expensive.’ During the Summer of 2003, having finished teaching a class looking at the start-up of entrepreneurial high-tech companies to graduate and under-graduate students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), I reflected on the passion of the UCSD students to go out and change the world by building successful technology based businesses. Reflecting back on my Steubenville visit 3 years earlier, I imagined the possibilities of combining (1) the spirituality of
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