Follow your passions. Find your path. Build a lifelong community.
Answer our common call: to live as people for and with others.
As the nation’s only exclusively undergraduate, Jesuit, liberal arts college, Holy Cross invites students to ask the most challenging intellectual, philosophical and religious questions.
Your Montserrat seminar is more than a college course; it’s a living and learning experience unlike anything you’ve encountered before. Classmates become friends, and faculty, mentors, as you examine essential human questions over the course of your first year at Holy Cross.
The first year of college is not easy for anybody, and yet it’s only when you go through that kind of a journey that transformation is possible. Transformation has to do with being challenged, creating community, finding support and digging deep into yourself.
Bridget Franco, Montserrat Director, Professor
Many students say, ‘I miss Montserrat so much. I wish Montserrat could have been all 4 years’ in their subsequent years. Also, students who didn't get their first-choice seminar sometimes discover that theirs was really their first choice through the year-long experience.
Jennie Germann Molz Montserrat Cluster Director (Core Human Questions), Professor
We ask students to reflect on their own identities over the course of the year, thinking about who they were in high school, what goals they had for themselves, and how they're going to develop as intellectual and social citizens through their coursework, course experiences, community-based learning practices, and co-curricular activities within the Monserrat program.
Hayley Stefan, Montserrat and English Lecturer
In addition to addressing life’s big questions, the Montserrat seminar is meant to address concerns students have about first-year college life: What academic support services are available to me? Who do I talk to about dorm life or extracurricular activities? What health and wellness programs address my needs? Montserrat seminar professors introduce students to the invisible curriculum, providing an insider’s guide to campus living.
Whether you graduated five or 55 years ago, you’re a part of the Holy Cross community for life. Connect with classmates and fellow grads, stay involved and find ways to live and support the mission.
Forever grateful for my time on The Hill. The growth I experienced there is a result of the people who supported me in the classroom, on the playing field, around campus and in the greater Worcester area.
Declan Cronin '19
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