DETROIT — In October, University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy hosted the seventh Biennial Jesuit Latin Colloquium, welcoming 32 Latin teachers from 17 Jesuit high schools across the country.
Educators from schools as far as San Jose, Calif., and Dorchester, Mass., gathered in Detroit for three days of collaboration and learning. Together, they brought 431 years of teaching experience at Jesuit high schools; the group included alumni from eight Jesuit high schools, five Jesuit colleges, and three Jesuit graduate programs.
The group engaged with fascinating presentations by the University of Michigan’s Richard Janko on the Herculaneum papyri “with and without the assistance of AI” and by Wayne State University’s Jennifer Sheridan Moss, who drew on her recent service as the chief reader for the AP Latin Exam to talk about the new AP Latin curriculum.
Four Jesuit Latin educators presented insightful papers, and four U of D Jesuit students gave the teacher attendees a guided tour of the school’s facilities.
During the colloquium, U of D Jesuit teacher Amy Barker, president of the Michigan Classical Consortium, honored longtime U of D Jesuit Latin instructor Nicholas Young, who served as the school host, for "single-handedly saving Latin in the state of Michigan when he volunteered to serve as supervisor for student teachers of Latin.”
Young has served as an officer of the Michigan Classical Consortium and as a member of the governing board and newsletter editor for the American Classical League. He received the ACL Meritus Award and the University of Michigan’s Glenn Knudsvig Award for Outstanding High School Teaching. Young has taught classics at the University of Detroit-Mercy.
Information for this report was submitted by University of Detroit Jesuit High School.
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