St. Stephen’s University and Park Hall, its big yellow house on Milltown Boulevard, have been a fixture in the community for 50 years, educating generations of students from around the world in the liberal arts and international studies with a Christian perspective.
But the institution has undergone some major transformations in recent years. In 2023, after years of slowly declining enrollment and the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the university’s leaders took the difficult decision to suspend the undergraduate program and narrow its focus to graduate studies, delivered mostly online.
That has allowed the university to grow, even as its students are less visible in the community. Read more in The Courier.