Father Jay Fostner is the Vice President for Mission and Student Affairs at St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI. Outside of his academic and administrative duties at the college, Father Jay Fostner is a member of Association of Catholic College and Universities (ACCU), an organization that serves as the voice of Catholic programs in higher education in the USA, and carries out its mission in several ways through programs such as the annual Rome Seminar.
College presidents, senior administrators, and faculty leaders who belong to ACCU travel to Rome to experience first-hand the spiritual and intellectual heritage of the Catholic Church. The program is coordinated by the staff of the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, and ACCU staff. It offers participants an in-depth tour of the Eternal City and the Vatican, including conversations with officials from the Holy See and Rome’s pontifical universities.
As a part of the seminar, attendees learn about the different charisms, or spiritual gifts. They visit significant religious sites of the Catholic order, and they hold conversations with the Pontifical Councils of Culture, the Promotion of the New Evangelism, and Promoting Christian Unity, in addition to having discussions with representatives from the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Father Jay Fostner 