MSW - guessing that you will focus on Land O'Lakes' key principles:
- free from clerical control (including episcopal control)
- catholic autonomy

For example, the Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities(28) is significantly involved in issues and current events 
http://www.ajcunet.edu/
Key purpose is to educate/train catholic leaders for tomorrow including their own institutions (many Jesuit universities are now led by lay leaders)
among 221 Catholic institutions/1,600 independent colleges/universities in  US, American Jesuit colleges and universities are part of a network of 189 Jesuit institutions of higher learning throughout the world

DePaul University just welcomed their first lay president July 1st.

These religious order sponsored universities have focused on their charisms and developed lay leadership.

Or, the role of catholic universities in education (we are no longer second class) - yet, recent developments at CUA accepting millions from the Koch brothers.