text: I doubt the selected institutions set the "pace of academia" in the United States or anywhere else.
  
  They MIGHT set the pace in higher level Catholic education institutions, but even that claim is suspect.
  
  AND, if the "pace" alluded to is strictly about Catholic doctrinal learning, then it also is suspect -- for what is described seems to be lock-step, non-thinking, drone behavior, which is not upper level, adult education. It is pretty near a brain-washing technique.  I hope there are no pace-setters for that.