Article: Latest Monaghan university opens in Nicaragua.(Thomas Monaghan funds Ave Maria College of the Americas)(Statistical Data Included)

Here in the coffee-clad hills of southern Nicaragua, pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan of Ann Arbor, Mich., has acquired a second-hand college as part of his campaign to spread conservative Catholic influence through education.

An extension of Monaghan's Ave Maria University in Ypsilanti, Mich., Ave Maria College of the Americas is a small place. The school in Nicaragua hopes to attract just 600 students within two years. As the latest in the chain of schools being developed by a man who made millions creating a chain of Domino's pizza parlors, however, its importance could reach far beyond this sleepy Central American town an hour south of Managua.

Yet the ...

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