In The News
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Center student creates digital library for rural Guatemalans
Center student creates digital library for rural Guatemalans September 30, 2022 Zoë Case is no stranger to the center’s programming. She’s currently completing her final semester at the University and will soon receive a BFA in Design, and she is taking the center’s Appalachia seminar where she will travel to the region over fall break. […]
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New prison education initiative joins Center for Social Concerns
New prison education initiative joins Center for Social Concerns By: JP Shortall September 30, 2022 A new prison education initiative will bring five local, state, and national prison education programs together in one effort to be housed at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison (NDPEP) will […]
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Center welcomes new postdoctoral fellow
Center welcomes new postdoctoral fellow September 6, 2022 This fall, Wes Siscoe, Ph.D. is joining the Center for Social Concerns as a postdoctoral fellow with Virtues & Vocations, a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. The fellowship is a year-long opportunity […]
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Upcoming symposium to develop social theology of the child
Upcoming symposium to develop social theology of the child September 6, 2022 Human dignity is central to Catholic social tradition, so what does it mean to apply that teaching to children? Clemens Sedmak, Ph.D., director and professor of social ethics at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and faculty fellow at the Center for Social […]
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Center for Social Concerns launches new graduate fellowship
Center for Social Concerns launches new graduate fellowship September 6, 2022 The Center for Social Concerns has launched a new graduate fellowship program designed to engage graduate students from around the University and from any disciplinary perspective on questions of justice. Like students nationally, graduate and professional students at Notre Dame are increasingly interested in […]
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The center next door
The center next door By: Mary Ellen Woods ’80 September 1, 2022 It was a fine spring day. You know the kind. The sky is the color of Notre Dame’s blue and the day so resplendent you think that everything you touch may just turn into gold. I exited Geddes Hall–by the side door for some […]
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Program introduces incoming students to South Bend with focus on community, justice
Program introduces incoming students to South Bend with focus on community, justice By: Erin Blasko August 23, 2022 A group of 20 incoming University of Notre Dame students spent the week leading up to the start of the fall semester exploring issues of justice both on campus and in the surrounding community as part of RISE: […]
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Center partners with FADICA to pilot Catholic social tradition course for philanthropists
Center partners with FADICA to pilot Catholic social tradition course for philanthropists July 29, 2022 This spring, the Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities (FADICA) partnered with the Center for Social Concerns’ director of Catholic Social Tradition (CST), Bill Purcell, M.Div., to develop an online course on CST and philanthropy. The 9-week pilot course […]
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Study examines correlation between college student community engagement and prosocial behavior
Study examines correlation between college student community engagement and prosocial behavior July 29, 2022 Does involvement in community engagement impact college students’ moral development and sense of responsibility to others? Recent research published by Tara Hudson, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration at Kent State University and Jay Brandenberger, Ph.D., professor of the practice […]
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Faculty member designs writing course around crafting new local narrative
Faculty member designs writing course around crafting new local narrative June 24, 2022 South Bend is a special place. That was the message Nicole MacLaughlin wanted her course to convey. An associate teaching professor in the University Writing Program, MacLaughlin has taught community-engaged learning classes for more than ten years. In each class, she created […]
