Educating for What?
Liberal Arts in a Pre-Professional World Lecture
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Attend a lecture hosted by CSSA and The Center for Service and Social Action, Sr. Katherine Feely, SND, Ed.D. and Edward Hahnenberg, Ph.D., Breen Chair in Catholic Systematic Theology!
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Moreland, Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University.
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Dr. Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at John Carroll.
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Dr. Alan Miciak, John M. Boler Dean of the Boler College of Business at John Carroll.
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Q & A will engage the audience.
We hope you can join us online
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
7:00 - 8:15 pm
This lecture is part of a national series on Catholic Higher Education in Light of Catholic Social Thought co-organized by Bernard Prusak, King’s College (PA), and Jennifer Reed-Bouley, College of Saint Mary (NE), and is a work-in-progress that will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming volume Catholic Higher Education in Light of Catholic Social Thought: Critical-Constructive Essays, ed. Bernard G. Prusak and Jennifer Reed-Bouley (New York: Paulist Press, 2022).
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Attend the IMPACT Conference |
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The IMPACT Conference is the largest annual conference focused on the civic engagement of college students in community service, service-learning, community-based research, advocacy and other forms of social action. JCU has sent a team to the conference for the last 5 years. This year the conference is virtual and free! The Conference will be held from March 4-6, 2021. If you'd like to attend as part of the JCU team, contact Heather in CSSA: hcraigie@jcu.edu.
More info on the IMPACT Conference can be found HERE.
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Help spread the word! Share this email with parents, teachers, and others who may be interested! |
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The Center for Service and Social Action is excited to announce the return of the JCU Lobo Learning Lab!
The Lobo Learning Lab is an after-school virtual hub for learning adventures & creative engagement for students in grades K-12!
Fun! Exciting! Engaging! The Lobo Learning Lab is a space for children and teens to experience exciting virtual after-school programming at no cost. JCU students develop and lead activities each week to provide a wide variety of enrichment opportunities.
The Lobo Lab activities were a huge success with our JCU students, as well as with our participants this fall, and we are excited to bring back the lab activities for the spring semester!
Choose from a variety of activities:
- Elementary & Middle School Math Tutoring, Grades 1-8
- STEM Adventures, Grades 6-8
- Arts & Crafts Club, Grades 3-5
- Digital Movie Making, Grades 6-8
- Fun with Fitness, Grades K-8
- Story Time, Grades K-3
- Zumba, Grades 6-12*
- JCU Buddies, Grades 6-12
- Virtual Field Trips, Grades 1-6
*Indicates new activity for the spring
Explore the calendar on our website, cssaengagecle.org/lobolab to learn about our program offerings and register for one or more free weekly activities!
Activities are 40 minutes in length and run from February 15 -
April 23, 2021. You only need to sign up once for the weekly series. You will be automatically registered for the entirety of the program
- Registration Deadline: Friday, February 12
- Weekly Activities Begin: Monday, February 15
- Weekly Activities End: Friday, April 23
Help spread the word! Share this email with parents, teachers, and others who may be interested!
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Get Connected!!
Follow us on social media to get the latest news from CSSA, learn about upcoming opportunities, find ways to stay connected and engaged, read posts by featured students, and learn about all of the great things happening in the Center for Service and Social Action! We post frequent updates daily, so be sure to stay tuned in!
Connect with us NOW to join the fun!
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Our #MyMagisMessage for the week comes from Dynah Daly, a junior Integrated Marketing Communications major and Psychology minor from Western Springs, Il! Dynah has served with Thomas Jefferson International Newcomers Academy and St. Francis Math Tutoring for service-learning courses, both of which were for tutoring younger students K-12. As a student liaison, Dynah has served at the Fatima Family Center, the Cleveland Sight Center, and facilitated a virtual Lobo Lab during the Fall 2020 semester.
If you had to state your life mission off the top of your head, in one sentence, what would it be?
"To bring light and laughter to those I interact with every day"
#MyMagisMessage
My service story is a bit different than others... Prior to attending John Carroll, I went to a Dominican Catholic high school right outside the city of Chicago. Much like John Carroll, something they valued was service and as an immature teenager, the last thing I wanted to do was go spend my so-called “precious time” volunteering. As unfortunate as it is to hear, that is how I looked upon service from the ages of 14 to 18 years old.
Once I got to JCU, I was placed into service-learning courses for both Spring 2019 and Fall 2019 semesters. However, there was something unique about my service experience during that fall semester that really caused me to have my outlook on service do a complete 180 degree turn. I was placed at St. Francis doing the math tutoring program and the young girl I was tutoring looked at me and said “I love seeing you every week!” That night was when I submitted my application to become a liaison. I thought “maybe I can help others in an impactful way…”
As crazy as it sounds, one little girl changed my whole outlook on service. Everything was put into perspective for me: service is more than just helping out others. It is about building relationships and coming together with the community to create a greater good.
One community partner I served in particular was the Cleveland Sight Center during the first semester working as a liaison for CSSA. This is where those who are visually impaired receive different types of services such as tutoring for adults who are studying to receive their GED. I met a man who was almost fully blind. He told me his story about travelling the world as a DJ, and how he still creates mixes for radio stations all over the country. And now he is here working towards receiving his GED. It was truly inspiring and it made me regret the way I looked at what service was when I was younger.
Being able to look back and see the change of perspective I had from in the past few years truly motivates me to continue on with service for many years to come.
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Saturday, February 6 .... First Day of Spring 2021 Service
Tuesday, February 9 .... Educating for What? Liberal Arts in a Pre-Professional World Lecture| 7:00 pm
March 4-6 .... Virtual IMPACT Conference
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Sr. Katherine Feely, SND, Ed.D | Director | kfeely@jcu.edu | 216.397.1966
Heather Craigie | Assistant Director, Student Development & Logistics|hcraigie@jcu.edu |216.397.6233
John Jackson | Assistant Director, Community Partnerships | jnjackson@jcu.edu | 216.397.1662
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JCU Center for Service and Social Action
Administration Building | AD-32
216.397.4698 | (f) 216.397.1661
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