Newman University is a Catholic University named after St. John Henry Newman, founded by the Adores of the Blood of Christ, for the purpose of empowering its graduates to transform society.
I think students are empowered here, primarily because we're a small university. And so students have a lot of opportunities for leadership, a lot of opportunities even to hear their voices heard, and the things that they want to see or see things change with the needs that they have can be responded to really quickly.
So service learning is combining the classroom and the community, basically. And there's a class that freshmen take called Traditions and Transitions, and they have to do a service project every year. My class went on a walk, like the buddy walk. And so we helped out with that. And we also learned about just how it's important to interact with your community.
For Newman students, it isn't just about learning, you know, becoming a vessel of new knowledge. But then taking that knowledge and taking action. As a result of, you know, what they have learned here. There is a respect for the gifts that each person has been given, and everyone has a different set of gifts, a realization that we've been given those gifts to share, not for our own individual benefit. And I think that's part of the culture.
Dignity of all people is treating people with respect and kindness, no matter who they are and no matter the circumstance. That's treating people with kindness all the time, and you can really see it on campus in the faculty and the students. Just everybody's really welcoming on campus and everybody's very supportive of the students.
