Center for Social Concerns Newsletter | June 2024
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Higher education and human flourishing
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More than 125 faculty and university leaders descended on Notre Dame’s campus in early June for Virtues & Vocations’ 2024 conference.
New York Times columnist David Brooks, Harvard’s Michael Sandel, and other speakers and panels explored the ways a just society requires moral formation, and how higher education can contribute to flourishing.
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| Clemente graduates reflect on ‘taking that first step’
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The Clemente Course in the Humanities graduated its first South Bend class last month. The program makes entry-level college courses available to people at no cost.
A partnership between the Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and the Center for Social Concerns brought the program to the local community.
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Summer research with an eye on the common good
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The McNeill Common Good Fellowship places students in an interdisciplinary community of scholars who are eager to explore how to live an ethical life of meaning, purpose, and impact.
This summer, fellows are researching issues of justice in a wide variety of fields — from book bans to lipid nanoparticles — throughout the United States and internationally.
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Mark your calendar for MVP Fridays
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Join us on Friday afternoons during home football weekends for lectures by national leaders and writers.
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora are the first two speakers on this fall’s schedule.
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| Save the date for Bryan Stevenson
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Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of “Just Mercy,” will deliver the 2024 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture.
Tuesday, October 15, 6:00 p.m.
Morris Performing Arts Center, downtown South Bend
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See what’s coming up in the fall.
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| How can art help us face injustice with honesty, humor, and hope?
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Nooshin Hakim Javadi, assistant professor of studio art at Notre Dame and a Center for Social Concerns faculty fellow, talks about her research for our series, A Question of Justice.
“Art is an invitation to something. You invite people and then you see how they respond.”
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Above: The Women’s College Partnership, which offers liberal arts education at Indiana Women’s Prison through a partnership between Notre Dame and Marian University, honored its 2024 graduates last month in Indianapolis. Three women earned bachelor’s degrees and 11 earned associate’s degrees. Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison administers and supports the partnership, and Marian University confers the degrees.
Below: The Center for Social Concerns co-sponsored the Juneteenth Celebration & Resource Fair on June 14 at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Local residents, businesses, and nonprofit organizations came to Notre Dame’s campus to enjoy food, music, and community.
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Women played an integral role in the founding of the Center for Social Concerns in the early ’80s, so we’re highlighting women who have been a part of the Center’s story and hearing about what they’re doing now.
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Meghan Krueger ’14 | Teton Valley, ID
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Pairing her major in biology with the Catholic Social Tradition Minor through the Center for Social Concerns helped Meghan Krueger ’14 realize that her interest in health care was in the human side of the profession — the relationships and the compassion.
Further involvement with the Center’s programs and a year of postgraduate service with Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry in Baltimore made Krueger confident that she wanted to be a nurse. She returned to school and earned a nursing degree from Emory University in 2016.
From 2016 to 2021, she worked for Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, where she served in day shelters, overnight shelters, a foot care clinic, and a parish-based clinic.
At the end of 2021, she moved to the Teton Valley of Idaho. She is the nurse for 10 providers of various specialties who travel and hold clinics on a weekly or monthly basis in an effort to provide access to specialty care that is otherwise unavailable in the rural community.
“I sincerely believe that I have the Center for Social Concerns to thank for the mindset and perspective I have taken with me into my career,” Krueger said.
“The combination of my education and experiences through the Center led me into work that I feel incredibly passionate about and satisfied in: serving in a public health capacity, working with underserved populations, and providing care in spaces and with populations where access to quality health care is often insufficient,” she said. “Some of the greatest gifts that the Center has given me in my career are the tools and perspective to reflect on and process my experiences and draw the lessons and blessings out of every interaction.”
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