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Community Means Everyone: Supporting Lgbtq+ Students At Catholic Institutions, Laura Gentner Hutchinson

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

LGBTQ+ identifying students at any institution must daily navigate climates that range from dismissive to hostile toward their identities and experiences. This can significantly impede students’ ability to succeed academically and to engage meaningfully with their educational community. Catholic institutions have unique opportunities to support LGBTQ+ students, to connect them with resources and services, and to provide leadership development. This session will outline how one Catholic university has developed and grown a program of LGBTQ+ support that is rooted in its Catholic and Marianist values and teachings. It will include examples of structures, services, education, programming, leadership development, and training …

Supporting Former Foster Youth And Students Facing Homelessness So They May Take Flight!, Cynthia Avery

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

This interactive session will explore the development of the University of San Diego’s Torero Renaissance Scholars Program, formed In support of the principle “Welcomes all students into a vibrant campus community that celebrates God’s love for all." The mission of TRS is to provide support and resources to students who identify as former foster youth; homeless or at risk for homelessness; emancipated minors; or in legal guardianships. The session will provide an overview of the development process, including funding, staffing, and services; participants will be encouraged to reflect on the needs of this vulnerable population and explore ways to serve …

Collaborative Leadership Within A Residence Hall Staff: Forming Effective Leaders Working Towards A Common Goal, Andrew Weingarten, Gena Mcgowan

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

The presenters will define collaborative leadership and examine its application on residence hall staffs at Catholic colleges and universities. They will share what collaborative leadership looks like in Fields Hall, an undergraduate female residence hall at the University of Portland. They will share how resident assistants (RAs) are guided to take ownership of their communities and to develop an individual sense of spirituality that they integrate into their RA roles and careers. They will reveal how these ideas link to training from the University’s residence life department that develops RAs’ self-confidence and provides skills in areas like public speaking and …

Cultivating Well-Being And Pursuing The Common Good Through A Holistic Approach To Mental Health, Sarah Dewitt, Lindsay Maxam, Melissa Longino

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

With unprecedented levels of distress (anxiety, stress, depression, etc.) negatively impacting students’ academic performance, their ability to carry out daily activities, and their capacity to engage in meaningful relationships, the University of Dayton developed the UD Step Care Model, a visual tool to empower all members of the community to shift the culture of resiliency. The comprehensive approach to destigmatizing mental health challenges, promoting the dignity of all members of our communities, and educating students on self-help strategies reflects a holistic approach to mental health and empowers faculty and staff to guide students through conversation to broaden the perspective of …

Developing Emotionally Intelligent Student Leaders, Katie Dwyer-Zeman, Beth Groman, Bob Pastoor

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

It is becoming increasingly clear to educators and employers that 21st-century leaders must have emotional intelligence to be successful. Leaders with emotional intelligence — the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others — are able to understand themselves and listen to others not only at the surface level, but at a deeper, less visible level that requires a mindful awareness. In this session, we will share specific ways we have implemented emotional intelligence development into the University of Saint Francis’ student leadership program. We also will invite others to share ways they have …

Keep It On The Landing Pad: An Orientation Program For Igen Parents, Cynthia Avery

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

This session shares an orientation program developed for the parents of iGen students. It introduced parents to developmental challenges and potential obstacles students face during their college years. This program is grounded in research; parents learned about the negative effects of helicopter parenting on students' growth and development and why helicopters should remain on the landing pad. We often say “parents are partners,” but as practitioners, are we keeping abreast of the research regarding current parenting styles, especially "helicopter parenting?" This program describes how a university can journey alongside parents in support of the principle that calls us to “Challenge …

Now Boarding: Building A Strengths-Based Campus, Colton Johnson, Christine Somersett

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

With over 20 million assessments registered, Gallup’s CliftonStrengths is one of the most widely recognized tools to identify an individual’s top strengths. Over the past two years, St. Mary’s University has worked toward creating and developing a Strengths-based campus using Gallup CliftonStrengths for Students. Using CliftonStrenths and the Marianist values, we are able to help our students become well-rounded and discover their vocations. This session focuses on the background, process, and future of what it takes to build a Strengths-based campus.

Charting A New Course. Leaders With Purpose., Jessica Cuevas, Maryann Nguyen

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

Flying without direction? Need a guide? Unsure of how to incorporate the Principles of Good Practice for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities at your institution? Already use them but trying to think of how to use them as an assessment tool that connects to existing programs and community experiences? Come join us to learn about our newly created alignment guide. This guide provides a connection to our existing Learning Dimensions, our Mount Leads Core Principles and the Principles of Good Practice. Participants can all share the different ways they use the Principles of Good Practice at their institutions. …

The Missing Link To Fostering Community: How To Use Circles To Enhance Your Existing Programs And Services, Dan Kelly, Ashley Schantz

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

The principles of restorative justice as a means of harm reduction and healing are fairly well-established. Many institutions have taken significant steps to incorporate restorative practices into conduct procedures. Such practices place new demands not only on institutional structures, but on students and the overall culture of connection. Without opportunities to practice these new skills of relating, our communities are ill-equipped to engage in restorative work when harm arises. This session provides an overview of some small steps taken at Loyola University Maryland to foster a community congruent with the restorative justice paradigm within existing programs and structures. For us, …

Dtr (Dating That’S Real): Developing Daters For The Common Good, Jennifer Morin-Williamson, Mary Gallagher, Jivanto Van Hemert

Taking Flight: Developing Leaders for the Common Good

Dating and romance: It’s complicated for college students. Secular culture sets a model that is problematic for many people of faith. This session will share contemporary research as well as anecdotal experience from “Does Anyone Date Anymore?” a course offered at the University of Dayton for the past four years. By boldly stepping into real conversations about the influence of casual attitudes about hooking up, pornography, and gender scripts, professional staff have the opportunity to help students deepen their understanding of themselves, their values, and their intimate relationships. Drawing on Catholic social teaching — specifically the dignity of the individual …

New Book: Never Argue With A Wiener Dog: You'll Lose!, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Diane Pascoe's second book is filled with 44 true stories guaranteed to tickle the funny bone or touch the heart.

Talk Healthy To Me, Danielle Damon

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Health care professionals — from those who provide care to those who inform the community — must understand how to best reach their target audiences.

Mock Trial’S Winning Season, Annette Taylor

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton’s Mock Trial program ended its best year in decades with an April trip to the national competition in Philadelphia, where students held their own against prominent schools such as Harvard and Brown.

Roller Derby, Janice Wilberg

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I went to Costco today for the first time. Everybody raves about Costco, but I've resisted joining figuring I was done with the world of Big Food when my kids grew up and left home. I used to go to Sam's Club and buy vast quantities of pasta and lemon pepper. I still have the lemon pepper I bought there fifteen years ago and, yes, it still smells nice and lemony and peppery.

Visitors From China, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Visitors in a strange land.

Miracles In Focus, University Of Dayton

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

In his four years of volunteering at the Ruskin PreK-6 school in Dayton, Tom Cook ’18 said he’s seen young students grow and find their voices. This year as a master’s studentstudying communication, he recorded their stories of self-expression.

Weekly Marian Features: July 15, 2019, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Focusing on Our Lady of Mount Carmel

We Will Not Turn To Stone, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Filmmaker Jesseca Ynez Simmons, whose feature-length documentary, I Can Only Be Mary Lane, is winning awards and accolades at film festivals in the U.S. and abroad, will soon wrap principal photography on her next project with a crew of undergraduate students.

Student Receives Patent For Device Improving Mobility For Child With Cerebral Palsy, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton senior Spencer Janning will graduate college with a diploma as well as leave with a patent and Food and Drug Administration registration for his Freedom Brace, a device that's making life easier for one Dayton-area child.

In Memoriam: Sylvester “Pete” Eveslage, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Sylvester “Pete” Eveslage, a University of Dayton professor emeritus who served for 40 years in the Department of Chemistry, has died at age 96.

Iact Accelerator Students Focus On Social Innovation, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Seven University of Dayton students are working this summer to find creative solutions to real-world challenges focused on education, literacy and issues of food justice and sustainability in partnership with local organizations such as Learn to Earn, Holy Angels School, Miami Valley Life Alliance and others.

Ud In The News June 28-July 12, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Several news services and outlets around the nation and world sought the expertise of UD faculty and staff, wrote about our research and experiential learning, and highlighted our new bachelor's degrees in sustainability.

Antiphonary, Dominicans

Rare Books

Illuminated manuscript

484 pages

Dominican collection of antiphons for the Divine Office from the First Vespers of Christmas through the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, along with the feasts of St. Agnes (Jan. 21), St. Vincent (Jan. 22), and St. Gabriel the Archangel. Possibly from a Spanish monastery; possibly 15th century.

Plainsong notation on five-line staves.

Vellum pages. Front and back cover are decorated with colored parchment covered by bosses.

Title supplied by cataloger.

College Faculty In The News: July 10, 2019, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Hanley Sustainability Institute executive director Benjamin McCall recently weighed the pros and cons of the residential use of wind turbines in The Ledger, Lakeland FL. Follow this and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Mary In The News: July 9, 2019, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute as well as Marian Library news and updates.

The Talent, Hillary Ibarra

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

While involved in a riveting project some months ago, I was called by a name that I will never forget and possibly have engraved on my tombstone. Certain people from the production referred to me as "the talent."

Engaged Scholar, Annette Taylor

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

How can the University of Dayton better engage with the Dayton community and avoid triggering power imbalances?

A New Neighborhood, From Scratch, Teri Rizvi

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

students grow and find their voices.

Women In Engineering, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

A little water equals fun for these future engineers.

Weekly Marian Features: July 8, 2019, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Peace, hope and devotion