Professional Schools and Graduate Programs
Animating the Jesuit Identity in Xavier's
Professional Schools and Graduate Programs
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In collaboration with the Center for Mission and Identity, Xavier's three Colleges have developed a publication: Lighting the Way: Incorporating Jesuit Values as a Graduate Student.
The Women's Ignatian Leadership Salon For Graduate Students designed to build confidence and capacities through reflection and dialogue- first offered October 2015.
Williams College of Business
MBA and Executive MBA - developed a model of Ignatian reflection for international study experiences
Center for International Business' Advisory Board - includes on-going education on the mission at each of their quarterly meetings.
Cintas Institute for Business Ethics - Mission is to help students and other Xavier stakeholders recognize and deal with values-related issues in the workplace.
College of Professional Sciences
College building - Displays mission-centric artwork in the main lobby
Coaching Education and Athlete Development - Jesuit values inform the program goals and design: Cura Personalis lies at the heart of the concept of athlete development rather than just a program in coaching. Compassion, conscience, and competence are specifically discussed in the Sport Leadership course.
Counseling - Students complete and advocacy and social justice project in COUN 630 in which they work on behalf of marginalized populations.
Counseling - Students design and participate in activities during the Warrior Run and Wellness Week, applying knowledge of cura personalis to their daily work with clients.
Counseling - Ignatian principles, particularly discernment and reflection, are built into the entire program. In particular, these principles are integrated into the objectives of our clinical internship, with specific assignments that are tied to Jesuit publications and principles.
Health Services Administration - Provides professional development seminars on mission, identity, and leadership.
HECOR - Service Learning is incorporated into a capstone project.
Human Resource Development - Uses the "Lighting the Way" publication from Mission and Identity as a starting point for discussions of the history of the Jesuits, Jesuit values, and Xavier's mission; as a foundation for reflections exercises and experiential learning activities; and as a basis for a semester-long learning journal assignment.
Human Resource Development - Incorporates reflection on Jesuit values in daily and professional lives as part of a Leadership and Ethics capstone course.
Industrial Organization - Designs experiences to meet the needs of underserved populations: the blind and visually impaired; and workers who work closely with elderly in institutional settings.
Occupational Therapy - Program focal points align with Jesuit values and Xavier's mission: Occupational Justice is realized through regional and international service learning programs; Ethics is embedded into many courses within the program and students are required to evaluate the critical decision-making that occurs daily within and outside of the health care environment in light of this ethical lens.
School of Psychology:
Psychology - Provides targeted orientation for all psychology graduate students on Xavier's mission and identity
Psychology - Explicitly connects service and mission in program requirements; graduate students provide more than 60,000 hours of service in the community.
Doctor of Psychology - Students must choose one of four areas of concentration designed explicitly to serve the underserved: the elderly; children; severely mentally ill; and those within the health care system seeking medical treatment for psychological issues.
School of Education:
Montessori Education - Jesuit philosophy and values are introduced in the first course of the program showing the interconnectedness of the Jesuit approach, specifically the concept of Cura Personalis and the Montessori approach.
Elementary Education - Ignatian pedagogy is explicitly introduced and discussed in the first course of the program. Specific connections between Jesuit values and the relationship with the students' chosen vocation are discussed, especially as it relates to work with children of poverty.
Special Education - Jesuit principles are woven into the daily activities within our courses. For example, we teach discernment when discussing the varying strategies to provide intervention for children with Autism, balancing the individual child's needs against the intricacies of the family's needs. Students are encouraged to make correlations between our Jesuit principles and their practice in the field during their 300+ hours of field experience.
Secondary Education - Students are encouraged to become aware of their personal and individual gifts in the context of our Jesuit heritage so that they will, in turn, help their own students appreciate and develop their own abilities. In doing so, Jesuit spirituality can be seen as a primary agent for change in the larger society.
Secondary/Special Education - The department has an established service relationship with the local Boys Hope/Girls Hope program for after-hours tutoring of student scholars enrolled in that program.
School of Nursing:
MSN - Required reading of Peter-Hans Kolvenbach"s article, "Themes of Higher Education" and the Mission and Identity publication, "Lighting the Way," in NURS 501. Ignatian principles are explicitly linked to major themes in the courses NURS 754 and 864.
MIDAS - Students are oriented to Jesuit principles and make connections to the Nursing Code of Ethics in NURS 550 and 560. Jesuit principles are addressed in the Transition to Practice paper in NURS 850.
Doctor of Nursing Practice - Jesuit principles were woven into the entire curriculum such that our Jesuit heritage should be very evident when our DNP graduates take on new roles within the healthcare system. For example, Ignatian principles are explicitly discussed in NURS 900, a foundational course in the DNP in the context of Population Health and applied to the practice setting.