Community Empowerment
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In recognition that work on race and resilience engages communities within and beyond the Notre Dame campus, the Initiative supports and promotes community engagement and empowerment. The Initiative’s plans include:
- Practitioner-in-residence program to establish more substantive ties between Notre Dame and the broader Michiana community
- Artist-in-residence program using art as a bridge to BIPOC communities beyond the Notre Dame campus
- Active collaboration with area social, political, and cultural institutions engaged in racial justice, restoration, and reconciliation initiatives
- Sponsorship of a race and resilience-themed community book club
- Hosting campus-community dialogues
- Developing programming for K-12 classroom
- Hosting a summer Young Scholars Program for potential first-generation college students
Community Partners
ND Community
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Fulfilling Notre Dame’s mission to cultivate a disciplined sensibility to poverty, injustice, and oppression, the Center for Social Concerns gathers, forms, and nourishes scholars in the study, practice, and renewal of Catholic social tradition.
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Debartolo Performing Arts Center
The Debartolo Performing Arts Center works collaboratively to elevate the greater good in society by establishing the University of Notre Dame as a leading voice in the arts.
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Notre Dame Department of Sociology is a center for innovative research. Our signature strengths are cultural sociology, the sociology of education, political sociology and social movements, and the sociology of religion.
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Through engagement with the Division’s opportunities, services and resources, we encourage students to develop their full potential as individuals, community members and future leaders in our Church, society, and world.
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Multicultural Student Programs and Services
Multicultural Student Programs and Services (MSPS) creates a welcoming environment for all students by supporting holistic development through educational programming and cross-cultural exploration.
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Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) promotes issue-engaged, inclusive, and interdisciplinary study of questions that affect our ability to lead valuable, meaningful lives.
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Founded on the principle that art is essential to understanding individual, shared, and diverse human experiences and beliefs, the Snite Museum encourages close looking and critical thinking.