Category: News
Engineering for good
Craig Goehler’s first-year engineering students are likely surprised to see words like “empathy, honesty, and justice” in the weekly learning outcomes alongside their assignments.
SOCO students get proximate
Raising the justice quotient requires getting proximate to people and places.
A proximate view of poverty
Connie Snyder Mick, Ph.D. reflects on a recent experience in the South Bend community with her Poverty Studies students.
Making their minors major
The Catholic Social Tradition Minor and the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor welcome students from all of Notre Dame’s colleges and schools to enrich the education they’re receiving through their majors and to see more clearly how they can apply their career to the cause of justice.
Human rights lawyer Monalisa targets child sex trafficking as practitioner in residence
Monalisa is spending the 2024-25 academic year as a practitioner in residence with the Institute for Social Concerns and the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience.
ReSEARCHING for the Common Good: Brian Ó Conchubhair
The Institute for Social Concerns leverages research to respond to the complex demands of justice and to serve the common good. This series, ReSEARCHING for the Common Good, highlights some of the scholars in our community.
Catholic universities, corrections officials come together for conference on college-in-prison programs
Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison, which is based at the Institute for Social Concerns, and the Jesuit Prison Education Network co-hosted a conference from Oct. 20-22 to launch the Consortium for Catholic Higher Education in Prison.
ReSEARCHING for the Common Good: Ozioma Oguine
The Institute for Social Concerns leverages research to respond to the complex demands of justice and to serve the common good. This series, ReSEARCHING for the Common Good, highlights some of the scholars in our community.
Bryan Stevenson delivers powerful message about ‘proximity’ at 2024 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture
The Institute for Social Concerns’ first event as an institute featured Stevenson, an acclaimed public interest lawyer and author of “Just Mercy,” at the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend.
Renamed Institute for Social Concerns reflects expanded research, teaching, and partnerships
The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns will now be called the Institute for Social Concerns.