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Connie Snyder Mick, Ph.D. reflects on a recent experience in the South Bend community with her Poverty Studies students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns will now be called the Institute for Social Concerns.

Stevenson will deliver the 2024 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Distinguished Catholic Social Tradition Lecture on Oct. 15 at the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend.

Six students from the center’s two signature summer programs — NDBridge and Social Concerns Summer Fellowships — presented their research on September 19 at the Research for the Common Good Student Symposium and Andrews Family Reception.