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Mission: instilling a 'thirst for justice'.
Does your mission statement guide what happens on campus? Translating mission into action can be a challenge. It requires collaboration between academics and student life, units with competing budgets and turf.
Gonzaga University in Spokane WA has built cross-campus partnerships to put its mission into action. Dr. Sue Weitz, VP for student life, and Sima Thorpe, director of the Center for Community Action and Service Learning, spoke at the NASPA 2006 conference about their strategies.
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Putting the mission into action takes visionary leaders who are passionate about social justice and civic engagement. To navigate political minefields, they must be willing to collaborate and share power. They have to be able to build relationships and ask VPs and deans for help. These capacities are often found especially in women.
Gonzaga is a Catholic university grounded in the Jesuit commitment to service and social justice. According to its mission statement:
Through its academic and student life programs, the Gonzaga community encourages its students to develop certain personal qualities: self-knowledge, self-acceptance, a restless curiosity, a desire for truth, a mature concern for others, and a thirst for justice.
Jesuits founded the school in the 1800s to educate Native Americans. Soon most students were the sons of white Catholic farmers. Today, while the university affirms Catholic and Jesuit values, its student body is intentionally diverse; most are not Catholic.
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