by browkaa | Aug 1, 2019 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff
Pictured: Be the Light participants and leaders at Buffalo RiverWorks after a day of team building on Wednesday, July 24
High school students from around the world traveled to Canisius to take part in the 4th annual Be the Light Youth Theology Institute (BTLI) from Sunday, July 21 – Saturday, July 27. With the help of Canisius undergraduate student leaders and institute staff, these participants explored the faith that does justice through justice-themed immersion experiences and presentations, academic instruction, reflection, prayer and faith-sharing.
This year, students came from Buffalo, Cortland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Newfoundland and the Federated States of Micronesia. While in Buffalo, they traveled to the West Side Bazaar and the Rural Outreach Center located in East Aurora, NY to hear about their work promoting justice in the community. They also heard on-campus presentations from Open Buffalo and Voice Buffalo. Students received academic instruction from various Canisius faculty, staff and friends. The topics of these instructions included structures of sin and systemic causes of injustice, solidarity in Catholic social teaching and the relationships between justice, human rights and power. Students also worked through a project-planning template to develop a justice-themed project that focuses on an issue that they found relevant in their own community. Examples of issues these students decided to address in their projects include enhancing awareness and education about mental health in high schools and tackling local effects of climate change. Each day began and ended with prayer and faith-sharing, ensuring that the day’s activities were framed by exercises of faith. The institute formally closed with a mass at Christ the King Chapel and a dinner to celebrate their accomplishments.
BTLI 2020, which will be the 5th annual Be the Light Youth Theology Institute (BTLI), will take place from Sunday, July 19 – Saturday, July 25. Rising sophomore, junior or senior high school students in the 2020-21 academic year and who have not been a participant in BTLI before are eligible to apply. Applicants must also have a nominator (i.e. youth minister, pastor or teacher; not a parent or sibling) fill out a nomination form for them. Applications will open later in 2019 and will be available on BTLI’s website. For more information, follow BTLI on Facebook and Instagram at btli_canisius.
BTLI was founded at Canisius in 2015 thanks to a generous grant from the Lilly Foundation, Inc. More information about the Lilly Foundation’s Youth Theology Network may be found here.
Donations to sustain the work of the Institute once the grant ends are certainly welcome. Please contact the co-directors, Stephen Chanderbhan, associate professor of philosophy, at chanders@canisius.edu or Darby Ratliff, co-director for BTLI, at ratliffd@canisius.edu for more information.
Submitted by: Stephen Chanderbhan, co-director, Be the Light Youth Theology Institute; associate professor, Philosophy
by browkaa | Aug 1, 2019 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff
The summer edition of The Dome will be on an abbreviated break during the week of August 5 – 9.
The internal
newsletter will publish only one day next week, Wednesday, August 7,
rather than the usual Tuesday/Thursday publication dates. Submissions for
this edition will be due by tomorrow, Friday, August 2 at 12:00 p.m. Click here to submit a story.
The Dome will resume its normal summer schedule the following week of August 12.
Please contact the Communications Office with any questions or concerns.
Submitted by: College Communications
by browkaa | Aug 1, 2019 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff
President John Hurley
and the Human Resources Department welcome the campus community to participate
in a college-wide campus beautification project this month. Canisius will work
together to sustain and beautify the campus in preparation for the students’
return for the fall semester!
Participants will be
asked to weed various flower beds located across campus and will have the
opportunity to engage with others across campus. Gardening gloves will be
provided and complimentary water will be available. The following dates have
been scheduled:
Monday, August 5 from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. RSVP here
OR
Tuesday, August 13 from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. RSVP here
Please note that manager approval is required to participate in
this project. Please see the attached flyer for further details.
If you have any
questions, please contact the Human Resources Department at Ext. 2240. We hope
to see you there!
Submitted by: Mary Braun, generalist, Human Resources
by browkaa | Aug 1, 2019 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff
The 2019 WNY STEAM Conference will take place on Monday, August 5 and Tuesday, August 6 at Hilbert College. Erden Ertorer, PhD, clinical instructor of physics and math, will host a panel discussion entitled “Creating High School – College – Industry Continuum.” The purpose of the conference is to bring science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEAM) educators together.
For more information, click here.
Submitted by: Erden Ertorer, PhD, clinical instructor, Physics/Math
by browkaa | Aug 1, 2019 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff
If you’re up early this Sunday, August 4, then tune into the monthly edition of “Crossroads.”
Program host Rev. Patrick J. Lynch, SJ, will interview Jeffrey R. Lindauer, PhD, former dean of the School of Education and Human Services, about the college’s educational mission in the community. Lindauer will share the latest news about the Center for Urban Development and the Western New York Teacher Residency Program, and also discuss the partnership between the college’s physical education program and Buffalo Public Schools.
“Crossroads” is a monthly radio program produced by the Network of Religious Communities and hosted by Father Lynch, professor emeritus of religious studies and theology. It airs on the first Sunday of each month at 6:00 a.m. on MIX-96 (96.1 FM) and at 6:30 a.m. on JACK-FM (92.9).
If you miss the Sunday, August 4 broadcast, you can catch it starting Monday, August 5 on the Canisius SoundCloud.
Submitted by: College Communications
