M & T Networking Event On Campus
Please help us spread the word. This event is open to all class years and majors!
Submitted by: Eileen Abbatoy, senior associate director, Career Development
Take the TIAA Digital Challenge!
Are you interested in an opportunity to plan for a successful financial future while also getting the chance to win a $100 American Express gift card? Go digital by taking the TIAA Digital Challenge! This challenge will help you gain easier access to managing your contributions and setting your goals. To take the challenge, go to TIAA.org/Canisius-Challenge.
Submitted by: Bethany Voorhees, assistant, Human Resources
This Week in the Griff Center
Check out what’s happening in the Griff Center this week.
Submitted by: Dominique Gagnier, graduate assistant, Griff Center
Campus Candid
Canisius College announced the successful conclusion of its Hamlin Park Initiative during a 10:00 a.m. news conference. The backdrop for the event was 41 Hughes, the 10th and final home to be renovated and put up for sale.
Launched nearly a decade ago, the Hamlin Park initiative is a housing program designed to return college-owned homes to owner-occupiers. The college originally dedicated eight houses, acquired years ago for student residences, but later added two additional college homes to the project. When sold, most of the property deeds included a restrictive agreement to insure that the properties remain owner-occupied for 15 years.
Click here to read more about the Hamlin Park Initiative.
Submitted by: College Communications
Canisius College’s Catholic, Jesuit Identity Affirmed
We received official word from Rev. John J. Cecero, SJ, provincial for the USA Northeast Province, that Rev. Arturo Sosa, SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, reviewed Canisius College’s Mission Priority Examen Self-Study and visiting team report and confirmed Canisius’ Catholic and Jesuit identity.
The announcement was received earlier this month, approximately 10 months after the visiting team arrived at Canisius to conduct their review. At the end of 2018, they formally issued their support to affirm Canisius as a Catholic, Jesuit institution of higher education and the self-study along with their report was submitted to the Jesuit Conference Coordinating Committee, the UNE Provincial, the President of the Jesuit Conference of Provincials and the President of the AJCU. After the local provincial completed his review, the reports and recommendations were sent to Father General this past spring.
The Mission Priority Examen process was a robust, year-long review to assist university leadership and the Society of Jesus assure the Catholic and Jesuit mission and identity of the Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States.
For us, the Examen revealed the impressive and extensive range of mission-related work being done at Canisius – through the curriculum, service in the community, student services, ministry, and in many other ways within our operation. It also enabled us to develop a roadmap to continually improve on the ways in which we live the mission, and these priorities will be woven into our strategic plans. Specifically, we will:
- Work to be more intentional about incorporating the Catholic, Jesuit mission and educational philosophy into academics
- Develop greater integration of service and learning for students
- Better understand and embrace issues of diversity and inclusion
- Address the implications of being a Jesuit university with a diminishing Jesuit presence.
These are challenging and important goals for us but overall, the results of the Examen are a great point of pride for Canisius. Thank you for all that you do to bring the mission to life and instill in our students the values and knowledge that will lead them to live lives of meaning, for and with others.
Log into the MyCanisius Portal to read the Mission Examen Self Study Report.
Submitted by: John J. Hurley, President, Canisius College
