Ministries: Research
Results
Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business (Washington, DC)
The mission of the Arrupe Program is to promote the pursuit of truly human values by business managers and executives and the people who run them. The program offers an eight-week seminar entitled Faith and Values at Work, to help the participants develop a faith-centered framework for thinking about themselves, the purpose of business, and the vocation of organizational leadership. The Arrupe Program has also developed a one-day workshop centered around these same themes for groups of Jesuit high school and university alumni, and a values-based course, The Foundations Seminar, for use with business management teams.
Center for Health Policy and Ethics (Omaha, NE)
| A multidisciplinary group of scholars dedicated to the study and teaching of ethical dimensions of health care and health policy. |
| Faculty concentrations: Dr. Jos Welie, issues in death and dying, history and future of health sciences education in Jesuit universities, the relationship between health care ethics and health law; John R. Stone, minority health, race, ethnicity, diveristy, and community, social justice and issues of respect; Dr. Christy Rentmeester: intersections of ethics and social policy in the context of healthcare, Dr. Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch: bioethics |
Center for Retirement Research (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| The Center provides decisionmakers in the public and private sectors with critical information to better understand the issues facing an aging population. The Center's research program spans the four main areas that affect a household's retirement income: 1) Social Security; 2) employer-sponsored pension plans; 3) household saving; and 4) labor market trends among older workers |
Center for Technical Cooperation (Washington, DC)
train residents in strategic planning, data collection, analysis and management and to establish a community information management unit.
Center for Urban Research and Teaching (Washington, DC)
The Writing Program and the Center for Urban Research and Teaching jointly sponsor symposia focusing on Writing for and with the Community. These symposia address questions and possibilities that concern the faculty's intellectual work (both scholarly and pedagogical). Joined by community leaders active in developing university-community partnerships, the faculty participants explore ways of developing community-based research projects and ways of integrating community service within the academic work of their courses. There are follow-up meetings during the academic year to consider further scholarly and/or pedagogical projects developed during the symposia. Symposia topics include:
Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| To discover, communicate, and apply primary qualitative and quantitative multidisciplinary research on spritual life in an age of affluence, with a special focus on the biographical meaning and practice of wealth, financial security, fundraising, the intergenerational transfer of wealth, planned giving, donor advisement, and the Ignatian model of discernment. |
Current Projects:
| "Boston Metropolitan Area Wealth Transfer Study", "Wealth Transfer Estimates for African Americans", "Wealth Transfer on Track?" |
Corporate Accountability Project (Washington, DC)
The Corporate Accountability Project analyzes the impacts of business behavior on the ability of poor people to meet their basic needs - sustainable livelihoods, housing, food, and access to education, healthcare and credit.
Education for Justice (Washington, DC)
The Education for Justice Project promotes outreach and education throughout the U.S. on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and social justice issues. The Project provides resource materials, presentations, training and consultations to Catholic high schools and colleges, to diocesan offices and groups, to parishes, small faith communities, and to a variety of networks and organizations.
Institute for Latin American Concerns (Omaha, NE)
The ILAC Center in the Dominican Republic is an international, Catholic, Ignatian-inspired, collaborative health care and educational organization that exists to promote the integral well-being and spiritual growth of all participants. It is built upon the values of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits (Society of Jesus). All of Creighton's ILAC programs emphasize the importance of global vision and understanding in the process of educating well-rounded individuals. To this end it offers dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, law, physical therapy and occupational therapy, undergraduate and high school students, and also to faculty-led groups, medical/surgical teams and other colleges the opportunity for service-learning and immersion experiences in the rural Dominican Republic.
Current Projects:
Service Learning Opportunities in the Following Disciplines: Law, Water Quality, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Medical School Electives, Encuentro Dominicano.
Institute of Catholic Media (Milwaukee, WI)
studies Catholic media at the national and international levels.
Kripke Center: for the Study of Religion and Society (Omaha, NE)
The Kripke Center is dedicated to facilitating scholarly activity in the areas of religion and society in the form of research, publications, conferences, seminars, symposia, lectures, and fora.
Leadership Development Institute (Detroit, MI)
Focuses on leadership in service and coordinating service-learning at UDM.
Leadership for Change (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| Leadership for Change Engages accomplished faculty from the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Department of Sociology; Harvard Graduate School of Education and The Work and Learning Center at Northeastern University with business practitioners from the greater Boston area. All engaged wiht the participants as members of the learning community. |
Current Projects:
| Faculty concentrations:Charles Derber, Ph.D., Boston College, the Department of Sociology, "Morality Wars: How Embires, The Born Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good with Yale R. Magrass, Paradigm Publishers, February 28, 2008" |
Marquette University Restorative Justice Initiative (Milwaukee, USA)
Research and Practice of Retorative Justice based at Marquette Law School.
-Victim / Offender
-Gang - Youth
-International (Political Violence)
-Public Forums
Media Reserach and Action Project (Chestnut Hill, MA)
MRAP works with community organizations to expand democratic space in mainsream media, both in terms of opening access and providing greater diversity of messages. We believe that building media capacity requires the same attention as capacity building in any institutional area, e.g., government, the economy, public sector, etc. We work in partnership with under represented communities develop strategic media plans, e.g., long-term media strategies rather than one shot public relations efforts. We believe that media plans must be developed in tandem with, not as a substitute for broader organizing strategies.
Current Projects:
MRAP researches information about how media impacts communities in other regions of the country as well as how communities interact with media and/or develop partnerships to work proactively with mass media. The goal is to bring that information to New England and share it through a Community Media and Internet Resource Network web server. MRAP specifically works with marginalized constituencies to: identify ways that media coverage can forward their organizations' overall agenda, to establish them as routine sources for mainstream media, to position them to work for long-term change regarding their communities' under-representation and/or misrepresentation in mainstream media
Peace and Justice Programs (Cincinnati, OH)
Peace and Justice Programs aims to promote personal and social transformation. Towards the end of achieving these two objectives our work begins through the promotion of relationships. Through facilitating service, education and immersion experiences, we aim to actively engage the Xavier community in the lives of local, national and international communities. As students, faculty and staff get caught up in the lives of our local and global neighbors, in particular the lives of those individuals and communities who reside on our world’s social, economic and political margins, our programs foment and inform the desire and imperative to respond. In order to promote effective responses (and responders) we promote social analysis.
Preaching the Just Word (Washington, DC)
Preaching the Just Word is a national program sponsored by the Woodstock Theological Center to assist priests and other ministers of the gospel to be more effective in preaching biblical and social justice. Conceived by Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., the project is directed by Father Raymond B. Kemp.
The Global Women's Project (Washington, DC)
The Global Women's Project approaches questions of women's human rights and equity through a long tradition of research, theological reflection, advocacy, outreach, popular education and coalition building.
