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Sinatra, Richard; Maher, James J. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2012
This article reveals how St. John's University implemented mission-focused programs to advance its unique Catholic perspective, that of the Vincentian tradition to serve the poor and remedy social inequities. Heeding the 1986 call of Pope John Paul II to Vincentian institutions, all levels of the university from incoming freshmen to the board of…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Catholic Schools, Institutional Mission, Social Justice
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Eifler, Karen E.; Kerssen-Griep, Jeff; Thacker, Peter – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2008
This article describes a particular endeavor, the Bridge Builders Academic Mentoring Program (BAMP), a partnership between a school of education in a Catholic university in the Northwest and a community-based rites of passage program for adolescent African American males. The partnership exemplifies tenets of Catholic social teaching, in that it…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mentors, Males, Catholics