Creighton University received a grant for nearly $2 million from the Lilly Endowment to help prepare a new generation of leaders for church and society.
Creighton University, one of 39 U.S. four-year liberal arts colleges to receive a grant, received the funding to establish "Cardoner at Creighton University-A Theological Exploration of Vocation." The project will include programs and events where all University members will be able to explore the meaning of their vocation.
According to the Lilly Endowment, "These colleges have devised programs that encourage University members to reflect on how their faith commitments are related to their career choices and what it means to be 'called' to lives of service."
Creighton's "Cardoner" project is named for the river where Ignatius of Loyola received profound insight about his own vocation. Some of the Cardoner initiatives will include opportunities to reflect on immersion experiences in inner-city and third-world settings, and a series of student, faculty, administrative staff, and alumni programs devoted to the topic vocation.
"Vocation is not 'careerism,' nor is it only limited to nuns and priests. It's also not about helping students gain employment training or skills," said the Rev. Bert Thelen, S.J., Executive Director of the Cardoner Project. "Vocation means discerning one's connection to God, whether one's career is in medicine, business, education, or the church. Vocation is offered to all human beings, inviting them to discern how their life's work connects them to God."
For more information on the Cardoner at Creighton project, visit its Web site athttp://www.creighton.edu/CampusMinistry/cardoner.htm.
Creighton University is an independent, Catholic, comprehensive university operated by the Jesuits, who have a 500-year tradition of excellence in education. Creighton has been ranked at or near the top of Midwestern universities in the U.S. News & World Report magazine's "America's Best Colleges" edition for more than a decade.
Creighton enrolls more than 6,300 students of diverse faiths and races from across the United States and 65 countries. The student body is taught by 700 full-time faculty members in the Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, the Graduate School, University College, and schools of Dentistry, Pharmacy and Health Professions, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Summer Sessions. The University is located in Omaha, Nebraska (pop. 800,000 metro area) on a 92-acre campus adjacent to the downtown business district.
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