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CSC seminars offer opportunities to engage in various communities

Claire Reid | Thursday, August 26, 2021

The Center for Social Concerns (CSC) — which organizes Notre Dame’s community-engaged courses, domestic and international summer service learning programs (SSLPs and ISSLPs) and social concerns courses — hosted a series of information sessions on their one-credit social concerns seminars on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. An outdoor welcome back event which featured ample free

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Remembering the ‘Boot the Bell’ protests of 2004

Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, December 6, 2019

Before the semester comes to a close, we have one more story that deserves to go down among the Notre Dame legends: that of the Notre Dame students whose campus activism amplified a farmworkers’ labor rights movement, becoming a part of one of the most successful social impact movements in recent memory. We all know

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University to release report detailing student voter registration, turnout information

Grace Scartz | Tuesday, November 5, 2019

As voters across America go to the polls for numerous local elections, the Notre Dame student body will have the opportunity to learn about its own voter registration and participation rates. In the coming week, the University will release a report detailing the voting data of Notre Dame students starting with the 2016 elections. “The

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Students attend Urban Plunge immersion trips over break

Mary Clare Donnelly | Thursday, January 17, 2019

Over winter break, 199 Notre Dame students traveled to 27 cities across the country as part of a Social Concerns Seminar called Urban Plunge. Urban Plunge is a one-credit seminar with a two to four-day immersion built to give students an opportunity to engage with communities experiencing poverty in U.S. cities. Kyle Lantz, director of

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How was your fall break?

Joe Nolan | Monday, October 29, 2018

This is a proposal for stationing people experiencing homelessness in South Bend outside our campus dining halls as a method for a more holistic educational experience at Notre Dame. The homeless people would stand at the doors of North and South Dining Halls, holding signs like they do at street corners, begging for money like

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CSC eliminates the use of posters

Mary Clare Donnelly | Thursday, September 6, 2018

Across campus — on bulletin boards in dining halls, the library and O’Shaughnessy Hall — one poster read: “The Last Poster (from the Center for Social Concerns)”. James Shortall, director of communications and advancement for the Center for Social Concerns (CSC) said the organization will no longer be distributing its information for programs and applications by

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Documentary features Sisters of the Holy Cross serving during AIDS epidemic

Jordan Cockrum | Wednesday, February 14, 2018

During the mid-1980s, only two medical professionals would care for patients diagnosed with HIV or AIDS: Dr. Kristen Ries and physician assistant Maggie Snyder. Dr. Ries and Snyder cared for their patients in Salt Lake City’s Holy Cross Hospital, which was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, as well as at a clinic

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Postgraduate service fair to feature over 70 service organizations

Kelli Smith | Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The Center for Social Concerns (CSC) will host a fair to introduce students to an array of postgraduate service opportunities Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at the Joyce Center Concourse. The fair will feature representatives from over 70 service organizations situated across the world. According to the event website, the organizations confront topics such as poverty,

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Center for Social Concerns hosts service fair

Natalie Weber | Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Center for Social Concerns (CSC) hosted a fair Wednesday night to connect students with over 30 South Bend service organizations and student-led volunteer groups. The fair allows students to find ways to interact with the South Bend community, Annie Cahill Kelly, director of community partnerships and service learning for the Center for Social Concerns,

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Seminar students spend fall break in Appalachia

Aidan Lewis | Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Over fall break, 245 Notre Dame students traveled to the Appalachia region of the United States as a part of the Appalachia Fall Seminar through the Center for Social Concerns (CSC). These students participated in service immersions across 19 different locations in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, Greg White, the lead coordinator

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