Social Justice
Through workshops, speakers, student clubs, and the integration of education and reflection into our community engagement initiatives, we promote social analysis and further students' capacity to contribute to social change.
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Urban Plunge
“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continued bondage of poverty, deprivation…” Nelson Mandela
Urban Plunge is an overnight urban immersion experience that takes place annually. It is for students who are interested in learning about poverty and homelessness, social justice, solidarity, and how to respond in light of their faith. This is not a service trip. We will be learning about poverty and homelessness by visiting agencies, listening to speakers, participating in simulation activities and small group discussions, etc. We will draw on faith through reflection and prayer. It is a great way to get to know other first and second year students with similar interests, to learn about the city, and to deepen and broaden our perspective on poverty and homelessness.
- For more information contact Molly Robertshaw
Contemplatives in Action (CIA)
Contemplatives in Action offers a wide variety of weekly opportunities along with action on specific justice issues. The group will also explore how faith informs justices and vice versa.
- For more information contact Greg Carpinello
Summer Service Internship
The Summer Service Internship is a paid summer internship for 20 students to serve full-time at local agencies and live in community on campus.
- For more information contact Angela Gray
SGA Recognized STUDENT CLUBS with SOCIAL JUSTICE THEMES
Students for Life
Students for Life opens the Xavier community to the appreciation of the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death. They organize the March for Life Xavier delegation each year.
- For more information contact: students4life@xavier.edu
Voices of Solidarity (VOS)
VOS is a club committed to promoting awareness of social justice issues, especially those related to Latin America. VOS also implements Xavier’s School of the America’s delegation each year.
- For more information contact: voicesofsolidarity@xavier.edu
Student Sustainability Club
The purpose of this club shall be to provide students with the opportunity to create tangible change on Xavier University's campus in relation to sustainable issues. It will serve as the main student connection to the Sustainability Committee as well as a key educator of sustainable efforts geared towards the student body.
- For more information contact Sustainability Club
Immigration Reform Action Club
To foster a more comprehensive understanding of immigration law in the United States as well as the underlying causes of the phenomenon of migration.
- For more information contact IRAC
Youth Empowerment Network
YEN is a student run group that focuses on crucial issues affecting youth around the globe such as human trafficking, the use of child soldiers, food availability, and equality issues.
- For more information contact Alyse
Unified for Unifat
Unified for UNIFAT is a student- run organization dedicated to financially and emotionally supporting the children of UNIFAT Primary School in northern Uganda. UNIFAT School’s motto is “learning for love and understanding” and we firmly believe that education begins the pathway to peace, which in turn is the solution to poverty.
- For more information contact: Unified4Unifat@xavier.edu
Xavier Alliance
The Xavier Alliance is established to provide a safe place for people of all sexual orientations and gender identity to meet, offer opportunities to learn, teach and discuss the challenges surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity within the Jesuit teachings of being people for others.
- For more information contact Xavier Alliance
Animals, People, & the Earth at Xavier
APEX is to educate the Xavier community, as well as ourselves, on the importance of animal rights and its impact on our environment.
- For more information contact Julia