Friday, February 3, 2012
On Friday, February 10, students from Xavier University, Wilberforce University, and Miami University (OH) will debate and showcase their musical and artistic talents during The Great Debate. The Great Debate promotes cultural, intellectual, moral, philosophical and spiritual principles of leadership, debates and artistic expression. This FREE event will be at 7 pm in Xavier University’s Gallagher Center Theater and is open to the public.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Xavier University has received $54k for six scholarships over three years beginning in fall 2012 to students in the graduate program in Health Services Administration (GPHSA).
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
This summer, the Xavier University Army ROTC Program will send six cadets all over the world as participants in the U.S. Army’s Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency (CULP) Program. This is the most cadets ever participating in one summer. The program provides cadets with a 30-day experience in a different country to gain an understanding of different cultures they could find themselves in as officers.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
These Black History Month programs at Xavier University are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
For the second year, The Cristo Rey Network has named Xavier University is one of its University Partners.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Xavier University’s Chris Schadler, a Cincinnati urban planner, music promoter and entrepreneur, will chair a panel and present at the “Second Global Conference on Urban Popcultures” in Prague, Czech Republic, March 9-11, 2012. Schadler will focus on the Over The Rhine (OTR) and Northside neighborhoods of Cincinnati and discuss how local music culture has positively affected each neighborhood’s quality of life.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
On Monday, February 6, Dr. Philip “Uri” Treisman will visit Xavier University to speak on “Improving Mathematics Education for All Our Children: A National Perspective.” The event, from 3:15 to 4:30 pm in the Conaton Learning Commons, Rm. 412 (Kennedy Auditorium), is free and open to the public.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Health care providers from Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Michigan are attending a national conference at Xavier to explore affordable health care initiatives for diverse populations. The all-day conference takes place on Friday, Feb. 24, at the Schiff Family Conference Center at the Cintas Center. Attendance is free but registration is required. The deadline to register is Friday, Feb. 17.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Xavier University’s Williams College of Business (WCB) welcomes about 25 high school students from Covington Catholic High School to its Evanston Campus Fifth Third Trading Center this Saturday, Jan. 28 as part of the community outreach initiative for Xavier’s trading center.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Michele Bailes of Liberty Township, a full time American Sign Language instructor at Xavier University, asked her four classes if they would be interested in adopting one family at Christmas to give them a fresh start in a new year. The result was a unanimous 80-0 in favor. The students were responsible for finding a family - not by going to an agency, but by finding a family in their midst which needed help.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Rabbi Abie Ingber of Xavier University will travel to Israel and Ethiopia from 28 Jan. to 3 Feb. to help welcome the last group of Falash Mura to their homeland.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
President Barack Obama will deliver his 2012 State of the Union address at 9:00 pm Tuesday, January 24 on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Following tradition, House Speaker John Boehner (a 1977 Xavier alumnus) sent a letter to the President formally inviting him to give the address to a joint session of Congress.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Xavier University announces the spring 2012 topics for its Ethics/Religion and Society Lecture Series called “Justice, Tolerance, and Diversity.” They will debate the meanings of justice, tolerance and diversity as well as their interrelationships. How do different definitions of or approaches to justice affect the understandings of tolerance and diversity? How does one’s understanding of diversity affect one’s view of justice? Which differences are most significant and which must be tolerated?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
From February 23-26 at 7:30 p.m., Xavier Players will present Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal. It is for an adult audience.
Monday, January 9, 2012
MLK, Jr Week events are free and open to the public, except where noted. Co-sponsored by Xavier’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, Center for Faith & Justice, National PanHellenic Council, Interfaith Community Engagement, Alpha Phi Alpha, Women’s Center, Student Life and Leadership, Black Student Association, History Department, Psychology Department, and Student Government Association. For more information, please visit www.xavier.edu/mlk.
Monday, January 9, 2012
On the heels of the Iowa Caucuses, Xavier University’s Center for the Study of the American Dream debunks 5 Myths about the American Dream in the Sunday (January 8) Washington Post. Michael Ford, the Center’s Founding Director, cites its current research revealing a deep schism between the Presidential campaign’s relevance to the American Dream, Americans’ distrust in government and elected officials, along with the declining importance of home ownership to an individual’s definition of the Amer
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
On May 19, 2005, the exhibition, “A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People,” opened at Xavier University and ran until July 15 of that year. Since then it has been displayed at 16 additional locations, including the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
News from Xavier University's Center for Mission and Identity.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Xavier’s Office of Interfaith Community Engagement and the Gallagher Student Center (GSC) have invited students, faculty and staff to launch paper airplanes at precisely 4:30 PM on Thursday, December 1st in the GSC atrium.
Monday, November 28, 2011
A team led by Xavier University MBA international student Rudhir Patil recently won the 14th annual Venture Capital Investment Competition of Silicon Valley at Santa Clara University. Patil is in California working, but is taking his capstone class online with Xavier. Originally from India, he came to Xavier via New Zealand, where he is a citizen. Via the Jesuit MBA Network, he is also a visiting student at Santa Clara University.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
For the past three years, Xavier University has sent a five-person team to the Regional Ethics Bowl, Central States in Indianapolis. On Saturday, November 12, the team qualified for the first time in the school's history for the National Ethics Bowl, placing second out of 22 teams.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
For the third year, Xavier University students will shed "nearly all" their clothes and/or dress Guatemala-style, despite the chill, Thursday, November 17, at 7:00 p.m., for the Nearly Naked Mile. Participants race one mile through the Xavier campus to raise funds to send 12 pre-professional health students to service in Guatemala from Dec. 31- Jan. 7.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Xavier University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs will host a showing of the film Mooz-lum followed by a discussion with the film’s producer on Wednesday, November 16 at 7 pm in the Gallagher Student Center Theatre on the Xavier campus. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Nine students from Northern Kentucky and one from Indiana are enrolled in the first cohort of Xavier's Northern Kentucky MBA program. They will spend 24 months taking 18 classes. They represent Procter and Gamble, Sunny Delight Beverages Co., the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, GE Aviation, Hydro Systems Co., Hill-Rom, and Fidelity Investments.
