50-55 Sophomores each year will focus on community, service, faith and justice issues while living with other Cortina community members.

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Future Directions . . .
50-55 Sophomores each year will focus on
community, service, faith and justice issues
while living with other Cortina community members.
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Accomplishments . . .

• Student Retreats
• Over 100 students travel to Griswold or Winter
  Park, CO for vocation-themed retreats

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Accomplishments . . .

• Ratio Studiorum
• All incoming students since Fall 2003 exposed to
  vocation-as-calling themes in Freshmen Seminar
  and Ratio Studiorum (N almost 4000 students)

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Accomplishments . . .

• Semester-long, Faculty-led Seminars
• Vocation of Scholarship (18 members, led by
  Rusty Reno)
• Vocation of the Health Professions (12 members,
  led by Robert
• Heaney)
• Creighton as a Catholic/Jesuit University in
  21st-Century
• America(15 members, led by John OKeefe)
• Advent and Vocational Exploration (23 members)
• Advent in July (25 members)
• Discernment 201 (12 members)
• University Secular and Catholic? (11 members)
• Ignatian Discernment Life Coaching (vCoach 25
  members)

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Accomplishments . . .

• Campus-wide Speakers
• Fall 03 Fall 05 Highlights
• Judy Meisel, Holocaust Survivor (250 people)
• Nike Sweatshop Speakers (Standing Room Only,
• over 350 people)
• James Allison, Theologian (250 people)
• Arun Gandhi, Mahatmas Grandson (1200 people)
• The Faith That Does Justice Series (200 people)

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Future Directions . . .
Ratio Studiorum 100 exposes all incoming students
to vocational aspirations and challenges common
to all freshmen. Ratio Studiorum 200 provides
all sophomore students with discernment events
and activities.
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Accomplishments . . .

• Spiritual Exercises
• Over 25 faculty and staff participate in an 8-day
  silent retreat of the Spiritual Exercises of St.
  Ignatius
• Over 150 students, faculty and staff participate
  in a 19th Annotation of the Spiritual Exercises
  by reflecting and sharing on the Challenges
  material by Mark Link, SJ

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Accomplishments . . .

• Family Vocation Vacations
• Over 125 mothers, fathers, and children spend
  weekend reflecting on the vocation of families

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Accomplishments . . .

• Community/Campus-wide Speakers
• Spring 06 Spring 07 Highlights
• Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom Scandal (over 500
  people)
• Jim Wallis, Pastor and Political Activist
• Fr Ron Rolheiser, Author (300 people mostly
  alumni
• community members)
• Sr Helen Prejean, Activist (over 300 people
  standing
• room only)
• Patrick Kuhse, Business Ethics Speaker (over
  500)

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Accomplishments . . .

• vFellowship Projects Vocation Classes
• Vocation Professional Formation across the
  Health Professions
• (Teresa Cochran, SPHP)
• Researching and Dramatizing the Calling and Life
  of Lavinia Dock
• (Elizabeth Furlong, Nursing)
• PHA 341 Learning Through Reflective Service
  Native American Experience
• (Victoria Roche and Rhonda Jones, SPHP)
• Psychological and Theological Explorations of
  Vocation
• (Kristina DeNeve, Psychology)
• Catholic and Jesuit Perspectives on Work-Life
  Balance
• (John Workman COBA)
• Discernment Activities for Ratio Studiorum 101
• (Brooke Stafford, English)

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Future Directions . . .
Faculty and Staff programming will continue to
explore vocation-as-calling issues, including the
chance to complete an 8-day retreat of the
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
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Accomplishments . . .

• vFellowship Projects Scholarly Activities
• Beyond Faith-Based Initiatives Gay Marriage
  Religious Institutions and Civic Life
• (Sue Crawford, Political Science)
• Meanings of Work for At-Risk Youth (Mary Ann
  Danielson, Communication Studies)
• The Provential Tourist Travel and the Vocation
  of Stoic Wisdom
• (William Stephens, Classics/Philosophy)
• Discerning a Call to Hospitality Xenophobia in
  Contemporary Spanish Theater
• (Michele Warren, Spanish)
• Catholic Social Learning How to Educate the
  Faith That Does Justice
• (Roger Bergman, Social Work)
• Men and Women for Others Bridging the Classroom
  and Civic Community
• (Sr. Joan Mueller, Theology)
• Vocation and Moral Theory (Jeff Hause,
  Philosophy)

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Accomplishments . . .

• Alumni and Community Members
• Over 1000 alumni and community members gather for
  workshops, book discussions, retreats, and
  speakers tied to vocation-as-calling

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Accomplishments . . .

• Students Receive Mentoring
• Over 100 students matched with a mentor, vCoach,
  or spiritual director to focus on discerning,
  making, and implementing life decisions

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Accomplishments . . .

• Lakota/Gates Mentorship Immersion
• Over 70 CU students travel, reflect, serve, and
  immerse themselves in Native American Culture
• Over 200 high school students mentored through
  Cardoner in completion of Gates Millenium
  Scholarship
• In 2006, 13 of 14 scholarship recipients In NE
  were mentored by Cardoner/CU students

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Future Directions . . .
Undergraduates and Graduates interested in Lay
Ministry will receive internships with Campus
Ministry and CCSJ.
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Accomplishments . . .

• Events in COBA and Law
• Over 300 MBA and Law students attend speakers and
  events on the vocation of Business and Law
• including Jerry Organ, Dean of Law at University
  of St. Thomas and John Schuster, MBA, Author,
  Life Coach

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Accomplishments . . .

• Professional School Retreats
• Students, Faculty, and Staff gather annually to
  explore the vocation of their profession
• Medicine (Over 800 people in four retreats)
• Pharmacy and Health Professions (Over 600
• people in three retreats)
• Nursing (Over 400 people in two retreats)
• Dentistry (Over 200 people at their first
• retreat)

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Accomplishments . . .

• vFellowship and vInstitutes Programs
• Over 25 Faculty and Staff complete semester-long
  formation of a theological exploration of
  vocation as tied to
• Relationship with God
• Relationship with Others
• Tensive Relationship between
• Personal Fulfillment and Sacrifice

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Accomplishments . . .

• Book Giveaways
• Over 2000 books given out to students, faculty,
  and staff, including
• Callings
• What Should I Do With My Life?
• Kitchen Table Wisdom
• Big Questions, Worthy Dreams
• Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose
• The Idea of a Catholic University
• The Call to Discernment in Modern Times
• Answering Your Call

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Future Directions . . .
Professional School Retreats Students, Faculty,
and Staff from the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy
and Health Professions, Nursing, Dentistry, and
Law will gather for annual retreats on the
vocation of their profession.
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Accomplishments . . .

• Collaboration with Archdiocese
• CU, Cardoner and Archdiocese of Omaha offer
  Masters of Ministry Program to 18 Adult Lay
  Ecclesial Ministers
• Cardoner co-sponsors ongoing formation
  opportunities for Lay Ecclesial Ministers working
  in Archdiocese of Omaha (Ex. Zeni Fox lecture,
  workshop by Bishop Zicanis of Tuscon)

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• Exploring Priesthood Religious Life
• Students reflect at Symposium with Jesuit,
  Diocesan Priest, Religious Sister and Third-Order
  Religious on the Call to Religious Life

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Accomplishments . . .

• Ministry Interns
• Over 20 undergrads and graduate students explore
  and work in church ministry for a semester,
  summer, or year

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Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe Over 300 faculty,
staff and students attend opening night of the
movie adaptation of C.S. Lewis classic novel
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Future Directions . . .
Undergraduate students will receive internships
with non-profit agencies (like Red Cross) and
grass-roots, community organizing groups (like
Interfaith Worker Justice).
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Book Discussions Over 700 faculty, staff and
students explore vocation-as-calling by reading
and discussing books by authors such as Sr. Helen
Prejean, Fr. Ron Rolheiser, C.S. Lewis, Anne
Patchett, and Anne Lamott
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Accomplishments . . .

• Cortina
• Approximately 250 students live in community with
  one another, focusing coursework and
  co-curricular activities on community, service,
  faith, and justice