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- 2. Learning Objectives • First to Love in the First Six Weeks • Servant Leadership Approach • Knock, Open the Door and Build Community with First Year Students
- 3. What’s behind the door?
- 4. What challenges or obstacles did you face in the first six weeks? • Homesickness • Roommate problems • Loneliness • Inability to relate to and meet new people • Anxiety or Insecurity • Spiritual emptiness • Doubt of choosing the wrong school • Class schedule or difficulty • Fear of the future • Inability to get involved • Too involved
- 5. What engaged you during the first six weeks? • Welcome Week Events • Resident Assistants and Floor Meetings • Organization Fairs • Mass and Worship Services • Convocation • Interaction with Upperclassmen
- 6. Companions Building community in leadership through faith and service • Who? – Upperclassmen, Mentors, Advocates, Lifelines, Liaisons and Friends • What? – Peer Ministry – Faith Based Programs
- 7. Three Pillars 1. Community 2. Servant Leadership 3. Faith
- 8. Why? • For Students: – Experience of belonging – Avoid transferring out – Contribute to the community • For Student Leaders: – Leadership development – Strive for magis – Witness growth and discovery
- 9. First to Love in the First Six Weeks • Different types of programs • Collaboration • Recruit from all angles • Calendar early
- 12. Jesuit Ideals • The First Companions: Ignatius, Xavier and Faber • Men and Women for Others
- 15. Summary • First to Love in the First Six Weeks • Servant Leadership Approach • Open the door, relate to first year students and build community
- 17. 1. Jesuit Priest 2. Woman Who Thinks She Is Pregnant 3. Captain of the Ship 4. Elementary School Teacher 5. Lifeguard 6. 87 Year Old Man 7. Marine Biologist 8. CEO of a Bank 9. IRS Agent Kids at Home 11. Lawyer 12. Wal-Mart Greeter 13. Movie Star 14. Governor 15. Cancer Researcher
- 18. Contact us for more information or with your questions: Justin Hoch: jhoch@luc.edu Francis Kelly: fkelly@luc.edu
Editor's Notes
- Introductions of us and our position….please hold questions until the end. We will have time for discussion
- We seek to maintain a first to love with first year students. Strive to be that resource on the floor. There are many ploys to acclimate students yet many still fall through the cracks We have a two pronged approach serving the student with our ears and pointing them in a direction. How do we engage students further. We do not have a perfect solution engaging first years and creating a greater community but we can work together here to today for collaboration across faith based
- Pose question and explain what this presentation will explore
- Pose question and hear from others what they think—try to hear from all universities Then reveal what we have experienced, hopefully they will match
- Again ask audience about their thoughts and experiences Interaction with upperclassmen transitions into our role as a Companion
- Overview of Companions Who?—Can be many things for students, Liaisons for Campus Ministry What?—show what makes us unique: one of a kind peer ministry program in the residence halls, focused on creating faith based programs (will hit on the type of programs later), ask big questions about life
- Explain each pillar, maybe using a personal story
- Why we do what we do…these are our goals as well as our achievements. Personal stories could be good here too…
- Different types of programs: talk about some that we created (at least two pillars incorporated), talk about the process of creating a program, tag along events—transition and emphasize collaboration with RA’s and other departments Recruitment: seems to be our number one problem…talk about current strategies and struggles Calendar early is our new strategy to counter the recruitment problems. If things are planned early and programs are simple, we will have a better chance of recruiting. Transition to the first six weeks calendar
- Go through the calendars explaining why each event is engaging students and promoting community and faith
- Connect people to existing resources, more qualitative
- Just as Ignatius had his Companions, we aim to be there for first year students. As volunteers, we are being men and women for others always looking to be magis. In return, servant leadership intends to make other students be men and women for others.
- Our goal is to have the mentality of St. Ignatius’ quote, so that our residents will see that and hope to emulate it as well. Residents do not stay residents; however, they do often stay friends or mentees. We want to push them outside of their rooms so that they go forth and set the world on fire. To be Companions, walk with them…ultimate goal of Companions
- Opening the door, getting students out of their rooms is the way to building community and relating to first year resie
- Maybe at the beginning of the presentation…learning objectives…more explicit