Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, in ABOUT UNIVERSITY of NOTRE DAME
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POSITION PROFILE Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME The University of Notre Dame seeks a collaborative, strategic, proactive, and experienced leader to serve as the next Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director (Executive Director) to lead the Center for Social Concerns (CSC). As Notre Dame’s academic institute for engaged social teaching, the CSC is the beating heart behind the University’s commitment to advance pedagogies of engagement, leverage personal transformation for social change, and transform principles of Catholic Social Teaching into 21st century leadership. The Executive Director carries a vibrant portfolio of responsibilities, including stewardship of the Center’s research programs, events, courses, and activities in areas related to Catholic Social Tradition and community-engaged learning and scholarship. The CSC is driven by justice and the common good. The Executive Director is at the epicenter of community-based research, teaching, and learning that brings students, faculty, and community partners together for personal and social transformation and justice. As such, Notre Dame seeks an exceptional communicator, influencer, and mission driven leader. The University of Notre Dame was founded in November 1842 by Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a French missionary order. Notre Dame is located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, the center of a metropolitan area with a population of more than 300,000. Chartered by the state of Indiana in 1844, the University was governed by the Holy Cross priests until 1967, when governance was transferred to a two-tiered, mixed board of lay and religious trustees and fellows. Notre Dame has grown from the vision of Father Sorin, who sought to establish a great Catholic university in America and has remained faithful to both its religious and intellectual traditions. Today, Notre Dame seeks to be an enlightening force for a world deeply in need. Faculty in all departments participate in its mission to ensure that Notre Dame’s Catholic character informs all of its endeavors. From legal scholars who study civil rights and religious liberty, to scientists and engineers who examine health disparities and educational inequalities, Notre Dame continues to be a place where the Church does its thinking. Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame 2 ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME One of America’s leading undergraduate teaching institutions, Notre Dame is also a leader in research and scholarship. The aerodynamics of glider flight, the transmission of wireless LEARN MORE: messages, and the formulae for synthetic rubber were pioneered at the University. Today, nd.edu researchers are advancing the knowledge frontier in astrophysics, cancer, sustainability, inequalities, Middle Eastern studies, Latin American studies, medieval studies, nanoelectronics, peace studies, radiation chemistry, robotics, and tropical disease transmission. Notre Dame has always been heavily residential, with about four in five undergraduates living on campus. Students come to Notre Dame to learn not only how to think but also how to live, and often the experiences alumni carry from residence hall communities at Notre Dame remain vivid over a lifetime. The University attracts scholars who are interested in teaching and scholarship, men and women who know that a Notre Dame education is more than what is taught in classrooms and laboratories. Notre Dame has a unique spirit. It is traditional, yet open to change. It sees complete consonance between faith and reason. It has always stood for values in a world of facts. It has maintained Father Sorin’s vision. For more information on The University of Notre Dame, please visit its website. Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame 3 CENTER FOR SOCIAL CONCERNS The Center for Social Concerns (CSC) was established at Notre Dame in 1983. The center is one of the proud products of the commitment and contribution to social service and social justice by Notre Dame students, faculty, staff, alumni, and alumnae, since the founding of the University by the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1842. The center’s commitment to working for justice and the common good is at its core and manifests through the teaching, research, scholarship, training of students to be leaders in their community, and programming across disciplines. In the late 1970s, with students as a catalyst, guided by the vision of the center's founding director, Rev. Don McNeill, C.S.C., Notre Dame leadership took steps to merge many initiatives and activities into one center. The Center for Social Concerns inherited a strong tradition of service and learning from the Notre Dame Office of Volunteer Services (a unit of the Office of Student Activities from 1972–1983) and the Center for Experiential Learning (a part of the Institute for Pastoral and Social Ministry from 1977–1983). The center opened its doors in the former WNDU building on campus, just north and west of the library, in January 1983. Fr. McNeill served as Executive Director until 2002 and over time the center experienced impressive growth in programs and resources available to engage students in the local, national, and international communities. Part of that growth included moving into the Center’s new offices in Geddes Hall, which it shares with the Institute for Church Life. This move acknowledged the importance of the center’s mission within the general mission of the University. The center continues to make great strides in community-based research and learning and in a renewed emphasis on Catholic social tradition in programs and courses. Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame 4 CENTER FOR SOCIAL CONCERNS An increasing number of students participate in a variety of center programs each year. This growth in student participation and service involvement in programs sponsored or co-sponsored through the center is significant. The faculty have increased their contributions to the educational and reflective components at the core of the center’s courses and programs. Work with many partners of the center also enhances the faith-based learning of all who serve and helps lay a strong foundation for future service and action. The center’s mission and goals continue to be supported and encouraged by the administrative guidance of Notre Dame president, Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C., and by the provost, Marie Lynn Miranda. The center remains an active partner on campus with the Institute for Church Life and shares in its mission and outreach to the larger Church in the United States. For more information on the Center for Social Concerns, please visit the center’s website. Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame 5 LEADERSHIP Marie Lynn Miranda Charles and Jill Fischer Provost and Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics Marie Lynn Miranda began her tenure as Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University of Notre Dame on July 1, 2020, the fifth provost at Notre Dame since the position was established in 1970. The University’s second-ranking officer, the provost is elected by the Board of Trustees and, at the direction of the president, exercises overall responsibility for the academic enterprise. A distinguished scholar in the field of children’s environmental health, Miranda is especially well-known for her research on childhood lead exposure. She served as provost at Rice University from 2015–19 and as dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment for the four years prior to that. In addition to her responsibilities as provost, Miranda is a professor of applied and computational mathematics and statistics at Notre Dame, maintaining an active research portfolio. She is a leader in the rapidly evolving field of geospatial health informatics and is the founding director of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI), a research, education, and outreach program committed to fostering environments where all people can prosper. Her research has garnered more than $60 million in funding from federal, state and foundation sources. CEHI was among the inaugural winners of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Achievement Award in 2008. An elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Sigma Xi, she is an adjunct professor of pediatrics at Duke and Indiana University. She sits on the boards of the Environmental Defense Fund and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and has provided extensive service to the NIH. Miranda graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Duke with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics and was named a Truman Scholar. She received her master’s and doctorate from Harvard University, where she held a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She holds an honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame 7 LEADERSHIP (The Rev.) Hugh R. Page, Jr. Professor of Theology and Africana Studies Hugh Page, professor of theology and Africana studies, was appointed vice president and associate provost for undergraduate affairs in 2013. His major responsibilities include expanding opportunities for and participation in undergraduate scholarship and research, implementing the Undergraduate Academic Code of Honor, leading the University’s enrollment management efforts by overseeing the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Office of Student Financial Services, and furthering campus conversation on issues related to diversity. Page was dean of Notre Dame’s First Year of Studies from 2005 to 2019. He has also served as associate dean for undergraduate studies in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters and director of the African and African American Studies Program.