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Holy Cross Mission Priority Examen Self Study 2019 MISSION PRIORITY EXAMEN SELF-STUDY FEBRUARY 2019 COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS MISSION PRIORITY EXAMEN SELF-STUDY | FEBRUARY 2019 | PAGE 1 I. MPE AND INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION A. Date of Self-Study: February 2019 B. Name of Institution: College of the Holy Cross C. President: Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J. D. Board Chair: Richard H. Patterson ’80 E. Self-Study Committee Chair: Rev. William R. Campbell, S.J. ’87 (Vice President for Mission) F. Self-Study Committee Members: Robert Bellin (Professor, Biology and Director of Vocare), James Hayes, S.J. ’72 (Associate Chaplain for Mission), Paul Irish (Associate Dean of Students/Student Affairs), Marybeth Kearns-Barrett ’84 (Director of the Office of the College Chaplains), Daniel Klinghard (Professor, Political Science and Director of the J.D. Power Center for Liberal Arts in the World), Michelle Sterk Barrett (Director, Donelan Office of Community- Based Learning) and Amit Taneja (Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/Chief Diversity Officer) G. Peer Visitor Chair: Jeanne Lord (Associate Vice President for Student Affairs & Dean of Students/Georgetown University H. Peer Visiting Committee Members: Rachel Grover (Professor of Psychology, Loyola University Maryland), Joseph Orlando (Director of the Center for Education, Seattle University) and Rev. Thomas Scirghi, S.J. (Professor of Theology & Superior of the Jesuit Community, Fordham University) COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS MISSION PRIORITY EXAMEN SELF-STUDY | FEBRUARY 2019 | PAGE 1 II. PROCESS AND SPIRIT OF THE MPE A. How were members of the Self-study Committee – and its Chair – selected? The College of the Holy Cross was formally invited to engage the Mission Priority Examen process in the spring of 2018 when it received its letter of invitation from Rev. John J. Cecero, S.J., Provincial of the United States Northeast Province (UNE) of the Society of Jesus. (See Appendix #1 to this Self-Study.) However, remote preparations had begun before this formal invitation was received. These preparations included the drafting of a Sustaining Agreement during the preceding two years by the College’s leadership, its Jesuit Community and the Jesuit Provincial, a document that was signed by the relevant parties over several days in September of 2017. (See Appendix #2.) It was also during this time that Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., President of the College, asked Rev. William R. Campbell, S.J., Vice President for Mission, to chair the MPE process. Once the formal invitation to engage the MPE process was received, Fr. Campbell designed a general calendar and articulated a set of principles (both of which he shared with the President) to guide him in structuring the process. These principles included the establishment of a Self-Study Steering Committee to oversee seven sub-committees, one sub-committee focused on each of the seven characteristics articulated in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) document Some Characteristics of Jesuit Colleges and Universities: A Self-Evaluation Instrument. These seven sub-committee chairs (who formed the membership of the Self-Study Steering Committee) were intentionally drawn, where possible, from campus community alumni of the Ignatian Colleagues Program (ICP – an intensive 18-month mission-focused professional development program sponsored by the AJCU) and various College-sponsored mission-related initiatives. To ensure student engagement at the “executive” level of the process, students were COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS MISSION PRIORITY EXAMEN SELF-STUDY | FEBRUARY 2019 | PAGE 2 appointed to six of the seven sub-committees Jesuit Provincial during a past meeting and by (with a recent alumnus who serves as a “Young the President of the College in conversations with Alumni Trustee” sitting on the seventh sub- him in the late spring. In November, the Bishop committee, given the nature of that committee’s submitted his own reflections in reply to a report focus). Also, to ensure Trustee engagement at the that the sub-committee had provided to him “executive” level, three additional Trustees agreed to sit on three sub-committees. Fr. Campbell A second public phase occurred during the fall. then worked with the seven chairs individually to In September, Fr. Boroughs announced the MPE identity additional sub-committee members who via a letter to the entire campus community. (See could bring relevant awareness to the questions Appendix #3.) The Steering Committee utilized posed by the given Characteristic defining the multiple opportunities to educate the campus focus of the sub-committee. community about the MPE and its goals, including continued targeted conversations with relevant B. How was the MPE introduced to the constituents and four “open-to-all” sessions that campus? How was it engaged or received were held in September. These sessions were by various groups? facilitated by Fr. Campbell, with members of the Steering Committee in attendance at each. The MPE was introduced to the campus In addition to being promoted by poster boards community in two phases. The first phase placed in various campus locations, these sessions occurred during the spring and summer of 2018 were first referenced by Fr. Boroughs in his letter. and involved the work of the Steering Committee They were further promoted to the students by the and its sub-committees, each of which defined leadership of the Student Government Association the scope of its focus and quietly engaged specific (SGA) and to the faculty by the Speaker of the constituents, documentation and data relevant to Faculty. Each session was framed by the advertised its work. During this time, Fr. Campbell worked question: “Given your time at Holy Cross and with the seven sub-committee chairs to structure reflecting upon the range of your experiences (as a processes to focus the work that best fit the goal student, administrator, faculty member or staff), what of their sub-committee. has served to deepen your sense of Holy Cross as a Catholic, Jesuit, Liberal Arts college (or not)?” For example, with regard to Characteristic #1: Leadership’s Commitment to Mission, these efforts At the start of the process, each sub-committee included (but were not limited to) meeting with was charged to draft a report that, in the aggregate, the Board of Trustees Mission and Identity would become the basis for this MPE Self-Study. In Committee during the late spring, surveying preparation for submitting their individual reports, the members of the full Board of Trustees with each sub-committee provided an interim “status open-ended mission-related questions during report” on its work to the College Committee on the summer, meeting with the Board’s Mission Mission and Identity (CCM&I). This non-statutory Committee and then finally meeting with the committee, established by the President in 2011 full Board during its regular cycle of meetings and chaired by the Vice President for Mission, in the fall so as to engage the Trustees in open- meets three times per semester and is comprised ended conversations about the MPE process of thirty members of the College community who and the emergent themes of their earlier written represent a range of constituents (faculty, staff, replies. With regard to Characteristic #4: Service, administrators, students). The CCM&I served as these efforts included scheduling a series of a sounding-board for the work of the seven MPE conversational receptions with community-based sub-committees either by affirming or re-focusing partners, the community engagement committee their work. The sub-committees focusing on and students in the fall to solicit their feedback Characteristics #1 and #7 presented their reports to questions posed by the characteristic. With in September. The sub-committees focusing on regard to Characteristic #5: Service to the Local Characteristics #2, #3 and #5 presented in October, Church, these efforts included soliciting input and the sub-committees focusing on Characteristics from Jesuit community members about their #4 and #6 presented in November. This “status apostolic commitments within the Diocese of report” approach was adopted to provide each sub- Worcester before directly engaging the Most Rev. committees a “dress rehearsal” moment for its work Robert J. McManus, STD, Bishop, aware that and to engage a cross-section of the community in he had been briefed on the overall process by the the assessment of data being collected. COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS MISSION PRIORITY EXAMEN SELF-STUDY | FEBRUARY 2019 | PAGE 3 C. Which individuals and groups were Nonetheless, these aspirational desires for the included (may be put in an appendix)? MPE were tempered by the ever-present realities of institutional and individual over-programming, A full roster of members to the MPE Steering some initial suspicions about the “real” purpose Committee and the seven sub-committees can and “expected” outcomes of the initiative and the be found as Appendix #4. As previously noted, all seemingly constant practical need to divert one’s members of the campus community were invited attention to respond to other project deadlines to participate in the MPE. and the inevitable “crisis” of the moment. D. What institutional assumptions informed For example, we note that the College has been (i.e., expanded or limited) the process? engaging this process while news stories, local How was the MPE integrated into the life and beyond, have publicized subjects arousing of the college or university, academically, intense reactions from members of our campus operationally, spiritually? community and of our dedicated, passionate alumni. The first phase began as headlines The College has been engaging the document noted controversy between the College and our Some Characteristics since its first publication. In local Bishop over earlier published writings of a 2014, with AJCU approval, the College adapted professor in the Religious Studies Department. the document to reflect the College’s identity as At the same time, continued revelations in the the only Jesuit, solely undergraduate, liberal arts national #MeToo movement throughout the spring “college” within the AJCU (Some Characteristics and summer caught our attention.
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