2021-22 UG Bulletin - Round 2 Due to Registrar: 28 May 2021 10 Mission Statement of the University of Notre Dame upon academic freedom that makes open discussion and friends who unabashedly refer to themselves as Mission Statement of the and inquiry possible. the Notre Dame “family.” University of Notre Dame The University prides itself on being an environment The institution was founded on the site of an of teaching and learning that fosters the development old Catholic missionary outpost in 1842. The Context in its students of those disciplined habits of mind, founders were a small and impoverished band of body, and spirit that characterize educated, skilled, French and Irish religious brothers whose leader This statement speaks of the University of and free human beings. In addition, the University was Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., an impetuous, Notre Dame as a place of teaching and research, seeks to cultivate in its students not only an apprecia- strong-willed, and apparently tireless priest. In a of scholarship and publication, of service and tion for the great achievements of human beings, but memoir titled My Notre Dame, Thomas Stritch, community. These components flow from three also a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice, professor emeritus of American Studies and characteristics of Roman Catholicism which and oppression that burden the lives of so many. Notre Dame historian, wrote that Father Sorin image Jesus Christ, his Gospel, and his Spirit. A The aim is to create a sense of human solidarity and “carved Notre Dame out of the Northern Indiana sacramental vision encounters God in the whole concern for the common good that will bear fruit as wilderness and by sheer strength of character made of creation. In and through the visible world in learning becomes service to justice. it go. He built and rebuilt, recruited students where which we live, we come to know and experience he could, and gradually began the unique image Notre Dame also has a responsibility to advance the invisible God. In mediation the Catholic vision Notre Dame still enjoys. In a college or university, knowledge in a search for truth through original perceives God not only present in but also working reputation is everything. Somehow Sorin developed inquiry and publication. This responsibility engages through persons, events, and material things. There a favorable one for Notre Dame, one that reverber- the faculty and students in all areas of the University, is an intelligibility and a coherence to all reality, ated throughout the American Catholic world, but particularly in graduate and professional educa- discoverable through spirit, mind and imagination. the Eastern Seaboard as well as the Midwest. Long tion and research. The University is committed to God’s grace prompts human activity to assist the before football was invented, Notre Dame caught the constructive and critical engagement with the whole world in creating justice grounded in love. God’s way imagination of American Catholics.” to us comes as communion, through the communi- of human culture. Father Sorin was a member of the Congregation ties in which men and women live. This community The University encourages a way of living consonant of Holy Cross, a then recently formed Catholic includes the many theological traditions, liturgies, with a Christian community and manifest in prayer, religious community that would own and administer and spiritualities that fashion the life of the church. liturgy, and service. Residential life endeavors to the University from its foundation until 1967, when The emphasis on community in Catholicism explains develop that sense of community and of responsibil- the University’s governance was legally transferred why Notre Dame historically has fostered familial ity that prepares students for subsequent leadership to a two-tiered, mixed board of lay and religious bonds in its institutional life. in building a society that is at once more human and trustees and fellows. The University’s bylaws ensure more divine. A Catholic university draws its basic inspiration that the Congregation will continue to exert a from Jesus Christ as the source of wisdom and from Notre Dame’s character as a Catholic academic prominent influence on its administration. They the conviction that in him all things can be brought community presupposes that no genuine search for stipulate, for example, that Notre Dame’s presidents to their completion. As a Catholic university, the truth in the human or the cosmic order is alien must always be chosen from among the priests of Notre Dame wishes to contribute to this educational to the life of faith. The University welcomes all areas the Congregation. The Congregation also ministers mission. of scholarly activity as consonant with its mission, to the University it founded through the many Holy subject to appropriate critical refinement. There Cross priests serving on the University’s faculty, Mission stateMent is, however, a special obligation and opportunity, the counselors and chaplains who live with the specifically as a Catholic university, to pursue the undergraduate students in the residence halls, and The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic aca- religious dimensions of all human learning. Only the staff of the campus ministry office. demic community of higher learning, animated from thus can Catholic intellectual life in all disciplines be its origins by the Congregation of Holy Cross. The In 1972, five years after the change in governance, a animated and fostered and a proper community of University is dedicated to the pursuit and sharing new chapter of University history began to be writ- scholarly religious discourse be established. of truth for its own sake. As a Catholic university, ten as the first undergraduate women were admitted one of its distinctive goals is to provide a forum In all dimensions of the University, Notre Dame to Notre Dame. A quarter of a century later, the where, through free inquiry and open discussion, pursues its objectives through the formation of an majority of living Notre Dame alumni have been the various lines of Catholic thought may intersect authentic human community graced by the Spirit graduated from a fully coeducational institution. with all the forms of knowledge found in the arts, of Christ. Obviously, many other aspects of the University have sciences, professions, and every other area of human been changed by more than a century and a half scholarship and creativity. The University of turbulent and unpredictable happenings in the The intellectual interchange essential to a university of Notre Dame Catholic Church and in American life and culture. requires, and is enriched by, the presence and Fires, outbreaks of infectious diseases, the Civil War, voices of diverse scholars and students. DRAFTThe waves of European immigrants and refugees, Church Notre Dame is at once a Catholic university, a Catholic identity of the University depends upon, national symbol, and an international community controversies, the Great Depression, two world wars and is nurtured by, the continuing presence of a of religious faith, intellectual inquiry, and devotion and several smaller bloodlettings, the civil rights predominant number of Catholic intellectuals. to the powerless. Among its conspicuous features are movement, and other social convulsions in America, This ideal has been consistently maintained by the its academic reputation, an elaborately designed and all have involved members of the Notre Dame University leadership throughout its history. What golden-domed administration building, a famous family and have left deep and indelible imprints on the University asks of all its scholars and students, collegiate football team, a popular shrine to the the character and rich tradition of the institution. however, is not a particular creedal affiliation, but Mother of God, two fascinating lakes, a pleasantly Rev. William Corby, C.S.C., a successor to Father a respect for the objectives of Notre Dame and a landscaped campus, and a spirited student body sur- Sorin, played a memorable national role as a Union willingness to enter into the conversation that gives rounded by an intensely loyal community of alumni chaplain at the Battle of Gettysburg; Rev. Julius it life and character. Therefore, the University insists Nieuwland, C.S.C., a scientist and faculty member, To Table of Contents 2021-22 UG Bulletin - Round 2 Due to Registrar: 28 May 2021 11 Student Life invented synthetic rubber; Notre Dame students participate in the Divine Truth, a belief that Each of Notre Dame’s 32 undergraduate residence were participants in a nationally publicized scuffle motivates the vigorous search for knowledge. halls has an atmosphere and character of its own. with a resurgent Ku Klux Klan; the University’s Unique traditions in each hall generate a feeling of Notre Dame inspires students to pursue learning as a colorful football team and something of its campus loyalty and camaraderie among its residents. Well- good in itself and to see that pursuit as involving the atmosphere were enshrined in American history and trained rectors, assistant rectors, and senior resident whole person. We cultivate each student’s capacity myth by a film featuring a memorable performance assistants provide multiple layers of pastoral care for to think creatively and critically while valuing the by an actor who later became a president. More the students who call a Notre Dame residence hall rich inheritance that comes