DePaul University From the SelectedWorks of Marco Tavanti 2008 What Would Vincent Do? Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction Marco Tavanti, DePaul University Craig Mousin, DePaul University Available at: https://works.bepress.com/marcotavanti/13/ WHAT WOULD VINCENT DO? VINCENTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION & PO V ERTY REDUCTION Marco Tavanti, Ph.D., and Reverend Craig B. Mousin, Editors Special Issue of the Vincentian Heritage Volume 28, Number 2, 2008 St. Vincent’s Circle. DePaul University, Lincoln Park campus. Sculpture by Margaret Beaudette, S.C. Image Collection of the Vincentian Studies Institute WHAT WOULD VINCENT DO? VINCENTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION & POVERTY REDUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., Ed.D. ...................................................9 Contributors to this Issue ...................................................................................13 Preface: What Would Vincent do Today to Overcome Poverty? Marco Tavanti, Ph.D., and Reverend Craig B. Mousin ......................25 VINCENTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION The Most Important Question Rev. Craig B. Mousin ..............................................................................31 Vincentian Education: A Survey of its History John E. Rybolt, C.M., Ph.D .....................................................................51 “Our good will and honest efforts.” Vincentian Perspectives on Poverty Reduction Efforts Edward R. Udovic, C.M., Ph.D. ............................................................69 Toward a Vincentian Culture in Higher Education Margaret John Kelly, D.C. ......................................................................79 Education with a Heart Gregorio L. Bañaga, Jr., C.M., Ph.D ......................................................95 Developing Vincentian Leaders through Service Learning Marilynn P. Fleckenstein, Ph.D. ..........................................................107 6 7 Poverty Reduction Initiatives at the Universidad de Santa Isabel: Untangling the Ivy: Vincentian Seeds of Hope Discovering Vincentian Service Learning at DePaul University Maria Asuncion G. Evidente, D.C., Nenette L. Abrigo, Ph.D., and Howard Rosing, Ph.D. .........................................................................219 Virginia C. Reyes, Ph.D. .......................................................................119 What Would Saint Vincent de Paul Do About Today’s Global Poverty? Poverty Reduction — A Vincentian Initiative in Higher Education: Personalism vs. Paternalism: Social Work’s Role Within a Vincentian The All Hallows Experience Institution Dorrie Balfe, O.P., MA, and John Joe Spring, MA, Dip.Th. .............127 Troy Harden ...........................................................................................239 Law School Programs that Reduce Poverty: THE ACADEMIC SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR POVERTY The Example of the Chiapas Human Rights Practicum REDUCTION AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE Leonard L. Cavise, J.D. .........................................................................247 Saint Vincent de Paul and the Mission of the Institute for Business and What Would Vincent Study Abroad? Option for the Poor and Systemic Professional Ethics: Why Companies Should Care About Poverty Change for the Development of Socially Responsible Leaders Patricia H. Werhane, Laura P. Hartman and Marco Tavanti, Ph.D., and Heather Evans, M.S. ..............................261 Scott P. Kelley, Ph.D. .............................................................................141 Meeting Saint Vincent’s Challenge in Providing Assistance to the Subsidiarity and Global Poverty: Foreign-Born Poor: Development from Below Upwards Applying the Lessons to the Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic Scott P. Kelley, Ph.D. .............................................................................151 Sioban Albiol .........................................................................................273 In Service of Whom?: The Impact of Vincentian Universities’ Institutional Investment Practices on Global Poverty VINCENTIAN RESPONSES TO POVERTY THROUGH SERVICE, Charles R. Strain ....................................................................................167 SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE Vincentian University Partnerships for Urban Poverty Reduction Committed to Poverty Reduction and Spiritual Growth: Marco Tavanti, Ph.D., Merlinda A. Palencia and Vincentian Communities of Reflection, Action, and Solidarity Margaret Guzzaldo ...............................................................................183 Karl Nass and Siobhan O’Donoghue .................................................295 Poverty in New Orleans: VINCENTIAN UNIVERSITY PRACTICES ON TEACHING Before and After Katrina AS SERVICE AND LEARNING Gloria Simo, Ph.D. ................................................................................307 Undergraduate Program in Eastern Africa for Adults Serving the Poor Saint Vincent de Paul’s Response to Poverty of Spirit Susanne M. Dumbleton, Ph.D. ............................................................205 Yvonne Pratt-Johnson, Ed.D. ...............................................................319 Saint Vincent and Saint Louise, Catholic to the Core: Spiritual Praxis as the Foundation for Social Change Pauline Villapando ...............................................................................329 8 9 “On the Footsteps of Monsieur Vincent: Diary of an Ordinary Professor” — Foreword — Annalisa Saccà, Ph.D. ...........................................................................341 Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction Afterword: BY Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction DENNIS H. HOLTSCHNEIDER , C.M., ED.D. G. Gregory Gay III, C.M. ......................................................................351 President, DePaul University I simply cannot imagine any place I would rather spend my life than Copyedited by Mr. Renaldo Migaldi and Mr. Nathaniel Michaud inside a university. Welcoming and meeting some of the finest minds and practitioners of our time onto campus. Discussing the issues of our day with © COPYRIGHT DEPAUL UNIVERSITY individuals who have made those concerns their life’s work. Delighting in VINCENTIAN STUDIES INSTITUTE undergraduates’ idealism and their discovery of complexity. Inhabiting qui- VOL. XXVIII, NO. 2 et corners for study, or contemplation of art, or music, or theatre. Attempting to honor in practice the privilege and improvisation of good teaching. Even engaging in passionate disagreements, wherein the only recognized hierar- chy is that of a compelling idea. There is a bit of pretension, to be sure, and conversation is sometimes sacrificed to more immediately satisfying ideological grandstanding, but even these moments are occasion for quiet smiles and recognition of a shared humanity. At the end of the day, I know of no corner of our good earth that is more fertile with possibility. Ideas take shape and then spread, influence and sometimes even undermine the society around them. New generations meet the thinking of generations long before them, worlds wildly different than their own. The disciplined observation of scholars and the sheer am- bition of their projects are open-handedly shared with academic colleagues throughout the world. Students are brought into this life of love — for there is no other word for it. One cannot study the world or dedicate one’s life to educating the next generation without love. At a Vincentian university there is an additional, particularly lovely, idealism rooted in the care of two seventeenth-century saints for the poor around them. Vincent de Paul and his life-long collaborator Louise de Marillac brought people together, both informally and organizationally, so that the poor would be assisted. The simplicity of their purpose met with the still extraordinary ingenuity and complexity of their response. The legal, political, social, eccle- sial, and economic forces all had to be understood, engaged, and ultimately managed so that the work could succeed. Thousands of letters remain from both founders, coordinating their works and collaborators, raising money, 10 11 filing and fighting law suits, begging the wealthy, employing the royal court, effective if they engage the current economic and political systems. The poor fighting political enemies, building consistency in services throughout mul- may be better served when these social systems find reformers and collabo- tiple countries — and perhaps most important of all, attending to the spirits rators, rather than the formation of another partially funded, understaffed of all who were served and serving. For there was nothing ultimately more program. These are but a few of the observations our authors explore. In the important to Saint Vincent and Saint Louise than the salvation of those for end, their intent is both modest and generous: to share with one another first whom and with whom they worked. efforts and ideas so that the potential of our academic communities may be This little book brings together these two compelling worlds. The es- realized and the poor assisted. says, written by faculty and professional staff working at Vincentian univer- sities, are hesitant, searching, proud, prodding, and of necessity incomplete. DePaul University, Chicago And yet they are idealistic in the finest sense of the term. 15 March 2008 These are the reports of scholars