Dear Friends,

Instead of paying the Art Institute for a membership – have I got news for you!

This spring 2013 semester the University is partnering with the Art Institute of Chicago to pilot a program to provide students, faculty, and staff with free access to the museum and its exhibits till the end of the semester.

To gain access to the museum, simply show them your Loyola ID.

For more information about University Partner benefits, please contact the museum’s Corporate Relations office at 312.443.3121 or universitypartners@artic.edu.

IPS Damen Award Recipient 2013

Named for Loyola University Chicago’s primary founder, Arnold Damen, S.J., this award is granted to an alumnus(a) from each of Loyola’s schools and colleges.  It recognizes the qualities of leadership in industry, leadership in community, and service to others.  This year IPS is proud and pleased to announce that Father Garanzini will bestow this award upon

MR. JIMMIE FLEWELLEN 

Jimmie L. Flewellen, Sr. is a native of Columbus, Georgia, born in 1926.   He completed high school in Columbus and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1945.  After his service he married and moved to Chicago.  He converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1960. In 1970 he joined the training program for Permanent Deacons in the Archdiocese of Chicago, and was ordained a deacon as a member of the first class, in 1972.  He began service in his home parish, St. Thaddeus, a ministry he continued for 34 years.  In 1985, he was appointed a Catholic Chaplain for the United States Justice Department.  In this appointment he was the first African American Catholic Chaplain in the History of the United States.  He served as prison chaplain in Springfield, Missouri from 1985 to 1993.  In 1993 he was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago as its Head Chaplain.  He held that position for nine years, until his retirement.  Deacon Flewellen received a Master of Pastoral Studies in 1983.  This award will be presented at Founders’ Day, June 8, 2013.

Dr. Melissa Browning, the graduate program director for our MA in Social Justice and Community Development degree, has recently been published on the Huffington Post Religion page. Check out her article here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-browning-phd/climate-change-and-setting-the-world-on-fire_b_2630715.html

LUC’s Unified Student Government Association has posted about their campus initiatives, including highlights of their fall 2012 initiatives. Check out these initiatives at http://www.luc.edu/usga/news/latestnews/

The USGA Executive Board would like to encourage students to reach out and let their voices be heard. To voice your opinions, check out www.luc.edu/USGA and visit the Let Your Voice Be Heard section.

Your voice, your student government. Tell us how we can better serve you!

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Many times leaders of religious communities are so concerned with helping their parishioners with their own spirituality, they forget that their own physical and mental well-being needs nourishing. In order to care for parish pastors and their staff members, theINSPIRE program, a partnership initiative between Loyola and the Archdiocese of Chicago, hosted a “Pre Advent Day of Reflection”  in November at Loyola’s Water Tower Campus and the Archbishop Quigley Center.

Read more about INSPIRE in this article featured on the front page of today’s Inside Loyola blog:

http://blogs.luc.edu/ilweekly/2013/01/08/an-inspiring-day/

This spring semester, students in their final year of the MA in Social Justice and Community Development (MASJCD) will be doing their research project on Christmas giving models by partnering with Catholic Charities and the Loyola Gives program. This research project will be the main focus of the Applied Research class, a final requirement for MASJCD students. Their forthcoming research was mentioned in a recent Chicago Tribune article on Christmas giving. You can read more about it here.