Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 39.69
Liaison April Thompson
Submission Date March 2, 2018
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Creighton University
AC-5: Immersive Experience

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Mary Duda
Chemical Coordinator
Facilities Management
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Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution, including how each program addresses the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability:

The Schlegel Center for Service and Justice (SCSJ, formerly the Creighton Center for Service and Justice) offers at least one, and usually more, sustainability-themed Fall and Spring Break Service Trip each year. Sustainability is one pillar of each of the offered service trips. Trips have included a sustainability-theme immersion in Omaha, visits to West Virginia to learn about the impact of mountaintop-removal, and a trip to an eco-center. Students are very enthusiastic about their trips and what they've learned.

This fall our trips included: urban gardens, rural sustainability, energy independence, organic farming, oil, coal and natural gas extraction, and animal husbandry.

Hundreds of students participate in these trips every fall and spring break.

Creighton's backpack journalism takes students on trips across the country and the globe for an immersive trip. From the website:
"Every other summer, about 16 Creighton students and several faculty members travel to a community in search of a story. It might be to rural Alaska or postwar Uganda. Wherever they go, they bring a passion for social justice, journalism, and film-making.

The students immerse themselves in these communities through interviewing, filming, recording and blogging for five weeks. When they return to Creighton, they take the stories they’ve collected and develop them into a short documentary film."

The 2016 Backpack Journalism group traveled to Nogales, Arizona, to make a film about the U.S. and Mexico border, the people who live there and the migrants who pass through. The film will focus on the lived experience of migration in North America as interpreted through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. Read their blog for stories about their transformative journey."


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More can be found by exploring the CCSJ's Service Trip website:
http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/sjt/

Backpack Journalism: https://ccas.creighton.edu/current-students/backpack-journalism


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