Center for Faith and Public Life
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| Abbreviation | CFPL |
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| Established | 2005 |
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Director
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Richard Ryscavage, S.J. |
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Service (OSL)
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Director, Melissa Quan |
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JUHAN
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Director, Julie Mughal |
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Main organ
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CFPL Newsletter |
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Fairfield University Society of Jesus, Catholic |
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Staff
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Six |
| Website | CFPL |
Center for Faith and Public Life (CFPL) at Fairfield University, Connecticut, founded in 2005, provides a cross-disciplinary forum for students, scholars, policy makers, and religious leaders to reflect and converse on issues where religion intersects with civic life. Through academic research, teaching, publications, and public initiatives, the Center provides a focus for viewing the role of religion in public life. Additionally, the Center has made major contributions to the national debate on migration policy through its director who served as advisor to President Obama and was long in the forefront of the issue. He is one of many prominent social activists hired by the University who contribute to the vitality of this center.
Coursework. The Center promotes teaching, research, and other activities to advance student understanding and public dialogue on issues of faith and justice. It has advanced its objectives by engaging 55 faculty members at Fairfield University to include education for respectful global citizenship in 85 University courses. There are 35 community-based organizations worldwide with whom the Center maintains relations.
JUHAN. Fairfield University is a leading member of the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN), which aims to raise awareness on Jesuit campuses of the meaning of humanitarian response and its implications for the Jesuit ideology of training men and women for others. Through JUHAN Jesuit university professors share ideas for course components and programs to implement its goals. Assisted by a $260,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation. the JUHAN leadership team at Fairfield examined the increasing career opportunities in the humanitarian action field along with the popularity of this field among Fairfield University students, and proposed that the University initiate a humanitarian action minor. This minor was in place by 2016 and students were involved through JUHAN in insertion experiences abroad. Through JUHAN the Center also offers fellowships to students who are preparing for a career in social activism. With help from these fellows, JUHAN further organizes student action, trips, and network conferences." Also, engineering students at Fairfield created the JUHAN website.
Service Learning. The Center is home to the Office of Service Learning which incorporates the service learning teaching methodology into the Fairfield curriculum, providing opportunities to combine studies with community service to local organizations in nearby Bridgeport, Connecticut. For example, education and psychology students can participate in the Adrienne Kirby Family Literacy Project, business students can participate in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, and nursing students can work at the Health Promotion Center or in Nicaragua in summers. And CFPL is the current home for the Connecticut Campus Compact, providing state-level support for Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 1,100 colleges and universities promoting community service, civic engagement, and service learning in higher education.
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