Dear Lynch School Community,
As we welcomed family, friends, and mentors to celebrate the Lynch School’s more than 500 graduating students at last month’s Commencement, I encouraged our newest alumni to remember not just the knowledge they gained and the friendships they formed but the Lynch School’s overarching goal: to guide young people to become whole human beings who live purposeful lives.
I urged members of the Class of 2018 to ask themselves these questions: What will give my life meaning and purpose? What does the world need me to do? And how—when working with young people—can I help them understand that life becomes more meaningful when their efforts contribute to some greater good? In this issue of eColloquia, you can read about Lynch School faculty, alumni, staff, and students who are doing just that.
In eColloquia, we recognize three Lynch School faculty and two alumni who recently received American Educational Research Association (AERA) awards for their exemplary contributions in research, teaching, and service. Our College Bound program, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, has expanded its mission of helping high school students find paths to success in higher education to empowering students to become positive change agents in their schools and communities.
We also welcome a new director at our Campus School, which provides a personalized, integrated, and transdisciplinary education to more than 40 children and youth with multiple disabilities. Housed at the Lynch School in Campion Hall, the Campus School draws regularly on faculty research, evidence-based practices, and the energy and enthusiasm of our many undergraduate volunteers.
Lynch School faculty, students, alumni, and staff work each day to guide young people to build lives that embrace and advance the values, ideas, and practices that make us human. I look forward to continuing to update you on our progress.
Sincerely,
Stanton Wortham
Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean