Notre Dame Updates Personnel Values: Catholic Mission Central

Notre Dame updates its personnel values, aiming to reinforce its Catholic mission. The university emphasizes its enduring commitment despite changes in wording, focusing on its global Catholic mission.

The university’s vice president for human resources, Heather Christophersen, told Notre Dame’s trainee paper, The Onlooker, that the new worths “may not claim specific mission-related words,” yet “attempting to weave them throughout was our objective.”

New Values at Notre Dame

The College of Notre Dame recently accepted a new, streamlined version of its personnel values that no longer explicitly consists of support for and approval of its “Catholic goal,” Catholic Information Company and other Catholic magazines reported.

Reinforcing Catholic Mission

“Far from diminishing the importance of Notre Dame’s Catholic mission, the University’s current rearticulation of its worths seeks to reinforce the centrality of our distinctive goal,” the declaration checked out. “Conversations with employee across campus about just how ideal to communicate and reinforce the ageless values that have always computer animated the College brought about the reformulation that was announced a couple of weeks ago, yet the University’s worths and unfailing dedication to its Catholic objective have not and will not transform.”

The college revealed the new set of values at personnel community halls held in late October, outlined in an information release last week. The worths list is preceded by the declaration, “In all that we do, we seek to advance Notre Dame’s mission as a global Catholic study university to be a pressure for excellent in the globe.”