work

How can our labor foster communal flourishing?

"[Do] not set [your] own need as the goal of…work but the service of those in want."

-St. Basil the Great, Longer Rules (c. 375)

readings

Derek Thompson, “The Religion of Workism” (2023)
Dorothy Sayers, “Why Work?” (1942)

refractor

Micki Kidder is Vice President for Undergraduate Enrollment, overseeing Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, Pre-College Programs, and TRIO. After studying finance and accounting at Indiana University, she earned her MBA from the University of Notre Dame. She joined the University staff in 2004, previously serving as Vice President for University Enterprises and Events as well as Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Development. She is active in the local community, including The Stanley Clark School and local business development endeavors.

co-curricular events

Discerning Work w/ the Center for Career Development

Nov 1 - 15 (varied)

What does "work" mean to you? The Discerning Work event is an interactive workshop that seeks to help you begin to create a plan and framework for how to consider, evaluate, pursue, and engage with your current work and imagine the role of work in your life after graduation. Learn more

called life life: taking initiative

Due in class by session 10: rest

Life Labs are engaging, interpersonal activities related to course topics that you complete on your own. You and your classmates will complete these activities during the same time period, enabling a shared communal experience.

This Life Lab invites you to practice taking initiative in friendship or community. Such action may be one way of responding to a calling to recognize the belovedness of others.

called life life: taking initiative

Additional Resources

Read how Dorothy Sayers suggests that we teach our children everything by how to learn in "The Lost Tools of Learning."

Listen to Derek Thompson's podcast "Plain English."

Read St. John Paul II’s encyclical on the dignity of work, Laborem Exercens.

Read an article from Mendoza Business on how the values of the Congregation of Holy Cross are being cultivated in the formation of people who study human work.