Campus Life

The journey begins with serving others, but also includes reflecting on that experience in the light of faith, integrating it with our studies, and becoming agents for positive change.

We trust that such a journey will change lives, transform our campus, and create a better world.

The center’s aim is fourfold:

     1. Promote Direct Service: To be
         more directly and personally
         involved with members of the local
         community who are in need or who
         suffer from some form of injustice,
         and to join in regional efforts to
         address social and environmental
         concerns;
     2. Education: To help foster a
         consciousness that focuses on the
         human and spiritual needs of all
         people, that evokes compassion for
         those in need, and that instills in
         people a greater sense of
         responsibility and an urgency to
         right wrongs;

     3. Advocacy: To help bring about structural changes that lead to a more
         just society and church, to stand with those struggling to reclaim their dignity or
         rights, and to take public stands on matters of justice and peace. It is a journey
         that begins at St. Bonaventure with an examination of our own local
         circumstances and striving to thoughtfully reach out to those in need.
     4. Social entrepreneurship: To play the role of change agents in the social sector by

The Franciscan Center for Social Concern
Thomas Merton Center, St. Bonaventure University
Sr. Suzanne Kush, C.S.S.F., director
(716) 375-2358    skush@sbu.edu