- 6:35Jesuit Higher EducationJesuit universities have long had the reputation of excellence in academics, but the foundation of all Jesuit education is cura personalis, care for the individual person. A SLU education is more than an academic endeavor; it is a project of transformation for the common good. This starts with the student-teacher relationship and flows outward to serve the needs of our local community as well as our global family.
- 6:34The Universal Apostolic PreferencesAs a global mission, SLU participates with the Society of Jesus in promoting the four universal apostolic preferences—emphasizing discernment, care for creation, accompanying young people in building a hope-filled future, and walking with the poor and marginalized of our world.
- 6:49The Mission of Saint Louis UniversitySaint Louis University is a Catholic Jesuit institution of higher education. Rooted in a centuries-old Ignatian tradition, SLU’s mission is more vital now than ever, and each member of the SLU community is a vital contributor to the Jesuit mission of the university.
- 9:24The Society of Jesus throughout HistoryFor the past five centuries, Jesuits have been making significant contributions to society and culture, not only in religion and philosophy, but also in the sciences, arts, literature, and beyond. history—both that which is past and that which is currently being written—is best understood from the Ignatian principle of “finding God in all things.”
- 8:42Saint Ignatius of LoyolaThe Ignatian tradition of Jesuit ministry begins with St. Ignatius. Beginning from his early years in a noble family and extending all the way through to his death as the international leader of the Society of Jesus, the life of St. Ignatius provides opportunities for each of us to find parallels in our own life stories and professional pathways.
- 0:41Boxing Basketball BillikensSaint Louis University’s women’s basketball tries out boxing as a form of conditioning for the players. "This is a creative way to get in better shape," says Head Coach Rebecca Tillett.Transcript:00;00;04;23 - 00;00;05;27 Hi. I’m Rebecca Tillett,00;00;05;27 - 00;00;07;19 head women's basketball coach of Saint Louis00;00;07;19 - 00;00;08;20 Women's Basketball.00;00;08;20 - 00;00;12;00 We were here with our team today, met up with Saint Louis Boxing Club.00;00;12;10 - 00;00;14;17 Great thing for young women to feel strength.00;00;14;17 - 00;00;16;16 We're not always taught to box when we’re young,00;00;16;16 - 00;00;17;13 or, you know, defend ourselves.00;00;17;13 - 00;00;18;16 So this gives that.00;00;18;16 - 00;00;22;09 And it's also great for team camaraderie and really improving our conditioning00;00;22;09 - 00;00;23;16 without just sprinting outside.00;00;23;16 - 00;00;25;26 Right? This is a creative way to get in better shape00;00;25;26 - 00;00;28;10 I just think that boxing, you know, brings a lot to it, right.00;00;28;10 - 00;00;30;20 Teaches toughness, which is one of our core values00;00;30;20 - 00;00;33;28 and also teaches us to be quick on our feet, to make quick decisions,00;00;34;03 - 00;00;36;00 which you have to be to be successful at basketball.
- 1:13Getting involved at SLUFrom social groups to academic groups, Greek life to faith life, athletics to service, SLU has a group for you! See some of the many way you can get involved on campus. --- Transcript: Yennhi Phan 00;00;02;18 - 00;00;11;28 One of the things that SLU is just so good at is having a club for every aspect of everyone's personalities because as humans, we have so many interests. We're all multifaceted.Mohammed Ashkar 00;00;11;28 - 00;00;17;24 Being a part of any community is at the center of what it means to be a SLU student.Brooke Kenworthy 00;00;17;25 - 00;00;31;24 You know, we say it everywhere, but we are kind of a care of the whole person university. And that means you are developing more than just your education or more than just, you know, your fraternity sorority life connections, more than just your spiritual life. You're able to do all of those thingsMichael Orosz-Fagen 00;00;31;24 - 00;00;36;20 You get to know different people, different cultures, and you really get to know your university better.Kaia Prichett 00;00;37;08 - 00;00;45;27 You are able to grow more as a person, grow more into like who you are, kind of understand what it is that you want and you believe.Mohammed Ashkar 00;00;46;07 - 00;01;06;19 There are so many opportunities present on campus from social organizations to academic organizations. Sports, sororities, fraternities. And I think this variety really lends itself to community and those communities lend themselves to inclusivity. You can definitely find your niche on campus.
- 0:18The SLU 101 ExperienceSLU 101 summer orientation is your first opportunity to live life as a Billiken! It's a two-day overnight campus visit filled with everything you need to prepare for your first semester. During SLU 101, you'll connect with other students, be introduced to Saint Louis University resources and get to know key spots on campus.For more information, visit: https://www.slu.edu/admitted-students/slu101/index.php --- Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic institutions. Rooted in Jesuit values and its pioneering history as the first university west of the Mississippi River, SLU offers nearly 13,000 students a rigorous, transformative education of the whole person on campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, and Madrid, Spain. At the core of the University’s diverse community of scholars is SLU’s service-focused mission, which challenges and prepares students to make the world a better, more just place. Learn more at www.slu.edu.
- 2:14Hands-on Learning at SLUSLU makes hands-on learning a priority for its students no matter their course of study. Whether you're a civil engineering student bending steel beams in the lab or a law student practicing litigation in SLU's full-size courtroom, students have access to a variety of spaces and instruction that help prepare them for real-world scenarios in their field. "Students want to know and have some tangible feeling that what they're doing in the classroom really is going to prepare them when they are on the job," says Associate Professor of finance Thomas Doellman, Ph. D., whose students manage real money and make stock recommendations in his applied portfolio management course. To learn more about these opportunities, visit www.slu.edu.Transcript:Thomas Doellman, Ph. D. | Associate Professor of Finance 00;00;00;26 - 00;00;18;21 Students want to know and have some tangible feeling that what they're doing in the classroom really is going to prepare them when they are on the job. Experiential learning is the big buzz word now. Students expect it and we want to provide it.Rashae Williams | SLU Law '24 00;00;20;01 - 00;00;36;06 SLU Law has a full-sized court downtown. It's beautiful, has lots of windows, but more importantly, it's laid out like an actual courtroom. And so it gives us the opportunity to learn all the etiquette before we ever enter an actual courtroom.Quentin Chung | Aeronautics '26 00;00;37;14 - 00;00;56;21 So the flight simulators allow us to do pretty much anything that we could do in a regular airplane, just kind of in a controlled area. They introduce a lot of different situations, maybe like an engine failure or engine fire, an area to where we can kind of fully simulate it when we can't really simulate in a real airplane.Karly Wilson | Chef | Fresh Gatherings Café + Farm 00;00;59;03 - 00;01;28;27 One of the really special things about the Nutrition and Dietetics department is we do have a culinary emphasis, and as a senior, you get to put on the senior project, which is an event to display your culinary philosophy that you've developed over the past four years. And then we also have Fresh Gatherings Cafe and Farm, where students can gain food service experience working in a real-life kitchen. We also have an urban farm right down the street where students can learn about gardening and farming and I think that those experiences are things that you simply can't get looking at a screen or reading a textbook.John Wheaton | Nursing '23 00;01;29;26 - 00;01;49;21 The SIM lab here at SLU, gives, like, the students an opportunity to practice their nursing skills on manikins who can simulate, real life physiology of, a human. So the manikins can have real human heartbeat. And then you can take their blood pressure, you can feel pulses. And it's very realistic. It allows you to be engaging, but also be able to make mistakes.Brooke Kenworthy | Civil Engineering '24 00;01;50;17 - 00;01;53;13 Our civil engineering program is very hands on. I would argue that it's probably one of the most hands on programs in the country. We do in-class activities probably once a week in some capacity. It's pretty amazing what goes on in there and I feel very blessed to be in an institution where that is prioritized
- 2:49School of Social Work at Saint Louis UniversitySaint Louis University's School of Social Work provides students with an academic experience rooted in research, real-world experience, and a focus on humanity. Learn more about the Master of Social Work program: https://www.slu.edu/social-work/academics/social-work/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/slusw/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sluschoolofsocialwork/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SocialWorkSLU LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/80491303/admin/ ---- Transcript:Speaker 1: Christine Dragonette, M.S.W. | Alum SLU social work program is focused on the clinical and practical, and I think practicum is really a big piece of that. So a lot of opportunities to connect with agencies in the area and learn about what social work looks like on the ground level.Speaker 2: Anthony Gills, M.S.W. | Alum I believe my program prepared me very well. It gave me those skills to be able to effectively work with people from different cultural backgrounds to know that everybody comes from a different type of upbringing. And I feel like the master's in social [00:00:30] work program here at SLU gave me a lot of different opportunities to learn about that.Speaker 3: Julia Lopez, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D. | Alum It really was like a launching pad for me, and I don't know if that would have happened if I had really gone to another place that didn't have social justice as its main focus.Speaker 1: Christine Dragonette, M.S.W. | Alum I'm the director of social ministry, so I basically direct all of our service and justice programing at the church. So our main program is our [00:01:00] ID and birth certificate program. We work with people experiencing poverty and homelessness to facilitate their access to Missouri State IDs, knowing that identification is the first step toward accessing housing, employment, all of the things that people need to move forward in their lives. I very immediately developed a lot of compassion for what people have to deal with and just navigating all of the barriers that people in poverty face.Speaker 3: Julia Lopez, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D. | Alum I had a deep interest in really working with [00:01:30] low resource marginalized communities, with people with persistent severe mental illness and substance use. So I did a lot of work in the community to help them kind of navigate the arduous system that we have for health services in general, especially for those who are marginalized and don't have health insurance coverage.Speaker 2: Anthony Gills, M.S.W. | Alum In a helping profession. I like doing that. I learned a lot in graduate school here at SLU and all of those knowledge and tools and resources that I learned. [00:02:00] I want to give back to the students that I'm serving now.Speaker 1: Christine Dragonette, M.S.W. | Alum This focus on justice recognizes that each person, every one of us, is not a person in isolation, but a part of our environment and the systems we interact with.Speaker 2: Anthony Gills, M.S.W. | Alum I felt like after going to Saint Louis University, I live by the Jesuit mission now.Speaker 1: Christine Dragonette, M.S.W. | Alum It's my ethical responsibility as a social worker to be aware of my identity and how that affects any biases I might have in my work. I think that helped [00:02:30] to ground me as I was moving through the program, was being engaged in the community outside of just the four walls of a classroom and making the most of pairing what I was learning with practical observation and experience in the world.
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