Notre Dame Brings Back ‘Catholic Mission’ to Staff Values

Notre Dame Brings Back ‘Catholic Mission’ to Staff Values

A complaint forced Notre Dame to bring back its Catholic mission to the employee principles statement.

From The College Fix:

University President the Rev. Robert Dowd announced the restored language in a recent memo, saying the removal of “Catholic mission” from its “core Values” list led to confusion, the Irish Rover reports.

“I hope this change makes clear what I believe we all understand: Our Catholic mission guides and informs all that we do and how we work together,” Dowd wrote in a Nov. 21 memo to employees.

Dowd said Notre Dame’s leaders considered the “constructive feedback” and realized that the removal of the “Catholic mission” language could be misinterpreted as “a sign of diminishing commitment.”

“To avoid any further confusion, we have now included the language on Catholic mission as the first of our five core Values,” he wrote.

The document in question is a set of “organizational principles” for its 4,500 non-faculty employees that includes a list of institutional values.

The list now includes the following language: “Catholic Mission: Be a force for good and help to advance Notre Dame’s mission to be the leading global Catholic research university,” according to the Rover, an independent student newspaper on campus.

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