The Institute offers opportunities for faculty and staff from across the disciplines to connect under a shared mission of transforming and integrating the paradigms and pedagogies of liberal arts and the professions. Faculty and staff can make these connections through:
The Global Engagement Office and the Kingfisher Institute have partnered to create a unique seminar experience. Our group is to advance capacity building across the university for regional and global partnerships and for projects related to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Applicants will commit to:
Apply by March 22, 2021 via this application form.
Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli. Faculty, students, staff, and alumni are welcome to join and will receive a free e-book while supplies last.
Meetings will take place on Wednesdays, Feb. 24, March 24, and April 28, 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Zoom.
Learn about late political and civil rights leader John Lewis, and discuss what it might mean to "get into good trouble" now. We will watch the film "Good Trouble" and read book 1 of the graphic memoir series, March. The film is free to watch through Creighton libraries and a limited number of free e-books are available.
A call for proposals for revising Magis Core courses to incorporate anti-racist content and pedagogy is now open. Four awards of $700 are available for faculty members who currently teach a Magis Core Course.
EXTENDED: Review of proposals will begin on or around Feb. 15, 2021.
2019-2020 Magis/KFI grant recipients:
