Student Leadership

Lead the Community

At the Newman Center, we encourage students to identify their gifts and to use them for the common good in the community. Every student has the opportunity to provide some leadership in our community through our Leadership Teams, and a number of students discern and are selected to serve as Core Team Leaders, while others serve as specific Program Leaders of our many campus ministry programs.  

Student Leadership Core Team

The Core Team is made up of 12 dedicated undergraduate students who have gone through a discernment, application, and selection process to be the leaders responsible for the overall coordination of the Newman Center’s campus ministry activities and programs with the Campus Minister. Two core team members are paired together to serve as co-leaders of a particular Leadership Team. These amazing and talented students work in close, mutual collaboration with the staff and ministry leaders of the Newman Center, and they work under the vision and supervision of the Campus Minister.  They meet almost every Thursday evening during the school year from 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Student Leadership Teams

There are six Student Leadership Crew Teams that every undergraduate student has the opportunity to join and provide some leadership in our community. These six teams are the following:

Mission Trips

Retreats

Service Projects

Social Events

Spiritual Life

Public Relations

Program Leaders

There are many opportunities to serve as a program leader in a particular ministry at the Newman Center, such as our Labre homeless outreach ministry, spaghetti dinner, Holy Grounds leader, retreat leader, and small faith sharing groups. 

BuckeyeWorks

BuckeyeWorks is a three-day interactive leadership training seminar that takes place in September before the school year begins. Based upon Saint James saying, faith without works is dead, students learn the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for fruitful servant leadership at the Newman Center. BuckeyeWorks #2 will be held Sept. 14-16, 2010.

ESTEEM Leadership Project

The St. Thomas More Newman Center has been selected to be among a select group of six campus ministry programs nationally to be a pilot site for the ESTEEM program - Engaging Students to Enliven the Ecclesial Mission.  Co-sponsored by the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management and the St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel at Yale University, we were selected because of our vibrant campus ministry and commitment to developing leaders in the Church.  In the 2010-11 school year, 6-12 Buckeye Catholic leaders will be chosen to participate in this prestigious program.  It is designed to help young adults:

• reflect on their idenity, their talents, and their leadership calling;
• participate in a community of similarly talented, dedicated young adults;
• develop skills related to working and leading within an organization;
• understand their leadership vocation in the Church;
• discover ways to exercise leadership in the Church.

For more information, visit the ESTEEM website.

If you are interested in student leadership, contact Austin Schafer at (614) 291-4674 x116