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 many Newman Center ministries, 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 10-12 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 every other Thursday evening during the school year from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Student Leadership Opportunities
There are many leadership opportunities at the Newman Center. They include:
Mass Coordinators, Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers
Spaghetti Dinner Team
Bible Studies and Small Faith Sharing Groups
Public Relations & Advertizing
Social Event Coordinators
Catholic Students Association
BuckeyeWorks
BuckeyeWorks is a three-day interactive leadership training seminar/retreat 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 #3 was held Sept. 13-15, 2011 with over 25 student leaders participating.
ESTEEM Leadership Program
The Newman Center has been selected again to be among a select group of 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, 7 Buckeye Catholic student leaders were chosen to participate in this prestigious program. In the 2011-12 academic year, 15 Buckeye Catholic students will be part of the program. The ESTEEM program 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.
Read about ESTEEM in the New York Times!
If you are interested in student leadership, contact Austin Schafer at (614) 291-4674 x116
