Extent of Creighton's Community Relations and Service Outreach
Since our founding in 1878, Creighton has been characterized as a private university in the public service. Our commitment to service now is as deep as it was then. We continue to reflect the motives and actions of our generous founders, Mary Lucretia and Edward Creighton and Sarah Emily and John Creighton.
Creighton is dedicated to higher education, health care, the community at large, and the underserved of the world. Every year we evaluate how we can better live our mission and how we can help inspire men and women to lead and serve in their communities.
Here is a summary of Creighton's Breadth of Outreach
- In 2006-2007, Creighton was physically present and involved in 579 programs locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
- Locally: Creighton was involved in 400 programs in Metro-Omaha; 86% of the programs were in the poorest areas of Omaha.
- Regionally: Creighton was involved in 90 programs in greater-Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota.
- Nationally: Creighton was involved in 56 programs in these states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
- Internationally: Creighton was involved in 33 programs in these countries: British Columbia, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, India, Kenya, Peru, Romania, and Uganda.
- Creighton’s web outreach by means of the Online Ministries Program
- All 50 states of the USA
- 150 countries: Listed below (alphabetically) are the 45 countries that are the most frequent users of the Online Ministries Website
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Phillipines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam - The Online Ministries website is translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Russian.
- The Student Daily Reflections website began on November 4, 2007. They are modeled after the "Daily Reflections" site written by 50 of our faculty and staff. The Student Daily Reflections site asks nearly 30 Creighton students to reflect on the day's Scripture readings. This website is new and will take a hiatus when undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are not on campus.
Here is the link to the Student Daily Reflections:
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Students/Reactions about the Student Daily Reflections website:
From a student: "I want to thank you (Fr. Alexander, S.J., and Maureen Waldron) for having the vision and initative to begin the Daily Student Reflection site. Today has been very special as I've received emails from as far away as New Zealand and India, and as close as professors here at CU. I am very moved by this whole process, and wanted to extend a sincere word of gratitude to you for your efforts in this endeavor."
From across the world: "Hi, I come from a long way from USA. I am very critical of your country as I see from a distance all the harm you inflict on the world. Yet, I have enjoyed and been blessed by this website for some time. I have recently started to read the students' reflections. They are just brilliant. It gives me hope that you, USA that is, can turn around and start to do good rather than evil when you are blessed with youngsters of the calibre presented in those reflections. Thank you."