Each summer, students have the opprotunity o work one-on-one with a faculty or staff member on a service learning project in a faith-based setting (e.g., parish, church, synagogue, hospital, not-for-profit agency). Students, between the summer of the junior and senior year, compete for service learning mini-grants to apply their knowledge to address a practical problem in a faith-based setting. This experience helps them discern their vocation. Six to eight projects are funded each summer. 

2007

We awarded grants to three students: Amanda Brouse, Megan Cairns, and Stacie Striegel. Each received $2,000 for their faith based service grants.

2006

Four grants were awarded to students and faculty members traveling to Honduras to take a second step at forging a relationship between Marian University, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Indianapolis, and Sociedad Amigos de los Niños. This year’s group focused on exploring future possibilities in the areas of business development for a local bicycle shop in Honduras, nursing, education, and language education. 

2005

Mitzi Adkinson received a grant to serve underprivileged children by working with a church to offer Vacation Bible School to young children in Mexico. 

Stephanie Horan received a grant and worked with a group of youth at St. Roch Parish in Indianapolis returning from a mission trip to Texas and Mexico. She worked with them through various projects to help them to gain a better understanding of this experience. 

2004

Jenny Dinelli, an education major, received a grant to travel to Haiti with a professor and a church mission project to help prepare Haitian women to teach in the classroom. 

Susan Giel, a pastoral leadership major, received a grant to organize youth and their families at St. Joseph Church in Lebanon, Indiana to landscape an area at Witham Hospital. 

Tracy Irons, a nursing major, received a grant to hold a summer health fair in Indianapolis for inner-city teenage girls at the Wishard Hospital Teen Clinic to educate them in stress management, health, and relationships. 

Jeff Traylor, a religious education major, received a grant to organize a group of volunteers to make some much needed repairs on a garage for St. Augustine’s Nursing Home owned by the Little Sisters of the Poor.