Located on the southernmost border of the United States, the city of El Paso, Texas, is home to almost 700,000 people - and one of the largest international border crossings in the world. During the middle of May, 2024, El Paso was also home to a group of five Assumption students, four fac...
Following a two-year hiatus caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Assumption University’s Campus Ministry resumed its SEND Service Program with two immersive service trips during the spring semester break. The week-long trips to El Paso, Texas and Camden, New Jersey provided students with the opportuni...
Renowned Guatemalan-American film director and producer Luis Argueta presented a lecture titled, “Ausencia: On Migrations, Vocations, and Social Justice,” on Thursday, February 18 at 4 p.m. via Zoom.In this conversation on Central American migration, Argueta discussed his forthcoming do...
This Valentine’s Day, ten Assumption students joined Wish of a Lifetime’s #CupidCrew in delivering roses to residents of Worcester-area nursing homes. Assumption was joined by groups of students from Anna Maria College, Becker College, and the College of the Holy Cross in distributing nearly 500...
During the month-long winter break, Assumption students participated in weeklong service immersion trips providing them the opportunity to serve those in the greatest of need while growing spiritually and personally. The SEND Immersion Program instills in students a desire to use one’s gifts and k...
Assumption’s Ecumenical Institute and Bayard, Inc. will host a lecture by Villanova theologian Massimo Faggioli, Ph.D., “Catholicism and Citizenship in Times of Political and Ecclesial Division,” on Thursday, February 6, 2020, at 4 p.m. in the Tsotsis Family Academic Center on the Assumption c...
Assumption has announced that the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) has responded positively to Assumption’s request to send a team of four “missionaries,” recent college graduates, to collaborate with Campus Ministry staff. The missionaries will devote their energies to...
Campus Ministry at Assumption offers daily Lenten Reflections from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday (March 6 – April 21). Each day, a different member of the Assumption community (faculty, staff, Assumptionists, Religious of the Assumption, students, other members of the Chapel worship...
Assumption has awarded Grace Clark ’19 a $3,500 Community Engagement Grant to travel to Uganda this summer, where she will explore her anticipated vocation of providing medical care to individuals in impoverished countries. Clark will travel to Uganda for the month of July as a participant in...
Jose Garcia ’19 has been awarded a SOPHIA Community Engagement Grant to conduct interdisciplinary research on issues affecting Latinos in the United States. Garcia will travel to Los Angeles, CA; Tucson, AZ; and Orlando, FL to obtain a deeper understanding of Latino Critical Race Theory.Accord...
When they graduate, Assumption students have a number of possibilities open to them. Frank Bruno ’17, an English and mass communications major from Wethersfield, CT, has spent much of his time since graduation engaged in a year of service helping those in need in Guayaquil, Ecuador.“I rememb...
The years spent as an undergraduate are a time of academic and personal growth. To assist students on their dual journey, Assumption offers a number of opportunities for students to reflect on their lives.Campus Ministry recently hosted the biannual START Retreat for students to travel off-campu...
In 2011, a tornado ravaged Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Since then, Assumption students have traveled to Alabama during spring and winter breaks to help rebuild the community. Please click here to read an article in the Tuscaloosa News about their current trip and how Assumption students...
With a focus on the theme of immigration, Assumption will mark the beginning of a weeklong observance and celebration of “Founders Week” on Thursday, Sept. 6. Founders Week, a celebration of the mission of the Augustinians of the Assumption who founded and continue to sponsor the institution, fe...
The Assumption community officially dedicated the new – and vital – Tinsley Campus Ministry Center on April 27. The Center is connected to the Chapel of the Holy Spirit.A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the 8,800-square-foot building, and it was attended by generous donors, campus a...
On Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, Assumption dedicated four additional stained-glass windows that were once part of the College and Preparatory School’s Greendale campus chapel, which was damaged 61 years ago by a tornado. They join three other stained-glass windows—one of which is called “The Torn...
Assumption has been awarded a NetVUE Chaplaincy Implementation Grant to help students deepen their commitment to vocational discernment through the expansion of an existing reflective retreat as well as the inauguration of a Ministry Internship Program. Both are components of a broader co-curri...
For the next three weeks, Assumption will team up with Catholic Relief Services to hold the inaugural Hounds4CRS Campaign. Officially a global partner of CRS, Assumption aims to engage students in a meaningful charity organization through this campaign.Over the three-week span, Hounds4CRS will i...
During the school year, Corinne Murphy ’17, a human services and theology major from Wilbraham, and Mary Boulton ’17, an elementary education and mathematics major from Poughquag, NY, invest much of their spare time serving as peer ministers among other Campus Ministry-related activities on the ...
Forty-seven Assumption students, staff, and faculty members spent their winter break engaged in various community service projects facilitated by Campus Ministry’s SEND Service Immersion Program. Volunteers embarked on an eight-day journey to either Alabama, Ecuador, Maryland, or New Jersey ...
This month, 63 students spent their spring breaks positively contributing to several communities along the East Coast. During the week of March 6-10, students traveled to Baltimore, MD; Georgetown, DE; Immokalee, FL; Norristown, PA; Trenton, NJ; and Washington, D.C. as part of Assumption's Camp...
