At St. Xavier University we take care of our own. This week, according to the news story “Disability Services Receives High Honor” by Catlyn Hicks, “Saint Xavier University’s Learning Center and Disability Services was awarded the Outstanding Post-Secondary Program Award at the 9th Annual Illinois Statewide Transition Conference, which is given to a university or vocational program who has done and exceptional job at helping students with disabilities accomplish their goals of higher education.”
We at The Xavierite would like to offer our congratulations to the hardworking people over at the Learning Center and Disability Services on being recognized for their hard work.
In last week’s editorial “Applauding the heroes who fight cancer locally,” we discussed how the St. Xavier Community has a mission to help all people around the world in keeping with the Sisters of Mercy credo.
This week that sense of community and helping is demonstrated through the St. Xavier University Learning Center and Disability Services.
The Sisters of Mercy organization is well revered for its charity works and helping people as well as educating them around the world.
However, this charity work always begins at home where a sense of helping others through the good nature of our hearts is a necessary building block if SXU students are to go out into the world and continue in the grand tradition of Christian charity learned within the walls of our university.
This spirit of transition from being a student within the walls of the university is also present in the work that staff members at the Learning Center and Disability Services and the help that they provide so that students can one day function to the best of their ability in the work place and in all facets of their adult lives.
However, we’d also like to comment on the help that the Learning Center provides even for those without learning disabilities.
All are welcome to make appointments if they are struggling in a particular area (or areas) of study. Students are able to work one-on-one or in a group with a tutor. These tutors , who are SXU students, are willing to help in practically every subject available at SXU. This is a resource that not many use when it is readily available.
So, if need be please go in and take advantage of our now award-winning Learning Center and Disability Services.
The hard work and thus acknowledgement of those working to help students within these selected education help services are a prime example of what every member of the St. Xavier community should strive towards.
Helping those who are in need of it so that they can function after the interaction and pass what valued lessons they have learned onto others and thus make our world a more enlightened place.
This new achievement by the Learning Center and Disability Services reminds us of the old adage: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
That is precisely what they are doing: teaching many to fish and become more independent and more proficient in the facets of life – the ultimate goal of education.
So this week we would like to applaud the efforts of the Learning Center and Disability Services for their great contribution to our university and thus the world.
The Xavierite Staff