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Saint Joseph’s Theology Blog: A Work of
Missionary Discipleship
Integrity: An Uncommon Good in Service of the
Common Good
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Faith, Excellence, Integrity, Community, Respect, Compassion, Justice
Our core values are “rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ
and in the heritage of the Sisters of Mercy.”
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Faith, Excellence, Integrity, Community, Respect, Compassion, Justice
Value: a principle or quality intrinsically worthy or
desirable.
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Faith, Excellence, Integrity, Community, Respect, Compassion, Justice
They are to form the “value-centered environment” in
which “the intellectual, spiritual, and social growth” of our students takes place.
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Assumption #1
The meaning given to the core values flows from being
“rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ and the doctrine and heritage of the Catholic
Church.”
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Assumption #2
Jesus taught the kingdom of God, both as future = “Your kingdom
come,”and as present = “The Kingdom of
God is among you”.He taught that the future and the
present were closely connected.
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Assumption #3
However, the College is not a church, a religious community, a
retreat house, or a family.
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Assumption #4
The College is a legally incorporated institution of
higher education and higher learning committed to core
values rooted in the teaching of Jesus Christ!
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Assumption #5
Therefore, our core values are the values of an institution subject to local, state, and federal rules and
regulations, as well as NEASC and other accrediting agencies. The
situation is complex. The language of the values is simple.
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Question #1
Are these values descriptions or prescriptions?
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Question #2
Are these the values of individuals, or of an institution made of
individuals?
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Question #3-4
How ideal? How real is the expectation that these values
be implemented?
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Half Empty! Half Full!
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Question #5
May the practice of one value, whether individual or
institutional, interfere with the practice of another value?
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Balance
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Question #6
Are we mixing two different orders of human valuing by
using terms that may refer to either individual or
institutional behavior?
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: Reinhold Niebuhr
“A sharp distinction must be drawn between the moral and social
behavior of individuals and of social groups, national, racial, and
economic; this distinction justifies and necessitates political policies
which a purely individualistic ethic must find embarrassing.” p. xi
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Assumption #6
The core values are both individual and institutional,
present and future, descriptive, but primarily prescriptive.
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Assumption #7
Each core value must initially be seen as prescriptivally
individual: each one of us is called personally to put them in
practice.
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Emphasis #1This is more a
task to be performed
than an achievement
to be praised.
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Emphasis #2
Each core value at the personal and individual level is at the
service of the educational mission of the College.
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Integrity
“Concerned for the common good as individuals and as community, we commit ourselves to honesty in all
relations with students, faculty, staff, and administration. Through our integrity,
we maintain the trust of the surrounding community and of public and
governmental agencies.”
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Integrity
Integrity is the link core value between academic excellence and
community.
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Integrity
Integrity implies trustworthiness and incorruptibility to a degree that one is incapable of being
false to a trust, responsibility, or pledge!
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Integrity
WOW!
OH, MY GOSH!
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Integrity
In the clarity of our innermost thoughts, it should be clear how hard this ideal is to
put into practice.
It has a present toehold, but largely lies in the future.
Thank God, God is forgiving!
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Integrity
There should be a close connection between integrity
and humility.
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Integrity
An Uncommon Good
in Service
of the Common Good!
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Conclusion“Therefore, my
beloved, be steadfast,
immovable, always excelling in the
work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord
your labor is not in vain”
---1 CO 15:58