The Ozanam Scholars Program is a four-year developmental model
with a central purpose to educate and foster students’ academic,
leadership, service and Vincentian development, leading
participants to the ability to actively research and create
solutions to issues of poverty.
Participants of the Ozanam Scholars Program will research issues
of poverty and social justice on the local, national and
international level. Graduates of the program will go into
the world well-educated in the charism of St. Vincent de Paul and
prepared to live and serve as civic-minded individuals with a
preferential option for the poor.
Ozanam Scholars will be afforded the opportunity to study the
causes and effects of poverty through classroom study and research,
participating directly in service that is in response to
community-defined needs and assisting directly in determining
pragmatic solutions to the plight of the poor. As members of
a community-based research team, students will work to measure and
assess their efforts to connect action and outcome to ensure
positive results and real change in the lives of the poor and
marginalized.
The following serves as the themes of each of the four
years:
- Social
Justice, Leadership, and the Vincentian Family
- Strategic
Service, Mentorship, and Research Techniques
- Community-Based
Research Partnerships and Global Exploration
- Research
Outcomes: Analyzing and Eradicating Poverty