pjmedia.com By David Manney
We’re at the time of year when we watch the transition from one season to another. Seasonal change isn’t the only thing in the air.
Signaling the completion of a long journey towards secularism, the University of Notre Dame announced a “refreshed” set of staff values in late October, rolling out language that sounds suspiciously like the same corporate boilerplate used everywhere from Silicon Valley startups to mid-level insurance firms.
Community. Collaboration. Excellence. Innovation.
It’s a list that reads like something printed, laminated, and handed out at an onboarding meeting. On the surface, it reads like a sterilized index that HR and focus groups spent months working on. However, a quiet omission sits underneath all of it: the staff requirement to “support the Catholic mission” no longer appears.
Insisting that the mission remains woven through every part of campus life, the university erased the explicit phrasing. It’s an old and familiar chill felt by anyone who pays attention to American universities: the consistent drift into ideological rewiring.
The details from a Campus Reform report illustrate the changes. The original staff-value list included “Leadership in Mission: Understands, accepts, and supports the Catholic mission of the university.” The updated version? Not so much.
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