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First-generation students find a home at Creighton
We spoke with a handful of first-generation Creighton students about their experiences, the challenges they've faced and the support they've received.
Meet the students helping to run Creighton's vaccine clinic
Hundreds of volunteers are keeping the clinic running. Here are a few of the students making this historic moment possible for Creighton University.
New sanctuary for prayer and reflection — the St. Peter Faber, SJ Chapel
This month, Archbishop George Lucas blessed the St. Peter Faber, SJ Chapel, located in the Mike and Josie Harper Center, and consecrated the altar. Design elements of the chapel include icons of St. Peter Faber, SJ, and the Madonna della Strada, a prayers and petitions wall, and a chapel cave.
Our biggest Giving Day ever
On March 3, thousands of Bluejays came together to make this our biggest Giving Day to date, with a total of nearly $936,000. Nearly 2,900 donors made gifts to Creighton in just 24 hours.
New health care partnership seeks to help the underserved in Maricopa County
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is investing $10 million in a collaboration between Creighton University and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) in Phoenix.
How to make an even bigger impact on Giving Day
For Giving Day, Creighton’s annual day of fundraising — Wednesday, March 3 — dozens of our generous donors will match gifts or give additional sums to designated areas through challenge funds.
One day. $1 million.
This Creighton Giving Day, you can help us do something extraordinary — raise $1 million for dozens of causes that support our students, faculty, staff and friends. We’re hoping to make this our most successful Giving Day yet!
Alum passed on med school to join the State Department
Craig Ferguson was once a pre-med student at Creighton, but he ditched his biology degree three decades ago to become a lifelong U.S. diplomat who now knows a half-dozen languages and writes speeches for ambassadors. Oh, and he lives in Madagascar.
10 years of support for Creighton dentists serving rural communities
Creighton's Rural Scholarship program started in 2016 and has supported several dental alumni who made a commitment to help address a shortage of oral health care access and serve patients in rural communities.
She majored in classics; now she's a VP at ESPN
Ashley O'Connor, BA'00, didn't initially plan for a career in sports. But her time as a student manager with Creighton men's basketball set her on a path to success. She's been shaping ESPN's programming for 21 years now.