Students have a voice in the strategic plan. Student Government Association president Cade Cypriano is involved in the process of crafting the strategic plan to represent student’s interests. 

According to Cypriano, his input as the student community representative consists of creating a campus environment that benefits the students as a whole. 

However, Cypriano’s main emphasis on the strategic plan is to make service-learning courses required for students.

 “The course itself is directly tailored to accentuate the course material within a major curriculum,” he said.  “If you are sociology major then you need to take the sociology class that has the service learning component, and that component is directly tailored to the need of the sociology student.”

The idea of service-learning Cypriano said, originates in Jesuit ideals and values. “It has to do with the idea that Jesuit community is a community of men and women working for others,” he said. “That is the heart of service learning.”

Cypriano considers service learning as important to Loyola students because “New Orleans is a city that is in need of engaged students and people that are willing to integrate themselves in the community beyond the campus.”

               – Andrea Castillo