Academic Opportunities

Service-Learning

Service-learning is a method of teaching whereby students have the opportunity to utilize their classroom cognition to a meaningful experience in the community.

Service-learning consists of the iii chief components. The first component involves the planning of a meaningful experience. The second component is that of the experience itself which takes identify within the context of a nonprofit organization. The experience is focused on impacting an identified community need. The final component is reflection. Through structured reflection, students are able to make the connexion between the course objectives and the experience.

Service-learning helps to brand course knowledge more than relevant to everyday life while fostering an ethic of service and civic responsibleness in the students. Students can participate in service-learning through courses that crave service learning, courses that offer service learning as an option, or through independent study.

The Service-Learning Programme seeks to centralize and coordinate the service-learning activities on campus. The Programme too offers back up to faculty who teach service-learning courses, identifies community placement where the service-learning experience can have place, represents the University in trouble-solving community partnerships and involves faculty, staff, and students in the ongoing development of the Programme.

For More than Information

Dr. James North. Camp
Thomas More than Academy
859-344-3385
James.Camp@thomasmore.edu

Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities

To provide curriculum enrichment and to expand the number and variety of educational opportunities available to its students, Thomas More University is a fellow member of the 17-establishment Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities (GCCCU).

Students from the participating institutions are permitted to enroll in a form or courses offered past a Consortium college or university on a space-available basis.

Tuition payments for the courses are made to the abode institution at the dwelling institution'southward rate, and special fees for the courses are collected past the host institution.

Students must exist in good bookish standing to participate in the Consortium. Students' consortium loads may not exceed one-half of their total class load for a given semester. Students are responsible for ensuring they have taken the necessary pre-requisites for a consortium form, and for ensuring that the course taken will fulfill the desired requirement. The course also must be unavailable at Thomas More than University and a student may only have 16 credit hours through the consortium over the form of his/her undergraduate program.  Come across section on residency for additional policies.  Farther explanation of rules and procedures are available in the Registrar'due south Office.

Including Thomas More than Academy, Members of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities are:

  • Art Academy of Cincinnati
    The Art Academy of Cincinnati is one of 5 museum schools in the United States. The Art Academy offers associate and bachelor degrees in design and fine arts and is the only college offering the Bachelor of Fine Arts caste in the area.
  • Archives of Ohio
    The Athenaeum is an accredited center of ministry education and formation inside the Roman Catholic tradition. The Archives has three divisions embodying the belief that preparation for ministry with the Roman Catholic must exist true-blue to the educational activity of the church building.
  • Chatfield College
    Chatfield Higher, a individual iii-twelvemonth liberal arts higher, offers the Associate of Arts degree with concentrations in business, wellness and human services, child development, commercial art, and liberal arts.
  • Cincinnati Christian Academy
    Cincinnati Christian University prepares students who will have full-fourth dimension ministries within their local churches or ministry-related careers or who want to be volunteer leaders in their churches. The college offers acquaintance, bachelor's and master'southward degrees. Programs include Bible, general studies and church music, plus emphases on youth ministry, ministry to the deaf, early on childhood education, instructor educational activity, music educational activity, journalism, and psychology.
  • Cincinnati State Technical & Community College
    Cincinnati State Technical and Community College provides student-focused, accessible quality technical and general educational activity, academic transfer, experiential and cooperative educational activity, and workforce evolution.
  • Gateway Community and Technical College
    Gateway Customs and Technical College (GCTC) is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the nation. Our mission, as a member of the Kentucky Community & Technical Higher Organisation, is to offer a loftier-quality, targeted education to come across the professional person and personal goals of all Kentuckians.
  • God's Bible School and Higher
    God'due south Bible School and College seeks to glorify God and to serve His Church building by providing higher teaching centered in Holy Scripture and shaped by Wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim Jesus Christ and spread scriptural holiness throughout the world.
  • Good Samaritan Higher of Nursing and Health Science
    Proficient Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science is a private, not-for-turn a profit institution of college education located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The College serves the tri-state region of Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana. The College is a subsidiary of TriHealth, Inc. and Good Samaritan Infirmary.
  • Hebrew Spousal relationship College
    Hebrew Union Higher is an intellectual center of Reform Judaism and houses the Reform movement'southward library and archives collections. HUC is also a leading middle for study, training, research, and publication in the Bible, ancient Near Eastern languages, Hellenistic studies, rabbinics, Jewish religious thought and philosophy, and modern Jewish history.
  • Miami University
    Miami offers a comprehensive array of programs and majors. Among the best recognized are bookkeeping, ecology and life sciences, history, international studies, English language, political science and paper science (one of viii such programs in the state). A pupil may take Consortium classes from the Miami University Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown campuses.
  • Higher of Mount St. Joseph
    " The Mount," as it'south known by many Cincinnatians, offers career-oriented programs for traditional and nontraditional students in day, evening and weekend schedules.
  • Northern Kentucky University
    NKU has programs in liberal arts, mathematics, and information science, information systems, theater, management, marketing, education, nursing, journalism, radio/tv and one of the few aviation assistants programs in the country. The higher also offers pre-professional programs in pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-pharmacy, pre-veterinary, pre-physical therapy, pre-wildlife management and a pre-engineering plan in conjunction with the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
  • The Union Institute and University
    Union Institute & Academy is an accredited, individual, international university that has, since 1964, redefined higher pedagogy by placing learners at the center of their own teaching. Union has administrative headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, and currently enrolls approximately ane,750 learners from all 50 states and more than than xx countries worldwide.
  • University of Cincinnati
    UC has a top-notch technology school and industrial design program, a very adept undergraduate business concern and MBA program, and is well known for its College Conservatory of Music. A student may take Consortium classes from any of University of Cincinnati's campuses.
  • Wilmington College
    Wilmington College offers programs leading to Bachelor of Arts degrees in accounting, business assistants with marketing or management concentrations.
  • Xavier University
    Xavier offers associate, bachelor's and chief's degrees in a wide range of programs, including strengths in such areas as communications arts, business administration, master's of education, psychology and pre-med/vet studies in life sciences.

Forms and further explanation of rules and procedures are available in the Registrar's Part.

Community Service

The Service-Learning Program besides has responsibility for the coordination and promotion of community service opportunities.

Thomas More students are involved with many different nonprofit organizations in the community. Many types of opportunities are bachelor through the Service Learning Office and the Center for Service Opportunities and are also posted on the Community Service bulletin lath.

Students may stop by at whatsoever time and discuss their involvement or get through the binders with the service requests from community organizations to meet what may be of interest to them.

Military Science (ROTC)

The Section of the Army at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio in cooperation with Thomas More than University provides the opportunity for any qualified student to enroll in the Army's Military Science commissioning program.

Military Science classes are presented on the Northern Kentucky University campus. These courses are taken through the Consortium. Upon graduation and successful completion of the Armed forces Science program, students will exist deputed equally 2nd Lieutenants in the United States Army. No obligation for military service is incurred during the starting time 2 years of the program.

For further information about the curriculum and professional development requirements, contact Chris Powers at 859-344-3514 or via email powersc@thomasmore.edu and he will work with other schools offering both Army and Air Force R.O.T.C.

  • Student advising
    Students enrolled in a Military Science plan will have two advisors: a Military Science counselor and an academic counselor. The Armed forces Science counselor will advise students only on matters apropos the military science program. Students must consult with their academic counselor on all questions apropos course and graduation requirements in their academic field of study.
  • Academic Correlation
    Certain bachelor'south degree programs correlate straight with certain branches of the Regular army. Among those are Nursing and the Army Nurse Branch. Students whose career plans are in such a professional expanse should consult a Military Scientific discipline advisor.
  • Advanced Placement
    Students may qualify for direct enrollment in the avant-garde course when awarded placement credit for the basic course by the Military machine Scientific discipline Chairperson. Placement credit may be awarded in the following ways:

Veterans may receive credit for all or part of the basic class. (This includes current members of the Reserve or National Baby-sit.)

Not-veterans can earn advanced placement credit by successfully completing the ROTC Basic Army camp at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

A like program exists in conjunction with the Air Force ROTC at the University of Cincinnati.
For additional information call (513) 556-2237.

Currently, an Army R.O.T.C. scholarship is bachelor for full tuition to sophomores and above.  Students must enroll in the program and exist committed to becoming an Army officeholder.  Qualifications: The student must maintain a two.v GPA and be in good physical fitness.  Likewise, students volition be able to obtain a 1200 book assart upon joining.

Thomas More University has joined a U.S. Department of Pedagogy initiative to support veterans as they pursue their teaching and employment goals. Click here to learn more!

The Air Force has an R.O.T.C program and students interested in learning more about this program can contact Chris Powers at 859-344-3514 or via email at powersc@thomasmore.edu

Internship

An internship mirrors Co-op in that students work for business organization, industry, government or not-profit organizations to gain career-related work experience. The differences are that internships may be unpaid, students may just work one semester, and work hours range from ten to 20 per calendar week (or 40 hours per calendar week during the summertime). Students work through their academic departments to arrange credit for internship experiences. Eligibility requirements and academic requirements may vary between disciplines, see the respective form description and department for details.

Study Abroad

Thomas More University is committed to preparing its students for careers in the contemporary earth. Thomas More than University strives to recognize and understand the complexities and problems of the globe, and to offer meaningful, just solutions consonant with the Christian values espoused by Thomas More than University.

A special $700,000 Global Perspectives endowment provides scholarships for Thomas More than students to study and travel abroad, equally well as partial scholarships for international students to study at Thomas More.

Thomas More than Academy offers a number of travel and written report away opportunities. As a fellow member of the Cooperative Heart for Study Abroad (CCSA), a consortium of American colleges and universities, annual written report programs are offered in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and Hong Kong. In add-on, Thomas More has 3 sister universities: the Catholic University of Eichstätt in Eichstätt, Deutschland; Mary Immaculate College in Composition, Ireland; and Sacred Eye University in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In cooperation with other consortia and universities, Thomas More University is able to identify students in study-abroad programs on half dozen continents.

The Global Perspectives Endowment Fund was created past a grant award from the James Graham Brown Foundation, Inc. in 1996. The goal of the program is to raise the global literacy of our students by providing international educational experiences.

For more information, please contact the Global Initiatives Part.