MVE Reflection

#2: What opportunities have you had at NDNU to develop relationships that honor the dignity or sacredness of each person or each being, including human and non-human beings? Why is this important? Can you apply this concept to the kinds of decisions you may have to make in your future professional career? Have any of the Community Engagement activities you’ve done this semester given you opportunities to develop in this area?

Answer: I had many opportunites at NDNU and developed many different relationships that honor the dignity of each person. In fact, many of my classes had that aspect of respect and dignity of human beings and in truth, all classes I have taken have shown that. I have not met a professor who has not cultivated that idea of respecting the dignity and sacredness of each person. 

#3 Have any ethical issues arisen for you during your time here as a member of the NDNU campus community? Did any of these arise out of your Community Engagement activities? Have you been challenged to assess your own ethical stances in any way? In what ways, if any, have these ethical considerations involved issues of justice or peace? In what ways, if any, have they caused you to change the way you think about your own future career choices?

Answer: I have not had any major ethical issues arise for me as a member of NDNU's campus community personally. I did not have any issues especially in the Community Engagement activities. I have had to reflect on issues of an ethical nature for other classes.  The issues that I did have to face had to do with justice and peace in that it was showing the ethical conundrums that happen from lack of peace and justice in other countries.

# 5: How do you personally define diversity? What have you learned during your time at NDNU about the challenges and rewards of embracing diversity? Is embracing diversity of value to the human and larger Earth communities?

Answer: Diversity is the blessing of having different individuals of different temperments, different dispositions, different languages and different cultures, on this Earth.  I learned about the challenges of rewards of embracing diversity at NDNU when having to deal with people who often had very different lifestyles than what I was used to such as when I had to live in the dorms. I note that embracing diversity is indeed something worth much value to the larger world. 

# 6: In what ways, if any, have you had opportunities at NDNU to build a sense of community with others? Who were the “others”? Were they students? Teachers? NDNU staff? Were they people you met through community engagement activities? Were they non-human beings? Who benefited from these interactions? Do you feel that you built a sense of community forthose others or withthem?

Answer: I found community in a group of students but I did not exactly meet them through the community engagement activities. I met these friends in mutual classes iand some of them now have graduated. We mutually benefitted from our interactions and I feel that I built a sense of community with these individuals. I also felt I gained a type of community with the NDNU faculty alongside with these students.