Academic centers
Find your academic center at SNC
The academic centers at St. Norbert College serve as interdisciplinary hubs for research and learning. Through them, our students and faculty work together to explore new solutions to both local and global issues, from human dignity and peace-building to gender justice and ethical leadership.
Community and education are at the heart of what we do here at SNC, and that extends to our academic centers. Our centers work to fill the needs of our community, creating economic impact studies, providing cross-cultural experiences, promoting service learning, and developing strong leaders.
The Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice & Public Understanding (NMC) explores the complex history of inequality in the world, and nurtures ways to build sustainable peace through a commitment to the common good. The center provides resources and opportunities for the campus and local communities around De Pere, Wis., to discuss, understand and partner for change in some of the most complex issues of our time.
The Sturzl Center for Community Service & Learning is built on the knowledge that it is in giving that we receive. Accordingly, the center devotes its efforts to facilitating service opportunities for students, faculty, staff and alumni. Through strong partnerships with the Brown County community, our students have opportunities to participate in a wide range of both academic and co-curricular service-learning.
Many SNC students connect with our Center for Global Engagement (CGE), where they can discover cross-cultural experiences, such as study-abroad and international exchange programs, our ESL Institute, and globally focused programming, such as our Great Decisions Lecture Series.
At the Cassandra Voss Center (CVC), you’ll find innovative, holistic programs on issues of identity that have earned recognition at regional and national levels. This academic center acts as a focal point for education and awareness among faculty, staff and students, promoting equality through music, art, workshops and social events.
The Center for Norbertine Studies (CNS) is a collaborative partnership between the college and our founding Norbertine order, and serves as the international locus for the order. CNS acts as a repository for Norbertine history and scholarship, providing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate scholarship, collaboration among Norbertine houses throughout the world, cross-cultural interaction and international student and faculty exchange
We have a research center located right within the Mulva Library. Our trained librarians are expert researchers who can help students with assignments or projects.
The St. Norbert College campus is home to the Strategic Research Institute (SRI), one of the Midwest’s most respected sources for gathering, reporting and interpreting data for businesses and nonprofits. The SRI specializes in survey research, interviews and focus groups, and secondary data analysis.