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Diversity, Culture, and Climate

St. Joseph's Academy is called forth by our founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, to "serve the Dear Neighbor without distinction."

St. Joseph’s Academy’s commitment to Diversity, Culture, and Climate (DCC) invites our community to recognize and acknowledge that all people are created in the image of God with each person bringing unique gifts to the community. As a community, we engender empathy, understanding and curiosity to develop a deeper awareness of equity and inclusion as it relates to gender, race, faith, socioeconomic circumstances and sexual identity, as well as individual talents and learning styles in a college preparatory environment.

Please see below to view St. Joseph’s Academy’s “A Commitment to Diversity.”

Questions? Please contact Dr. Julia Wilkins Kohrmann, Director of Diversity, Culture, and Climate, at jwilkins@sja1840.org

MAGIS Program

At St. Joseph’s Academy, we want all students to soar in college and their careers. Finding each student great financial, social, and academic fits for college is something that our College Advising team takes seriously; they travel broadly, research extensively, and build relationships with colleges and universities across the country to deepen their knowledge of each university's programming and in order to ensure that each student ends up with a solid, balanced list of applications. Visiting colleges and universities is a crucial part of knowing where each student will thrive. The Magis Program seeks to create opportunities throughout a student’s four years that allow for personal and academic growth, through travel, financial planning, course selection, and college visits.

Freshmen and sophomores who qualify for the Magis Program, a unique partnership between College Advising and Diversity, Culture, and Climate, will participate in monthly meetings, career shadowing days, and two structured spring college visits. One trip will be within driving distance, the other will be further away. Juniors will be supported in targeted individual college visits. Seniors will be supported in applying to fly-in programs at specific colleges.

Questions? Please contact Dr. Julia Wilkins Kohrmann, Director of Diversity, Culture, and Climate at jwilkins@sja1840.org, or Annie Bundren, Associate Director of College Advising at abundren@sja1840.org