About the Carver Center
The Dr. Patricia Carver Center focuses on belonging and success for all Bellarmine students. The Carver Center’s mission is to educate and form students in the dignity of the human person and their responsibility to improve the human condition.
Guided by the principles of community, solidarity and social responsibility, the Carver Center fosters an environment of student success, both academic and co-curricular, where students develop a strong sense of purpose, interpersonal growth, belonging
and commitment to community.
The Carver Center focuses on relationships and high impact practices, such as peer mentoring, experiential learning, metacognitive strategy-building, holistic development and critical reflection.
The goal of the Carver Center’s work is to ensure that all students can persist, graduate and achieve successful outcomes in their continued educational or career pathways. These approaches uphold the Catholic social teachings of community, family,
and participation in our community; life and dignity of all human beings; and Solidarity.
The Carver Center is named in gratitude for Dr. Patricia Carver, a retired assistant professor of Business Administration who made a generous
gift to the university.