Professor Kate Cummings

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Professor Kate Cummings

The Beloved Community Faculty Enhancement Award

This award recognizes a faculty member whose teaching, scholarship, and/or service significantly advance the �鶹ֱ��’s Jesuit, Catholic mission by fostering a campus culture rooted in justice, human dignity, and solidarity. Grounded in the vision of the Beloved Community articulated by Martin Luther King Jr. and deepened through Catholic social teaching, this award honors faculty who intentionally cultivate communities of encounter, belonging, intellectual rigor, and moral responsibility. The award affirms that the pursuit of truth in a Jesuit university is inseparable from the promotion of justice, care for the marginalized, and formation of persons for and with others. The recipient of this year’s award is Professor Kate Cummings.

Kate Cummings serves as the Research and Instruction Librarian for Business. Professor Cummings has delivered more than a dozen conference presentations and invited talks on DEI in libraries, intellectual freedom, and equity in library collections over the past three years, including multiple invited lectures at the Pennsylvania Library Association's Academy of Leadership Studies. She chaired PaLA's Intellectual Freedom Committee, led a DEI audit of the Weinberg Memorial Library's Education and Children's Literature collection, and was selected as one of only one hundred librarians nationwide for the American Library Association's Law for Librarians program, training her to deliver First Amendment education across Pennsylvania. In 2025, her peers elected her as PaLA's Vice President and President-Elect — a three-year commitment that will culminate in her leading the state's library association.

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Professor Kate Cummings

The Beloved Community Faculty Enhancement Award

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