Learning to accompany communities worldwide toward justice and fullness of life
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Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) is an academic certificate program that integrates multidisciplinary coursework, a six-month internship, and whole-person formation through experiential learning.
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HNGR sponsors faculty, staff, and student research and presents findings often in academic settings.
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For the Fall 2023 HNGR Symposium, we will consider how borders figure into our thinking, imagining, relating, and living. How does our bordering - our actions of border-making - shape our practices of belonging? How might our anticipated future of new creation influence our present-day border practices?
Listen and learn with us through a series of events during the 2023-2024 school year.
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Welcome to our podcast where we reflect and learn together to accompany communities worldwide toward justice and fullness of life.
Since 2013, the John Stott Endowment has enabled the Human Needs and Global Resources Program to broaden its impact on and off campus by supporting new initiatives. These include inviting international leaders for significant, sustained interactions with the campus and surrounding community; supporting extended faculty engagement with critical human needs; funding faculty research worldwide on central Program themes; and student scholarships.
Provides an opportunity for College departments to nominate and host individuals directly involved in addressing the wide array of human needs to spend 1-4 months during the academic year (August-May) at Wheaton College, for the purpose of interacting with the campus community in both formal and informal ways over the course of her or his stay. Past recipients include Rev. Dr. D. Zac Niringiye (see video).
Supports faculty research and creative projects on core themes of poverty/wealth, injustice, violence/peace, human dignity, environmental impacts of human activities, and flourishing of the earth and its inhabitants.
Impacts the Wheaton campus long-term by investing deeply in faculty development through a significant international engagement with core themes and the partnership-based approach of the Human Needs and Global Resources Program.
Check out our FAQs for host organizations and HNGR students.
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Isaya Otsuka ’20, M.A. ’21"It’s a really unique experience because when you go out into the field, you’re on your own. It’s not a study abroad program and no one else from the College is with you. It’s up to you to immerse yourself in the community, to engage, and to live and learn firsthand."
During his two-semester internship in the Philippines through Wheaton’s Human Needs and Global Resources program, Isaya Otsuka ’20, M.A. ’21 gained invaluable skills in cultivating friendships with people from all around the globe.
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