community in St. Leo’s University core values
When we consider the aspect of community in St. Leo’s University core values. It stipulates that we strive to foster a spirit of belonging, unity, and interdependence based on mutual trust and respect to create socially responsible environments that challenge all of us to listen, to learn, to change, and to serve.
The other value is responsible stewardship that prescribes the fostering a spirit of service to employ our resources to the university and community development. We must be resourceful. We must optimize and apply all of the resources of our community to fulfil St. Leo’s University’s mission and goals (2015).
The values that the university is trying to instil relate to helping the elderly and the disabled. The youth have a responsibility to foster a tradition of interdependence where one party supports the other when they are capable of doing it. The youth being the working population here, have a social responsibility of playing their part of service through supporting the medical care and social security programs that lend a hand to elderly and disabled. The value of stewardship comes in where, as the younger generation they are expected to use their energy, drive and finances for that matter to make contributions that will go into helping the people in need in the society.
The government also has a role in helping both the programs remain viable by balancing out the income inequality gap between the young and the old. Since older adults have higher savings and wealth proportion, they should be taxed higher than more youthful people with fewer savings. The government should also review the age stipulation downwards for people viable for retirement benefits (Mauldin, 2017).