The transformational power of the McDevitt Center is rooted in the ways in which it embodies the fundamental principles animating Le Moyne’s Catholic and Jesuit vision of scholarship and education: our conviction that all knowledge forms a whole and that each individual discipline requires enriching insights derived from others; our recognition of the necessity for attentiveness to the values informing inquiry and to the broader historical, cultural, social and political, etc. contexts and implications of inquiry; and our belief that all knowledge is ultimately an instrument of service to others and of thoughtful activity to promote peace and justice locally, nationally, and globally.