Hazard Yet Forward: Framing the Catholic Mission & Legacy of Seton Hill University invites readers to reflect on the living mission that shapes life on the Hill. Rooted in the charism of the Sisters of Charity and inspired by the vision of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, this project explores how faith, learning, service, and community continue to animate Seton Hill today. Through historical reflections, scholarly essays, creative works, and personal narratives, the website highlights the Four Pillars—Welcoming, Learning, Celebrating, and Serving—as enduring expressions of the University’s Catholic identity. Together, these voices reveal a mission not confined to the past but actively embodied by students, faculty, staff, and alumni. This project serves as both a reflection on Seton Hill’s legacy and an invitation to engage it more intentionally by recognizing how the values we inherit call us to respond with courage, compassion, and purpose as we move, together, hazard yet forward.

Funded by the Council on Independent College's NetVUE Reframing the Institutional Saga program.

A brief documentary, produced in the late 1980s or early 1990s, that reviews the history of Seton Hill College and plans for a Capital Campaign. 

On November 11, 1998, Seton Hill College hosted His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Click to play clips of the media coverage from the special event. 

In 1973, Seton Hill invited Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to U.S. Congress and the first woman and person of color to seek the nomination for President of the United States, to give the annual Lynch Lecture. Click to hear a recording of a dinner interview with Shirley Chisholm by Dr. Roger W. Axford. Turn up your computer speakers to a higher volume for best listening experience. 

Dr. JoAnne Boyle, Seton Hill University President from 1987 until 2013, is featured in this rough cut interview from April 1999.