Concern about the future of work and workers raises important questions for Jesuit higher education. Are our institutions resisting or replicating the yawning inequalities that characterize work in the 2020s? Are we alleviating or perpetuating the precarity of our own essential workers? Are we preparing graduates to reform or profit from the trends that have made work less secure and rewarding for the many?
Jesuit universities are poised to take a leadership role in engaging fundamental questions of how artificial intelligence and machine learning should be developed. Where are we getting our data? What generated it, and what underlying biases are present? How do we really define “progress” and “success”? How does our work have meaning?
As human resources professionals reflect on the long and challenging two-and-a-half years wrought by the pandemic, what are some key lessons learned regarding employee mental health in the workplace?
How can Jesuit institutions effectively respond to the profound ideological division that threatens U.S. society today? What does it mean to embrace a Jesuit, Catholic mission in such a way that it can help our campus communities and our nation to navigate the turbulence through which we are living?
As the only institution of higher education in the world that can boast having both the Jesuits and the Religious Sisters of Mercy as its founders, how has their strong union and integrated mission to build servant-leaders unfolded and evolved over time?
What might a difficult conversation, anchored in humility, look like in everyday life on our Jesuit campuses?
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