Jesuit Traditions

Ite Inflammate Omnia: Setting the World on Fire with Learning

Ite Inflammate Omnia: Setting  the World on Fire with Learning

Globalization has been growing for centuries. But the speed of communication and exchange today, and the concomitant complexity of interaction among diverse people and places, has intensified its importance.

Collaboration at the Heart of Mission: A Laywoman's View of Jesuit Higher Education

Collaboration at the Heart of Mission: A Laywoman's View of Jesuit Higher Education

In the spirit of advancing conversation, this article revisits "Just Listen: The Situation of Women in Jesuit Higher Education” (Conversations 29, Spring 2006).

Sport and the Spirit of Jesuit Education

Sport and the Spirit of Jesuit Education

In the most recent issue of Conversations (Fall 2015, No. 48), I wrote about how the emergence of the market society in the United States was negatively impacting intercollegiate athletics because it was “crowding out non-market values worth caring about.”

Integrating Ignatian Pedagogy and Nursing Values

Integrating Ignatian Pedagogy and Nursing Values

Preliminary to a curriculum revision, the College of Nursing at Seattle University began a process of discerning who are we, what are our foundational values as an institution and a profession, and how do we believe nursing education should commence?   A hallmark of the Jesuit tradition is certainly caring for the sick, poor, and marginalized.