Five arts and sciences deans new to Jesuit education tell what brought them to their universities and how they navigated a rough first year together.
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
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.”
A Context for Changes and Challenges in Higher Education
Justice for All, Including Adjuncts
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.