Military veterans at Jesuit colleges and universities have for generations found a special patron in Ignatius of Loyola, whose personal experience as a wounded warrior sparked the conversion that eventually led to the foundation of the Society of Jesus and his canonization in the Catholic Church. Thu T. Do and Mary Dluhy propose that Ignatius continues to serve as a patron today for veterans in our own society, and offer insights into how Jesuit universities today can support our returning vetrans.
Overcoming Superficiality and Indifference: Opening Up Institutional Vision
Ite Inflammate Omnia: Setting the World on Fire with Learning
We Are One: Latin America and Jesuit Higher Education
Solving the Mystery of Decree 14: Jesuits and the Situation of Women in Church and Civil Society
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
Adopting an Interreligious Stance as an Approach to Mission Integration
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.
The Spiritual Exercises as a Foundation for Jesuit Education
The Spiritual Exercises and Art
Finding God in All Things: Sex, Relationships, and Jesuit Identity
The People's Pope
Next Steps in Jesuit Higher Education
A Committed Life
I began my professional life full of illusion. I had written my dissertation on Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Golden Age Spain’s greatest Catholic playwright, and although I was a committed atheist, Calderón’s message of personal responsibility, commitment to others, and service to a greater cause resonated with me.