The role of women in the Catholic Church – and at our Catholic universities – remains undervalued and uncertain. What is the role of the Jesuit college and university in fostering true equity for women?
When hiring new faculty members, do we ask whether a person is oriented fundamentally toward others and the common good or toward themselves and their own individual good?
While the AJCU and our campus mission programming helps Jesuit colleges and universities foster its “Jesuit” identity,” what does it mean to care for ourCatholic identity?
The formation of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and the 1989 Georgetown meeting on higher education have made quite a dramatic and powerful impact on the landscape of Jesuit higher education.
How ought we attend to our current budgetary concerns, as well as ensuring our sustainability in every sense of the word. It means living in the tension between the already and the not yet.
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities has conducted twenty two mission examen thus far asking whether each college or university still wants to be Jesuit and Catholic. James Miacky, SJ offers emergent themes to make our schools more mission aligned today.
What is consolation and desolation in the Ignatian sense? How might we discern our feelings and experience to better care for our colleges and universities?
Rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Jesuit education calls us to metanoia. How might we respond to the '“gentle urges of the sacred” which call us to build a more just and humane world?
St. Ignatius may not have used the words cura apostolica but that spirit was on his mind from the beginning. Where are we being called to care for our apostolate for the greater glory of God?
What does it mean to discern and truly care for our Jesuit colleges and universities today? Stephanie Russell offers historical and current examples of cura apostolica.
How do Jesuits get missioned to colleges and universities? Jesuits West provincial Scott Santarosa, S.J. offers insights into the criteria he balances in missioning Jesuits.
Ten years after we published an issue on core curriculum changes, Brian D. Robinette offers insights into Boston College’s recent core revision process. How might this help us all adjust our education while preserving our Jesuit tradition?
Being a trustee at a Jesuit college or university means something more than at a secular university. What unique challenges does this offer our trustees who hope to truly live cura apostolica?