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Immigration

and Catholic Higher Education

From The Director

When the editorial staff of explore first selected this issue’s theme on immigration and Catholic higher education, Congress was debating comprehensive immigration reform which included a path to legal status for 12 million undocumented immigrants. That was big news!

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Immigration and Catholic Higher Education

By Rick Ryscavage, S.J. How can Catholic colleges and universities be more welcoming and responsive to new immigrants?
A Little Common Sense: The Ethics of Immigration in Catholic Social Teaching

By William R. O’Neill , S.J. Modern Catholic social teaching has strong implications for the immigration policy in our religiously pluralist world.
Immigration Law and Community Service at Santa Clara University School of Law

By Lynette M. Parker Law students working at the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center live and practice the key values of community service, commitment, and courage.
Great Generations: Caring For Our Immigrant Neighbors and Their Children

By Mark McGregor, S.J. We must reexamine the way we treat the most vulnerable group of migrant youth in America: the two million undocumented immigrant children.
¡BOCÓN! Santa Clara University Children’s Theatre Program Explores Immigration

By Paul D. Woolley SCU theater students learn about immigration and themselves in this production about a young boy who loses his voice while fleeing a repressive regime in Central America.
The Kino Border Initiative

By Mark Potter Jesuits are helping to create a bi-national ministry that works with communities on both sides of the border and seeks to help the two groups better understand each other.
Bannan Grant Report

Interfaith Cooperation on Environmental Issues: Muslim Southeast Asian Contributions to a Global Ethic
By David Pinault As a volunteer for a week at an East Java wildlife rescue center that is run by a nongovernmental organization, Pinault explored what it means to be a person of faith who is also committed to the concept of environmental custodianship.