The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
The Ignatian Center exemplifies and activates the Jesuit, Catholic character of Santa Clara University.
We encourage our students, faculty, staff, and community to embrace Jesuit wisdom by inspiring awareness, thought, reflection, discernment, and action.
Mission in Action
Jesuit Heritage Week 2025
Join us in celebrating our Jesuit Heritage—a time to reflect on the many ways Santa Clara University lives out our Jesuit mission and values and our Catholic tradition.
Capeltic Coffee at SCU
Mission and Ministry and the Ignatian Center are delighted to bring our longtime Immersion partner — Capeltic Coffee, from Chiapas, Mexico — to SCU!
Mission Priority Examen
During the Fall 2025 quarter, the Santa Clara University community members are invited to community conversations to offer feedback to help set mission priorities.
Making an Impact - Here, There, and Everywhere
Stories of Impact
Human Rights & Cultural Memory
Mateo Coulson '28 had plenty of valid reasons to apply for the Summer 2025 Chile Immersion. The experience would give him the opportunity to travel to another part of the world, to learn about the history, politics, and culture of another country and region, to practice his Spanish, and to build friendship and relationships with his SCU peers. In the end, the immersion experience provided him with all of that and so much more.
We are All Human, After All
For Simone Smith '28, the Summer 2025 Costa Rica Immersion was an eye-opening experience. The immersion cemented her commitment to become a Human Rights Attorney and made her recognize that her own position in this world is a privilege. But more importantly, the Immersion opened Simone's eyes to our shared humanity and helped her realize that no matter how different we may seem on the outside, we need each other. After all, we are all human.
A Passion for Social Justice and Storytelling
When Megan Milligan ‘25 transferred to SCU as a sophomore, she had no idea that one suggestion from a professor would change the path of her college experience. Megan’s professor encouraged her to apply for a winter break Immersion and she decided to take a chance, unaware that it would shape the way she saw the world. That first immersion with the Ignatian Center sparked something in Megan and she found herself returning again and again.
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