About Us
Students explore deeper meanings in their academic work and recognize their responsibility to address injustice within their own vocations. The Center supports faculty scholarship and teaching that advances the Jesuit character of the University. For staff, the Center provides programs that help discern their own spiritual commitments and find significance in their work. |
Examining Catholic and Jesuit idealsThe Bannan Institute assists Santa Clara in keeping its Catholic and Jesuit character at the center of the educational enterprise. Through grants, fellowships, publications, and events, the institute encourages all members of the SCU community to reflect on, discuss, and creatively explore Jesuit principles and help cultivate a University community characterized by respect, solidarity, and justice. |
Promoting social justice through community-based learningThe Arrupe Partnerships for Community-based Learning educate students, and the University as a whole, in the realities of the lives of the marginalized and the poor. Through community placements in Santa Clara County, Arrupe Partnerships create opportunities for active engagement, research, and service, serving as a catalyst for a unique collaboration between scholars and community members. |
Encouraging solidarity through immersionThe Kolvenbach Solidarity Program offers students, faculty, staff, and alumni extended immersion experiences into the gritty reality of our globalizing world. These poignant moments of vocational discernment invite participants to consider their place in our global society and to see the world with new eyes. The Center links the University with important stakeholders through partnerships, scholarship, and service, as we seek to realize the Jesuit higher education mission of forming well-educated women and men who will help fashion a more just and humane world. |
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