Vision Statement
The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education will work with and for students, faculty, staff, and community partners to build a more humane, just, faith-filled, and sustainable world especially for those with the least access to education, power, and wealth.
Mission Statement
The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education advances Santa Clara University’s Jesuit Catholic commitment to integrate faith, justice and the intellectual life on campus and beyond.
The Ignatian Center advances its mission by
- facilitating engaged education through community-based learning and immersion experiences,
- fostering faculty and staff participation in the Jesuit higher educational mission,
- supporting faculty teaching and scholarship that integrates faith, justice and the intellectual life, and
- promoting Ignatian spirituality within an interreligious context.
For more on the University’s strategic vision, mission, and fundamental values, see its Strategic Plan 2011.