| Each fall, six western Jesuit universities sponsor a conference called “Western Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education” bringing faculty delegates together for in-depth discussions on important topics related to the Jesuit Catholic educational mission. Participating institutions include Gonzaga University, Loyola Marymount University, Regis University, Santa Clara University, Seattle University, and the University of San Francisco. Keynote Speaker: Robert N. Bellah |
"My title, 'Education for Justice and the Common Good,' may seem like bringing coals to Newcastle, since Jesuit higher education has long been committed to education for justice, and a concern for the common good lies at the foundation of all Catholic social teaching. Still, I think it worthwhile taking up this subject once again, because education for justice and the common good is not something obvious in the context of American society or American higher education today. It is more intelligible in the context of Catholic higher education, with its obligation to understand and interpret a long tradition of Catholic social teaching, than it might be in other kinds of colleges and universities. But Catholic higher education in general and even Jesuit colleges and universities are not immune to the surrounding culture, so that the first answer to the question what is education for might well not be justice and the common good." —Robert N. Bellah   Change Text Size |
