Graduate ProgramsNovember Highlights

Jesuit School of Theology

• On November 15, Dr. M. Shawn Copeland of Boston College's Department of Theology served as JST’s inaugural Thea Bowman Lecturer. She spoke to a rapt, full audience of living within “grace that works in us the radical transcendence of Black Catholic life.” 

• JST has sponsored approximately 20 students’ visits to CARNE y ARENA, an Academy Award-winning virtual reality exhibit created by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The immersive rendering of the risks and heartache of the path taken by many to immigrate to the United States is complemented by a video  archive of people recounting the experiences that led to their immigration, shaped their journey, or followed from it. The exhibit integrates reflection on a pressing social issue, cutting-edge technology, and art in a manner that complements the Ignatian mission of SCU in ways that are specifically evocative of the Catholic and Ignatian theological tradition.

Leavey School of Business

• Recently ranked #9 in the nation for our Online MBA by Poets&Quants!!! Also,ranked #1 Academic Experience and #1 Career Outcomes!!! 

• Admissions:

• Winter 2023

• MSIS: 16 matriculated, 2 admitted

• Spring 2023

• Evening MBA: 14 deposited, 2 admitted

• Programs

• MBA

• Hosted “Tacos & Beer” student mixer at alumni-owned Camino Brewing Company with 60+ students and 5+ faculty in attendance

• Open Enrollment for Winter term grad courses

• Re-engaged with MBA Alumni Advisory Board leadership to map out engagement for the rest of the academic year

• EMBA

• Alumni event at TopGolf, over 50+ alumni in attendance

• EMBA 2025 Master Calendar Planning

• Adding two new workshops to the EMBA program (Cybersecurity and Media Training)

• Career Management

• Job Search Plan- Step 1 Workshop (with 1-1 coaching sessions)

• Employer meetings- Zeitro

• Employer requests- Proofpoint, Gilead, Fox Corporation, Confluent, NVIDIA, CoProcure, Databricks, Penumbra, Kentik

• MS students begin resume review process for practicum

• EMBA Exec Recruiter Session Dec. 8th

School of Engineering

• Student Services - Workday integration testing on-going

• BS/MS Information Session is scheduled for Monday, January 30, 2023

• Job opening: Director of Admissions & Recruitment.

School of Education & Counseling Psychology

• Winter enrollment numbers are tracking 200 more than Winter 2022.

• Finishing up with Winter applications 

• Prepping for New Student Welcome reception next week and Orientation in January

• Ms. Josephine Jose has been promoted to Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions and Ms. Marryum Hafeez has accepted the position of Senior Director of Student Services and Academic Support. 

• The Student Services team a Week 10 Hot cocoa bar study break for all ECP students, faculty and staff. What perfect timing with the cold weather!

  

GPPM

• We continue to see increased interest in our programs largely due to the assistance of the Graduate Provost Office Team (Toby, Minh, Olivia, Matt, Susan) who have been super helpful in connecting our programs with targeted groups.  Olivia has recently debuted a significant ad presence on Facebook and Instagram for us.  

• This interest coincides with making our programs accessible fully online.  Our hope is that advertising to a wider demographic and making our programs available beyond our primarily California focus will give the GPPM a broader reach and profile.  Bi-monthly open houses for groups are scheduled throughout the year and individual sessions are always welcome.

• We have been working on developing new relationships with dioceses and groups and working to develop programs that meet their needs.

School of Law

• Fall recruiting season for the Law Admissions and Financial Aid team wrapped up in November. We participated in 35 admissions events this fall (33 in-person events and 2 “Digital Forums”). We made a conscious decision to not participate in other virtual events which have not been successful over the past couple of years, while still being very expensive. We also focused on events that were more focused on law school recruiting, with the exception of several graduate and professional school fairs at several strong feeder schools (e.g., UC Santa Barbara and St. Mary’s).
• We host our last fall online application workshop on December 7. Our workshops will resume early next year.
• Event: Determining Users’ Ages Online: Ethical, Legal, and Technical Considerations: December 1 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
• Event: Bar Swearing-In Ceremony (for law alumni who passed the bar exam), December 5 @ 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Mission Church
• News: Santa Clara University Hosts Inaugural Innovator Diversity Pilots Conference

Thank you all for your help and leadership with our graduate programs.

Best,