2024-25 Ignatian Center Program Highlights

Throughout the 2024-25 academic year, the Ignatian Center has remained grounded in its mission to deliver formative opportunities for the next generation of leaders. From fellowships and immersion trips across the globe, to local community engagement opportunities, to thought-provoking lectures and Ignatian Spirituality teachings, the Ignatian Center provided students, faculty, staff, and the greater community with opportunities to embrace Jesuit wisdom by inspiring awareness, thought, reflection, discernment, and action - here, there, and everywhere.

ARRUPE ENGAGEMENT

COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING	OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS	ARRUPE FELLOWSHIPS
Arrupe Engagement partners with local community organizations whose members and clients become co-educators of SCU students. We provide learning opportunities that bring students to understand and experience commitment to the common good, the dignity of all people, justice, and kinship with people on the margins of society.	Arrupe Engagement works with 49 community organizations covering a wide range of service areas: Aging with Dignity Adults with Special Needs K12 Tutoring and Enrichment Emergency Services & Food Insecurity Support for Unhoused Population College Readiness Programming Addiction Recovery Support Environmental Justice Youth Advocacy	worked more than 600 hours in with 5 of our community partners. This Fellowship allows students who enjoy the work their doing with our program to expand their exploration of their vocation, values, and various social justice themes throughout the academic year.

COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING

OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

ARRUPE FELLOWSHIPS

Arrupe Engagement partners with local community organizations whose members and clients become co-educators of SCU students.

We provide learning opportunities that bring students to understand and experience commitment to the common good, the dignity of all people, justice, and kinship with people on the margins of society.

Arrupe Engagement works with 49 community organizations covering a wide range of service areas:

Aging with Dignity
Adults with Special Needs
K12 Tutoring and Enrichment
Emergency Services & Food Insecurity
Support for Unhoused Population
College Readiness Programming
Addiction Recovery Support
Environmental Justice
Youth Advocacy

worked more than 600 hours in with 5 of our community partners. This Fellowship allows students who enjoy the work their doing with our program to expand their exploration of their vocation, values, and various social justice themes throughout the academic year.

"My volunteering sessions every Saturday morning quickly became the highlight of my week. I looked forward to having an opportunity to embody the values of service and listening to others that we discussed in class."
- Student Participant

BANNAN FORUM

2023-24 BANNAN EVENTS	BANNAN GRANTS	SEMINAR
This academic year, the Bannan Forum hosted a variety of events, including: Carmody Lecture: The Passions of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Toni Morrison Bannan Memorial Lecture: History Informing Tradition: Threads that Bind in US Jesuit History Religion and Race in the 2024 Election Care Ethics, Cura Personalis, &Generative AI in Education The Desert Within: Silence, Stillness, & the Renewal of Community Can You Be a Catholic & a Feminist? Synodal Moments Series in partnership with JST - Theological Implications of Synodality - Moving Forward as a Missionary Synodal Church	This year we awarded $38,000 for Bannan grants, covering topics ranging from prison education curriculum development; expanding Jesuit education through community-based research, to support for projects related to faculty-led Ignatian spirituality programs, and supporting the growth of environmental justice research through an Ignatian lens.	The year’s Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition will deepen faculty’s knowledge and engagement with the Jesuit, Catholic intellectual tradition as it relates to questions of democracy and citizenship.

2023-24 BANNAN EVENTS

BANNAN GRANTS

SEMINAR

This academic year, the Bannan Forum hosted a variety of events, including:

Carmody Lecture: The Passions of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Toni Morrison
Bannan Memorial Lecture: History Informing Tradition: Threads that Bind in US Jesuit History
Religion and Race in the 2024 Election
Care Ethics, Cura Personalis, &Generative AI in Education
The Desert Within: Silence, Stillness, & the Renewal of Community
Can You Be a Catholic & a Feminist?
Synodal Moments Series in partnership with JST
- Theological Implications of Synodality
- Moving Forward as a Missionary Synodal Church

This year we awarded $38,000 for Bannan grants, covering topics ranging from prison education curriculum development; expanding Jesuit education through community-based research, to support for projects related to faculty-led Ignatian spirituality programs, and supporting the growth of environmental justice research through an Ignatian lens.

The year’s Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition will deepen faculty’s knowledge and engagement with the Jesuit, Catholic intellectual tradition as it relates to questions of democracy and citizenship.

"I loved this event. This important but fragile topic was handled so gracefully with a focus on academic study. The panelists were excellent, each bringing a different facet/nuance to the topic, even pushing the author to reflection. Well done!"
- Attendee, Can you be a Catholic and a Feminist

IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

FACULTY & STAFF PROGRAMS	SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS AN IGNATIAN IMMERSION	19TH ANNOTATION OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Ignatian Faculty Forum Ignatian Tapas Faculty & Staff Retreats Search for What Matters speaker series Ignatian Communal Discernment Training	Solidarity with Migrants: An Ignatian Immersion is a year-long commitment that enables participants, and Santa Clara University, to more deeply commit to upholding the dignity of all those who have migrated or are currently migrating, especially the undocumented living, working, studying, and praying among us.	Partnering with the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education gives staff and faculty of Santa Clara University an opportunity to experience the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola through individual prayer and reflection, as well as one-on-one spiritual direction.

"The retreat was like going to a spiritual well and drinking deeply. It gave me strength and perspective that will help me in my role at Santa Clara University."
~ Participant, Faculty and Staff Ignatian Nourishment Retreat

IMMERSIONS

24-25 Immersions Metrics

2024-25 Locations	SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
IN-STATE East Los Angeles, CA San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA DOMESTIC Appalachia, WV Montgomery, AL New York City, NY INTERNATIONAL Chiapas, Mexico Santiago de Chile, Chile Accra, Ghana San Jose and Quepos, Costa Rica Dominican Republic Lima, Peru Nogales, US - Mexico Border	NEW PARTNERSHIPS Through immersions in Chile, Peru, Ghana, and NYC, we’re building global partnerships that reflect the strength and spirit of our Jesuit network, fostering connection, solidarity, and shared mission worldwide through our faith that does justice. FIRST-YEAR IMMERSION \| for new students Each year, we offer incoming first-year students an immersion trip in downtown San Jose, to learn about social justice issues, meet with community leaders, get to know fellow classmates, deepen their understanding of SCU’s Jesuit tradition of holistic community-engaged education, and move in early!	STUDENT COORDINATORS Undergraduate students who have been on an Immersion are able to apply to be Immersion Coordinators. In this role, they develop leadership skills, and assist in planning and organizing all aspects of an immersion. URBAN PLUNGE Each quarter, the Ignatian Center’s Immersion program offers an intensive, 1-day immersion experience in the heart of downtown San Jose or San Francisco to an SCU group or organization. Participants delve into the issue of houselessness in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

2024-25 Locations

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

IN-STATE
East Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
DOMESTIC
Appalachia, WV
Montgomery, AL
New York City, NY
INTERNATIONAL
Chiapas, Mexico
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Accra, Ghana
San Jose and Quepos, Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Lima, Peru
Nogales, US - Mexico Border

NEW PARTNERSHIPS
Through immersions in Chile, Peru, Ghana, and NYC, we’re building global partnerships that reflect the strength and spirit of our Jesuit network, fostering connection, solidarity, and shared mission worldwide through our faith that does justice.

FIRST-YEAR IMMERSION | for new students
Each year, we offer incoming first-year students an immersion trip in downtown San Jose, to learn about social justice issues, meet with community leaders, get to know fellow classmates, deepen their understanding of SCU’s Jesuit tradition of holistic community-engaged education, and move in early!

STUDENT COORDINATORS
Undergraduate students who have been on an Immersion are able to apply to be Immersion Coordinators. In this role, they develop leadership skills, and assist in planning and organizing all aspects of an immersion.

URBAN PLUNGE
Each quarter, the Ignatian Center’s Immersion program offers an intensive, 1-day immersion experience in the heart of downtown San Jose or San Francisco to an SCU group or organization. Participants delve into the issue of houselessness in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

"Immersions leave a mark on your heart. My immersion allowed me to see beauty where many don't but also to recognize the systemic oppression of people. This immersion gave me a further passion to advocate for change."
- Student Immersion Participant, San Francisco

MISSION ENGAGEMENT

2024-25 PROGRAMS	JESUIT EDUCATION TODAY A MISSION FOR JUSTICE READING GROUP	HEROIC LEADERSHIP FOR ALL
New Faculty & Staff Dinner Connect to Mission Guide Ignatian 101 Ignatian 201 Presentations: Jesuit, Catholic Mission Retreats: Ignatian Perspective on Strategic Planning Workshops: Using Jesuit values to Guide Professional Practices Reflections: The Characteristics of Jesuit Higher Education	This new reading group allowed participants to delve into key documents that define the Jesuit Catholic Mission in higher education today. The program provided an opportunity for meaningful discussion around the contemporary mission of a Jesuit university, exploring significant texts from the 1970s to the present and how they relate to the Santa Clara University mission.	A partnership between the Ignatian Center, Human Resources, and the Leavey Executive Center and inspired by Jesuit principles and Chris Lowney’s bestselling book Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World, faculty and staff explored the four crucial pillars of great leadership: Self-Awareness, Ingenuity, Love, and Heroism.

"I liked being able to connect with other members of the SCU community and the opportunity to learn more about what it means to be a part of a Jesuit Institution."
- Participant, Ignatian 101

STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

The Ignatian Center Fellowships offer undergraduate students a community-based experience rooted in the Ignatian Center's mission of a Faith that does Justice. Fellows work with organizations in communities with little access to wealth, power and privilege. Fellows deepen their understanding of solidarity and vocation through pre-and post experience gatherings that engage students in reflective practices informed by Ignatian Spirituality.

IGNATIAN FELLOWSHIP	JEAN DONOVAN FELLOWSHIP	JEAN DONOVAN FELLOWSHIP INTENSIVE
Winter Quarter 8 week community-based learning fellowship Local in-person opportunities	Summer Break 6-8 week community-based learning fellowship Local, domestic, and international opportunities	Summer Break 8-10 week community-based learning fellowship International opportunities with key strategic partners

"My fellowship experience helped me see the real-life implications of systemic injustice and inspired me to approach social issues with both compassion and strategy."
- Ignatian Fellow

THRIVING NEIGHBORS

OUR VISION & MISSION	SUSTAINABILITY AND PARTICIPATION	SHARED OWNERSHIP
VISION Our vision has two focuses: SCU students will become responsible global citizens and inspirational leaders; and all students in the Greater Washington neighborhood will graduate from high school prepared to enter post- secondary education. MISSION Our mission is to advance the community and leverage the collective efforts to maximize the impact of community-engaged learning grounded in the Ignatian tradition. We believe in mutual respect and collective action.	SUSTAINABILITY We have implemented several key strategies aimed at sustainability and long-term impact: train-the-trainer models leadership development initiatives strengthening inclusive decision- making amplifying diverse voices and co-creative processes. PROGRAM PARTICIPATION We've formed new SCU and local partnerships that allow us to create opportunities benefiting a broader range of students and community members.	We centered student and community voices in decision-making, ensuring shared ownership. We deepened support for our fellows and reached students traditionally less present in community engagement. We consolidated our programmatic pipeline, piloted new initiatives to expand alignment, and supported local partners in scaling efforts rooted in trust and collaboration.

OUR VISION & MISSION

SUSTAINABILITY AND PARTICIPATION

SHARED OWNERSHIP

VISION
Our vision has two focuses: SCU students will become responsible global citizens and inspirational leaders; and all students in the Greater Washington neighborhood will graduate from high school prepared to enter post- secondary education.

MISSION
Our mission is to advance the community and leverage the collective efforts to maximize the impact of community-engaged learning grounded in the Ignatian tradition. We believe in mutual respect and collective action.

SUSTAINABILITY
We have implemented several key strategies aimed at sustainability and long-term impact:

train-the-trainer models
leadership development initiatives
strengthening inclusive decision- making
amplifying diverse voices and co-creative processes.

PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
We've formed new SCU and local partnerships that allow us to create opportunities benefiting a broader range of students and community members.

We centered student and community voices in decision-making, ensuring shared ownership. We deepened support for our fellows and reached students traditionally less present in community engagement. We consolidated our programmatic pipeline, piloted new initiatives to expand alignment, and supported local partners in scaling efforts rooted in trust and collaboration.

"Being a Promotora [of Thriving Neighbors] has given me the opportunity to flourish as a person and to do what I love most, which is supporting my community. I am thrilled to have the opportunity of contributing to build a more integrated community with improved wellbeing."
- Community Leader

Program Highlights 2024-25

2024-25 Ignatian Center Program Highlights

ARRUPE ENGAGEMENT

"My volunteering sessions every Saturday morning quickly became the highlight of my week. I looked forward to having an opportunity to embody the values of service and listening to others that we discussed in class."- Student Participant

BANNAN FORUM

"I loved this event. This important but fragile topic was handled so gracefully with a focus on academic study. The panelists were excellent, each bringing a different facet/nuance to the topic, even pushing the author to reflection. Well done!"- Attendee, Can you be a Catholic and a Feminist