What does it mean to be a leader at a Jesuit, Catholic university? Faculty and staff from the 27 Jesuit schools across the US can take advantage of each others’ expertise and experience. Learning more about the history and global reach of Jesuit education and experiencing Ignatian spirituality first-hand helps faculty and staff find their particular ways of contributing to the Jesuit educational mission and passing it on to the next generations.
The Ignatian Colleagues Program (ICP) is a national program of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) designed to educate and form administrators and faculty more deeply in the Jesuit & Catholic tradition of higher education. The goal of our program is to provide a solid intellectual foundation as well as opportunities for participants to personally experience and appropriate their significance so they may better articulate, adapt, and advance the Jesuit & Catholic mission of their campuses.
With the support of the presidents of the 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States, the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities offers The Jesuit Leadership Seminar.
Its goal is to contribute to the formation of administrators in Jesuit colleges and universities who will, in the words of St. Ignatius Loyola, “Go out and set the world on fire!”
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. In academic year 2016-17, the Western Conversations Conference will join the Heartland Delta Conference at Creighton University on Feb 24-26, 2017.
The National Steering Committee on Justice in Jesuit Higher Education was formed in 2002 with a charge to coordinate, convene, communicate, and connect persons and institutions devoted to justice in Jesuit higher education. Since then, the committee has convened national conferences every 3-4 years including; John Carroll University (2005), Fairfield University (2009), Creighton University (2013), and Seattle University (2017). This year’s Commitment to Justice Conference will be hosted at Georgetown University, June 3-6, 2020.