Student Fellowships
The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education offers numerous fellowship opportunities for students. Through these experience-broadening programs, students will be challenged to strengthen their leadership abilities, engage in vocational discernment, and deepen their understanding of social justice issues in order to deepen their education at SCU.
Jean Donovan Fellowship
The Jean Donovan Fellowship is a 6-8 week, summer, community-based learning experience supporting undergraduate students who desire to deepen their understanding of social justice issues. The fellowship is named in honor of Jean Donovan, an American woman who lived, worked, and died in solidarity with the oppressed and impoverished of El Salvador in the 1980s.
Ignatian Fellowship
The Ignatian Fellowship offers SCU undergraduates the opportunity to deepen their commitment to social justice through a community-based learning experience. Ignatian Fellows will receive funding to work with a non-profit of their choice. Ignatian Fellows will participate in Fall Quarter formation prior to serving throughout the Winter Quarter. It is basically an internship with enhanced reflection and support!
AMDG Fellowship
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (AMDG) is a unique year-long commitment that offers SCU students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Ignatian Spirituality and reflect upon their Catholic faith identity. AMDG Fellows are SCU sophomores, juniors and seniors are invited to live into the spirit of AMDG, which is characterized by finding God in all things, living in love, and being with and for others.
Arrupe Fellowship
The Arrupe Fellowship offers undergraduates a formation experience rooted in the Ignatian Center’s mission of creating men and women for others. Fellows deepen their understanding of solidarity and vocation through community engagement with organizations in underserved communities and bi-weekly formation gatherings in community-based learning and Catholic Social Thought.
Thriving Neighbors Fellowship
The Thriving Neighbors Fellowship is a paraprofessional community-based learning experience, which allows undergraduate students to obtain professional work experience while pursuing defined learning goals and objectives. Fellows are matched with a community partner for a full academic year, spending an average of eight to ten hours per week in the community.
Immersion Coordinators
Immersion Coordinators prepare and accompany students for local, domestic, and international immersive experiences. They help students explore both the beauty and unjust realities of a region through direct encounter with its inhabitants and those organizations working in solidarity with these people. After returning from immersion, Coordinators further facilitate the students’ return in impacting their local community.
