This study looked at the impact of Ignatian spirituality and Ignatian pedagogy on staff in student-facing units at Jesuit colleges and universities. It also explored how leaders of student-facing departments and divisions operationalize components of Ignatian spirituality and pedagogy to create an Ignatian organizational culture. Qualitative data…

The campus climate for LGBQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer) communities in higher education has improved, but not necessarily at religiously affiliated institutions. This case study explores how faculty, staff, and students at a Jesuit, Catholic university address LGBQ issues through interviews, participant observation, and document review.…

This study focuses on two major aspects of Jesuit pedagogy in Spain that should be held in mind in order to understand Jesuit educational transformations after the Second Vatican Council: Firstly (A), the theological renewal undertaken since the end of the 1960s, mainly by the Jesuit institute "Fe y Secularidad" founded in 1967 and the…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine Jesuit secondary lay educators' perspectives of service-learning, and their awareness of utilizing service-learning to further the schools' mission and Jesuit identity. This qualitative study used a case study methodology, which examined two Jesuit USA Northeast secondary schools'…

The purpose of this historical case study is to examine the response of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. The AJCU is a voluntary association of 28 Jesuit higher education institutions rooted in the Jesuit charism that centers on God's desire for a direct relationship with creation,…

This article begins with a brief description of access and affordability and their relationship to equity, diversity, and inclusion within the higher education sector today. Because the authors work at a Jesuit Catholic institution, awareness and appreciation of the call to uphold access and affordability at Jesuit institutions are also important.…

While internationalization in higher education is widely documented, little research has been conducted on how internationalization efforts at the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States have been operated. Through three exploratory case studies at Boston College, Saint Louis University, and the University of San Francisco,…

This instrumental qualitative case study examined how one Catholic, Jesuit university supports its LGBTQ undergraduate students and how those students make meaning of that support. Participants included 19 students with a variety of LGBTQ and racial identities, and 13 faculty and staff. I examined online documents, made visual observations, and…

Jesuit higher education takes place today in an increasingly globalised world. These reflections will focus on the implications of the commitment to justice for such education. The challenge of responding to poverty and displacement will give concrete focus to the discussion.

Justice education in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition is filled with tensions, many of which surface in different community service contexts. Saint Louis University offers an institutional illustration of these tensions, both in the conceptual origins of justice education and in the practical ways that students make meaning from service experiences.…

A substantive and differentiating element of the Jesuits' university paradigm is the promotion of social justice. The results of a telephone poll conducted amongst professors and researchers convey the initiatives to further social justice that Jesuit universities in Spain have been carrying out primarily since the 1990s. Although still a limited…

This article studies the relationship between the authorities of newly independent India and mission schools using the case of (and the perspective/sources from) the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Chotanagpur (then South Bihar, now Jharkhand). These relationships were marked by much tension in the late 1940s and early 1950s. An abundance of…

Over the last few years, I have sat in the opening sessions of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference and felt equal parts concern and conviction. In 2015 and 2016, opening speakers enumerated the challenges and opportunities that confront honors educators in a rapidly changing higher education landscape. I sympathized with their…

To better understand higher education administration practices, I investigated the perspectives of Black womxn student affairs practitioners' aspirational, social, educational, historic, navigational, resistance, and cultural capital which comprised workplace wealth. The data collection utilized a qualitative research methodology. To encourage…

Instructor and business students' perspectives regarding online and face-to-face education during the pandemic were simultaneously surveyed. The study took place at an AACSB-accredited, Jesuit Catholic University with a strong focus on face-to-face teaching. Instructors and students who have experienced online education significantly differ on…