Marquette University president Michael Lovell, Ph.D., signed the Catholic Climate Covenant’s Saint Francis Pledge. The signing coincided with campus celebrations of Earth Day
Santa Clara University receives $25 million to fuel its center dedicated to applying innovation and entrepreneurship approaches to address the needs of the global poor.
National faith-based advocacy organizations have called on members of Congress to support legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020.
BALTIMORE, MD – The leaders of Jesuit educational institutions in the Baltimore metro area, Loyola University Maryland, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Loyola Blakefield High School, and the Jesuit Nativity-model school Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy, have spoken publicly on the loss of Freddie Gray and nonviolent and violent reactions that have taken place in recent days.
The Jesuit University Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN), is reaching out to help those affected by the devastating earthquake in Nepal.
Creighton University and Saint Louis University have been recognized with the Arbor Day Foundation’s annual Tree Campus USA status in recognition of their campus efforts.
Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago, a developing educational innovation in Jesuit higher education, announced today that Yolanda Golden and Jennie Wozniak Boyle have joined the college’s administrative leadership team.
The Ignatian Solidarity Network honored Sr. Carol Keehan, D.C., with the “Robert M. Holstein: Faith Doing Justice Award” on Thursday, April 16, 2015, during an evening award event at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Loyola University Chicago and Santa Clara University are the sole Jesuit universities to earn a spot on The Princeton Review Top 50 Green Colleges List for 2015.
Wheeling Jesuit University will host a summer academy to help high-achieving, low-income high school students from Cristo Rey high schools make an easier transition to college.
Jesuit High School was recently awarded the overall 2015 Oregon Sustainable School Award. Jesuit was also awarded the first-ever Oregon “More Sustainable” Award, which recognizes the school’s continuous improvement efforts in sustainability over the last four years.
Xavier University is now home to one of the five new electric vehicle fast-charging stations unveiled by the city of Cincinnati recently. Xavier is one of several institutions partnering with the city in an attempt to make Cincinnati greener and more attractive to those who own or are looking to buy electrical cars.
Today the U.S. government filed a request by Spain for the extradition of Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, the former Vice Minister of Public Safety in El Salvador, for his role in the 1989 Jesuits Massacre, in which six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper, and her daughter were murdered in San Salvador.
“We believe that it is our moral responsibility — particularly as a Jesuit institution founded to serve first and second-generation college students, and committed to providing opportunities to those aspiring to realize their potential through education — to care and advocate for undocumented students.”
Loyola High School of Los Angeles, celebrating its 150th anniversary as the oldest continually operated educational institution in Southern California, recently announced that as a highlight of its yearlong Sesquicentennial commemoration, it is launching a historic community service initiative on Saturday, April 11, 2015.
