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ON JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Spring 2012 • Number 41 Faculty Life Issues Leadership and Governance • Work-Life Balance • Experiencing the Spirit • Reports SPRING 2012 NUMBER 41 Members of the National Seminar on ON JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Jesuit Higher Education Lisa Sowle Cahill Boston College Faculty Problems and Response Harry R. Dammer University of Scranton Features Susanne E. Foster Marquette University 2 How We Got Here, Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Patrick J. Howell, S.J. 6 The Importance of Good Coffee, Michael J. Graham, S.J. Seattle University 10 A Union Plus Three Senates, Michael D. Friedman Steven Mailloux 12 Step by Step, Colette Windish Loyola Marymount University 14 Put the Catholic Jesuit Identity Up Front, Robert Niehoff, S.J. Diana Owen Georgetown University 17 So You Want to Be A President? Vincent M. Cooke, S.J. Stephen C. Rowntree, S.J. 18 Profiles of Non-Jesuit Presidents at Jesuit Colleges and Universities Loyola University New Orleans Alison Russell 20 Doing What’s Right, Robert J. Parmach Xavier University 22 Tenure: How To Get It, James L. Wiser Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. 24 An Appendage or Vital Component? Lynne C. Elkes America Magazine 26 The Right Man for the Job? Timothy O’Brien, S.J. William J. Stempsey, S.J. The College of the Holy Cross 28 Rising Voices: Women’s Leadership in Jesuit Higher Education, Aparna Venkatesan Mary-Elaine Perry and Melissa Collins DeLeonardo University of San Francisco Stephen C. Rowntree, S.J. 30 Work-Life Issues: What To Do About Them, Diane Dreher Loyola University New Orleans 34 Obstacles to Excellence: Work/Life Balance, Theresa W. Tobin 37 Seeking Work-Family Balance: Perils and Possibilities, Julie Hanlon Rubio Conversations is published by the 40 Why Do I Endure All This? Mark Scalese, S.J. National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education, which is jointly spon- sored by the Jesuit Conference 42 Experiencing the Spirit, Kaye Wise Whitehead and Jeanne Fielding Lord Board and the Board of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and 44 Being Gay at a Jesuit University, S. Wade Taylor and Kevin J. Mahoney Universities. The opinions stated 48 Sustainability and Catholic Higher Education, Daniel R. DiLeo herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the 51 Heart Meets Head: Integrating the Mission and the Workplace, JC or the AJCU. Kathy Coffey-Guenther and Doug Leonhardt, S.J. Comments and inquiries may be Student Pieces addressed to the editor of 9 Dear Faculty, Ask for More, Ryan Wolf Conversations Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. 27 Know Our Names, Make Us Think, Matthew Gillespie America House 106 W. 56th Street 39 Finding God in Every Classroom, Matthew Bender New York, NY, 10019-3596 52 Not Filling A Bucket, But Lighting A Fire, Jayson Joyce Phone: 212-515-0142 e-mail: [email protected] Book Reviews For information about 53 James R. Kelly on Not for Profit subscriptions to Conversations: Stephen C. Rowntree, S.J. 56 Mark Massa, S.J., on The Catholic Studies Reader Secretary to the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education Loyola University New Orleans Talking Back 1575 Calhoun Street New Orleans, LA 70118 59 Real Presence: Challenges and Opportunities for a Wired Generation, Phone: 504 865 2781 Jeanine Warisse Turner e-mail: [email protected] 62 Networking Research through Jesuit Institutions, Michael J. Schuck Conversations back issues are available online at 64 How to Not Develop the Athlete, Jim Sankovitz http://epublications.marquette. edu/conversations/ Photo Collages Design and layout by Pauline Heaney. 16 Xavier University • 36 Loyola University New Orleans Printed by Peacock Communications, Lincoln Park, N.J. From the Editor Faculty Life Issues: From Challenge to Change eaching is not always fun. Even the Garden of Two themes stand out. First, they want a personal relation- Eden had snakes. The obstacles to good teaching ship between the teacher and the student, not just the sit in have many sources — inadequacies in students, class, take the notes, and take the test standard impersonal T faculty, and administration, but also from the cul- routine. At least two mentioned teachers who did not know ture of the institution itself. the names of their students! On the one hand, this is an occa- The theme of this issue began in the Friday discussions sion to be shocked; on the other hand, I’ve know more than the members of our seminar have enjoyed with faculty in a few students who could not tell me the names of their pro- every Jesuit college and university we have visited over the fessors. Second, they want to be challenged. Recent literature past several years. As it happened, topics like the core, on higher education documents universities where faculty “excellence,” and the Jesuit General’s recent letter were more require students to neither read nor write on the level decent immediately focused, while “faculty life issues” seemed dis- standards require. parate, pulling in different directions. For example: modes of ur cover, though exaggerated, depicts the physi- governance, faculty unions, tenure procedures, underpaid cal and emotional tug between the obligations of adjuncts, hiring policies, ambition to higher office, women’s a parent and those of a university professor progress, student-faculty relations, tension between home Oembodied in the same person. Should there be and work obligations, and making gay students feel at home different contracts for faculty depending on their domestic had to be weaved together, keeping in mind the Jesuit char- responsibilities? A three or four course load for the single 35- acter of the institution, increasingly diverse, as a raison d’e- year-old male English professor training for a marathon and tre of this magazine. who is working on a novel which might be published some Several essays concern governance; the insistence that fac- day, compared to a two-course load for a single mother psy- ulty voices be heard grows louder every year. And a president chology professor who has to drive her five-year-old daugh- determined to raise the college’s academic profile may find a ter to school every day and pick her up every afternoon? And faculty senate resisting changes that will require faculty to pub- how many Jesuit universities have day care for both faculty lish more without a reduction in their teaching load. And how and married students? fair are the procedures for tenure? In the six years prior to the Faced with these problems, universities generally tenure decision, has the faculty member been given a semes- appoint committees to study them and report. These reports ter off to concentrate on a publishable article? The articles here lead to new institutions like Georgetown’s program for gay don’t raise all these questions; but perhaps the conversations students, or new configurations of senates at Scranton and which follow publication will bring them up. Spring Hill, or an office to train faculty in Jesuit spirituality at Other than being fired, no experience is more harrow- Marquette, or structured dialogue at Xavier. Ignatian pro- ing than the fight for tenure. At Fordham in 1970 student grams multiply, so that today lay faculty of various faiths leaders occupied the administration building and called a have experienced some adaptation of the Spiritual Exercises student strike to protest the denial of tenure to a popular more than was ever dreamed of in the days when Jesuits English professor. The administration replied by restructuring owned and dominated Jesuit schools. the campus government, creating a campus council with administration, faculty, and student membership; the profes- sor, still denied tenure, died a few years later. In the recent For the cover, I thank photographer Mark Wyville, who has Chronicle of Higher Education (Nov. 11) a communications done other Conversations covers; Fordham Professor professor, Al Auster, writes that he has been denied tenure Gwenyth Jackaway; sophomore Brendan O’Malley; Aidan four times at three schools — because of ill will between two Heaney, son of Thomas and Pauline Heaney our designer; departments, a “nest of vipers” at another institution, and Kerry Weber, associate editor of America, and Jose R. failure to fill out some paper work at his current home. Guzman of the America business office who played student Each issue invites four students, recommended by a roles; and Frank Turnbull, S.J., who generously provided the local professor, to either speak to the readers on behalf of John LaFarge Lounge for the cover drama. ■ their peers or simply write about what’s on the top of their minds. This time I suggested that each say something the fac- RASsj ulty should hear about student expectations of their teachers. Conversations 1 How We Got Here A History By Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. he overall reputation of Jesuit col- Md., since 1872, which chronicled the history of the leges and universities today is higher American Society of Jesus as it happened, in first than it has ever been. But this status person narratives, reflections, and obituaries. Two has not come quickly or easily, and young Jesuit scholastics were walking along the road progress, as always, has left its during summer vacation in 1892 while the older one wounded along the road. instructed the younger, who was about to begin his Conversations has addressed teaching assignment, about the status of our institu- aspects of this theme from the tions. One weakness he said, was that they had had beginning, but most recently in its to hire some lay persons for a while; but fear not, the issue on the role of philosophy and following year the staffing would be 100 percent theology (32), on how professional education is Jesuits. At that time there were 28 Jesuit institutions “Jesuit”T (35), on revision of the core (38), and final- in the United States and Canada, 11 of which were ly on the search for excellence (39).

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