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Explore, Fall 2011, Vol. 15, No. 1: the Globalization of Superficiality and the Challenge of Jesuit Higher Education Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education Santa Clara University Scholar Commons explore SCU Publications Fall 2011 explore, Fall 2011, Vol. 15, no. 1: The Globalization of Superficiality and the Challenge of Jesuit Higher Education Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/explore Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, "explore, Fall 2011, Vol. 15, no. 1: The Globalization of Superficiality and the Challenge of Jesuit Higher Education" (2011). explore. Book 17. http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/explore/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in explore by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AN EXAMINATION OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND IGNATIAN CHARACTER IN JESUIT HIGHER explore EDUCATION P UBLISHED BY THE I GNATIAN C ENTER AT S ANTA C LARA U NIVERSITY FALL 2011 VOL. 15 NO. 1 The Globalization of Superficiality and the Challenge of Jesuit Higher Education 4 Shaping the Future 22 How Would 32 Toward a Globalization of Jesuit Higher Education Jesus Tweet? of Solidarity FALL 2011 P UBLISHED BY THE I GNATIAN C ENTER FOR J ESUIT E DU C ATION AT S A N TA C LARA U NIVERSITY Charles Barry F ROM THE C ENTER D IRE C TOR Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. Executive Director ith the publication of this issue of explore, I would like Theresa Ladrigan-Whelpley to communicate my delight in being able to serve as Associate Director W Executive Director of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Elizabeth Kelley Gillogly SCU ’93 Education. Having taught at Santa Clara since 2003, with a joint Managing Editor appointment in the Religious Studies and Classics Departments, I believe deeply in the kind of transformative education Santa Clara Amy Kremer Gomersall SCU ’88 provides. Moreover, I am committed to nurturing a vision that will Design sustain Jesuit education for generations to come. Ignatian Center Advisory Board In many respects, concern for what Jesuit education will become Peggy Bradshaw provides the governing theme of this current issue of explore. Articles Simon Chin Paul Crowley, S.J. here emerge from an international conference held in Mexico City Michael Engh, S.J. in April 2010 on “Networking Jesuit Higher Education: Shaping Frederick J. Ferrer the Future for a Humane, Just, Sustainable Globe.” The chief Cathy Horan-Walker architect of the conference was our own Paul Locatelli, S.J., who Thomas Kelly unbeknownst to anyone, was in the last months of his life. It is Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. Terry Nally fitting, then, that someone who cared so much for Jesuit education Mark Ravizza, S.J. was shaping its future to the end. William Rewak, S.J. Those who attended the conference noted two highlights. The Joseph Symkowick first was the palpable sense of the commitment to Jesuit higher Margaret Taylor education from so many different people around the globe. The Catherine Wolff Michael A. Zampelli, S.J. second was the keynote address of Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., Superior General of the Society of Jesus, on “Depth, Universality, and explore is published two times per year by the Learned Ministry: Challenges to Jesuit Higher Education Today.” Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA This issue leads with articles by four participants. Santa Clara 95053-0454. www.scu.edu/ignatiancenter 408-554-6917 (tel) 408-551-7175 (fax) University President, Michael Engh, S.J., offers personal reflections The views expressed in explore do not necessarily on the conference, and Ron Hansen gives tribute to the legacy of represent the views of the Center. We welcome your comments. Paul Locatelli, S.J. Paul Crowley, S.J., describes Fr. Nicolás’ keynote, The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education advances Santa Clara University’s Jesuit Catholic commitment and Cesar Arjona, professor of law from Barcelona, urges us to re- to integrate faith, justice and the intellectual life on think conceptions of justice in the education we deliver. campus and beyond. As a Center of Distinction, the Ignatian Center is dedicated to advancing the Picking up on Fr. Nicholás’ assertion of unique challenges University’s strategic vision of “educating men and women to be leaders of competence, conscience, and of our times, Elizabeth Drescher, in “HWJT (How Would Jesus compassion,” by serving students, faculty, staff, and Tweet),” gives us a fascinating essay on ways to imagine and community partners. Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, understand new media. In addition to recent graduate Hilary Titus’ Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its more own reflection on her Santa Clara education, and Valerie Sarma’s than 8,000 students rigorous undergraduate curricula reflection on the Jean Donovan Fellowships, we are happy to present in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s and law degrees and engineering reports on the research of students supported by the Ignatian Center. Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master’s universities, I hope that reading these essays may help you imagine how the California’s oldest operating higher-education institu- future of Jesuit education will best be shaped. tion demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu. Copyright 2011 by Santa Clara University. Peace, Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. 10/11 Q-3,900 MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, S.J. AN EXAMINATION OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND IGNATIAN contents CHARACTER IN JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION The Globalization of Superficiality and the Challenge of Jesuit Higher Education International displays at “Networking Jesuit Higher Education: Shaping the Future for a Humane, Just, Sustainable Globe,” Mexico City, April 2010. Charles Barry Reflections on the “Shaping the Future” 22 HWJT? (How Would Jesus Tweet?): Conference, Mexico City, 2010 Reimagining New Media as Social BY ELIZABETH DRESCHER 4 Refounding the “Universities of the Society”—The Challenge of 28 Friending in El Salvador and Tanzania: Fr. Nicolás to Jesuit Higher Education An Education in Solidarity BY HILARY TITUS, SCU ’11 BY MICHAEL E. ENGH, S.J. 32 Toward a Globalization of Solidarity: 10 Jesuit Higher Education and Reflections on Ten Years of Donovan the Legacy of Paul Locatelli, S.J Fellowships BY RON HANSEN BY VALERIE SARMA 13 Universality, Learned Ministry, and 36 BANNAN GRANT REPORT Depth of Thought and Imagination Toward a More Equitable Distribution BY PAUL J. CROWLEY, S.J. of Resources Within Our World 18 Shaping the Future of (Jesuit) Legal Education 39 Upcoming Events BY CÉSAR ARJONA ON THE COVER: Mexico City conference participants outside the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México (UIA). Photo by Charles Barry explore F a l l 2 0 1 1 3 TheTheme Globalization Title for of SuperficialityIssue Here and the Challenge of Jesuit Higher Education 4 IGNATIAN CENTER FOR JESUIT EDUCATION Refounding the “Universities of the Society” – The Challenge of Fr. Nicolás to Jesuit Higher Education Reflections on the “Shaping the Future” Conference, Mexico City, 2010 BY MICHAEL E. ENGH, S.J. President, Santa Clara University IN APRIL OF 2010, MORE THAN 180 administrators, staff, and chairs of boards of LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES trustees. We participated in plenary and small OF JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL group sessions, Masses, meals, and receptions. INSTITUTIONS FROM AROUND THE Our delegation from Santa Clara University WORLD GATHERED AT THE MODERN included Paul Crowley, S.J., chair of the CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSIDAD Religious Studies Department (and author of IBEROAMERICANA IN MEXICO CITY. one of the preparatory papers); Ron Hansen, My predecessor, Paul Locatelli, S.J., had been professor of English; Steve Saum, editor of Santa planning for the event for over two years. In his Clara Magazine; and Chuck Barry, university role as Secretary for Jesuit Higher Education, Paul photographer. We had traveled to the conference had coordinated, secured funding, and structured to contribute to laying the groundwork and the four-day meeting. The centerpiece of the setting the agenda for an international network program was an address by the Superior General of Jesuit institutions of higher education. of the Society of Jesus, Adolfo Nicolás, S.J. (at As Paul Locatelli, S.J., had conceived the left, celebrating Mass), who traveled from Rome conference, we were to address several major to articulate his vision for Jesuit higher education. issues and craft proposals for continued A palpable energy animated the delegates from collaboration after the meeting. around the world when we met one another on Surveying the welcome reception it was the redbrick patio outside the auditorium for the obvious that men outnumbered women, and opening session on Thursday, April 22, 2010. it appeared that lay colleagues outnumbered Presidents (also called rectors, principals, Jesuits. We had arrived from around the world or directors) arrived with faculty members, for this assembly, though the eruption of an Charles Barry explore F a l l 2 0 1 1 5 R EFOUNDING THE “ U NIVER S ITIE S OF THE S OCIETY ” Icelandic volcano had deterred a number of Alphonse), East Asia (Joel Tabora), Africa and Europeans from attending. I met an intrepid Madagascar (Mwana Mfumu Isangu), North Belgian Jesuit who had driven from Belgium to America (Jack DeGoia, of Georgetown), and Madrid to catch a flight, as well as Africans who Europe (Jose Ramon Busto). Jack DeGoia noted had touched down in London to change planes that in North America we were experiencing for Mexico City. If one was determined to be desecularization, that is, the re-emergence of present, it could be accomplished.
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