On Fire at the Frontiers: International Conference on the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education
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Bergman, Roger
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2014-02-03
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In 1999, all 28 Jesuit Universities in the U.S. were invited to prepare a self-study in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1975) and its famous Decree 4, which made justice a central dimension of all Jesuit ministries, including higher education. What had been done and what had been learned in that quarter of a century? The first national conference was hosted by Santa Clara University , October 4-6 , 2000. It was at this major event that the Father-General of the Society, Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ, delivered his landmark address, “The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education.” Subsequent conferences have been held at John Carroll University in 2005 and Fairfield University in 2009. The most recent conference was hosted by Creighton, August 1-4, 2013. It was attended by 325 representatives of all members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities. Each of the schools prepared an Institutional Examen on justice. (See the poster on Creighton’s Examen elsewhere in this exhibit).
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Creighton University