December 12, 2022 – Regis University in Denver has named its next president, Salvador D. Aceves, Ed.D. He previously served the university as senior vice president and chief financial officer, beginning in 2014. He will be the university’s first lay and Latino president. Dr. Aceves will be sworn in as Regis University’s president on Jan. …
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Saint Joseph University of Beirut’s “Donate to Educate” Campaign Seeks to Aid Students in its Mission to Build the Lebanon of Tomorrow December 8, 2022 — There is no other Jesuit university in the world quite like Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ). Founded by French Jesuit missionaries in 1875, USJ is the leading Francophone …
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November 16, 2022 – Sandra Cassady, Ph.D., officially assumed her role as the 15th president of Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo., following an inauguration ceremony on Nov. 11. In a Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church to begin the events, Cassady was missioned by the Very Rev. Thomas P. Greene, SJ, provincial superior of …
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In 1548, 10 members of the recently founded Society of Jesus opened the first Jesuit school in Messina in Sicily. More than 450 years later, the Society continues in its mission of educating men and women for others.
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff Aug. 2, 2022 – Jesuit Hall, a 100-year-old former hotel near the campus of Saint Louis University, will soon be replaced by two new Jesuit communities, one for senior Jesuits and one for Jesuits missioned to the university. When the Jesuits took up residence in Jesuit Hall in 1973, the 14-story …
By Jerry Duggan As director of community service and social justice at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, Rich Perry is living out what he knows is his vocation: to be a faith and justice educator. He developed a love for all things Jesuit as a student at Boston College. Upon his graduation in 2002, …
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By Jerry Duggan As curator of the Vatican Meteorite Collection and an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory in Rome, Br. Bob Macke, SJ, shows how science can be used to adore and worship God. He cautions that his title may be a little misleading. “I do not spend much of my time looking through a …
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July 2022 – Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Mark A. Lewis, SJ, rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Father Lewis, a member of the Jesuits USA Central and Southern (UCS) Province, has served as academic vice rector of the Gregorian, a Jesuit-run, ecclesiastical university, since 2019. His term as rector will begin on …
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By Jerry Duggan What first convinced Fr. Daniel Tesvich, SJ, to pursue a Jesuit vocation was Ignatian Spirituality. More than two decades after entering the novitiate, he has found sustenance for his spiritual journey in a different avenue: education. Now in his sixth year of teaching at Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Mo., Tesvich …
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By Jerry Duggan After many years in the field of college admissions, Jeff Fuller was ready for a new opportunity: one that allowed him to have more direct contact with students and encouraged him to grow in faith. Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston provided both. “I have felt at home for the entirety of …
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