International Conference on Jesuit Higher Education
January 14, 2009
To: Presidents/Rectors of Jesuit higher education institutions
Through president of regional associations (AJCU-EAO, AJCU, ASJEL, AUSJAL,
JEA-HESA , Africa)
From: Paul Locatelli, Secretary for higher education
Re: International Conference on Jesuit Higher Education
As you likely know, we will have an international conference on Jesuit higher education with Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., Superior General. I hope that you will attend. Hence, please mark your calendar and respond to the some questions (below). Send your responses to the president of your regional association as soon as possible but no later than February 28. Thank you.
Theme: Shaping the Future: Jesuit Higher Education in the Globalizing World
Date: April 22-24, 2010 (three days excluding travel)
Place: Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Invitees Rectors/Presidents are encouraged to invite one colleague, keeping in mind the desire to have a significant presence of women at the meeting. The preferred invitees are faculty – both Jesuit and colleagues - with expertise and commitment to the themes identified in the section II of the Propose Format and Agenda (below). Other invitees will include women and men, Jesuit and colleagues, from other apostolates such as secondary and primary education, social justice, JRS, formation, and spiritual/pastoral.
Please note if you plan to attend, realizing this might not be final at this point. Yet, I encourage your to plan to attend.
1. Do you plan to attend? _________
2. Do you intend to invite a colleague? _________
Proposed Format and Agenda:
I: Father Adolfo Nicolás will address the assembly on his vision for higher education and the intellectual apostolate.
II: Five or six themes on globalizations will topics for presentation and discussion. The proposed format will be a presentation of a paper, followed by comments from two respondents from different cultural and geographical regions, and then by small group discussions. We would you like faculty from our institutions to be presenters and respondents. To this end, please suggest names as presenters and respondents for the following themes:
[A] migration and refugees;
3. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
4. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
[B] faith, culture, and interreligious dialogue;
5. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
6. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
[C] religion, science, secularism and the new atheism;
7. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
8. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
[D] fiscal realities, poverty, inequality and ethical capitalism;
9. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
10. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
[E] ecology, eco-justice and social sustainability;
11. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
12. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
[F] youth, technology and social-networking;
13. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
14. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
[G] justice and international human rights;
15. Possible presenter: _______________________________________
16. Possible respondents: _____________________________________
17. Which of these should be kept (list by letter, eg. [A]?___________ Eliminated?________
Are there other themes that should be considered? Please list:__________________________
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III: A presentation with respondents on ways to enhance the Catholic, Jesuit identity and mission of our colleges & universities as an “Intellectual Apostolate” of the Society.
18. Suggest a respondent from your region: ___________________________
IV: A presentation and discussion on the Jesuit Commons by Chris Lowney.
19. Should there also be one or two others for comment on how it’s working? _____
V: Developing a structure to improve the Jesuit higher education global network.
20. A series of questions: What would you like to see in such a structure? Or, what would it look like? What information and programs would a structural network include? How would we put it in place? Who would maintain it? How would it be financed? How would/could it be used? How could we encourage people to use it?
Thank you. |
