The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to Saint Louis University to study intellectual humility. This sounds right for the philosophy department at a Jesuit university. Humility is central to the Ignatian tradition. (See articles by Joseph Tetlow, SJ, here and here.) It seems that one of the problems encountered by those studying intellectual humility [...]
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MOOCs–massive, open, online courses–are all the rage in higher education. Hundreds of thousands of students all over the world are enrolled in the best-known MOOCs, which are offered by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and other prestigious institutions. Some think that online courses will soon eclipse the familiar residential college campus as the model for higher education. [...]
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The Guinness World Records recently recognized Fr. Geoffrey Schneider, a 99-year-old Australian Jesuit, as the world’s oldest active teacher. He teaches religion and serves as chaplain at St. Aloysius College in Sydney. He says that his secret is “a mountain of patience. If things are going wrong, don’t start shouting. Just proceed quietly and things will [...]
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The Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S. play each other dozens of times on the basketball court this season. Full schedule here. The Jesuit Basketball Spotlight program takes these games as a opportunity for a soft promotion of Jesuit education and mission. Some version of this announcement will be read at most if not [...]
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Rick Malloy, SJ, VP at the University of Scranton, prods students to ask some questions: Will a man or woman who had multiple sexual partners make a good husband or wife? Is hooking up good training for life? There’s an old saying in Jesuit circles: We form our habits and our habits form us. Those [...]
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When he was 18, the young Mike Hayes told his pastor that he was going to Fordham for college. The pastor was horrified and tried to talk him into going to St. John’s “or another non-Jesuit school.” Mike forged ahead anyway, and he explains why he’s glad he did in “What the Jesuits Have Meant [...]
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It takes a great deal of slow, careful, thoughtful work to learn a language. First there must be the example of someone fluent in that language who acts as a model. Next, there must be careful listening, repeating of sounds that are foreign; memorizing words and their unfamiliar nuances. Over time one builds small sentences [...]
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Jesuit colleges played five basketball games against each other this past weekend — four men’s games and one women’s. The marquee game was Georgetown vs. Marquette, with the Hoyas winning 69-60. Jesuit schools play each other nearly 100 times this season. The Jesuit Basketball Spotlight program draws attention to these games as a way of [...]
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If you don’t know Viktor Frankl’s work, read his book Man’s Search for Meaning–one of the most important books of the 20th century. Below is a short video of a presentation he gave at a 1972 conference in Toronto, in which he offers a basic thesis about psychotherapy that applies more broadly to life: we [...]
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Here are some links of interest for supporters of Ignatian ministries. The Jesuit Volunteer Corps has opened applications for the 2011-2012 volunteer term. Loyola Press has started a series of articles to help Catholics understand the upcoming changes in the Roman missal. Fordham has launched a web-based video series called Jesuits in Conversation. Mark your [...]
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