2023

Advantere School of Management was born and exists as a collaborative project promoted by Pontifical University Comillas and University of Deusto, with the collaboration of Georgetown University as a strategic academic partner.

Faculty members from North American Universities are active participants in the task forces in the International Association of Jesuit Engineering Schools(IAJES). Four of the task forces are led by faculty from North America including Gail Baura from Loyola University Chicago, Allan Baez Morales from Santa Clara University, Aleksandar Zecevic from Santa Clara University and Bryan Ranger from Boston College who heads the Healthcare task force.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the only Jesuit institution in mainland China, The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies gathered friends and alumni on the evening of November 28 to cherish the sweet memories of the past and look forward to the bright future.

In a series of posts, we have shared with you some reflections on Jesuit university networks. In the first post, entitled “A vision on Jesuit University Networks,” we analyzed the context in which these networks have developed in recent decades and raised questions about their usefulness and the circumstances that make their creation desirable.

In the previous article, “A View on Jesuit University Networks”, we took a look at the context in which Jesuit university networks have developed in recent decades. We also asked about the usefulness of such networks and the circumstances in which their creation is desirable, and presented some answers.

“From poetry to prose: Challenges to make networks work. The University Case” is the title of my talk that I had the honour of giving to the Jesuits of UNIJES during their annual meeting last March 2023.

The Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (SACRU) is a collaborative effort among some of the world's most prestigious Catholic research universities, is a network dedicated to teaching and research excellence, engagement and global collaboration informed by Catholic Social Teaching.

In line with the willingness to forge academic and research collaborative relationships, last July 2023 two faculty of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota’ visited the campus of Sophia University in Tokyo.

The Global Citizenship Curriculum Project is an initiative of the Task Force on Global Citizenship of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU).

The second Pedro Arrupe Summer School in Forced Migration was conducted in July 2023. Eight Jesuits in formation and three religious sisters met at Campion Hall, Oxford for two weeks.

The Association of Jesuit Universities in Latin America and the Caribbean (AUSJAL) took great pride in introducing its newly appointed Board of Directors for the term 2023-2025.

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Asia Pacific (AJCU-AP) convened from 27 – 30 August 2023 at the Mirador Jesuit Villa and Retreat House, Baguio City, Philippines, for the AJCU-AP Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) Meeting 2023.