July, 2026

On July 8-10, 2026, the IAJU Taskforce on Holistic Wellbeing sponsored workshop on school-based mental health among 19 faculty and staff from 7 higher education institutions. The Ateneo Bulatao Center for Psychological Services facilitated the 3-day workshop that featured topics such as mental health literacy, screening, mental health first aid, and facilitating a resilience intervention.

The Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) is pleased to announce an upcoming Encounter in Rome. Through this project, JUHAN hopes to promote their goals of advancing both undergraduate humanitarian education and the professional field of humanitarian action.

LMU and JRS will collaborate on leadership training and development for JRS leaders working in complex refugee and displacement contexts

While we can look to the past with gratitude for all that has been accomplished in the history of each of your educational institutions, we are also well aware of the multitude of challenges facing humanity today. Indeed, our time has called an age of epochal change. Societies are becoming even more secularized, with many seeking to push any mention of God out of the public sphere and beyond popular culture.

On June 8th and 9th, 2026, the Jesuit University of Abidjan (UJA), through the Center for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP), organized an international symposium in its amphitheater around the theme: "Elections, stability and peace: A comparative look at the state and role of the democratic process in Africa."

Two faculty members from Xavier Institute of Engineering (XIE) are spending 45 days at Kosyam Jesuit University in Burkina Faso. Throughout this trip, the professors will teach a course on Cybersecurity, with an ultimate goal of strengthening global academic collaboration.