Jesuit identity

UNIJES, formed in 2012, coordinates Jesuit higher education in Spain. It promotes collaboration in identity and mission, inspired by the Ledesma-Kolvenbach Paradigm. Over 25 years, it has strengthened leadership and integration within Jesuit institutions.

The IAJU Global Citizenship Fellows Program is an initiative of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and the International Association of Jesuit Universitiesthat empowers students from Jesuit universities around the world to become leaders in global citizenship. In June 2024, the latest cohort of fellows gathered in Rome for a transformative week-long study tour.

Last winter, students from Santa Clara University had the opportunity to visit the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) as part of an immersion program from the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education that focused on Accompaniment and Intentional Communities in Quito, Ecuador.

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.

“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.

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

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.

San Diego, CA - The University of San Diego's Knauss School of Business proudly hosted the 26th Annual Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Meeting in July.

In February of 2019 Pope Francis missioned the Society of Jesus with the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs). What have we learned after living the UAPs for four years?

Held from March 22 to 24 at the United Nations headquarters (New York), the Water 2023 Conference sought to generate commitments from UN Member States and other stakeholders through proposals and solutions to advance the Water Action Agenda as a way to achieve the sixth goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Clean Water and Sanitation.

The Great Celebration for the 80th Anniversary of our IBERO was full of emotion and ovations, with a community very happy to gather around this significant commemoration, to the rhythm of a Symphony Orchestra of Minería that, at different times, brought the audience to their feet in the esplanade of the Iberoamericana, to burst into long periods of applause