Mission Conversations

Join fellow USF faculty and staff to discuss aspects of mission and identity in Jesuit higher education. There will be three Mission Conversations during the fall semester of 2009:

El Salvador as Metaphor:
Faculty Report Back

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
12 noon
McLaren 252

Funded by the USF Jesuit Foundation, 10 faculty and staff members traveled to El Salvador this summer for a 9-day immersion experience. This report back session will include slides and discussion on various themes which surfaced during the trip, including: gender and poverty; the political climate; the Jesuits and Archbishop Romero; cultural gifts and mission.

Integral Human Development: 
The Challenge of Caritas in Veritate

2009 Urbi et Orbi Lecture by Jim Stormes, SJ (bio)
Monday, November 9, 2009
12 noon
McLaren 250

In his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that integral human development requires that “moral evaluation and scientific research…go hand in hand, and…charity must animate them in a harmonious interdisciplinary whole.” How does social science, theology, metaphysics and science come together in a collaborative effort in the service of humanity at a Jesuit Catholic university? Download flyer.

Ignatian Spirituality
and the Martyrs of El Salvador

Monday, November 16, 2009
9:00-10:00 am
Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall

A conversation with USF President Stephen Privett, SJ on the 20th anniversary of the death of six Jesuits and their two coworkers at the University of Central America, San Salvador.

Mission Conversations is open to all members of the USF community. For more information, please contact Mike Duffy, Lane Center director at 415-422-2404 or duffy@usfca.edu.

Mission Reflection

"The Jesuit tradition of engagement with, and respect for, other cultures guides our distinctive Jesuit approach to education. It means encouraging personal reflection, respectful listening to others, caring for the whole person, finding a vocation or calling as an expression of love in this world, and of course, being a woman or man for others."

J.P. Allen
Associate Professor of IT
USF School of Business and Management

Western Conversations
An annual gathering of faculty and staff representatives of the Western region Jesuit colleges and universities (Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Regis, Santa Clara, Seattle, and San Francisco) to discuss experiences, expectations, and contributions to the identity and mission of Jesuit Catholic higher education, develop inter-collegiate community, and take steps steps to make the Jesuit Catholic tradition effective in curriculum development, research, service and student life.

Annual AJCU Conference on Jesuit Mission & Identity
November 6-7, 2009
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
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University Ministry at USF
Offers retreats and faith formation opportunities based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Events
The Lane Center sponsors and promotes mission-based events on campus and in the community.  Click here for the full Events Calendar.