We are in and of the community.
A deep engagement with the surrounding communities in Silicon Valley and beyond is central to our mission.
Our communities influence how SCU students learn and what they choose to do on weekends and breaks. They inspire the work of our faculty and shape the lives of our alumni.
Community programs, activities, and initiatives help strengthen the connection between Santa Clara, our neighbors, and our world, while creating opportunities for all of SCU to learn, serve, and grow.
This engagement works in both directions. We welcome our neighbors to experience Santa Clara’s campus culture through public events and enrichment programs. Activities throughout the year might include exhibits, performances, athletics, and public forums featuring some of Silicon Valley’s most notable visionaries—often our own alumni.
SCU in the Community
Register and Join Us for a Series of Four WebinarsUpcoming webinars will address four themes from the recent encyclical: AI and education, AI and labor, AI and consciousness, and disarming AI.
A warm send off to the Ethics Center Class of 2026 and awarding this year's Markkula Prize for outstanding commitment to ethics.
How does media representation of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) women affect their democratic participation? More specifically, what are the mechanisms by which representation either enables or forecloses participation, and how can the negative cycle be broken?
Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by The Wichita Eagle.
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, interviewed by NBC Bay Area.
Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by Fortune.
Music Professor Christina Zanfagna and Film/Communication Professor Michael Whalen are collaborating on a documentary entitled BLACKITALIAN.
Meet Business Major Summer Orientation Leaders
- Rebecca Chae, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Journal of Association for Consumer Research (Forthcoming)
In his very funny new novel, “Valet,” the English professor considers what motivates humans through the perspective of a robot.
- Kris Gulati and Christian Helmers
Research Policy
Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by High Country News.
MGMT 71, Foundations of Leadership
Joan Harrington, Ethics Center fellow, quoted by The Sacramento Bee.
Accomplished advancement executive brings record-breaking philanthropic success to Silicon Valley's leading Jesuit university
Mike Markkula, co-founder, Apple Computer and original seed grantor for the Ethics Center, featured in CityBiz.
John Rinaldo, MA '06, a lifelong pastoral leader and Professor of Practice at Santa Clara University, is shaping the future of Church leadership through the GPPM program, his courses, and his podcast, Called to Lead.
The Leavey School of Business celebrated the close of the 2025–26 academic year with faculty and staff honors, including nine professors earning the school's top distinction and the debut of a new award program recognizing outstanding staff contributions.
The inaugural Bay Area Sports Business Impact Awards span five categories — from community impact and ethical leadership to innovation and trailblazing business thinking — with each award tied to a charitable donation or scholarship. Recipients will be celebrated at a gala this November.
The business management major felt embraced and cared for as a transfer student. He wants to pay that forward.
There’s a contrarian management philosophy that Jim Hughes will share with anyone who asks. Tracing the arc of his career from a part-time job at a Computerland store in Silicon Valley to the executive ranks of Cisco to founding his own data analytics company, the evidence is hard to argue with.
Computer engineering graduate students designed and produced software to engage visually-impaired preschoolers as a project for their Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming class, COEN 275, then got the thrill of seeing their work in action.