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Jesuit Education Network

Jesuit Education Network
Jesuit Education Network

We offer training and support for conducting community-driven research and teaching for environmental justice for our peers in Jesuit higher education in the U.S. and around the world. We foster partnerships between Jesuit institutions, Catholic social ministry, and secular and grassroots organizations through workshops, events, conferences, and publications.

ContactChris Bacon and Chad Raphael

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  • Projects

  • Laudato Si’ across the Curriculum

    This professional development program trains SCU faculty and their teaching assistants to design curricular projects involving community-engaged research for environmental justice. The program supports curricular design to help students understand, reflect, and act on the twin crises of social and environmental justice identified by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’. We plan to extend this program to other Jesuit higher educational institutions.

    SCU Participants: Chad Raphael

    Funder: John Burns (SCU ‘66)

    For more information:

  • AJCU Commission on Laudato Sí: Advancing a Shared Agenda for our Common Home

    The Commission is a mixed group of twenty-one Jesuit university faculty members, sustainability coordinators, staff, and administrators nominated by their colleagues and called by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) to generate bold proposals for transformative university action to advance environmental justice and sustainability at the 2024 Faith, Justice, & Reconciliation Assembly in Chicago.

    SCU Participants: Chris Bacon, Chad Raphael, and Lindsey Kalkbrenner

    Partners: Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, SCU Center for Sustainability, SCU Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education

    For more information: