Mission and Identity for Trustees

Foundational Documents for Trustees

 Jesuit Higher Education

Some Characteristics of Jesuit Universities
AJCU presidents and US provincials, 2012

Challenges to Jesuit Higher Education Today
Superior General Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., 2010

The Jesuit Catholic Mission of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
AJCU, 2010

Ignatian-Jesuit Core Values

The Service of Faith in a Religiously Pluralistic World
Former Superior General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., 2006

Catholic Higher Education

The Catholic University of the 21st Century: Educating for Solidarity
Paul Locatelli, S.J., 2005

Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Pope John Paul II, 1990, an Apostolic Constitution on Catholic universities

Catholic Social Teaching

Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching
US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005

Higher Education

Accreditation Criteria booklet
Higher Learning Commission, effective January 2012

Xavier University

                  Xavier University Vision Statement and Supplement
                  2012

                  Xavier University Mission Statement and Supplement
                  Task Force, 2012


Code of Regulations

of the Board of Trustees, 2011