Mission and Identity for Trustees
Reflecting on Mission and Identity as a Trustee of Xavier University
This series provides a brief overview of Jesuit heritage and education. Each section includes a two-minute video, selected readings and reflection questions specifically for the Board of Trustees at Xavier University.
- St. Ignatius Loyola: The Founder of the Jesuits
- Ignatian Spirituality: The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God
- Jesuit Core Values: Whole Persons of Solidarity for the Real World
- Jesuit Education: Developing People of Competence and Compassion
- The Jesuit Tradition in Today's World: Gifts of our Ignatian Heritage
- Xavier University: An Historical Perspective
- Seeking Integration and Wisdom: The Xavier Way
- Our Hope and Joys for Xavier University: Gaudium et Spes
- Religious Pluralism and the Campus Community: The Lived Experience of Nostra Aetate
- Leadership in the Ignatian Tradition: Personal and Communal Discernment
- Spiritual Leadership: On Being a Contemplative in Action
- Ignatian Governance: Discernment, Collaboration, and Networking
Additional topics:
- Xavier's Mission as a Global Catholic University
- Xavier's Mission as a Jesuit Catholic University
- Xavier's Mission as an American Regional University (the Higher Learning Commission)
- Xavier's Mission as a Liberal Arts University
- Catholic Higher Education Today (Ex Corde Ecclesiae)
- The University Mission Statement
- Seeking Integration and Wisdom
- The Understanding of Mission -- Faculty and staff (assessment results)
- Challenges in Jesuit Higher Education
- Joys in Jesuit Higher Education
- The Understanding of Mission -- Students (assessment results):
- The Ignatian Year
- Images of St. Frances Xavier (my symbolic add-on)
- Go Forth - guiding principles of the Province
- Our BOT way of proceeding in governance
- Discerning the future of Jesuit higher education
- The Spiritual Exercises: The Principle and Foundation
- The Spiritual Exercises: Ignatian indifference
- Universal Apostolic Preferences
- Mission v. Money: is it Really an Either Or?
- Catholic social teachings