This year marks Boston College’s 150th anniversary, and university president Jesuit Father William P. Leahy said that it’s an opportunity to celebrate the school’s past but also its present — and to look toward the future....
Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., is celebrating its 125th anniversary this academic year. The school’s first classes were held on September 17, 1887, and seven students attended. The Gonzaga Jesuit community of 17 outnumbered the....
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has appointed Jesuit Father Joseph M. O’Keefe, a professor of education at Boston College, to the National Assessment Governing Board. Board members help set policy for the National Assessment of Educational....
John Carroll University’s community garden started in 2008 as one 10-foot-square bed. Just four short years later, the garden has helped supply food to more than 5,000 families. Peggy Finucane, director of the Center for....
U.S. News and World Report has recently announced their rankings for colleges and universities, and Jesuits institutions represented well among the rankings. The category rankings are judged by class size, degrees offered, research opportunities, endowment, and location.
Seattle University has developed a community health course for African refugees in Malawi through the Jesuit Commons, an initiative to connect the expertise of faculty from Jesuit schools in the U.S. with students in refugee camps.
Four Jesuit colleges and universities made Forbes’ top 100 in its annual list of America’s Top Colleges: Boston College, College of the Holy Cross; Georgetown University; and Santa Clara University.
Boston College, Georgetown University and College of the Holy Cross are among the colleges and universities contributing the greatest number of graduating seniors to Teach For America in 2011.
Jesuit Father Greg Lucey, former president of Spring Hill College, recently became the new president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). He discusses why he took on this new role at age 78 and what his priorities as AJCU president will be.
The Princeton Review and U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named eight Jesuit Colleges and Universities to their list of the “nation’s most environmentally responsible ‘green colleges.’” The Jesuit institutions which made the list include....
