Ministries: Econ Soc Cult Analysis, Catholic Social Teaching and Social Action, Poverty
Results
Education for Justice (Washington, DC)
The Education for Justice Project promotes outreach and education throughout the U.S. on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and social justice issues. The Project provides resource materials, presentations, training and consultations to Catholic high schools and colleges, to diocesan offices and groups, to parishes, small faith communities, and to a variety of networks and organizations.
Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI) (New Orleans, LA)
Poverty and Solidarity Program (University Heights, OH)
The Poverty and Solidarity program seeks enhance student learning about poverty through:
• Development of an interdisciplinary course and summer internship sequence for students seeking a deeper understanding of poverty
• Creation of interdisciplinary and discipline-based courses that will embed the study of poverty throughout the curriculum
• Establishment of a public lecture series to educate both the university and Greater Cleveland communities on poverty
The Program also hosts a "Poverty and Solidarity Faculty Learning Community" to engage faculty from throughout various disciplines in dialogue and focused study of local, national, and global poverty leading to the development of courses on poverty or modification of existing courses to include a component on poverty.
