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Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business (Washington, DC)
The mission of the Arrupe Program is to promote the pursuit of truly human values by business managers and executives and the people who run them. The program offers an eight-week seminar entitled Faith and Values at Work, to help the participants develop a faith-centered framework for thinking about themselves, the purpose of business, and the vocation of organizational leadership. The Arrupe Program has also developed a one-day workshop centered around these same themes for groups of Jesuit high school and university alumni, and a values-based course, The Foundations Seminar, for use with business management teams.
Center for Faith in Public Life (Fairfield, CT)
The center is a cross-disciplinary forum for students, scholars, policy makers and religious leaders, to converse and reflect on the many issues where religion intersects with civic life. The center houses the Jesuit Migration Network, the Jesuit Humanitarian Action Network and the Faith Meets Politics Series where politicians and students of various political background discuss issues in a non-argumentative format.
Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Worcester, MA)
The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture sponsors and supports programming that explores basic human questions of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation. Following the principle that faith and learning are partners in liberal education, the Center’s programs foster dialogue that respects differences, and provides a forum for intellectual exchange that is interreligious as well as interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international in scope. Most events are free and open to the public.
Center for Retirement Research (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| The Center provides decisionmakers in the public and private sectors with critical information to better understand the issues facing an aging population. The Center's research program spans the four main areas that affect a household's retirement income: 1) Social Security; 2) employer-sponsored pension plans; 3) household saving; and 4) labor market trends among older workers |
Center for Technical Cooperation (Washington, DC)
The Center for Technical Cooperation trains residents in strategic planning, data collection, analysis and management and to establish a community information management unit. A community-based organization, the Center aims to enhance the community’s ability to undertake strategic planning and research.
Center for Urban Research and Teaching (Washington, DC)
The Writing Program and the Center for Urban Research and Teaching jointly sponsor symposia focusing on Writing for and with the Community. These symposia address questions and possibilities that concern the faculty's intellectual work (both scholarly and pedagogical). Joined by community leaders active in developing university-community partnerships, the faculty participants explore ways of developing community-based research projects and ways of integrating community service within the academic work of their courses. There are follow-up meetings during the academic year to consider further scholarly and/or pedagogical projects developed during the symposia. Symposia topics include:
Center for Urban Research Learning (Chicago, IL)
The Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) of Loyola University Chicago seeks to promote equality and to improve people's lives in communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan region.
CURL pursues this goal by building and supporting collaborative research and education efforts. These partnerships connect Loyola faculty and students with community and nonprofit organizations, civic groups, and government agencies. Such collaborations link the skills and wisdom present within every community with the specialized knowledge and academic discipline of a vital urban university. Working together, community needs are addressed and the academic experience is enriched.
Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| To discover, communicate, and apply primary qualitative and quantitative multidisciplinary research on spritual life in an age of affluence, with a special focus on the biographical meaning and practice of wealth, financial security, fundraising, the intergenerational transfer of wealth, planned giving, donor advisement, and the Ignatian model of discernment. |
Current Projects:
| "Boston Metropolitan Area Wealth Transfer Study", "Wealth Transfer Estimates for African Americans", "Wealth Transfer on Track?" |
Corporate Accountability Project (Washington, DC)
The Corporate Accountability Project analyzes the impacts of business behavior on the ability of poor people to meet their basic needs - sustainable livelihoods, housing, food, and access to education, healthcare and credit.
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.
Faith and Justice Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
The Institute explores contemporary issues of faith and justice through academic courses, public forums, and experiential field seminars. These initiatives seek to critically analyze the sources of and reasons for injustice and to actively fashion more just communities at local, national, and international levels.
Institute for Catholic Media (Milwaukee, WI)
ICM studies Catholic media at the national and international levels.
Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality (Wheeling, WV)
The Institute was founded in the spring of 2006 as a result of a generous gift from the BB&T Charitable Foundation and is dedicated to an examination of all aspects of capitalism and the promotion of an in-depth examination of a free society. The Wheeling Jesuit University Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality will sponsor a series of programs ( including lectures, seminars and undergraduate courses) to advance its mission of providing a deeper understanding of the moral, legal and economic foundations of such free society The Institute will support the growth and development of teaching and research and also establish a forum for differing opinions to promote an enhanced appreciation of the concept, operation and effects of a Capitalistic system by engaging students, the broader Wheeling Jesuit community and the community at large in programs and activities designed to stimulate discussion of these important topics.
Institute of Catholic Bioethics (Philadelphia, PA)
The Institute of Catholic Bioethics at Saint Joseph’s University was founded on August 28, 2006 with the mission to develop and promote interdisciplinary research projects, educational programs, academic courses, clinical consultation and policy development services in the field of bioethics to meet the needs of three constituencies: the Saint Joseph’s University academic community, the medical establishment of the Philadelphia area and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Justice and Peace Studies (Omaha, NE)
A multidisciplinary program in the Creighton College of Arts & Sciences, is a response to the challenge of Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General of the Jesuits, to "educate the whole person for solidarity with the real world."
Kripke Center: for the Study of Religion and Society (Omaha, NE)
The Kripke Center is dedicated to facilitating scholarly activity in the areas of religion and society in the form of research, publications, conferences, seminars, symposia, lectures, and fora.
Leadership Development Institute (Detroit, MI)
The Institute for Leadership and Service is dedicated to helping continue the work of Catherine McAuley and Ignatius of Loyola in compassionate service to the poor and marginalized by seeing, feeling, helping and fostering lasting change. This is accomplished through service-learning, leadership for social change and community service.
Leadership for Change (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| Leadership for Change Engages accomplished faculty from the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Department of Sociology; Harvard Graduate School of Education and The Work and Learning Center at Northeastern University with business practitioners from the greater Boston area. All engaged wiht the participants as members of the learning community. |
Current Projects:
| Faculty concentrations:Charles Derber, Ph.D., Boston College, the Department of Sociology, "Morality Wars: How Embires, The Born Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good with Yale R. Magrass, Paradigm Publishers, February 28, 2008" |
Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good (San Francisco, CA)
The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good is dedicated to inspiring and preparing students at USF to pursue lives and careers of ethical public service and the common good.
The McCarthy Center provides a forum for education, service and research in public policy-making and programs for the common good. It supports undergraduate and graduate academic programs, provides service learning, and government experiences for students and generates publishable research. A curriculum that blends rigorous intellectual training with fieldwork experience prepares students to articulate and promote the common good of all society's members through careers or service in government, non-profits or the private sector.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (Santa Clara, CA)
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University is one of the preeminent centers for research and dialogue on ethical issues in critical areas of American life. The center works with faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and the public to address ethical issues more effectively in teaching, research, and action.
