2024 2025 Loyola University Maryland Graduate Planner and Services Handbook by Mark Lee

2024–2025

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND

GRADUATE PLANNER

A calendar, planner, and services handbook for the Loyola graduate student

Dear Graduate Students,

Welcome to the sixteenth edition of the Graduate Planner and Services Handbook, updated for the 2024-2025 academic year.

We have chosen a unique image of the iconic Humanities Center on the Loyola Evergreen campus this year. The aerial view, provided by a drone camera, offers a new perspective of a building I have walked by for decades

As a graduate student this year, perhaps you will also find new perspectives. You may find them in your classes as you learn and engage with students and faculty as dedicated and enthusiastic as you are. You may discover that you have left behind individuals who approached courses simply as obstacles to get out of the way. You may delve deeper into your discipline than you ever had the opportunity to do in your undergraduate years. Additionally, your graduate experience at Loyola may expose you to more diverse points of view that grow, broaden, or challenge your understanding of concepts you may have taken for granted.

With this planner and handbook, know that we do not take you for granted as an important part of the Loyola community. There are a wealth of services and resources available to you here: to help you succeed academically, to feel more a part of Loyola, and to help you know “where to go for what ” Consider this publication to be your invitation to visit or contact any of the departments listed within.

Finally, please consider visiting our website at www.loyola.edu/gradstudents, which may contain updates to information listed in this handbook not received in time for publication.

Here’s to a successful academic year for you!

Sincerely,

Mark Lee Director, Technology and Graduate Student Services mslee@loyola.edu

www.loyola.edu/gradstudents

Dear Loyola graduate students,

Welcome (or welcome back) to the Loyola community!

The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) was created to address student needs, and help graduate students feel more a part of Loyola. As a graduate student, this is not a club which you join: you are already a member of the GSO!

We know that you wear many hats in addition to being a student. This planner is our small gift to you to help you organize your day, and plan for your upcoming year. You may only have the occasion to come to one of the Loyola campuses in order to go to class, or your program may be entirely remote. Regardless, we would like to invite you to learn more about what is available to you as a graduate student, and to meet other students like yourself!

One way to do this is to become familiar with some of the services and resources in the following pages. Many students don’t realize there are free tutorial services available for many courses, or assistance in writing papers, for example

Another way is to attend GSO programs or events, which we plan with your help to be of interest to the graduate community. These ev ents might be happy hours or social occasions, or they are sometimes opportunities to provide service to the community. This year, we will particularly depend on suggestions from you for ideas. Watch for our events on Facebook (Loyola University Maryland Graduate Student Organization), in our monthly newsletters, or on our events page at www.loyola.edu/gradfriday. Even better, help us plan something new by clicking on the QR code below to make a suggestion

Please contact us at gso@loyola.edu and introduce yourself! We hope to meet you soon, and we wish you the best of luck on your graduate journey.

Team GSO

www loyola edu/gso www.loyola.edu/gradfriday gso@loyola.edu

Suggest an event or idea:

PARKING and SHUTTLE BUSSES

https://www.loyola.edu/department/parking-transportation

Parking:

• For the Evergreen campus, graduate commuter students may park at 5104 York Road and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on Charles Street.

• The Cathedral lot is available 7 am to 10 pm, Monday through Friday, University holidays excepted, during Fall & Spring Academic semesters only.

• Cathedral Express shuttle runs 7 am to 7 pm; requests for service to the Cathedral Lot after 7pm is on-demand from any shuttle in operation during the 7pm – 10pm timeframe during the academic year

• Graduate student parking is also available at the Butler/Hammerman lot between the hours of 4 p.m. and 6 a.m. Monday through Friday, and all day Saturday and Sunday.

o Graduate students attending classes at the Loyola Clinical Centers at Belvedere Square pay a fee, but they must complete the parking registration form (https://www.loyola.edu/department/financial-services/parking/registration/graduate-students)

• Contact Student Administrative Services in Maryland Hall 140, 410-617-5047, sas@loyola edu for help with parking permits

Loyola University Maryland Shuttle:

The Loyola University Shuttle routes reach locations such as the York Road parking lot and administrative buildings, the Cathedral parking lot, the library, Sellinger Hall, and the Ridley Athletic Center. Use the Transloc app for real-time tracking of shuttles, or visit the Loyola Shuttle Service website: loyola.edu/department/parking-transportation/ transportation/shuttle-service/

ALANA Services

(African, Latinx, Asian & Native American)

ALANA Services is committed to providing support, services and programs that facilitate the success of all ALANA students at Loyola University Maryland. Through intentional programming and a myriad of services, we foster the academic, cultural, personal, spiritual and leadership development of ALANA students. We seek to create and maintain an environment of respect and awareness, while advocating for ALANA students and responding to their needs.

The ALANA Services office is a resource center for:

• Academic intervention and support

• Affinity and Identity development groups such as MAN2MAN and Sister to Sister

• Multicultural programming

• Meaningful dialogue and reflection about multicultural issues and diversity

• Community building and networking; the Center for Intercultural Engagement (connected to the ALANA office) is a space to study, engage with peers, and access informational resources centered around academic and multicultural interests.

Loyola Greyhounds Athletics

For schedule information visit our website www.loyolagreyhounds.com

Loyola Athletics competes at the NCAA Division I level as part of the Patriot League in 18 sports:

Men’s Soccer

Men’s Basketball

Men’s Lacrosse

Men’s Swimming & Diving

Men’s Cross Country

Men’s Tennis

Men’s Crew

Men’s Golf

Women’s Indoor Track & Field

Women’s Soccer

Women’s Basketball

Women’s Lacrosse

Women’s Swimming & Diving

Women’s Cross Country

Women’s Tennis

Women’s Crew

Women’s Volleyball

Women’s Outdoor Track & Field

Tickets are required for men’s and women’s soccer, basketball and lacrosse. Check the website for ticket prices and availability.

Graduate students may receive one complimentary ticket to a game at the box office on weekdays or on gamedays. Box Office is located in the DeChiaro College Center.

Hours are 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. weekdays during the academic year

Soccer and lacrosse home games are at the Ridley Athletic Complex. Basketball home games are at Reitz Arena.

Season Tickets are available for soccer, basketball and lacrosse.

Check the website at www.loyolagreyhounds.com/tickets for more information.

GO GREYHOUNDS!

C are e r D e v e lop ment at Loyola University Maryland serves all students and alumni in discovering fulﬁlling career paths, preparing to present their best selves to the world, and maximizing available resources to achieve their goals CAREER COUNSELING AND COACHING INTEREST/PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS

Appointments, jobs, internships: Loyola edu/Handshake

Networking with Greyhounds: linkedin.com/school/loyola-university-maryland/

Interview practice: Loyola biginterview com

Drop-In Hours: Rizzo Career Center, M-F, 12-3

Connect with us

The Counseling Center team is staffed by licensed clinicians and advanced-level trainees who strive to provide services that are affirming and inclusive. Consider us as an option for support as you embark upon your graduate school journey.

The Counseling Center is located on the Evergreen campus in Humanities Center 150. To make an appointment call (410) 617-CARE (2273), Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Online scheduling is also available for initial, non-urgent appointments on our website.

24/7 crisis support is available by calling (410) 617-5530.

Learn more about our services below:

Brief Individual Counseling

Let's Talk Sessions

Comprehensive Referral Support

Group Counseling

Togetherall

24/7 Crisis Line 410-617-5530

For full time graduate students

Single sessions that provide a solution focused, goal oriented, one-time space for graduate students to meet with a counselor.

For graduate students who may benefit from longer-term therapy and/or are enrolled in online programs

Available to all graduate students

A free, online community for students to anonymously share their experiences, connect, and explore self-guided mental health courses

You always get a live counselor, every single time. If the call volume is high that means you might wait a few minutes for the next available counselor. Don’t hang up, your call is important and will be answered.

Life as a graduate student is full of new experiences – opportunities and challenges – that can bring up a range of emotions. You aren’t alone in your feelings, and you don’t have to be alone in working through them.

Wellness in Graduate School

Graduate school comes with a lot of responsibilities, and most graduate students are also working (part-time or full-time) and hold other identities, including but not limited to, being a parent, a partner/spouse, or a caregiver. It can feel like there is so much to do with so little time. Learning how to balance multiple responsibilities is important. When imbalance occurs, it opens the door for stress, anxiety, worry, burn-out, and sometimes depression. Below are some things to consider to support wellness:

Practice compassionate time management

Set small, balanced goals for yourself and set specific times to accomplish tasks

Find a way to write down or track your commitments and plans

Create a self-care plan

Be intentional about your wellness plan (what activities calm, ground, and/or energize you?)

Incorporate one rejuvenating activity to your schedule per week (reading for leisure, listening to music, deep breathing exercises, unplugging from social media, dancing, etc.)

Identify fun, soothing, and enjoyable activities that can be planned throughout your week

Consider the potential value of boundary setting as you reflect on your needs for the week Plan for the week AND the weekend

Get connected and reach out for support

Know that support is available, both through on-campus and community resources

Visit our website or Instagram (@loyolamd_counselingcenter) for more information

The first s tep to succes s is ACCESS.

Loyola University Maryland welcom es and celebrates the diverse experienc es and perspectives that graduate students with disabilities bring to our community. We are committed to elim inating barriers to en sur e students with disabilit ies can fu lly access all courses, servic es, and activities included in our graduate programs.

Graduate students who require a disability related accommodation should connect with the Disability & Accessibility Services (DAS) office by submitting an online application and documentation of their disability. Documentation is maintained in a confidential manner. Information about the registration process, including documentation guidelines, is available under the “Register” tab on the DAS website.

Unsure of what to request or how your disability may impact you once you enter an externship or a clinical component of your program? DAS can help you assess your needs or initiate a conversation with your program director to obtain more information about program requirements. We encourage you to reach out as early as possible, so that reasonable accommodations can be arranged in a timely manner.

Accommodations are determined on an individualized, case-by-case basis and may include things such as extended time on exams, a less-distracting testing location, or access to assistive technology in the classroom or externship/clinical site. Students who were approved for accommodations while completing an undergraduate degree at Loyola may be able to continue to receive similar accommodations but should reach out to the DAS office to confirm their needs prior to the start of their program.

DAS is located in Maryland Hall, Room 141. We are happy to schedule both in-person or virtual meetings. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact us at:

OFFICE OF GRADUATE FINANCIAL AID

www.loyola.edu/g radfinaid

The off ice of graduate financial aid admini sters several types of financial assistance for graduate students. Loan assis tance is available thro ugh the federal government and priv ate lenders. Assistantshi ps are availabl e through sever al academic and admini strative departments. A dditionally , individual graduate academic departments offer a l imited number o f fellowshi ps, scholarshi ps and grants to assist students with their tuiti on expenses. Award offers are made by the academi c de partment at t he ti me of admission.

QUICK LOAN FACTS

Wh o can apply?

Federal Direct Unsubsidi zed Lo ans are availabl e to all graduate students who are enrol led at least half‐time in degree seekin g coursework and who meet federal financial aid eligibility requir ements.

When can I apply?

Applicatio n pro cedures are updated on the graduate financial a id web site every mid to late Februar y. Students must reapply every academic year. The academic year begins i n summer and ends with spri ng.

Wh at forms must be completed?

• Free Appl ication for Federal Student Aid (F AFSA) https://studentaid.gov/h/apply‐for‐aid/fafsa

• Direct Loan Program Graduate Info rmatio n Sheet

• Federal Dir ect Loan El ectro nic Master Promissory Note

• Federal Direct Loan Entrance Counseling

A complete fi nancial ai d appl ication must be submitted at l east four weeks prior to registration if loan proceeds will be used for tuition and fee payments. Course registrations submitted befor e the completio n of the lo an appl ication process must include full tuiti o n payment.

To learn mor e about graduate fi nancial aid, go to www .l oyol a.edu/gradfinaid . You may contact the o ffice of graduate fi nancial aid at gradfi nancialaid@lo yola.edu or 410‐617‐5020.

Fitness and Aquatic Center

(www loyola edu/department/recreation-wellness)

Fitness and Aquatic Center (FAC) is located just one block north of the Charles Street Bridge at the Baltimore Campus. Graduate students are eligible to purchase a $25 monthly membership or $285 yearly membership. Refer to our website for facility hours, usage policies, guest use policies and fees.

Graduate students are eligible for employment opportunities within the Department of Recreation and Wellness. Refer to our website for more information.

Facility Features:

• Aquatic Center: 8 lane, 25-yard swim course, shallow lane, and diving well; on-deck sauna and hot tub.

• 6,000 square foot Fitness Center: Treadmills, bikes, ellipticals, stair climbers, free weights, and more.

• Two-Court Gymnasium & Multi-Activity Court

• Functional Fitness Area: This area includes a Functional Trainer, TRX, turf and more.

• Equipment Room: General recreation equipment check-out, locker and towel service.

• Indoor Rock-Climbing Wall: A 30-foot-high climbing wall and bouldering area designed for all skill levels; instructional classes available.

• Locker Rooms

• Walking/Jogging Track

• Two Group Exercise Studios: Classes are available thro ughout the academic year.

• Outdoor Adventure Center: Offers expansive resource library and meeting location.

• Racquetball and Squash Courts

• Outdoor Grass Field

About us: Graduate Students

• Fall 2023 Enrollment: 1120

• 61 percent of us are part-time students

• About 65 percent of us are female

• 37 percent of us are students of color or bi-racial

• If not online, virtually all of us commute to Loyola

Many graduate students aren’t aware of the many graduate programs are available at Loyola, such as:

Data Science

Montessori Education

Emerging Media Psychology, Psy.D.

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Professional’s MBA

Theology Emerging Leaders MBA

Kodály Music Education School Counseling

Educational Technology

Forensic Pattern Analysis

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)

Master of Accounting

Curriculum and Instruction for Social Justice

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Distribution of graduate students by college:

Sellinger School of Business and Management

School of Education

Source: Loyola University Institutional Research Data

For all new graduate students,

Congratulations and Welcome! Our staff at Student Health Services works hard to promote Healthy Hounds. Here is our list of the top things you should know about us!

H H

A A E E

Health Profile Completion

The Student Health Profile, including required immunizations, needs to be completed by all graduate students. The profile can be accessed on the Patient Portal at www.Loyola.edu/PatientPortal.

Enroll in a Health Insurance Plan

Most full-time graduate programs require students to have health insurance coverage. You can enroll in the school-sponsored insurance plan, or waive it if your insurance meets our waiver criteria.

Appointments Available

Our office is open from 8:30am-5:00pm Monday-Friday during the school year. There is a $25/visit fee for graduate students. There are also charges for any testing or medications dispensed from our in-house pharmacy.

Look at Our Website

For more information on our services take a look at our website at www.Loyola.edu/StudentHealth. And follow us on Social Media at @LoyolaMDHealth for the most up to date information.

The Flu Shot

The Flu vaccine is strongly recommended for all students, including graduates. It is best done in September or October to protect you through the fall and spring semesters.

Help is Always Available

Even if our office is closed, an on-call physician is always available by calling 410-583-9396.

• Loyola’s official off-campus housing website

• Search a wide variety of housing listings

• Create and search roommate profiles

• Students can post a FREE sublet or roommate listing • Resources section with valuable off-campus living information

Office of International Stude nt S ervices

The Office of International Student Services (OISS) is committed to providing services and programs beneficial to a culturally diverse academic environment that enhances the international student experience. We work with our international undergraduate, graduate and exchange student community from the time of admission to graduation and beyond, working closely with campus partners to support a smooth and successful transition to Loyola. OISS provides services and programs to welcome and assist international students with their acclimation to the U S and Loyola, serves as a resource during their studies, and helps prepare students to succeed in a diverse, global environment. Our services range from international student orientations, to advising sessions, to immigration and visa assistance, to cultural adjustment and support

Services Provided by OISS:

• F-1 Student Visa Immigration Advising and Support

• Advocacy and Support for International Students

• International Orientation and Immigration Clearance

• Form I-20 / SEVIS Administration

• Assistance with Academic and Personal Matters

• Visa and Immigration Documents

• Cultural Adjustment Support

• Compliance with Federal Immigration Regulations

• U S Tax Workshops (Non-Resident Alien Taxes)

• Advise Students on Available Resources and Logistics (U.S. Cell Phone, Bank Accounts, etc.)

• MD Driver’s License and MD Non-Driver IDs Assistance

• Campus Programming

• Assistance with International Student Legal Concerns

• Advocacy and Promotion of International Education

Loyola welcomes international students from all around the globe!

Countries Represented in our International Community

Taiwan

United

Venezuela

Vietnam

Office of International Student S ervices

Humanities Center, Suite 141 Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore Campus 410-617-5245 OISS@loyola.edu

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The Educa on for Life Commi ee

The Office of the Registrar serves the University with maximum efficiency and customer satisfaction, in an atmosphere of respect and understanding. The office also serves as the custodian of all student academic records, ensuring their accuracy, integrity, and security.

Access Self-Service using https://inside.loyola.edu to:

Place classes on your preferred sections list

View Class Schedule

Request a Transcript

Electronic or Paper Delivery

View Final Grades

Review Degree Audit

Access you academic progress

Request an Enrollment Verification

A free service provided by the National S tudent Clearinghouse (NSC )

Apply to Graduate

For more information: The O Office of the Registrar website is located at www.loyola.edu/registrar o or visit the office in Maryland Hall Room MH148

Our office provides the following services:

• Assistance for students who exhibit significant emotional distress and who seek cohesive and comprehensive support systems while they continue through school

• Collaborative wellness promotion efforts that focus on eight primary wellness areas, which include:

o Academic

o Social

o Spiritual

o Physical

o Emotional

o Multi-cultural

o Professional

o Environmental

The Study oﬀers the following free resources for graduate and undergraduate students enrolled at Loyola:

• 1:1 Tutoring (Content/Course Based)

• Academic Coaching (Note-taking Strategies, Test-taking Prepara�on, Analy�cal Reasoning , and Reading Comprehension)

• Organiza onal Coaching (Time Management, Priori�za�on, and Accountability)

• All services are available in person and online.

Jenkins Hall ~ 3rd oor Go to www.loyola.edu/thestudy to schedule an appointment. Email ques�ons to thestudy@loyola.edu.

Loyola's Women's Center is dedicated to empowering everyone by educating the University and its surrounding community on issues of gender that are of particular interest to women. The Center supports Loyola’s mission to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Our core pillars are service, wellness and connection.

The Center actively works to promote an environment of equality and acceptance for all people of all religious beliefs, ethnic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. The Women’s Center offers confidential and free support and services to any student, undergraduate or graduate, who experiences sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence or stalking.

In collaboration with other offices and departments across campus, the Center provides information, offers advocacy, and plans educational programs for faculty, staff, students, and, when appropriate, the general public. The Center is a resource open to all members of the Loyola community, serving both as a haven where women’s issues may be freely discussed and as a beacon which guides the community toward genuine gender equity.

The Women’s Center welcomes graduate students’ involvement in its programs and initiatives and invites them to form groups that would benefit all students in the Loyola community.Seton Court 4504A (Evergreen Campus) www.loyola.edu/womenscenter -- womenscenter@loyola.edu

Loyola Writing Center

Peer Tutoring for Graduate Students

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Writing Center Mission

Students from all degree programs can collaborate with peer tutors at any point in the writing process.

■ Focus on the Graduate Writing Process

Our tutors will help you improve your knowledge of the graduate writing process. We promote critical thinking and writing through non-directive dialogue that centers on your work and ideas.

■ Online Workshops

Interactive online workshops supplement instruction for specific aspects of the graduate writing process. www.loyola.edu/department/writing-center/online-workshops

Online Tutoring

■ APA Style

Extensive APA Style resources are available online: www.loyola.edu/department/writingcenter/resources/apastyle

www.loyola.edu/department/writing-center

A Pocket Guide to Jesuit Education

Courtesy of Intersections Program

J.A. Appleyard, S.J., former Vice President for University Mission and Ministry, Boston College

BE GINNINGS

Th e fir st J e sui t coll eg e o p en ed a t M es sin a in Sici ly in 1 5 4 8 , bu t t he roo ts o f J es uit e d uc ati o n re ac h ba c k to a n ea rlie r ev e nt . I n 1 5 21 , a yo u ng m an t rai n ing f or a ca re er at t he S p a nis h c our t w a s wo un d ed i n a m ilit ar y e ng ag e m en t w ith th e Fr e nc h. Ig na tiu s L o yol a wa s th e yo u ng est chil d i n a f a mil y o f f eu d al lo rd s i n t he B a squ e r egi on o f no rth er n S p ai n. H e r etu rn ed to his f a mil y ’ s ho m e to r e co ve r fr o m his w ou nd s . Th er e , he pa ss e d th e ti m e r ea d in g a lif e of C hri st a nd a b oo k abo ut t h e sai nt s , w hic h l ed hi m t o re fle ct d e e pl y abo ut his o w n li fe an d to ex p eri e nc e a c alli ng t o ab an d o n hi s c ar ee r at c ou rt a n d to foll o w J es us i nst ea d .

Calling himself a “pilgrim,” he traveled across Spain to the ancient monastery at Montserrat where he dedicated his sword to Mary as a symbol of his new life In the nearby town of Manresa, he spent months alone in prayer, reflection, and service of the needy, trying to learn the rudiments of the spiritual life on his own In spite of his mistakes, he slowly learned how to distinguish between what led him in a good direction and what did not He later said of this part of his life that God was teaching him the way a schoolmaster deals with a child He discovered he had a talent for helping others find the freedom to respond to God’s invitation in their lives He began to keep notes about his own spiritual experiences and his conversations with those who came to him. These became the basis for a small book he later put together for those helping others to grow spiritually, which he called Spiritual Exercises

JESU ITS

Ignatius decided that to serve God effectively he needed an education. This quest brought him to the University of Paris, where he became the center of a group of friends. Using his spiritual exercises, he challenged them to think about how they were going to use the unique gifts and personalities God had given them. After receiving their degrees, they decided they would stay together as a group and “help people” as Jesus and his disciples did. Gradually, they came to t he decision to form a new kind of religious order. They were ordained Catholic priests and, in 1540, they received the approval of the Pope and called themselves “The Society of Jesus ” Later, critics derisively called them “Jesuits” and this is the name that has stuck

HOW DID JESU ITS GET INVOLVE D IN SCHOOLS?

At first, no single activity defined the new religious order. The early Jesuits preached in the streets, led men and women through the Spiritual Exercises, taught theology in universities, instructed children in the catechism, and cared for plague victims and prostitutes. Others went off to work in distant parts of the world, as Francis Xavier did in India. They were discovering their mission by doing it, adapting to change, taking risks, and learning by trial and error. Nonetheless, the early companions were all graduates of the best university of Europe and they thought of themselves as specialists in “ministries of the word ” Gradua lly, they came to realize that there was one emerging activity that connected their intellectual training, their world-affirming spirituality, their pastoral experience, and their goal of helping souls. When citizens of Messina asked Ignatius to open a school for their sons, he seems to have decided that schools could be a powerful means of forming the minds and hearts of those, who, because they would be important citizens in their communities, could influence many others. When the college in Messina proved a success, requests to open schools in other cities multiplied and soon education became the characteristic activity of Jesuits.

WHY WERE JESUIT SCHOOLS SO SU CCESSFU L?

The simple answer is that they met a need. Europe entered the modern world almost overnight in the early 16th century. The voyages of exploration to the Americas and the Indies, the Protestant revolt, and Gutenberg’s printing press changed people’s understanding of the globe, redistributed wealth, and turned Europe into a battleground of ideas A prosperous middle class wanted an education that would prepare their sons for the oppo rtunities of this new world that was unfolding around them at a dizzying pace.

When Jesuits began their schools, two models were available One was the medieval university, where students prepared for professions such as law, the clergy, and teaching by studying the sciences, mathematics, logic, philosophy, and theology. The other model was the Renaissance humanistic academy, which had a curriculum based on Greek and Latin poetry, drama, oratory, and history. The goal of the university was the training of the mind through the pursuit of speculative truth; the goal of the humanists was character formation, making students better human beings and civic leaders. Jesuit schools were unique in combining these two educational ideals.

Perhaps the most important reason for the success of the early Jesuit schools was a set of qualities that Jesuits aspired to themselves and which they consciously set out to develop in their students:

• Self-knowledge and discipline

• Attentiveness to their own experience and to others’

• Trust in God’s direction of their lives

• Respect for intellect and reason as tools for discovering truth

• Skill in discerning the right course of action

• A conviction that talents and knowledge were gifts to be used to help others

• Flexibility and pragmatism in problem solving

• Large-hearted ambition

• A desire to find God working in all things.

These qualities were the product of the distinctive spirituality that the early Jesuits had learned from Ignatius and that Ignatius had learned from his own experience. Jesuits hoped, in turn, to form their students in the same spiritual vision, so that their graduates would be prepared to live meaningful lives as leaders in government, the professions, and the Church.

JESU IT EDU CATION IS A PROCESS

How does this spiritual vision get translated into an educational vision? The early Jesuits struggled to describe what they called “our way of proceeding.” Their accounts varied but it seems that they thought of their distinctive spirituality as a three-part process It begins with paying attention to experience, moves to reflecting on its meaning, and ends in deciding how to act. Jesuit education, then, can be described in terms of three key movements:

1 . B e A t t e n t i v e

We learn by organizing our experience and appropriating it in the increasingly complex psychological structures by which we engage and make sense of our world. From infancy, learning is an active process but in our early years it happens without our being aware of it. Once we become adolescents, though, whether we will continue to learn is largely a choice we make.

Conscious learning begins by choosing to pay attention to our experience---our experience of our own inner liv es and of the people and the world around us When we do this, we notice a mixture of light and dark, ideas and feelings, things that give us joy and things that sadden us. It is a rich tapestry and it grows more complex the more we let it register on our awareness

Ignatius was convinced that God deals directly with us in our experience. This conviction rested on his profound realization that God is “working” in every thing that exists. (This is why the spirit of Jesuit education is often described as “finding God in all things”). So, our intimate thoughts and feelings, our desires and our fears, our responses to the people and things around us are not just the accidental ebb and flow of our inner lives but rather the privileged moments

through which God creates and sustains a unique relationship with each of us.

How do I pay attention? By observing, wondering, opening myself to what is new, allowing the reality of people and things to enter my consciousness on its own terms.

This is why Jesuit schools have traditionally emphasized liberal education, a core curriculum, and the arts and the humanities---studies that can enlarge our understanding of what it means to be human and make us more sympathetic to ex periences different from our own This happens outside the classroom too---for example, in service programs, when we enter into the lives of others. Referring to students engaged in working with the poor, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, the former leader of Jesuits across the world, has said “When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.” The key movement that begins this process of learning and change is paying attention.

2 . B e R e f l e c t i v e

The outcome of paying attention to our experience may be a complex variety of images, unrelated insights, feelings that lead in contradictory directions. To connect the parts of our experience into a whole, we need to examine data, test evidence, clarify relationships, understand causes and implications, weigh options in light of their possible consequences We need, that is, to see the patterns in our experience and grasp their significance. Reflection is the way we di scover and compose the meaning of our experience.

Figuring out our experience can be an inward-looking activity---identifying our gifts and the future they point us toward or confronting the prejudices, fears, and shortcomings that prevent us from being the kind of people we want to be---but it can also mean looking outward---at the questions that philosophy and theology pose to us, at subjects like biology and finance and economics and the different ways they organize a nd interpret the world and help us understand ourselves. In either direction, the goal is the freedom that comes from knowing ourselves, understanding the world, and finding the direction that God is disclosing for our lives in and through our experience

Reflection is a kind of reality-testing. It takes time and care. Ultimately, it is the work of intelligence, which is why Jesuit education has always emphasized intellectual excellence. There is no substitute for using the minds God gave us, to understand our experience and discover its meaning.

3 . B e L o v i n g

Being attentive is largely about us and how God is working in us through our experience Being reflective moves our gaze outward, measuring our experience against the accumulated wisdom of the world. Being loving requires that we look even more closely at the world around us. It asks the question: How are we going to act in this world?

In part, this is a question about what we are going to do with the knowledge and self- understanding and freedom that we have appropriated by refle ction. How shall we act in ways that are consistent with this new self and what it knows and values?

But we can’t move very far in the direction of answering this question without discovering that it is not only a question about how our lives can be authentic. It is also a question about our relationship to the world around us and what the world needs us to do We are not solitary creatures From the womb, we live in relationships with others, grow up in cultural, social, and political institutions that others have created for us. To be human is to find our place in these relationships and these institutions, to take responsibility for them, to contribute to nurturing and improving them, to give something back.

We can understand this in quite secular terms if we choose to, but through the eyes of faith there is an even more compelling reason for thinking and living this way. Ignatius ends his Spiritual Exercises with a consideration of love. For him growing in love is the whole point of the spiritual life. He suggests two principles to help us understand love. One is that love shows itself more by deeds than by words. Action is what counts, not talk and promises. This is why Jesuit education is incomplete unless it produces men and women who will do something with their gifts.

More profoundly, Ignatius says that love consists of communication. One who loves communicates what he or she has with another. Thus, lovers desire each other’s good, give what they have to one another, share themselves

It is easy to see this communication in two people in love. For Ignatius, however, love was most dramatically evident in the relationship that God has with human beings Two examples of this are central in the Exercises First, God creates the world and gives life to everything in it. People and things come into existence because God communicates God’s own self to them. And God continues working in each person and thing in its own specific reality and at every moment God keeps wanting to be in relationship with us, even when we fail to respond.

Second, surpassing even the gift of creation is the gift God has given us in the person of Jesus God’s taking on our human nature in order to heal our brokenness is the ultimate evidence of God’ s love for us. Jesus’ life and death are, for Ignatius, the model of how to love in return.

If every human being is so loved by God, then our loving relationships do not stop with the special people we choose to love, or with our families, or with the social class or ethnic group we belong to. We are potentially in love with the whole world.

So, for Jesuit education, it is not enough to live authentically in the world. We have to participate in the transformation of the world (the Hebrew phrase tikkun olam conveys the same idea, of mending or repairing the world). For more than 400 years, it has been said that Jesuit education educated “the whole person.” Today, we live with an increasingly global sense of what it means to be human A person can’t be considered “whole” without an educated solidarity with other human beings in their hopes and fears and especially in their needs. We can’t pay attention to our experience and reflect on it without realizing how our own lives are connected with the dreams of all those with whom we share the journey of human existence, and therefore with the economic, political, and social realities that support or frustrate their dreams This is why Jesuit education is so often said to produce “men and women for others.”

THE HABIT OF DISCERNING

Je suit ed uc ati on , we ha ve sai d , i s a pro c es s th at ha s th re e ke y p a rts , bei ng a tt en tiv e , bei ng r efl e ctiv e , an d b ein g l ovi ng . It re sul ts i n th e ki nd o f go od d e c isio n- m a ki ng t h at I gn ati us c all e d “d i sc er n m en t . ” Th e

goal of J e suit ed uc atio n is to pr o d uc e m e n a nd w o me n f or w ho m d isc er n m e nt is a h abi t.

We can think of discernment as the lifelong project of exploring our experience, naming its meaning, and living in a way that translates this meaning into act ion. We can also think of this process as something we focus on with special intensity at particular moments in our lives -- during the four years of college, for example, or when we have to make important decisions and want to do so freely and with a sense of what God is calling us to. At these times, we might be especially conscious of using spiritual exercises to help us negotiate the process. But we can also think of these three movements as the intertwined dynamics of daily life, the moment-by-moment activity of becoming fully human

Arguably, it is the daily exercise of discernment that grounds the other kinds of spiritual growth---the regular practice of attentiveness, reflection, and choosing through which our lives take on a meaningful direction. In fact, Ignatius thought that the most useful kind of prayer is to spend a few minutes each day deepening our awareness of how God works in the events of the day and how we respond, a practice he calle d an examen. I begin by calling to mind that God is involved in shaping the direction of my life and I ask for light about this. Then, I review the events of the day, especially those where my feelings have been most engaged, positively or negatively. I notice the patterns and the emerging insights about which experiences lead me towards God and which lead away. And I end by looking ahead to tomorrow and asking to live with a growing sense of God’s trust in my future.

For Ignatius, a key element of discerning is the exercise of imagination. In doing the examen, he suggests we use our imaginations to elicit the feelings that have pulled us one way or another during the day and to picture how we might live differently tomorrow In the Exercises, when he is advising us how to pray, he urges us to take a passage from the Gospels and imagine ourselves present in the scene, listening to the words of the people there, experiencing their feelings, and h e asks us to elicit our own feelings in response. And, in the account of his very earliest spiritual experiences, he tells us that, while he was recovering from his wounds, he used to lie on his bed by the open window of his room and contemplate the stars, lost in reveries about the great deeds he would accomplish, at first for the princess he was in love with, and then for Jesus. Even in old age, when he spent his days sitting at a desk in Rome administering the affairs of the Society, he would go to the roof of the Jesuit residence in the evening and look at the stars in order to see his life as God saw it Finding images that embody our dreams can be a lifelong form of prayer

In the practice of discerning, we grow in being able to imagine how we are going to live our lives. We discover our vocations. The novelist and theologian Frederick Buechner describes vocation as “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” When we arrive at this place, and understand the fit between who we are and what the world needs of us, Ignatius urges us to be unafraid to live with the consequences of this realization, to respond with generosity and magnanimity because this is the way we can love as God loves. Jesuit tradition uses the Latin word magis or “more” to sum up this ideal, a life lived in response to the question: How can I be more, do more, give more? Jesuit education is complete when its graduates embody this vision of life and work

JESU IT EDU CATION TODAY

In the United States, there are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and 59 high schools. The first of these was Georgetown, established in 1789. Loyola University was the ninth when it was founded in 1852. Around the world, there are more than 200 Jesuit secondary schools--- including 93 in India alone and more than 130 institutions of higher education, along with numerous centers of social and cultural analysis. Jesuit education is still growing. In recent years, U.S. Jesuits and lay men and women have created 14 inner-city middle schools, along with five high schools modeled on Chicago’s Cristo Rey School.* Increasingly, all these institutions are staffed and administered by men and women who are not Jesuits and may not even be Catholic or Christian but who are animated by the vision of Jesuit education and the spirituality of Ignatius Jesuit education continues to adapt old ideals to new times and new needs. *at the time this essay was written

CALENDAR YEARS

August 2024

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” - Karen Lamb

Fall Semester begins for First Eight-Week Session

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First day of autumn

Mawlid al-Nabi begins at sundown

September 2024

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summer off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. So, find yourself.” - Bill Gates

4 3 2

Monday

Labor Day

Tuesday Wednesday

Applications due for January 2025 Graduation Fall Semester begins

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September 2024

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Be a student as long as you have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” - Henry L. Doherty

11 10 9

Web Registration ends for Fall Semester and Second Eight-Week Session

Late Registration continues for Fall Semester and Second Eight-Week Session

Patriot Day Course Withdrawal Period begins for Fall Semester

Mawlid al-Nabi begins at sundown 12:00 PM - Mass of the Holy Spirit, Alumni Chapel

Monday

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” - Vincent van Gogh 18 17 16

Tuesday Wednesday

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September 2024

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” - B.F. Skinner

Last day to withdraw from First Eight-Week Session with a grade of W

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Yom Kippur begins at sundown

“The

world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” - Pope Benedict XVI 2 1 30

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown

Friday Saturday Sunday Thursday

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Monday

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” - Dalai Lama 9 8 7

Tuesday Wednesday

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“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola

16 15 14

Columbus Day

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First Eight-Week Session ends

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” - Confucius

Second Eight-Week Session begins

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“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” - Wayne Gretzky

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

ludicrous adj. – laughable; foolish. Many thought the Wright brothers' attempts to build a flying machine were ludicrous.

Standard time begins Halloween

Monday

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” - Beverly Sills 6 5 4

Tuesday Wednesday

Election Day

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“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” - Roger Staubach 13 12 11

Veterans Day

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Web Registration begins for Spring 2025 Semester

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it” - Thomas Jefferson

20 19 18

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Last day to withdraw from Second Eight-Week Session with a grade of W

“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” - Latin Proverb

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

-ject- (to throw) – projectile, trajectory, reject, deject, inject, eject

Thanksgiving Break begins after last class

Thanksgiving Break (No Classes) through December 1

Break (University Closed)

Thanksgiving Break (University Closed) Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Break (University Closed)

Christmas Hanukkah begins at sundown

Kwanzaa begins

First day of winter

“The

reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.” - Thomas Edison 4 3 2

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Course Withdrawal Period ends for Fall Semester; last day to withdraw from a course with a grade of W

5:00 PM - Festival of Lessons and Carols, Alumni Chapel

Monday

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” - Benjamin Franklin 11 10 9

Tuesday Wednesday

“The

only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” - Steve Jobs

18 17 16

Exams and close of Fall Semester

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Exams and close of Fall Semester

Second Eight-Week Session ends

First day of winter

“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou

Monday

Break (University Closed)

Christmas Hanukkah begins at sundown Christmas Break (University Closed) Christmas Break (University Closed)

Kwanzaa begins Christmas Break (University Closed)

Break (University

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Martin Luther King Jr.

WEEKLY GOALS:

“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.” - Margaret Mead

Monday

Christmas Break (University Closed)

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Tuesday Wednesday

Christmas Break (University Closed)

New Year’s Day Christmas Break (University Closed)

University Opens

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”

- Vince Lombardi

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

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WEEKLY GOALS:

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” - Benjamin Franklin

15 14 13

Monday

Applications due for May 2025 Graduation

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First Eight-Week Session begins

Late Registration continues for First Eight-Week Session through 01/16

Spring Semester begins

Tuesday

Wednesday

Web Registration ends for Spring Semester, including Eight-Week Sessions

Course Withdrawal Period begins for First EightWeek Session

Late Registration continues for Spring Semester, including Second Eight-Week Session

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Late Registration continues for Spring Semester, including Second Eight-Week Session

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (University Closed)

Course Withdrawal Period begins for Spring Semester, including Second Eight-Week Session

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“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

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Lunar New Year

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Groundhog Day

Lincoln’s Birthday

Valentine’s Day

Ramadan begins at sundown

Washington’s Birthday

Groundhog Day

5 4 3

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react.” - John Maxwell

Friday Saturday Sunday Thursday

10:00 AM - Hope and Renewal Interfaith Prayer Service

WEEKLY GOALS:

“The

person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” - Chinese Proverb 12 11 10

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Lincoln’s Birthday

Valentine’s Day

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Last day to withdraw from First Eight-Week Session with a grade of W

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“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” - Napoleon Hill

18 17

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Presidents’ Day

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein

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Want to get some presentation experience? Apply to present your research in poster form at the Emerging Scholars Celebration of Research this April. Not only for theses and dissertations, but also for seminar papers or case studies. www.loyola.edu/ emergingscholars

Ramadan begins at sundown

St. Patrick’s Day

First day of spring

Laylat al-Qadr begins at sundown

Eid al-Fitr begins at sundown

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

Albert Einstein 5 4 3

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break

Spring Break

First Eight-Week Session ends Spring Break

Spring Break

Daylight saving time begins Spring Break

Monday

“Motivation and bathing don’t last long. That’s why we recommend them daily.” - Zig Ziglar 12 11 10

Tuesday Wednesday

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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”Theodore Roosevelt

St. Patrick’s Day

Second Eight-Week Session begins

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“It

is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot

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Friday Saturday Sunday Thursday

Laylat al-Qadr begins at sundown

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Eid al-Fitr begins at sundown

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

April Fools’ Day

Web Registration begins for Summer 2025 Sessions

Monday

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.” - King Henry V 9 8 7

Tuesday Wednesday

Passover begins at sundown

Palm Sunday

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard

16 15 14

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Course Withdrawal Period ends for Spring Semester; last day to withdraw from a course with a grade of W

Easter Break (No Classes)

Good Friday Easter Break (Offices Closed)

Easter Break (Offices Closed)

Easter Easter Break (Offices Closed)

(one who, that which) – humorist, specialist, optimist, artist, dentist, flautist

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Happiness can’t be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

23 22 21

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Classes Resume Easter Break (Offices Closed)

Earth Day

Last day to withdraw from Second Eight-Week Session with a grade of W

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Monday

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” - Vincent van Gogh 30 29 28

Tuesday Wednesday

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Exams and close of Spring Semester

Cinco de Mayo Memorial Day

Mother’s Day

“Laugh and grow strong.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Cinco de Mayo Exams and close of Spring Semester

Exams and close of Spring Semester Looking for housing or a roommate? Visit offcampushousing.loyola.edu Second Eight-Week Session ends

Mother’s Day

Monday

“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” - Aristotle 14 13 12

Tuesday Wednesday

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Baccalaureate Mass: Reitz Arena, 1:30 p.m.

Commencement: Location TBD

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” - Tony Robbins

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Muharram begins at sundown

Eid al-Adha begins at sundown

First day of summer

Flag Day

Father’s Day

-quir-, -quer- (to ask, seek) – inquiry, inquisition, exquisite, query, conquer, question, quest

WEEKLY GOALS:

Monday

“Explore, Dream, Discover.” - Mark Twain 4 3 2

Tuesday

Wednesday

JUNE 2025

Eid al-Adha begins at sundown

Monday

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” - Margaret Mead 11 10 9

Tuesday Wednesday

JUNE 2025

Father’s Day

Flag Day

Monday

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” - Eleanor Roosevelt 18 17 16

Tuesday Wednesday

JUNE 2025

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“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” - Jim Rohn

JUNE 2025

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Muharram begins at sundown

Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola

Monday

“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola 2 1 30

Tuesday

Wednesday

(to work) – laboratory, collaborate, elaborate, laborious

Independence Day

“Obstacles

are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” - Henry Ford 9 8 7

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” - Henry Ford

16 15 14

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank

Monday

Tuesday

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Wednesday

“Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

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Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

6 5 4

ornate adj. – elaborately decorated. I had never seen such an ornate chandelier.

Friday

August 2025

WEEKLY GOALS:

Monday

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind.” - Henry Ford 13 12 11

Tuesday

Wednesday

-flect- (bend) – flex, reflex, flexible, flexor, inflexibility, deflect, reflect, inflection

WEEKLY GOALS:

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

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Loyola Writing Center

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A Pocket Guide to Jesuit Education

BE GINNINGS

JESU ITS

HOW DID JESU ITS GET INVOLVE D IN SCHOOLS?

WHY WERE JESUIT SCHOOLS SO SU CCESSFU L?

JESU IT EDU CATION IS A PROCESS

THE HABIT OF DISCERNING

JESU IT EDU CATION TODAY

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