2016-2017 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND
GRADUATE PLANNER A calendar, planner, and services handbook for the Loyola graduate student
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Contents Page
Table of Contents .........................................................................................2 Welcome from Graduate Student Services.....................................................3 Welcome from the Graduate Student Organization ......................................4 Loyola University Maryland Graduate Demographics ...................................5 Campus Locations.........................................................................................6 Graduate Center Information.............................................................. 7-8 Parking and Transportation ....................................................................9 Evergreen Campus Map .................................................................. 10-11 ALANA Services..........................................................................................13 Alcohol and Drug Ed. (Student Support and Wellness Promotion).............14 Athletics ......................................................................................................15 Campus Ministry .................................................................................. 16-17 Career Center..............................................................................................18 Center for Community Service and Justice..................................................19 Counseling Center ................................................................................ 20-21 Disability Support Services..........................................................................22 Emerging Scholars Celebration of Graduate Research .................................23 Financial Literacy / Financial Decision-Making Resources ..........................24 Fitness and Aquatic Center (Recreational Sports) ........................................26 Graduate Student Organization (GSO).......................................................27 Graduate Friday @ the FAC (First GSO event of the year)....................12 Health and Education Services .............................................................. 28-29 Housing ................................................................................................ 30-31 ID Cards .....................................................................................................32 International Student Services .....................................................................33 Library .................................................................................................. 34-36 Money for Conferences / Grant Opportunities (Education for Life) ...........37 Policies and Conduct..................................................................................38 Records Office ............................................................................................39 Study Area: The Study ................................................................................40 Technology (Student Technology Center) ..................................................41 Women’s Center .........................................................................................42 Writing Center............................................................................................43 Pocket Guide to Jesuit Education.......................................................... 44-50 Note: This datebook is designed to supplement the Graduate Catalogue as well as any materials distributed by your academic program. In cases where information conflicts, such materials take precedence.
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Dear Graduate Students, Welcome to the eighth edition of the Graduate Planner and Services Handbook, updated for the 2016-2017 academic year. As a graduate student, you are likely familiar with the challenges and the opportunities at a college or university. Perhaps you know yourself a little better, too, than when you began as an undergraduate student. You are not the same person you were when you began studying for your first degree, whether that was decades ago, or only four years ago. For many of you, graduate study will be a time of increased focus: time becomes more precious as you devote resources to the attainment of a degree that will advance you professionally. You may be challenged to effectively balance time between academics, career, and relationships. Perhaps you are getting used to a new housing situation, a new academic discipline, or even a new country. While graduate study can often feel like a solitary endeavor, please know that you are not alone. You will find many resources within this handbook to help you succeed academically, to feel more a part of the Loyola community, and to help you know “where to go for what.� We have also filled in some important dates and reminders for you in the calendar section of this handbook. I hope that one item on your calendar will be to join the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) at one of its events this year. You are already a member of the GSO, and are welcome at any or all of its programs. Visit www.loyola.edu/gso for more information, or www.loyola.edu/gradfriday for upcoming events. All the best to you this year! Sincerely,
Mark Lee Director, Technology and Graduate Student Services mslee@loyola.edu www.loyola.edu/gradstudents
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Dear Loyola graduate students, Congratulations to our incoming class and welcome to the Loyola community. We hope you are all excited for the opportunities and challenges your graduate career has in store for you. For returning students, welcome back! As we enter another outstanding year, I encourage all of you to think about some of the goals you wish to accomplish during your graduate training at Loyola. It is a time to reflect on the things that has made your experience at Loyola invaluable as well as some of the things you wish to do differently. I encourage our current students to reach out to our incoming class and offer support and friendship as a means of continuously building our strong sense community. The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) is dedicated to providing resources that will be beneficial to each graduate student as well as the community as a whole. We hope that this planner will be a useful resource as you become acclimated to the start of a new academic year. You may use it to keep your busy schedules organized or refer to it as a reference. It is filled with valuable information, tips for success, and some motivational sayings to keep you informed and inspired throughout the year. I encourage you to utilize not only this planner, but all the resources Loyola has to offer. One valuable resource we hope you take advantage of is your membership in the Graduate Student Organization. As the GSO, we aim to bring the Loyola graduate community together through a variety of exciting events recommended by your fellow graduate students. Whether it’s a happy hour, relaxing paint night or community involvement, the GSO is here to contribute to your positive experience at Loyola! With your help, we can continue appealing to the interest of the graduate community throughout this academic year. Feel free to send us an idea, volunteer to help plan an event or simply meet new people. You can contact us at gso@loyola.edu or check out some of our past events on www.loyola.edu/GradFriday for more information. I look forward to meeting you soon and wish you all the best on your graduate journey!
Tiffany Cabreja
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About us: Graduate Students • • • • •
Fall 2015 Enrollment: 1,982 70 percent of us are part-time students About 71 percent of us are female 29 percent of us are students of color Virtually all of us commute to one or more of the Loyola campuses at Baltimore, Columbia, and Timonium
Many graduate students aren’t aware of the many graduate programs are available at Loyola, including: Business/Finance Education Emerging Media Kodály Music Education Liberal Studies Cybersecurity Certificate
Montessori Education Pastoral Counseling/Spiritual Care Psychology Speech-Language Pathology Theological Studies Teaching English Language Learners Certificate
Distribution of graduate students by college:
Sellinger School of Business and Management
23% 37%
Loyola College
40% School of Education Headcounts include graduate students in Master’s and Doctoral degree programs 5
Campus Locations Evergreen Campus 4501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 21210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-617-2000 Columbia Campus 8890 McGaw Road, Columbia, Md. 21045. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-617-7600 Timonium Campus 2034 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, Md. 21093 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410-617-1500 Emergency Numbers Campus Police (Emergency). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-617-5911 Campus Police (Non-Emergency). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-617-5311 Health Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410-617-5055 Emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Campus Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410-617-2222 Counseling Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410-617-5109 Academic / Administrative Building Abbreviations Buildings are often referred to by the following abbreviations on maps and literature. Here’s how to make sense of some of the “alphabet soup.” AC AR BE BLV CO CT DS EA FAC GCCC
Alumni Memorial Chapel Armiger House (President’s House) Beatty Hall Belvedere Square Cohn Hall DeChiaro College Center Donnelly Science Center Early House Fitness and Aquatic Center Graduate Center– Columbia Campus GCTC Graduate Center– Timonium Campus HU Humanities Center 6
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Ignatius House Jenkins Hall Knott Hall Loyola/Notre Dame Library McEneany Cottage
MH RA SC SH XH YR YRA
Maryland Hall 302 Radnor Andrew White Student Center Sellinger School building Xavier Hall 5104 York Road Facility 5000 York Road Office Building
(305 Rossiter Ave.)
Graduate Center - Columbia Campus 8890 McGaw Road, Columbia, Md. 21045
Directions from I-95:
Follow I-95 to Route 175 West (toward Columbia) Exit onto Snowden River Parkway South Turn right on McGaw Road (2nd light) Loyola is on the right, at the intersection of McGaw and Dobbin Road (2 nd light)
From the Baltimore Beltway I-695:
Take I-695 to Exit 16-A, I-70 West Left exit to Route 29 South Exit onto Route 175 East Turn right on Snowden River Parkway South (4 th light) Loyola is on the right, at the intersection of McGaw and Dobbin Road (2 nd light)
Public Transportation:
Public transportation is not the ideal means of reaching the Columbia campus. Buses #310 and #311 stop the closest, but the Center will still be about a 1525 minute walk, respectively, from each stop. See www.mtamaryland.com for more information.
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Graduate Center - Timonium Campus 2034 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, Md. 21093
Directions: • I-695 to I-83 North (Harrisburg Expressway) • Exit 16A, Timonium Road East • Greenspring Drive is the first right turn after leaving I-83 • The Loyola parking lot is the second right turn Public transportation: • The closest Light Rail stop is Timonium Business Park, a 7 minute walk to the graduate center. • The MTA Bus #8 drops at Ridgely and Kurtz Avenue, about a 15 minute walk to the center. • See www.mtamaryland.com for more information.
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PARKING and SHUTTLE BUSSES
http://loyola.edu/department/parkingandtransportation 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 only available during the academic year and is restricted to Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. 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. Graduate students must pay a $10 registration fee for the Evergreen campus only. Graduate students attending classes at either Columbia or Timonium need not pay the fee but they must complete the parking registration form for Columbia or Timonium. Hang tags issued for Columbia and Timonium locations will differ from those issued for the Evergreen campus. Any graduate student attending classes at Evergreen may use that hangtag for Columbia and Timonium.
Loyola University Maryland Shuttle: The Loyola University Shuttle offers 12 different routes on the Evergreen campus. Routes reach locations such as the York Road parking lot and administrative buildings, the Cathedral parking lot, the library, Sellinger building, and the Ridley Athletic Center. For real time tracking of shuttles, visit loyola.doublemap.com, or download their app. Baltimore Collegetown Shuttle: www.baltimorecollegetown.org/shuttle
Loyola is a member of Baltimore Collegetown Network, comprised of 14 colleges and universities in association with government, business, and community leaders. The free shuttle runs between Goucher College in Towson to Penn Station. If you wish to go downtown, transfer from Penn Station to the Charm City Circulator (www.charmcitycirculator.com). See the Collegetown website for more information.
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WYNDHURST AVENUE
NORTH CHARLES STREET
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Campus Map Evergreen Campus
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Southwell Hall Hopkins Court Lange Court Fitness and Aquatic Center Recreational Sports USF&G Pedestrian Bridge Knott Hall Mathematical Sciences Dept. Physics Dept. Technology Services Donnelly Science Center Biology Dept. Chemistry Dept. Computer Science Dept. Engineering Science Dept. Alumni Memorial Chapel Cohn Hall Campus Ministry Beatty Hall Education Dept. Political Science Dept. Psychology Dept. Research and Sponsored Programs Sociology Dept.
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18. Xavier Hall Dean - School of Education Advancement - Events and Donor Relations 19. Jenkins Hall Academic Affairs and Diversity Mothers’ Room Resource Management The Study Vice President for Academic Affairs Vice President for Administration Vice President for Advancement Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students Writing Center 20. Rev. Francis X. Knott, S.J., Humanities Center Center for Community Service and Justice Classics Dept. Counseling Center
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Dean - College of Arts and Sciences English Dept. Financial Aid History Dept. Hug Lounge Human Resources Service Center International Programs International Student Services Philosophy Dept. Phonathon Center President’s Office Refectory Theology Dept. Vice President for Enrollment Mgmt. and Communications Writing Dept. 21. Sellinger School of Business and Management Accounting Dept. Dean - Sellinger School Economics Dept. Finance Dept. Information Systems and Operations Management Dept.
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Management and International Business Dept. Marketing, Law and Social Responsibility Dept. Maryland Hall Academic Advising and Support Center Faculty Technology Center Institutional Research Instructional Services Language Learning Center Modern Languages and Literatures Dept. National Fellowship Office Records Student Administrative Services DeChiaro College Center The Career Center Communication Dept. Fine Arts Dept. Julio Art Gallery McManus Theatre Post Office Recital Room Reitz Arena Sellinger VIP Lounge Andrew White Student Center ALANA Services Athletic Dept. ATM Machine - Bank of America First Federal Financial, M&T Bank Barnes & Noble Bookstore Boulder Garden Café Campus Box Office Commuter Affairs McGuire Hall Diane Geppi-Aikens Field Armiger House President’s House Ignatius House Jesuit Community Residence
28. Hammerman House Fava Chapel 29. Maroger Art Studio 30. Butler Hall 31. Facilities Building Facilities Management Project Management Public Safety Dispatch 32. 300 Radnor Avenue Technology Services Training Center 33. 302 Radnor Avenue Military Science/ROTC 34. McEneany Cottage Psychology Dept. 35. Justin Ocher House Fine Arts Print Studio 36. Early House Military Science/ROTC 37. St. Alphonsus Rodriguez House Campus Ministry 38. 300 Rossiter Avenue 39. 305 Winston Avenue 40. 303 Winston Avenue 41. 301 Winston Avenue 42. Tennis Courts 43. Flannery O’Connor Hall 44. Loyola/Notre Dame Library 45. Ahern Hall 46. McAuley Hall 47. Aquinas Hall 48. Rahner Village 49. 5104 York Road Environmental Health and Safety Printing and Mail Services Public Safety Administration Transportation and Parking 50. 5000 York Road Financial Services Human Resources 51. The Loyola Clinical Centers at Belvedere Square
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GRADUATE FRIDAY @ the FAC FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 5:30 - 8:30 P.M.
FITNESS AND AQUATIC CENTER (THE FAC) EVERGREEN CAMPUS: FREE PARKING A free event featuring food, games, and (optional) friendly competition, especially for graduate students and their guests.
Bring your appetite and your game face! The whole family is welcome!
Please pre-register by Sept. 20. Space at the FAC is limited.
REGISTER AT: www.loyola.edu/gradfriday Co-sponsored by the GSO and Graduate Student Services Missed this event? Visit the website for more “Grad Fridays!”
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ALANA Services
(African, Latino, Asian & Native American)
ALANA Services Mission Statement 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 counseling and support • Identity development groups such as MAN2MAN and Sister to Sister • Books and magazines centered around the interests of ALANA Students in the St. Peter Claver, S.J., Multicultural Center and Library • Annual Multicultural programming such as the cultural heritage celebrations (Latino Heritage Month and Black History Month for example), International Festival and much more. • Meaningful dialogue and reflection about multicultural issues and diversity • A space to study, network and relax Stay connected with us via Twitter and Instagram (@ALANA_Services), as well as via Facebook at www.facebook.com/ALANAServices
3rd floor Andrew White Student Center 410-617-2310 alana@loyola.edu www.loyola.edu/alana
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Office of Student Support and Wellness Promotion www.loyola.edu/sswp Our office is staffed with licensed and certified counselors providing: Alcohol and other drug abuse counseling for students Support for students in recovery Support for students concerned about a family member Support for Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) Educational interventions
All of our services are free and confidential.
Loyola University Maryland Evergreen Campus Seton Court 02B (West side, next to Health Services)
410-617-2928
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Loyola Greyhound 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 Women’s Soccer Men’s Basketball Women’s Basketball Men’s Lacrosse Women’s Lacrosse Men’s Swimming & Diving Women’s Swimming & Diving Men’s Cross Country Women’s Cross Country Men’s Tennis Women’s Tennis Men’s Crew Women’s Crew Men’s Golf Women’s Volleyball Women’s Indoor Track & Field 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. 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!
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Graduate Student’s Guide to
LOYOLA CAMPUS MINISTRY
Welcome to Campus Ministry! As a graduate student, you will have many opportunities to get involved with Campus Ministry. PASTORAL CARE The heart and focus of Campus Ministry at Loyola University is the pastoral care of our student community. Loyola’s campus ministers are committed to providing supportive guidance, accomplaniment through spiritual direction, fostering community and creating inclusive spaces Students are encouraged to contact or simply drop by the Campus Ministry offices. We are here to welcome you in your faith tradition, spiritual practice or belief.
IGNATIAN RETREATS Campus Ministry & Mission Integration offer a wide range of retreat experiences that allow students to explore their faith journeys, develop their spiritual lives through an Ignatian lens, and experience new forms of prayer. Retreats are typically held at the Loyola Retreat Center in Western Maryland and others are held on campus. These include: the A.M.D.G 3 Day Retreat, the 5 Day Slient Retreat, Lenten Retreat, the Retreat in Everyday Life, the Men’s Retreat and Women’s Retreat.
OUR VISION United by God, Ignited by the Spirit, Inspired by the vision of Ignatius, We journey together on mission to become the hands and heart of Christ. QUESTIONS ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED? Contact us! campusministry@loyola.edu www.loyola.edu/department/campusministry
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CAMPUS MINISTRY IS HERE TO SERVE AND CARE FOR YOU! LESSONS & CAROLS FOR CHRISTIMAS We invite you to join us on the web for the Live stream Festival of Lessons and Carols where music and scripture prepare the community for the celebration of Christmas!
PRE-CANA MARRIAGE PREPARATION Engaged students can choose to participate in Loyola’s Pre-Cana program in the Spring. While space is limited, it is a great way to begin your new life together!
COMMUNITY
JUSTICE Our Ignatian tradition calls us to live a "faith that does justice." Campus Ministry invites students to respond to this call through reflection, community & programs Faith & Justice Cohorts, Soup with Substance, So the Faith & Justice Lecture, Ignatian Teach In for Justice & Just Films. All of which graduate students are welcome to apply to participate.
We invite you to join the Koinonia family as a way of building meaningful relationships in a supportive community of peers. There are graduate student focused small faith sharing commuitites that meet weekly to share conversation, activities, and prayer. Koinonia is a great way to continue staying centered after a retreat experience; but students are welcome to join a group at anytime during the year.
WORSHIP & LITURGICAL MINISTRY Sunday Eucharist 11am & 6pm: Alumni Chapel 8pm: Hammerman Hall Chapel 10pm: Hopkins Court Lounge Daily Eucharist 12:10pm Alumni Chapel Ecumenical Evening Prayer (EvenSong) Thursdays at 5pm: Alumni Chapel
You are encouraged to use your particular talents and gifts in service of our faith community as: Ministers of Hospitality Ministers of the Word Extraordinary Ministers of Communion Intro Int Sessions are held in September.
Music Ministry The Loyola University Chapel Choir If you enjoy singing and playing music for others – join us on Thursdays at 6:30pm. All voice types and instruments needed. No auditions for singers
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THE CAREER CENTER HOURS & LOCATIONS EVERGREEN CAMPUS
4501 N. CHARLES ST, BALTIMORE, MD 21210
Monday-Thursday: 8:30am-8:00pm Friday: 8:30am-5:00pm
TIMONIUM GRADUATE CENTER 2034 GREENSPRING DR, TIMONIUM, MD 21093
Phone appointments available daily In-person appointments by request
COLUMBIA GRADUATE CENTER
JOB SEARCH ASSISTANCE
Resume/Cover Letters/CV Practice Interviews
Career Fairs Online Job Postings
CAREER EXPLORATION Interest Testing
Personality Assessment Site Visits One-on-one Advising
NETWORKING Alumni Connections Employer Contacts Corporate Presentations Networking Events
8890 MCGAW RD, COLUMBIA, MD 21045
Phone appointments available daily In-person appointments by request
FOR APPOINTMENTS, PLEASE CALL:
410-617-2232
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VOLUNTEER
Career Ambassador Program
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Life as a graduate/professional school student is full of new experiences – opportunities and challenges - that call for adaptive and flexible coping skills. Balancing classes, work, family and friends can place competing demands on your time. In fact, it’s not surprising that many students find themselves at times feeling anxious, overwhelmed or depressed. It takes more energy for grad/professional students to feel connected. You aren’t alone in your feelings, and you don’t have to be alone in working through them. The Counseling Center (www.loyola.edu/counselingcenter) provides free and confidential, short-term individual counseling for full time graduate students. Referral services to help you connect with therapists and other resources in your community, as well as group counseling services are available to all graduate students. Weekly group sessions, often continuing throughout the academic year, bring together five to eight students with shared concerns. Led by one or two counselors, group sessions last 60-90 minutes and offer opportunities to talk confidentially about your concerns; share them with others who have similar challenges; receive support from group members and counselors; and learn alternative ways of looking at personal problems. We are staffed by licensed clinicians and post-doctoral fellows. Graduate students may make an appointment for an initial consultation that ranges from one to three sessions to determine recommended treatment options. Unfortunately, due to high clinical demand, we are unable to provide counseling services for students seeking to fulfill the counseling requirement of their graduate program. Counseling Center staff can provide workshops to groups of graduate students as requested. Examples include stress management, coping with work-life balance, and overcoming academic demands. All graduate students are eligible for the workshop services provided by our counselors.
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We also offer REACT Online (Readjustment After Crisis and Trauma) an online program for students who have experienced sudden loss, crime, accidents, or other traumatic events. It’s designed to assist students in understanding their reactions, learning coping strategies, and returning to their normal routines as quickly as possible. Our website also has a link to RELAX Online, which provides guided relaxation videos featuring soothing visuals and music, narrated by Counseling Center Staff. You may not even be sure what’s causing you to experience the feelings you are having—and that’s OK. We can work together to identify the issues you are facing and develop a plan to address them. To make an appointment to meet with Counseling Center staff, call (410) 617-2273, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Counseling Center is located on the Evergreen campus in Humanities Center 150. If you are experiencing a personal psychological emergency, do not wait to ask for help. Between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, you can come directly to the Counseling Center in Humanities Center 150 or call us at 410-617-CARE (2273). After hours or on weekends, please call the office of public safety at 410-617-5911. No appointment is needed for emergencies.
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Loyola University Maryland’s Disability Support Services Office
Extends a Warm Welcome to New and Returning Graduate Students! If you can answer “yes” to either of the following ques�ons, please contact Disability Support Services (DSS) to discuss possible supports: •
Do you have a history of receiving disability-related accommoda�ons at another college or on a job?
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Do you have a chronic illness or a physical or mental condi�on which impairs your ability to perform certain academic tasks?
Students interested in registering with DSS need to provide documenta�on of disability which supports their requested accommoda�ons. This documenta�on is housed conden�ally in the Disability Support Services office. Services and accommoda�ons are determined on a case-by-case basis, but some common supports and services are extra �me for exams, a reduced distrac�on tes�ng site, or note-taking services. For more informa�on about possible services and supports that may help you with your graduate studies, please contact us to set up an appointment: Stacey Grady Assistant Director (410) 617-7380 sgrady@loyola.edu Disability Support Services is located in 107 West Newman Towers on the Evergreen Campus. We are happy to meet students at the Columbia or Timonium graduate centers. Mee�ngs are arranged by appointment. More informa�on about Loyola’s DSS office is at www.loyola.edu/dss. 22
Join our eighth annual celebration coming in April, 2017 Details TBA
SUBMIT YOUR PRESENTATION or RSVP www.loyola.edu/emergingscholars SPONSORED BY RESEARCH AND GRADUATE AFFAIRS AND GRADUATE STUDENT SERVICES
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OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID www.loyola.edu/department/financialaid/graduate The office of financial aid administers several types of financial assistance for graduate students. Loan assistance is available through the federal government and private lenders. Assistantships are available through several academic and administrative departments. Additionally, individual departments offer a limited number of fellowships, scholarships and grants to assist students with their education expenses.
QUICK LOAN FACTS Who can apply? Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans are available to all graduate students who are enrolled at least half-time in a degree seeking program and who meet federal financial aid eligibility requirements. What forms must be completed and when? •
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) www.fafsa.ed.gov
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Loyola Federal Direct Stafford Loan Student Information Sheet
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Federal Direct Stafford Loan Electronic Master Promissory Note (first time borrowers)
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Federal Direct Stafford Loan Entrance Counseling (first time borrowers)
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A complete financial aid application must be submitted at least four weeks prior to registration if loan proceeds will be used for tuition and fee payments. Course registrations submitted before the completion of the loan application process must include full tuition and fee payment.
To learn more about graduate financial aid, go to www.loyola.edu/department/financialaid/graduate
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A Guide to Resources on Financial Literacy / Financial Decision-Making As a graduate student, you are likely faced with more complex financial decisions than you did as an undergraduate. Here are a few useful resources: Title CashCourse http://www.cashcourse.org/
Summary / Explanation CashCourse is offered by Loyola and the National Endowment for Financial Education. Set up an online budget, use financial calculators, or consult with financial experts on your money questions. CashCourse also has some short videos on financial basics. CashCourse is completely free.
Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in your Twenties and Thirties, by Beth Kobliner. (Simon & Schuster)
Even in your 40s, you may find this book to be very interesting and useful. Kobliner does a great job of addressing topics such as debt, insurance, saving, investing, mortgages, and others in a way that is simple to understand. Our library has a copy for the borrowing.
SmartAboutMoney.org (SAM)
Try SAM’s question-based calculators (eg. “Should I lease or purchase an auto?) SAM includes an excellent Resource Library which allows searching by particular topic (eg. wedding planning, budget, buying a car, etc.)
http://www.smartaboutmoney.org
iGrad http://www.igrad.com
Federal Student Aid http://www.studentaid.ed.gov
iGrad covers not only on financial literacy topics, but also lifestyle (diet, exercise, etc.) and career articles (preparation for interviews, LinkedIn usage, etc.) The title of this U.S. Department of Education website says it all: how to get aid, apply for aid, and repay existing loans.
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The Fitness and Aquatic Center The Fitness and Aquatic Center (FAC) is located just one block north of the Charles Street Bridge. Refer to our website for facility hours, usage policies, guest use policies and fees. 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: Features a Sport Court surface ideal for indoor soccer, volleyball and inline sports. • Equipment Room: Available to all members with a valid Loyola ID or membership card. 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 • Elevated Walking/Jogging Track • Two Group Exercise Studios: Classes are available throughout the academic year. • Outdoor Adventure Center: Offers expansive resource library, gear rental and meeting location. • Four Racquetball and Two Squash Courts • Outdoor Grass Field • Flexibility and Core Strength Area: This area includes abdominal training equipment, stretching mats and the TrueStretch 800SS. • All-Gender Restroom
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LOYOLA ID CARDS Loyola ID cards may be obtained at the following locations and times: Columbia Facilities Office, Suite 130 Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Evergreen: Student Administrative Services, Maryland Hall, Room 140 Monday-Thursday 7:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.; Friday 7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Timonium Administrative Office 02 Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. This card has multiple uses and is valid during each semester that you are enrolled at Loyola. It does the following: •
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International Student Services
The Of�ice of International Student Services advises international students on topics such as: immigration, academics, maintaining legal status, employment, personal and cultural adjustment. The Of�ice also organizes a New International Student Orientation, social events, and trips to various locations around the region, providing international students with the opportunity to explore areas outside of Baltimore.
The University currently enrolls over 150 undergraduate, exchange, and graduate interna�onal students from a total of 46 countries.
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Tips for New International Students A�end the New Interna�onal Student Orienta�on held during the month of August (for the fall semester) & January (for the Spring semester), where you will have the chance to make new friends, while learning more about relevant topics such as: studying at Loyola, maintaining your immigra�on status, adjus�ng to and living in the United States. Meet with Loyola’s Interna�onal Student Advisor, Ms. Sunanda Bha�a, within 10 days of your arrival to Loyola. You will need to go through Immigra�on clearance, in addi�on to having your documents copied for your university records. F-1 Interna�onal graduate students are required by U.S. immigra�on law to enroll in a minimum of nine credits of study during each of the fall and spring semesters. Interna�onal students on an F-1 student visa are not permi�ed to work off-campus without prior approval, and wri�en authoriza�on, from Loyola’s Interna�onal Student Advisor. Meet with your Interna�onal Student Advisor each �me you are planning on traveling outside the country. You will need to have a current, valid travel signature on your Form I-20 to re-enter the U.S. Report any change in address or contact informa�on, within 10 days of change, to your Interna�onal Student Advisor. To schedule an appointment with your Interna�onal Student Advisor, please contact the Office of Interna�onal Student Services. Interna�onal Student Services Humani�es Building, Suite 141 410.617.5245 33
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Go to the library’s website (www.lndl.org) to access:
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Borrowing from Other Libraries
In addition to the libraries that share our catalog (Washington Adventist University, Hood College, and Stevenson University), you can go to the following libraries in person and check out books with your Loyola ID: Coppin State University Goucher College Maryland Institute College of Art McDaniel College Mount Saint Mary’s University Morgan State University St. Mary’s Seminary Towson University University of Baltimore University of Maryland Baltimore County 35
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The Education for Life Committee invites grant proposals for programs and ideas that extend learning outside the classroom. This includes conference attendance / presentations, ideas for graduate student events, and speakers.
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A Quiet Place to Study on the Quad ♦ Conference rooms ♦ Private study rooms ♦ Computer work stations
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STUDENT TECHNOLOGY CENTER (STC) Knott Hall 106, Evergreen Campus 410-617-5555
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Technology Services provides and supports technologies used by the Loyola community for instruction, research, administration, learning, and socializing at the university. Some of the services provided include the following:
• Microsoft Office 365 is free for students • Network storage and personal Web space • Discounts on personal computing devices (online and via the bookstore) • Student e-mail account with enhanced Microsoft collaboration tools • Free software training via Lynda.com using your Loyola credentials • Service and support for student personal computing devices • General purpose computer labs located in academic buildings and residence halls • Campus-wide printing and copying systems
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The Women Center’s programs and initiatives are designed to enlighten, support, and empower Loyola University Maryland graduate and undergraduate women. Upholding the traditions of the Society of Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy, the mission of the center is to educate Loyola women and men on issues of gender. The Women’s Center (WC) provides information, offers advocacy and supports educational programs for women students, faculty, and staff in the Loyola community. The WC sponsors day and evening programs, supports women’s groups on campus, and hosts WC book clubs with subjects of special interest to women. Graduate and undergraduate women are welcome to bring ideas for programs, groups or workshops to the center for consideration. The center houses a number of permanent groups started by students, faculty, and administrators. The Women’s Pre-Health Society supports women science students and their participation in the Johns Hopkins Women’s Journey Conference that is held in Baltimore annually. Annual programs hosted by the Women’s Center include the Red Flag Campaign focused on healthy relationships and Sexual Assault Awareness Week which honors survivors of assault and raises awareness about sexual violence in American culture. The WC has hosted Luna Fest, a festival of films by, for, and about women for the last seven years. The Center also houses a library of books and films that are available to all members of the Loyola community. Graduate and commuter students are encouraged to use the Center as a place to study, have lunch or relax in our large comfortable conference room complete with tables, chairs, floor pillows and refreshments. The Women’s Center welcomes graduate and commuter women’s involvement in its programs and initiatives and invites them to form groups that would benefit all women in the Loyola community. Seton Court 4504A (Evergreen Campus) 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Monday – Thursday www.loyola.edu/womenscenter -- womenscenter@loyola.edu 410-617-5844 42
LOYOLA WRITING CENTER To help students in graduate programs meet the challenges of advanced academic writing, the Loyola Writing Center offers individual consultations on writing at any stage of the writing process as well as small group workshops.
Locations Evergreen Campus: Maryland Hall 057 Columbia Graduate Center: Room 253 Timonium Graduate Center: Room 49 East Corridor
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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
BEGINNINGS
The first Jesuit college opened at Messina in Sicily in 1548, but the roots of Jesuit education reach back to an earlier event. In 1521, a young man training for a career at the Spanish court was wounded in a military engagement with the French. Ignatius Loyola was the youngest child in a family of feudal lords in the Basque region of northern Spain. He returned to his family’s home to recover from his wounds. There, he passed the time reading a life of Christ and a book about the saints, which led him to reflect deeply about his own life and to experience a calling to abandon his career at court and to follow Jesus instead. 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.
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JESUITS 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 the 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 JESUITS GET INVOLVED 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.” Gradually, they came to realize that there was one emerging activity that connected their intellectual training, their worldaffirming 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. When Ignatius died in 1556 there were 35 Jesuit colleges across Europe. Two hundred years later, there were more than 800 in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. They constituted the largest system of education before the modern era of public schooling and the first truly international one.
WHY WERE JESUIT SCHOOLS SO SUCCESSFUL? 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 opportunities 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.
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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.
JESUIT EDUCATION 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. Be Attentive 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 lives 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.
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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 experiences 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. Be Reflective 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 discover 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 and 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. Be Loving 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 selfunderstanding and freedom that we have appropriated by reflection. How shall we act in ways that are consistent with this new self and what it knows and values?
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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.”
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THE HABIT OF DISCERNING
Jesuit education, we have said, is a process that has three key parts, being attentive, being reflective, and being loving. It results in the kind of good decision-making that Ignatius called “discernment.� The goal of Jesuit education is to produce men and women for whom discernment is a habit. 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 action. 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 called 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 he 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.
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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.
JESUIT EDUCATION TODAY In the United States, there are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and 46 high schools. The first of these was Georgetown, established in 1789. Boston College was the 11th when it was founded in 1863. Around the world, there are more than 200 Jesuit secondary schools--including 93 in India alone—and some 100 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
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