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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 Aid / Financial Decision-Making Resources.................................24 Fitness and Aquatic Center (Recreational Sports) ........................................26 Graduate Student Organization (GSO).................................................12, 27 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 Welcome to Baltimore Graduate Student Reception ...................................42 Women’s Center .........................................................................................43 Writing Center............................................................................................44 Pocket Guide to Jesuit Education.......................................................... 45-51 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 ninth edition of the Graduate Planner and Services Handbook, updated for the 2017-2018 academic year. If you are a new graduate student, please consider this publication a supplement to the information and materials you may be receiving from your academic department. All of the content is shared here with you in mind: we want you to feel welcome, and to be reminded that, as a graduate student at the university, you matter. We have gathered information from many departments, asking “what would you like graduate students to know about your office?” 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. Whether you are new, or continuing at the university, please also consider this publication to be an invitation to visit or contact any of the departments listed within. I particularly encourage you to join the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) at one or more of its events this year. You are already a member of the GSO, and are welcome at any or all of its programs. Please visit www.loyola.edu/gso for more information, or www.loyola.edu/gradfriday for upcoming events. Finally, please don’t hesitate to contact me this academic year if I can be of assistance in achieving your goals at Loyola. What would you like for me to know about you? My contact information is at the bottom of this page. 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, we encourage all of you to think about some of the goals you wish to accomplish during your graduate studies at Loyola. It may be a time to reflect on the strengths that have allowed you to be here, or things you wish to do differently. We 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 of 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 a new place, or at least 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 quotes to keep you informed and inspired throughout the year. We encourage you to use 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, a 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 come and meet new people. You can contact us at gso@loyola.edu or check out some of our past and upcoming events at www.loyola.edu/GradFriday. We look forward to meeting you soon, and wish you all the best on your graduate journey!
Team GSO
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About us: Graduate Students • • • • •
Fall 2016 Enrollment: 1980 72 percent of us are part-time students About 71 percent of us are female 30 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, such as: Data Science Emerging Media Liberal Studies Theology Kodály Music Education Educational Technology
Montessori Education Psychology Finance Business Administration School Counseling Cyber Security Certificate
Distribution of graduate students by college:
Sellinger School of Business and Management
25% 36%
Loyola College
39% School of Education Headcounts include graduate students in Master’s and Doctoral degree programs
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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
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Ignatius House Jenkins Hall Knott Hall Loyola/Notre Dame Library McEneany Cottage
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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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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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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. 22, 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. 18.
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 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 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, So Soup with Substance, 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 LOCATION & HOURS:
GROUND FLOOR, DECHIARO COLLEGE CENTER 4501 N. CHARLES ST, BALTIMORE, MD 21210
Monday: 9:00am - 7:00pm Tuesday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
PHONE & VIRTUAL APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE:
FOR APPOINTMENTS AND INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT US AT 410-617-2232 OR THECAREERCENTER@LOYOLA.EDU DISCOVER > EXPERIENCE > PREPARE > PURSUE
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RESUME/CV CRITIQUES MOCK INTERVIEWS INTEREST/ PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT CAREER ADVISING NETWORKING EXTERNSHIP/ ASSISTANTSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Interested in career counseling as a professional path? Inquire about externship/ assistantship opportunities at The Career Center!
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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: Disability Support Services (410) 617-7380/2750/2062 dss@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 ninth annual celebration coming in April, 2018 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. Graduate students are eligible to purchase a membership. 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. • Three Racquetball and Two Squash Courts • Outdoor Grass Field • Functional Fitness Area: This area includes a Functional Trainer, TRX, turf and more.
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND
Graduate Student Organization
Want to meet other graduate students? Want to gain leadership experience? Looking to get more involved? Visit our website at:
loyola.edu/gso
Or join our Facebook group by searching: Loyola University Maryland Graduate Student Organization
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STUDENT HEALTH AND EDUCATION SERVICES
CLINICALSERVICES
LOCATION AND ACCESS The Student Health Center is located at 4502A N. Charles St. in Seton Court. The telephone number is 410-617-5055. Handicapped parking is available near the Health Center.
HOURS OF OPERATION AND AFTER-HOURS CARE The Center is open for routine medical care during the regular school year from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays by appointment. For after-hours medical care or advice call Sinai Hospital at 410-583-9396 and a physician or nurse practitioner will return your call. Please stay by your phone to receive the call.
EMERGENCY In case of a life-threatening emergency call 911. Loyola’s Public Safety can be reached at 410-617-5911 and will be notified if an ambulance is called.
ELIGIBILITYFORCARE AND FEES All currently registered students are eligible for care. Graduate students pay $25 per visit. Allergy clinic for all students is $50 per semester. There are some services such as special laboratory tests, off-campus referrals, and prescriptions for which a charge must be made.
The Student Health Center provides outpatient primary care in a confidential setting. The Center is designed to provide continuous management of both long-term and short-term medical problems, as well as preventive medical care. If urgent medical attention is needed during regular hours, students can be seen on a walk-in basis. If immediate attention is not necessary, waiting time can be lessened by calling in advance for an appointment. The appointment numberis410-617-5055.
CONFIDENTIALITY All information in student medical records is confidential. Access to these records is limited to authorized Health Center personnel only. A written release must be signed by the patient receiving care in order to have information released. This is a legal requirement. A consent form for the release of medical information can be obtained at the HealthCenter.
PREMATRICULATION IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS All students must have completed health history and immunization requirements as indicated in the health history form(s) students receive upon admission. Exceptions to the immunization requirement must be approved by the director.
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STAFF The Center is a teaching facility and is staffed by board certified nurse practitioners and physicians. The Center is affiliated with Sinai Hospital and Greenspring Pediatric Associates which provide physician coverage. Additionally, the affiliation provides a rotation of residents from Sinai and Johns Hopkins hospitals. In most cases, students will be seen by nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with advanced medical education degrees and are qualified to evaluate, diagnose, and prescribe. They are also qualified health educators who will instruct students about self-care and provide medical counseling as needed on a one-on-one basis. Union Memorial Hospital Sports Medicine is the referral for orthopedic problems and works with the Health Center staff as well as the athletic department trainers. The trainers provide sports medicine care for athletes.
IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS Emergency: 911 (ambulance) Public Safety: 410-617-5911 Health Center: 410-617-5055 Office of Student Support and Wellness Promotion: 410-617-2928 Athletic Training/Training Room: 410-617-5276 Charlesmead Pharmacy: 410-435-0210 (will deliver) CounselingCenter:410-617-2273 CVS Pharmacy: 410-433-7711 (5200 York Road) Dentists: Drs. Gibbons & Shelton: 410-321-1133 Disability Support Services: 410-617-2062 Poison Control: 410-706-7701 Sinai After Hours: 410-583-9396 Turnaround Inc.: 410-377-8111 (Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Center) For more information, please visit the Student Health Services Web site at www.loyola.edu/healthservices. The Loyola University Maryland Health Center is a wheelchairaccessible facility. For special arrangements or for transportation to theCenter, call Public Safety at 410-617-5911 or the Health Center at 410-617-5055.
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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: •
Grants access for all graduate students to the 24-hour areas at Loyola campuses. These areas include: lounges, restrooms, vending machines, and student computer labs.
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Displays your student ID number, directly under your name, which is used with Records when registering.
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Displays your 14-digit personalized library code (located above the magnetic strip on the reverse side of the card). Your library barcode allows you to access the Loyola/Notre Dame Library’s electronic databases via the Internet and to obtain books and articles via document delivery and interlibrary loan.
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Enables you to credit money to the magnetic strip on the back of the card, which can then be used for photocopying, vending, bookstore purchases, as well as food purchases. Value can be added to the card in Columbia at the value transfer station which is located on the wall just outside the student lounge, Room 109, or on the Evergreen Campus at Student Administrative Services located in Maryland Hall, Room 140 or the Value Transfer Station next to the Bank of America ATM in the Andrew White Student Center. Deposits can also be made online at inside.loyola.edu.
Access requests can be made at IDCard@loyola.edu.
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The Office of International Student Services advises international students on topics such as: immigration, academics, maintaining legal status, employment, personal and cultural adjustment. The Office 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 130 undergraduate, exchange, and graduate international students from 40 countries.
Tips for New International Students Attend the New International Student Orientation 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 immigration status, adjusting to and living in the United States. All international graduate students are required to check-in with their international student advisor, Ms. Sunanda Bhatia, within the first five (5) days of each semester for immigration clearance. Students will need to present updated contact information and copies of the following immigration documents: passport, Form I-20, SEVIS fee receipt, and most recent U.S. entry stamp. These documents will need to be processed each semester for SEVIS immigration registration. F-1 International graduate students are required by U.S. immigration law to enroll in a minimum of nine credits of study during each of the fall and spring semesters. International students on an F-1 student visa are not permitted to work off-campus without prior approval, and written authorization, from Loyola’s International Student Advisor. Meet with your International Student Advisor each time 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 information, within 10 days of change, to your International Student Advisor. To schedule an appointment with your International Student Advisor, please contact the Office of International Student Services. 33
200 Winston Avenue Baltimore, MD 21212 www.lndl.org
See What the Library Has to Offer! Access to Online Resources
Go to the library’s website (www.lndl.org) to access: 102 databases Over 270,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 330,000 e-books Research Guides for subjects and courses Streaming media
Access to Print Resources
Over 9 million items are available to check out between LNDL and the sixteen other schools in our library consortium (University System of Maryland & Affiliated Institutions) Request books from our consortium schools and check them out within a few days Return items at the Columbia and Timonium Graduate Centers or mail them to LNDL LNDL can mail books and media items directly to off-campus students upon request Graduate students can check out books for four months and renew books online or by contacting the circulation desk at (410) 617-6801
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Request books and articles not available from LNDL – for free! Please allow delivery time of 1-2 days for articles and 5-8 days for books. Call the circulation desk at (410) 617-6801 for more details.
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Visit www.lndl.org to chat online with a librarian 24/7
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Off-Campus Access to Online Resources
Use your Loyola username and password to access our databases, ebooks, and your library account from off-campus.
Managing References
RefWorks helps you to manage and tr ack citations of mater ials as you search for sources. Save search results and then print out a formatted bibliography with just a few clicks. Access RefWorks through the Library’s website.
Online Citation Help Guides
APA: American Psychological Association Style Guide, 6th Edition MLA: Modern Language Association Style Guide, 7th Edition Chicago: Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition AJHP: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Style Guide CSE: Council of Science Editors Style Guide Turabian Parenthetical
USMAI Member Libraries
LNDL shares our catalog with sixteen University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Libraries: Bowie State University ♦ Center for Environmental Science ♦ Coppin State University ♦ Frostburg State University ♦ Loyola Notre Dame Library ♦ Morgan State University ♦ Salisbury University ♦ St. Mary’s College of Maryland ♦ Towson University ♦ University of Baltimore ♦ University of Baltimore Law Library ♦ University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) ♦ University of Maryland, College Park ♦ University of Maryland, Eastern Shore ♦ University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library ♦ University of Maryland Law Library ♦ University of Maryland University College
Borrowing from Other Libraries
You can visit the following non-USMAI libraries in person and check out books with your Loyola ID: Goucher College ♦ Maryland Institute College of Art ♦ Mount Saint Mary’s University ♦ Stevenson University 35
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Come visit us to use these additional resources: Graduate study room on the second floor with lockable carrels Group study rooms Comfortable couches and spectacular views of campus Permanent exhibit of the St. John’s Bible on the main level Accessible technology
Library Hours Fall 2017 - Spring 2018:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.
The library is open 24/7 during exams. For more information, visit www.loyola.edu/library/hours.
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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.
loyola.edu/educationforlife
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STUDENT POLICIES AND CONDUCT
www.loyola.edu/department/gradstudents/services/policies All graduate students should familiarize themselves with university policies, including the Loyola University Maryland Course Catalogue and the Loyola Student Code of Conduct, for information relating to: • • • • • • • • • • • •
Academic integrity Alcohol and other drugs Bias-related behaviors Consensual relationships Ethical use of technology and copyrighted material Grievance policy and procedures Harassment and discrimination Human subjects Intellectual property, copyrights, and patent Medical separation policy Sexual misconduct policy Thesis and dissertation guidelines
The Loyola Catalogues can be found at catalogue.loyola.edu/ The Student Code of Conduct can be found at www.loyola.edu/department/studentlife/studentconduct
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Records Office
What’s the Spin on the Records Office? The Records Office 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 accuracy, integrity, and security. Use Inside Loyola, https://inside.loyola.edu, WebAdvisor for Students to:
Register for Classes Place classes on your preferred sections list
View Class Schedule Review Degree Audit
Request a Transcript
Electronic or Paper Delivery
View Final Grades Apply to Graduate
Assess your academic progress
Request an Enrollment Verification A free service provided by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)
For more information: The Records Office website is located at www.loyola.edu/records or visit the Records Office at the Baltimore campus in Maryland Hall Room MH141
A Quiet Place to Study on the Quad ♦ Conference rooms ♦ Private study rooms ♦ Computer work stations
HOURS Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m. to midnight Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sunday noon to midnight Email: thestudy@loyola.edu Tel: 410-617-2104
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STUDENT TECHNOLOGY CENTER (STC) Knott Hall 003, Evergreen Campus 410-617-5555
STC@loyola.edu www.loyola.edu/ots
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 • Free virus and spyware removal for personal computers • 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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Thursday, September 14, 2017 6—8pm 621 W. Lombard Street at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
For more information and to register visit www.BaltimoreCollegetown.org Loyola University Md. (and all Baltimore-area) graduate students are invited for drinks, apps, games, and networking. Tickets are just $10.
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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) www.loyola.edu/womenscenter -- womenscenter@loyola.edu 410-617-5844 43
Loyola Writing Center Peer Tutoring for Grad Students
Focus on the Graduate Writing Process Our tutors will help you improve your knowledge of the graduate writing process. We focus on promoting critical thinking and writing through non-directive dialogue that centers on your work and ideas. Online Tutoring We provide synchronous online appointments through Loyola’s distance learning platform to accommodate grad students who can’t always get to campus. Details are available on our website.
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Writing Center Mission Students from all degree programs can collaborate with peer tutors at any point in the writing process. Face-to-face and online appointments are available.
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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Word of the Week
indefatigable – tireless. He was indefatigable on the basketball court.
August 28 Monday
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August 29 Tuesday
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“All things are ready, if our minds be so.� - King Henry V
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Word of the Week
precedence – priority. The critical patient took precedence over others with minor injuries.
September 4 Monday
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verbatim – word for word. She knew the Declaration of Independence verbatim.
September 11 Monday
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September 12 Tuesday
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September 13 Wednesday
Course withdrawal period begins for Fall semester First Education 8-week session begins Late registration for Fall Education 8-week sessions through 9/1 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Community Service Fair, McGuire Hall. Hosted by the Center for Community Service and Justice (Evergreen Campus)
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“Happiness can’t be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute
September 14 Thursday
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exasperate – irritate. Fred exasperates his mother with his pranks.
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September 20 Wednesday
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“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” - Vincent van Gogh
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lucrative – profitable. Starting your own business can be very lucrative.
September 25 Monday
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“Laugh and grow strong.� - St. Ignatius of Loyola
September 28 Thursday
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intrinsic – belonging naturally; inherent. The intrinsic value of the trophy is small, but the award will always be cherished.
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prototype – a preliminary model. The company sent a prototype of its product for us to study.
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“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
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vertigo – dizziness. The pilot was experiencing spells of vertigo, so he took a leave of absence.
October 23 Monday
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“Explore, Dream, Discover.� - Mark Twain
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ludicrous – laughable; foolish. Calling her a chef is ludicrous, as she can’t even boil water!
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malcontent – dissatisfied person. His grouchy behavior gave him the reputation of being a malcontent.
November 6 Monday
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impecunious – having no money. The bank surprised the community when it granted a loan to the impecunious charity.
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“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.� - Jim Rohn
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obliterate – destroy completely. The earthquake obliterated several communities.
November 20 Monday
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November 21 Tuesday
Thanksgiving break begins after last class
November 22 Wednesday
Thanksgiving Break (No classes through 11/26)
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“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola
November 23 Thursday
Thanksgiving Did you know? With “Smart Printing,” you can send documents from your device for pickup at many campus locations. Just send your document to mobileprint@ loyola.edu or mobileprintcolor@loyola. edu. Search “smart printing” on Loyola’s website for more info. Did you know? You have free access to Lynda.com, a fantastic online training site for technology as well as everyday skills such as public speaking. Questions? Contact training@loyola.edu or log in with your Loyola credentials at Lynda. com Thanksgiving Break (University closed through 11/26)
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tenacious – holding fast; persistent. I struggled to break his tenacious grip.
November 27 Monday
Classes resume Last day to withdraw from Second Education 8-week session with a grade of W
November 28 Tuesday
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November 29
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.�
November 30 Thursday
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erode – wear away. The dripping water eroded the limestone.
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December 5 Tuesday
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December 6
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“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” - Henry Ford
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December 8 Friday
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retentive – having the ability to remember facts easily. He did not have to study much as he had a retentive mind.
December 11 Monday
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December 12 Tuesday
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December 13
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.�
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quandary – difficult situation. The decision to complete the course or quit put me in a quandary.
December 18 Monday
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December 19 Tuesday
Exams and close of Fall semester
December 20 Wednesday
Exams and close of Fall semester
-cogn- (know) – recognize, cognizant, incognito, cognoscenti, precognition 94
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“Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.� - St. Ignatius of Loyola
December 21 Thursday
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December 22 Friday
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gratuity – monetary tip. Many waitresses rely more on gratuities than salary for their livelihood.
December 25 Monday
Christmas Christmas break (University closed) through January 1.
December 26 Tuesday
Kwanzaa begins Christmas break (University closed) through January 1.
December 27 Wednesday
Christmas break (University closed) through January 1.
-altus- (high) – altitude, altimeter, exaltation, alto, altocumulus, altostratus 96
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
December 28 Thursday
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Christmas break (University closed) through January 1.
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broach – bring up. He did not want to broach the subject with her because he knew she would object.
January 1 Monday
New Year’s Day Christmas break (University closed) through January 1.
January 2 Tuesday
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January 4
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” - Norman Vincent Peale
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gauche – crude; unsophisticated. His talking while he chews his food is quite gauche.
January 8 Monday
Web and mail-in registration ends for spring education 8-week sessions and Executive MBA 5-week and 10-week sessions
Tuesday
January 9
January 10 Wednesday
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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” - Babe Ruth
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morose – ill-humored; sullen. Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s more morose and depressed characters.
January 15 Monday
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January 16 Tuesday
Applications due for May 2018 graduation Late registration for Spring semester through 1/22 Spring semester begins
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January 17
eu- (good, well, beautiful) – eulogize, euphemism, euthanize, euphoric, eucalyptus, eupeptic, eudemon 102
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“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
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surly – rude; cross. Because of his surly attitude, many people avoided him.
January 22 Monday
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January 23 Tuesday
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January 24 Wednesday
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Quote of the Week
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot
January 25 Thursday
Did you know? With “Smart Printing,” you can send documents from your device for pickup at many campus locations. Just send your document to mobileprint@loyola.edu or mobileprintcolor@loyola.edu. Search “smart printing” on Loyola’s website for more info. Did you know? You have free access to Lynda.com, a fantastic online training site for technology as well as everyday skills such as public speaking. Questions? Contact training@loyola. edu or log in with your Loyola credentials at Lynda.com
January 26 Friday
Did you know? You can request library materials for pickup at any of the three Loyola campuses (and return them there, too!)
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January 27
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January 28
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Word of the Week
wily – cunning; artful. He is as wily as a fox in avoiding work.
Monday
January 29
January 30 Tuesday
Loyola University introduces our friends at Lyft — on demand ride sharing in the Baltimore metro area. All you need is a smart phone and you’re off to a friendly and affordable ride. Visit Lyft.com, use LOYOLA as a promo code and get $10 off your first ride.
Wednesday
January 31
-it-, -itiner- (to go, journey) – exit, transit, transition, itinerary, itinerate 106
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Quote of the Week
Thursday
February 1
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt
February 2 Friday
Groundhog Day Last day to withdraw from Executive MBA 5-week session with a grade of W
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February 3
SUN
February 4
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utopia – ideally perfect place. Shangri-La was the name of the author’s utopia.
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February 5
Tuesday
February 6
Wednesday
February 7
ex-, exo- (out of) – expel, exit, exhale, express, expulsion, exodus, exorbitant, exoskeleton 108
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Quote of the Week
Thursday
February 8
“Motivation and bathing don’t last long. That’s why we recommend them daily.”
Friday
February 9
February 10 SAT
Executive MBA 5-week session ends
SUN
February 11
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flaccid – flabby. His lack of exercise left him with flaccid muscles.
February 12 Monday
Lincoln’s Birthday
Tuesday
February 13
February 14 Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Valentine’s Day
-exter-, -extra- (beyond, outside) – external, exterior, extraordinary, extracurricular, extrapolate 110
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Quote of the Week
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” - Albert Einstein
Thursday
February 15
February 16 Friday
Chinese New Year Last day to withdraw from First Education 8-week session with a grade of W
SAT
February 17
SUN
February 18
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Word of the Week
mandate – command. The people issued a mandate for healthcare reform.
February 19 Monday
Presidents’ Day Did you know? You have 24 hour access to many areas at the Timonium Graduate Center, including the student resource center, labs, vending machines, and rest rooms.
Tuesday
February 20
Wednesday
February 21
-tend-, -tent-, -tens- (to stretch, strain) – extend, intend, contend, pretend, tender, extent, pretentious, tension, pretense 112
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February 22
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein
Thursday
Washington’s Birthday Did you know? With “Smart Printing,” you can send documents from your device for pickup at many campus locations. Just send your document to mobileprint@loyola.edu or mobileprintcolor@loyola.edu. Search “smart printing” on Loyola’s website for more info. Did you know? You have free access to Lynda.com, a fantastic online training site for technology as well as everyday skills such as public speaking. Questions? Contact training@loyola. edu or log in with your Loyola credentials at Lynda.com
February 23 Friday
Did you know? You can request library materials for pickup at any of the three Loyola campuses (and return them there, too!)
February 24 SAT
Executive MBA 10-week session begins
February 25 SUN
Apply to be a presenter at the annual Emerging Scholars Celebration of Graduate Research occurring this April. The friendly and celebratory event will also afford you some presentation experience. www.loyola.edu/ emergingscholars
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Word of the Week
resilient – able to recover from shock or change. Steel is very resilient and therefore is used in the making of springs.
Monday
February 26
Tuesday
February 27
Wednesday
February 28
-fac-, -fec- (to make, to do) – factory, manufacture, facsimile, affect, confection 114
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Quote of the Week
Thursday
March 1
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” - Napoleon Hill
Friday
March 2
SAT
March 3
March 4 SUN
Apply to be a presenter at the annual Emerging Scholars Celebration of Graduate Research occurring this April. The friendly and celebratory event will also afford you some presentation experience. www.loyola.edu/ emergingscholars
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Word of the Week
curmudgeon – ill-tempered individual. Scrooge changed from a curmudgeon to a generous person.
March 5 Monday
Spring Break through 3/11/18
March 6 Tuesday
Spring Break through 3/11/18
March 7 Wednesday
Did you know? Modest funding assistance is available to students presenting at, or even just attending conferences: www. loyola.edu/educationforlife Spring Break through 3/11/18
-fall-, -fals- (to deceive) – fallacy, fallacious, infallible, falsify 116
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Quote of the Week
March 8
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.�
Thursday
Spring Break through 3/11/18
March 9 Friday
First Education 8-week session ends Spring Break through 3/11/18
March 10 SAT
Spring Break through 3/11/18
March 11 SUN
Daylight-Saving Time begins Apply to be a presenter at the annual Emerging Scholars Celebration of Graduate Research occurring this April. The friendly and celebratory event will also afford you some presentation experience. www.loyola.edu/ emergingscholars Spring Break through 3/11/18
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Word of the Week
cortege – procession. The cortege followed the hearse slowly down the road.
March 12 Monday
Classes resume Second Education 8-week session begins
March 13 Tuesday
Did you know? Loyola has several “Zipcars” on its Baltimore campus. You can become a member of ZipCar for $15 by using your Loyola email address. www.zipcar.com/universities/loyolauniversity-maryland Loyola University introduces our friends at Lyft — on demand ride sharing in the Baltimore metro area. All you need is a smart phone and you’re off to a friendly and affordable ride. Visit Lyft.com, use LOYOLA as a promo code and get $10 off your first ride.
Wednesday
March 14
-gen-, -gener- (origin, race, species) – genus, gender, genesis, genetics, genealogy, genre, generic, generate 118
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Quote of the Week
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react.” - John Maxwell
Thursday
March 15
Friday
March 16
March 17 SAT
St. Patrick’s Day
SUN
March 18
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Word of the Week
hapless – unfortunate. This hapless creature had never known any pleasure.
March 19 Monday
Did you know? Loyola students have access to Microsoft Office 365 through houndmail.loyola.edu
March 20 Tuesday
First Day of Spring
Wednesday
March 21
-geo- (earth) – geography, geothermal, geology, geophysics, geometry, geosynchronous 120
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Quote of the Week
March 22
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.� - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday
Did you know? You have free access to Lynda.com, a fantastic online training site for technology as well as everyday skills such as public speaking. Questions? Contact training@loyola. edu or log in with your Loyola credentials at Lynda.com
March 23 Friday
Did you know? You can request library materials for pickup at any of the three Loyola campuses (and return them there, too!) Maryland Day Celebration
SAT
March 24
March 25 SUN
Palm Sunday
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Word of the Week
olfactory – concerning the sense of smell. The nose is the olfactory organ.
March 26 Monday
Did you know? You have 24 hour access to many areas at the Timonium Graduate Center, including the student resource center, labs, vending machines, and rest rooms.
Tuesday
March 27
Wednesday
March 28
-serv- (save, serve) – servant, service, subservient, servitude, preserve, conserve, reservation, conservation 122
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Quote of the Week
March 29
“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thursday
Did you know? With “Smart Printing,” you can send documents from your device for pickup at many campus locations. Just send your document to mobileprint@loyola.edu or mobileprintcolor@loyola.edu. Search “smart printing” on Loyola’s website for more info. Easter Break (No classes) through 4/1
March 30 Friday
Good Friday Passover begins at sundown Easter Break (No classes) through 4/1 Offices closed
March 31 SAT
Easter Break (No classes) through 4/1 Offices closed
April 1 SUN
April Fools’ Day Easter Easter Break (No classes) through 4/1 Offices closed
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Word of the Week
trajectory – path taken by a projectile. The trajectory of her three-point shot was right on target.
April 2 Monday
Classes resume Offices closed
Tuesday
April 3
Wednesday
April 4
-greg- (flock, herd) – gregarious, congregation, segregate, aggregate 124
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Thursday
April 5
“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” - Benjamin Franklin
Friday
April 6
SAT
April 7
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April 8
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Word of the Week
satiate – satisfy fully. It’s hard for him to satiate his appetite.
Monday
April 9
Tuesday
April 10
Wednesday
April 11
-gyro- (turn) – gyration, gyroscope, gyre, gyrate, gyromagnetic, gyrocompass 126
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Quote of the Week
April 12
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” - Vince Lombardi
Thursday
Web and Mail-in Registration begins for Summer 2018 sessions
April 13 Friday
Did you know? You can request library materials for pickup at any of the three Loyola campuses (and return them there, too!) Last day to withdraw from Second Education 8-week session with a grade of W
SAT
April 14
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April 15
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Word of the Week
blatant – noisily offensive. His blatant remarks to his co-workers created a scene in the lobby.
April 16 Monday
Course withdrawal period ends for Spring semester; last day to withdraw from a course with a grade of W Don’t miss the annual Emerging Scholars Celebration of Graduate Research this month. Experience dozens of presentations / poster sessions, and an enjoyable reception. www.loyola.edu/ emergingscholars (Loyola Notre Dame Library)
Tuesday
April 17
Wednesday
April 18
-helio- (sun) – heliotrope, heliocentric, heliograph, perihelion, aphelion 128
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April 19
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his
Thursday
Did you know? You have free access to Lynda.com, a fantastic online training site for technology as well as everyday skills such as public speaking. Questions? Contact training@loyola. edu or log in with your Loyola credentials at Lynda.com
April 20 Friday
Last day to withdraw from Executive MBA 10-week session with a grade of W
SAT
April 21
April 22 SUN
Earth Day
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Word of the Week
gamut – entire range. Her emotions, after watching the movie, covered the gamut.
April 23 Monday
Did you know? You have 24 hour access to many areas at the Timonium Graduate Center, including the student resource center, labs, vending machines, and rest rooms. Did you know? Loyola students have access to Microsoft Office 365 through houndmail.loyola.edu
April 24 Tuesday
Loyola University introduces our friends at Lyft — on demand ride sharing in the Baltimore metro area. All you need is a smart phone and you’re off to a friendly and affordable ride. Visit Lyft.com, use LOYOLA as a promo code and get $10 off your first ride.
Wednesday
April 25
-ist (one who, that which) – humorist, specialist, optimist, artist, dentist, flautist 130
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April 26
“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou
Thursday
Did you know? With “Smart Printing,” you can send documents from your device for pickup at many campus locations. Just send your document to mobileprint@loyola.edu or mobileprintcolor@loyola.edu. Search “smart printing” on Loyola’s website for more info.
Friday
April 27
SAT
April 28
April 29 SUN
Did you know? Loyola has several “Zipcars” on its Baltimore campus. You can become a member of ZipCar for $15 by using your Loyola email address. www.zipcar.com/universities/loyolauniversity-maryland
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Word of the Week
subservient – serve in an inferior position. He was too proud to be subservient to anyone.
Monday
April 30
May 1 Tuesday
Exams and close of Spring semester
May 2 Wednesday
Exams and close of Spring semester
hyper- (over) – hyperactive, hypercritical, hyperventilate, hyperbole, hyperacidity, hypertension 132
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Thursday
May 3
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
Friday
May 4
May 5 SAT
Cinco de Mayo Executive MBA 10-week session ends
SUN
May 6
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infer – deduce; conclude. We must be careful not to infer that a person is guilty unless we know all the facts.
May 7 Monday
Exams and close of Spring semester
Tuesday
May 8
Wednesday
May 9
-cit-, -citat- (to call out, to rouse) – incite, excite, cite, recitation 134
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Quote of the Week
May 10
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” - Benjamin Franklin
Thursday
Exams and close of Spring semester Second Education 8-week session ends
Friday
May 11
SAT
May 12
May 13 SUN
Mother’s Day
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fallible – liable to err or make mistakes. She knows she is fallible, but she thinks this time she is right.
Monday
May 14
May 15 Tuesday
Ramadan begins at sundown
Wednesday
May 16
-stru-, -struct- (to build) – construe, structure, construct, instruct, obstruct, destruction 136
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Quote of the Week
May 17
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls
Thursday
Did you know? You have free access to Lynda.com, a fantastic online training site for technology as well as everyday skills such as public speaking. Questions? Contact training@loyola. edu or log in with your Loyola credentials at Lynda.com
May 18 Friday
1:30 PM - Baccalaureate Mass: Reitz Arena
May 19 SAT
11:00 AM - Commencement: Royal Farms Arena
SUN
May 20
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Word of the Week
pessimism – gloominess. There is no reason for her pessimism; her life is good.
May 21 Monday
Did you know? You have 24 hour access to many areas at the Timonium Graduate Center, including the student resource center, labs, vending machines, and rest rooms.
Tuesday
May 22
Wednesday
May 23
-corp- (body) – corporate, incorporate, corporeal, corpse, corporation, corpulent, corpuscle, corporal punishment 138
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Thursday
May 24
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” - Latin Proverb
Friday
May 25
SAT
May 26
SUN
May 27
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Word of the Week
iota – very small quantity. He didn’t have an iota of common sense.
May 28 Monday
Memorial Day (Observed) Did you know? Loyola students have access to Microsoft Office 365 through houndmail.loyola.edu
Tuesday
May 29
Wednesday
May 30
-cred- (to believe) – creed, credo, credence, credulity, credentials, incredible, incredulous 140
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May 31
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”
Thursday
Did you know? With “Smart Printing,” you can send documents from your device for pickup at many campus locations. Just send your document to mobileprint@loyola.edu or mobileprintcolor@loyola.edu. Search “smart printing” on Loyola’s website for more info.
Friday
June 1
SAT
June 2
SUN
June 3
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Word of the Week
acclimate – to become accustomed to one’s environment. It took time to acclimate to her new home.
Monday
June 4
June 5 Tuesday
Loyola University introduces our friends at Lyft — on demand ride sharing in the Baltimore metro area. All you need is a smart phone and you’re off to a friendly and affordable ride. Visit Lyft.com, use LOYOLA as a promo code and get $10 off your first ride.
Wednesday
June 6
-quir-, -quer- (to ask, seek) – inquiry, inquisition, exquisite, query, conquer, question, quest 142
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Quote of the Week
Thursday
June 7
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” - Roger Staubach
Friday
June 8
June 9 SAT
Laylat al-Qadr begins at sundown
SUN
June 10
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