ON THE COVER: Our students traveled to Belize to perform service with Loyola’s Ignacio Volunteers program. By giving back to the community, our students fulfilled the Jesuit ideal of international and global perspective.
Jesuit values are rooted in a religious tradition, yes. But they’re values of the world – of politics, business, entrepreneurship, innovation. And they’ll change the way you take action. Ignatius of Loyola started the Society of Jesus nearly 500 years ago. The principles that guided him then are still changing the game today.
SOME QUICK DEFINITIONS: Cura personalis – Latin for “care for the whole person” – mind, body, and spirit When Ignatius founded his first Jesuit school, it was based on this single concept. We’ve continued it for more than a century. Because it works.
Magis – Latin for “more” (which is kind of our thing) This is the idea that drives us toward excellence: the pursuit of magis, or more – always. Here, someone or something will always push you further.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (A.M.D.G.) – Latin for “For the greater glory of God” The things you do reach beyond yourself. Whether it’s God, nature, the world, or the community, this phrase reminds you that your actions are linked to something bigger than you.
Senior student EDWIN UNZALU talks with Fr. Gregory Waldrop, S.J., Ph.D., in the Danna Student Center.
Students experience New Orleans culture by listening to street music at the riverfront.
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These are the concepts that guided Ignatius as he developed the 500-year-old Jesuit values that continue to guide Loyola’s education: values that are used to create social change, to shatter old business models, to guide innovation, to transform your perspective, and to change the world.
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A transformative Jesuit education in Uptown New Orleans. There is no university, not even any other Jesuit university, that offers an experience like ours. Where we are is a huge part of who we are. In New Orleans, you learn to appreciate diversity of all kinds – backgrounds, ethnicities, opinions, beliefs. You explore a historic city that stirs deep spiritual traditions into a vibrant, internationally renowned, multicultural gumbo of music and art. You work in a thriving creative business community full of opportunities and powered by Jesuit ideals and traditions.
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JACOB DERUSHA applies his musical talent and industry skills to engage young people across the nation in their faith – through hip-hop.
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We’ve partnered with local startups, entrepreneurs, and businesses to create opportunities for experiential learning and service work all around our city. At Loyola, you’ll experience not just a Jesuit education but our Jesuit education, filled with personal and professional experience and bolstered by the opportunities within New Orleans.
Here’s a sample of the ideals and opportunities that set our Jesuit university apart: PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE This is an easy one. In everything we do, we strive to be the best. Our students and faculty get national recognition for their work. You’ll create original research, make a masterpiece, collaborate with the best in your field – and the world will notice. RESPECT FOR THE WORLD, ITS HISTORY AND MYSTERY A Jesuit institution stands for openhearted, open-minded respect – for the world, for other people, for other beliefs, and for all that came before. Truth, goodness, and hope are found across all backgrounds, cultures, and faiths. Students on our campus come from 11 countries, 42 states, and every ethnic and socioeconomic background imaginable. Whoever you are, you’ll find respect here. Celebrating one another is encouraged. LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE A Jesuit education is kind of like boot camp – you don’t just talk; you train. You practice for the real thing. Of our May 2016 graduates, 70 percent participated in at least one internship over the course of their undergraduate experience and 90 percent took advantage of at least one experiential learning opportunity. Our students work for NASA, the White House, HBO, Facebook – all while they’re still in school. By the time you’re looking for a job, you’ll have already had one. 85 percent of Loyola graduates are employed in their career fields or enrolled in advanced study within six months of graduation.
COMMITMENT TO SERVICE AND LINKING FAITH WITH JUSTICE Our students learn quickly that they don’t exist in a vacuum. That when others thrive, they thrive. They develop plans to address critical social problems in tangible ways. Our students volunteer abroad in countries like Belize and Jamaica, and they work locally with agencies like Head Start, Hope Lodge, Boys Hope Girls Hope, and Second Harvest Food Bank. Whatever issue you’re concerned about – hunger, poverty, racism, injustice, the environment – you’ll make a difference here. INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE For nearly 500 years, Jesuits have traveled the world, taking in its cultures, beliefs, and opinions, working to understand – truly understand – how these sociopolitical systems all fit together. This is important – to broaden who you are, to be truly fair and knowledgeable, your perspective must be globally informed. At Loyola, you become that person: a person of the world, a global citizen. You become engaged with ignored cultures and circumstances. You become fair, and you become a person who can keep others fair. You have the opportunity to participate in more than 50 study abroad programs, engaging in service that will change the way you shape the conflicts and issues the world faces on a global scale.
The Ignacio Volunteers program participants enjoyed a day with the local children at a music and sports clinic in Belize while also working hard together during classes.
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our volunteer work as ‘doing good for others’ or ‘helping others,’ but from an Ignacio Volunteer’s perspective, when we go to another place to serve, we learn from that community and we live with the community.
After immersing myself in the culture of Belize and living with the co-teachers and students, I realized the true meaning of solidarity. —KATHRYN O’LEARY ’17 Belize Summer Camp 2014 KATHRYN O’LEARY, senior program member, assisted students with their questions during lessons and celebrated with them after they learned their continents in a history class.
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I think that I truly learned how to serve with all my heart. I cannot think of a time where I wasn’t happy working at a site. Even though days were long and tiring, I felt that I was able to keep a smile on my face and pour the joy and excitement I had for being with the kids into their lives. I enjoyed learning about one another and seeing how hard all of us worked. Now I realize that there is
nothing that I can’t accomplish with the right mindset and good people supporting me. I have done things like this before, but this by far has been one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. —MYLINH BUI ’19 Jamaica Experience 2016
LACINEA MCBRIDE developed a federal work-study curriculum that advances her longtime goal of working to eradicate homelessness.
PATRICK KLENA bonds with a Jamaican friend.
These are just some of the ideals that have guided Jesuit institutions for nearly 500 years and continue to lead Loyola today.
These values produce men and women of all beliefs who are confident, intelligent, kind, fair, and – above all – complete.
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