Jesuit Networking

Jesuit Networking is an international initiative to support the emergence of collaborative bottom­-up innovation for the universal Mission within the wider Jesuit apostolic body. Read more…

Boston College Jesuit Bibliography: The New Sommervogel Project

For the past two years, I have been an assistant editor for an innovative digital humanities project entitled Boston College Jesuit Bibliography: The New Sommervogel. The position has afforded me some interesting opportunities. Among the most exciting of them has

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Kasper Volk

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/boston-college-jesuit-bibliography-the-new-sommervog…

Educate Magis: Inspiring global connections among Jesuit Educators

Over the past few years the ambition and desire by many to work as a “universal body with a universal mission”, as recommended by General Congregation 35 have come to fruition and begun blossoming all over the Jesuit world. One

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Ciara Beuster

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/educate-magis-connecting-jesuit-educators-across-the…

Expanding Jesuit Higher Ed Network

This week is an important one for the Jesuit Higher Education Network. Within the next few days will be 4 consecutive meetings of Catholic Higher Education leaders in Melbourne, Australia at the Australian Catholic University:

July 6-7 General Assembly of the Association

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Dani Villanueva

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/expanding-the-jesuit-higher-education-network/

Laudato Si: Catholic Higher Ed Commits

There has been already 2 weeks since Laudato Si was published. In that 2 weeks, 100 colleges and universities from 21 nations have signed a declaration of commitment with Pope Francis on the ideals and vision of integral ecology laid out in the encyclical.

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Dani Villanueva

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/catholic-higher-ed-commits-with-laudato-si/

How 20th century Jesuit scientists activated a network

In 1902, Joaquim da Silva Tavares, Cândido de Azevedo Mendes and Carlos Zimmermann, naturalists and teachers of natural sciences at the Colégio de São Fiel, founded the first scientific journal of the Society of Jesus. As it was dedicated to

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Francisco Malta Romeiras

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/how-20th-century-jesuit-scientists-activated-a-netwo…

Is the Pope a maverick leader?

Most people would not expect the Catholic Church to have maverick leaders in its midst and certainly not at the top. Though perhaps at first sight somewhat unexpected, Pope Francis has in many respects the characteristics of a maverick leader. Will his

Author: 

Erik Vanleeuw

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Research

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/is-the-pope-a-maverick-leader/

“The Jesuit Way of Networking”

Networking is a buzzword. Just like innovation, creativity, ‘corporate DNA’, empowerment, and unfortunately leadership. The problem with buzzwords, especially those that rely on badly constructed metaphors as is the case of ‘corporate DNA’, is that everyone literally has an opinion

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Jose Bento da Silva

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/the-jesuit-way-of-networking/

We must not waste this opportunity: A plea for networking help

We have an extremely rare opportunity to encourage and help Jesuit and Catholic Higher Education globally respond to Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical with a timely commitment to address climate change, ecological destruction, and poverty in their educational programming, institutional structures,

Author: 

Jim Hug

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/we-must-not-waste-this-opportunity-a-plea-for-networ…

Networking for the Right to Education

2015 is a historic year as it marks the deadline for achieving the Education for All Goals and the Millennium Development Goals, which were agreed upon in 2000. From May 19th-22nd, international leaders will gather together at the World Education

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Erika Meyer

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/networking-for-the-right-to-education/

Can we mix spirituality and business?

From April 23rd-25th, business leaders from around the globe participated in the Spirituality & Creativity in Management World Congress in Barcelona. Organized by ESADE, this international conference gathered keynote speakers such as Peter Senge, Chris Lowney and Naomi Tutu, among

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Erika Meyer

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Collaboration

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http://jesuitnetworking.org/can-we-mix-spirituality-and-business/

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