The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
The Ignatian Center exemplifies and activates the Jesuit, Catholic character of Santa Clara University.
We encourage our students, faculty, staff, and community to embrace Jesuit wisdom by inspiring awareness, thought, reflection, discernment, and action.
Mission in Action
Jesuit Heritage Week 2025
Join us in celebrating our Jesuit Heritage—a time to reflect on the many ways Santa Clara University lives out our Jesuit mission and values and our Catholic tradition.
Capeltic Coffee at SCU
Mission and Ministry and the Ignatian Center are delighted to bring our longtime Immersion partner — Capeltic Coffee, from Chiapas, Mexico — to SCU!
Mission Priority Examen
During the Fall 2025 quarter, the Santa Clara University community members are invited to community conversations to offer feedback to help set mission priorities.
Making an Impact - Here, There, and Everywhere
Stories of Impact and Reflection
Stereotypes, Strip Mines, and a Change of Heart
When SCU student participants on the spring break Immersion to Appalachia returned home, they carried more than memories with them. They carried a mission and a canvas.
Human Rights and Cultural Memory
For Mateo Coulson '28, the Summer 2025 Chile Immersion gave him so much more than just an opportunity to travel, learn about another part of the world, and practice his Spanish.
We are All Human, After All
For Simone Smith '28, the Summer 2025 Costa Rica Immersion opened her eyes to our shared humanity and helped her realize that no matter how different we may seem on the outside, we need each other. After all, we are all human.
Partnership Through Humility and Mutual Learning
At SCU, the idea of community shows up in real relationships, in classrooms, and in community spaces like Thriving Neighbors' Abriendo Puertas and Caminos Al Bienestar.
Conversation is always more than what we say In the latest issue of Ask an Expert, Fr. Bill O'Neill, S.J., Resident Scholar for the Ignatian Center and Markkula Center, shares about speaking with conviction while preserving the deepest conviction—love that never stops hoping for the future.
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