| Explore Journal | Summer 2022 |
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Often our Center newsletters showcase our students’ transformation, whether that is reflections after immersions or through their service learning placements. While our students’ transformation always remains at the center of our work, our charge of transformation also extends to the whole SCU community and beyond. As such, we are excited to share and reflect on the work of our faculty who are so central to our mission as they explore what it means to live meaningful lives with and for others according to the University's mission.
During the Covid season, a group of faculty grappled with fundamental issues of human meaning, relationship, and suffering. This edition of explore (Summer 2022) collects reflections from their time together on a range of issues impacting Santa Clara's campus as well as higher education and a range of contemporary concerns. Ultimately, these essays cohere around questions of solidarity and community. As SCU History Professor Robert Senkewicz challenged readers in the inaugural issue of explore: “[I]t is the responsibility of the educated person to work for a more just and humane social order.” The call to all of us, especially in our day, is not to turn away from the broken places of our society and our communities, but to hear and respond in concrete ways within our own spheres of influence.
Please spend some time with our faculty members’ powerful essays in this explore journal. As you do, I invite you to reflect deeply on how together we might usher in a season of hope and healing - here, there, and everywhere!
Alison Benders
Executive Director, Ignatian Center
Vice President, Mission & Ministry |
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 | Exploring the Integration of Faith, Justice, and the Intellectual Life in Jesuit, Catholic Higher Education
As the first director of the Bannan Institute (now the Bannan Forum), Robert Senkewicz premised his original vision “on the notion that struggling with the question of our Catholic and Jesuit identity is one way in which we can become a better and more genuine university.” This issue of explore returns to and continues that vision.
Read the full issue of Explore |
 | by Aaron Willis
"I hope that this issue of explore sparks further conversations and reflections about what it means to be a Jesuit, Catholic institution that is committed to justice, inclusivity, and solidarity for all. For that is the ultimate measure of our success as a university community."
Read Aaron Willis' article |
 | by Hooria Jazaieri
"If we have the courage to be compassionate leaders, we have the opportunity to transform business, education, and society, and solve some of the most pressing problems of our time."
Read Hooria Jazaieri's article |
 | by Enrique S. Pumar
"Catholic Social Teaching promises an inviting approximation to resolve many dilemmas associated with collective action because it promotes unselfish and boundless solidarity."
Read Enrique S. Pumar's article |
 | by Matthew J. Gaudet
"It is time we had a serious conversation about what makes a coworker a colleague, and what makes a campus a community."
Read Matthew J. Gaudet's article |
 | by Qiuwen Li
"As the Jesuit university in Silicon Valley, how do we encourage solidarity rather than competition?"
Read Qiuwen Li's article |
 | by Graeme Warren
"The axiom of equality calls, in my opinion, for a democratic move in my teaching that recognizes my intellectual equality to my students, and requires me to create supporting learning environments and 'teach so that democracy may enter.'"
Read Graeme Warren's article |
 | by Janet Giddings
"Teaching is an art form. As we work to align Catholic theological ideas, especially authoritative ideas from the Church, we offer ancient ideas, the progression of those ideas, and how we will change."
Read Janet Giddings' article |
 | by Phillis R. Brown
"My confusion exists against the backdrop of fraught political, social, and health situations throughout the world, but more specifically relates to University decisions and communications."
Read Phillis R. Brown's article |
 | by Alison M. Benders
"I join with my colleagues in this collection because the faith grounding SCU offers a capacious and hopeful worldview to everyone, regardless of whether faculty, staff, and students take this path or another to find a sustaining hope in solidarity."
Read Alison M. Benders' article |
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