Faculty Seminar
Faculty Seminar: All Things Ignatian Seminar: Healing the Earth & Healing Society
The Jesuit, Catholic heritage of Loyola University is an essential component of its mission in higher education. This faculty seminar aims to engage faculty more deeply with the university’s Ignatian heritage, both as a reference point and resource for integral ecology, and to invite faculty to reflect on the interplay of faith, reason, and climate action as it pertains to their teaching, scholarship, and involvement with the community here at Loyola and beyond. The seminar begins this fall with 12-15 faculty members meeting nine times over the semester. Hosted by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) and led by a series of faculty who have a shared commitment to Ignatian pedagogy and heritage, the seminar offers faculty participants a paid stipend of $2,000 for their attendance and contributions.
Session Dates (2025–2026)
Wednesdays 4–6PM
9/17, 10/1, 10/22, 11/19; 1/21, 2/11, 3/11, and 4/8
Structure of the Seminar
- This semester-long course for faculty meets for 9 two-hour meetings in the early evening. The seminar consists of 15 full-time faculty from across the university.
- Seminar sessions are led by faculty from the Hank Center, the Center for Ignatian Pedagogy, Jesuits and others who have shared commitments to orientating faculty in the Jesuit tradition and mission of the university.
- Enrolled faculty members are awarded an honorarium for full participation in the 9 units of the seminar.
- Short reflections on the readings or themes for each unit of the seminar are written, shared, and discussed through Sakai as part of the assessment of the seminar.
- At completion of the seminar, enrolled faculty are eligible for a summer research grant from CCIH that brings together ideas from the seminar with particular scholarship and research interests of faculty members.
Sample Syllabus from Spring 2020
Sample Syllabus from Spring 2020
Faculty Seminar
All Things Ignatian: Catholic Intellectual Life and the Common Good Spring, 2020
Hank Center Library (Cuneo Hall, 425)
Nine Wednesdays, 4-6PM
“So that the river of tradition may come down to us, we must continually dredge its bed.”
Henri de Lubac, S.J. (1945)
“What then does a university do, immersed in this reality? Transform it? Yes. Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate? Yes. Without this overall commitment, we would not be a university, and even less so would we be a Catholic university.”
Ignacio Ellacuría S.J. (1982)
The full copy of the Spring 2020 syllabus as an example can be found here: Faculty Seminar Syllabus.
Faculty Seminar: All Things Ignatian Seminar: Healing the Earth & Healing Society
The Jesuit, Catholic heritage of Loyola University is an essential component of its mission in higher education. This faculty seminar aims to engage faculty more deeply with the university’s Ignatian heritage, both as a reference point and resource for integral ecology, and to invite faculty to reflect on the interplay of faith, reason, and climate action as it pertains to their teaching, scholarship, and involvement with the community here at Loyola and beyond. The seminar begins this fall with 12-15 faculty members meeting nine times over the semester. Hosted by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) and led by a series of faculty who have a shared commitment to Ignatian pedagogy and heritage, the seminar offers faculty participants a paid stipend of $2,000 for their attendance and contributions.
Session Dates (2025–2026)
Wednesdays 4–6PM
9/17, 10/1, 10/22, 11/19; 1/21, 2/11, 3/11, and 4/8
Structure of the Seminar
- This semester-long course for faculty meets for 9 two-hour meetings in the early evening. The seminar consists of 15 full-time faculty from across the university.
- Seminar sessions are led by faculty from the Hank Center, the Center for Ignatian Pedagogy, Jesuits and others who have shared commitments to orientating faculty in the Jesuit tradition and mission of the university.
- Enrolled faculty members are awarded an honorarium for full participation in the 9 units of the seminar.
- Short reflections on the readings or themes for each unit of the seminar are written, shared, and discussed through Sakai as part of the assessment of the seminar.
- At completion of the seminar, enrolled faculty are eligible for a summer research grant from CCIH that brings together ideas from the seminar with particular scholarship and research interests of faculty members.