Secularism, Justice, and Jesuit Higher Education — Are They All the Same?
by Martin R. Tripole SJ From the 63.1 2004 issue of Review For Religious Whether or not justice is present in Jesuit higher education seems recently to have become a matter of high priority. In 2000 every Jesuit college or university in the nation was pressed to send representatives to a special conference in Santa Clara, California, to examine the extent to which justice was being promoted in the policies and curricula of Jesuit institutions, with a view to implementing stronger justice agendas. More than three hundred delegates attended. In October 2002 a follow-up gathering was held in Chicago. Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education recently devoted its entire spring 2000 issue to social justice. (1) In July 2002 in Philadelphia, the fifth annual meeting of Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education focused on “The Paradox of Globalization and Economic Justice.” And an international conference on justice and globalization for leaders in Jesuit higher education was held in November 20
