战略三个
多元化和包容性
培养更多 包容的社会 for the diverse students we so proudly welcome, through implementation of the 战略计划 追求包容性卓越. We will proclaim our values in the ways that we treat each other with dignity and empathy. We will improve the diversity of our faculty, work harder to retain that diversity and ensure equity. We will also foster a community where we can disagree with each other, and learn to debate issues with respect and humility.
- Continue to build on our strength of serving students with disabilities, using wrap-around services to help them flourish.
- 达到的状态 Hispanic Serving Institution, unlocking federal support for our diverse student body. 要到达那里, we will intensify our recruitment and welcome Hispanic students − the one growing demographic of young people and a major force in the American Catholic church.
- 继续我们的工作 结束留任差距 based on race and class with particular outreach efforts.
Develop a More Engaging Campus
重建 百老汇的校园 in ways that include residential living, particularly for law students, and event spaces.
- 构建 学生宿舍 envisioned in the campus master plan to meet more of the demand for campus housing and to create a more exciting community. Work to include in this project the deferred maintenance of other 学生宿舍s.
- Make the front corner of our campus magical. Redesign the Communications Building with color, 创造力, and a public-facing stage at our front door.
Make Manifest Our Strengths in Courage and Creativity in the Academic Enterprise
优先考虑相关性 in faculty research and service by valuing societal impact in faculty hiring and promotion.
- 特别是, we focus on the “apostolic preferences” of the Jesuit order, including care for the dispossessed and the environment.
- 振兴 第一年的经验 to overtly reflect our strengths in courage and 创造力 and design the new 1项 以创造性的方式.
- Expand Environmental Studies as an interdisciplinary major across the undergraduate colleges with a more specific focus on climate change. A commitment to creation is primary to our faith and a focus of the Jesuit Order. This signature program will both reflect our values and attract students from a generation that correctly identifies these issues as primary.