By MegAnne Liebsch “You can’t empathize with somebody else if you’re not looking at them in a human way,” says Mahmood Watkins. “You can’t empathize with people who’ve been incarcerated, or are incarcerated, if you’re not looking at them as human beings.” Empathy and encounter are guiding principles in Watkins’s classroom, which brings together students …
Jesuit-educated food industry professionals improvise to keep their businesses, and their employees and customers, safe and healthy
Midwest Jesuit Fr. John O’Malley taught his final history class at Georgetown University.
Jesuit schools in Chicago, Detroit, and South Dakota — and others across the Midwest — rose swiftly to meet COVID-19 challenges
This September, U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States. Midwest Jesuit institutions were featured prominently on the list.
Marquette University will soon have a new mural on campus celebrating diversity. Artist Mauricio Ramirez’s “Our Roots Say That We’re Sisters” was selected by the Marquette community after a vote.
By Fr. Dan McDonald, SJ On March 11, 2019, Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ, gave his permission and blessing to move forward with a pilot program recognizing administrators, faculty, and staff as partners dedicated to the Jesuit, Catholic educational mission in higher education at the USA Midwest Province universities. The initiative was the creative inspiration of …
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By Grace Rice Many orders of priests have a corresponding order of sisters. The Jesuits do not—although numerous orders of sisters were founded by Jesuits. While this may seem like a major contrast between the Jesuits and other orders such as the Dominicans and Franciscans, one might argue that it enables the Jesuits to have …
By Michael Austin It’s been 40 years since J. R. R. Tolkien scholar Mike Witt received the letter. Today the single page enjoys a place in one of the world’s largest collections of Tolkien materials, at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and late last year it appeared in Volume 16 of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly …
With web sites, email, social media, online accounts, and smartphones, we are surrounded by media. You may have 30 to 80 online accounts with passwords. Therefore, you should create an electronic estate plan. 1. WRITE A LIST OF YOUR E-ASSETS AND HOW TO ACCESS THEM. You have four major types of electronic assets. These are …