Jesuit Education 21: Conference Proceedings on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education

Proceedings of the June 1999 conference of educators who gathered to discuss the future of Jesuit education. A keynote address about the mission for Jesuit higher education in the 21st century is followed by 15 sessions that discussed topics including the definition of Jesuit higher education; dialogue with culture; Jesuit-lay collaboration; what the scriptures say about justice; media and technology; the role of philosophy and theology; how Catholic is student everyday life; how humanistic is the Jesuit tradition; the role of scholarship, research, and publication; the function of administration, business and economics, humanities, and science; higher education and the student; Catholic identity vs. secularization; Jesuit higher education and the church, its odds of surviving in America, and its future in the international scene; developing a moral conscience; and spirtuality and campus life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)