Faculty & Staff Programs
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Below, you will find regularly occurring programing for SJU faculty and staff. Check out our upcoming programs page for opportunities to support each other in advancing the mission of Saint Joseph’s University. We offer many one-time reflection opportunities and events throughout the school year, specifically designed for SJU employees. Join our mailing list to stay informed!
If you are interested in having a more formative roll, please check out our committee page as well as share your feedback if you have ideas for programing.
Ignatian Classroom Discussion Guide
This guide for faculty is designed to help you integrate our Jesuit mission into classroom discussions. Whether you're familiar with Jesuit traditions or new to them, you'll find resources, questions, and materials to inspire meaningful conversations with your students.
Ignatian Leadership Program
The Ignatian-inspired Leadership Program at Saint Joseph’s University (ILP) was founded in 2005 to foster the use of long-standing Ignatian principles for use in the life of the SJU educational community. Ignatian leadership offers a unique style of emphasis on the values of self-awareness, discernment, continuous learning and concern for the common good. The ILP is currently offered to two groups, administrators and faculty, who meet monthly during the academic year. Both cohorts participate in facilitated learning, discussion and reflection, to expand their leadership capacity. Each group has a different overall focus based on their unique professional needs. While the administrative cohort learns how to lead and manage more effectively, the faculty group examines the leadership of teaching, research and scholarship from the Ignatian perspective, as it applies to an academic community.
If you are interested in nominating a member of the SJU community for this program, please contact Fr. Dan Joyce at officeofmission@sju.edu.
Ignatian Pedagogy Workshop
The 2024-25 Ignatian Pedagogy Workshop will take place June 25-27th in the 5th floor of McShan Hall at Saint Joseph’s University in the Willings Alley room.
Please check below for the location, schedule and any readings required prior to the workshop.
Agenda
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Location
We will begin in the Willings Alley room located on the fifth floor of McShain Hall at 9:30 am. A light breakfast and lunch will be served.
Pre-reading
Please read the following two articles prior to June 26th. Click the links below to access the articles.
- “The History of a Teacher” by Parker Palmer
- “Five Missions of the Jesuit Charism: Content and Method” by John O’Malley S.J.
- Read Section II only (Pages 8-33)
Schedule
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Opening
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Vocation and spirituality of the educator
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Prayer Exercises
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Spiritual Exercises shaping a Pedagogy / The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm -
Location
We will begin in the Willings Alley room located on the fifth floor of McShain Hall at 9:30 am. A light breakfast and lunch will be served.
Pre-reading
Please read the following two articles prior to June 27th. Click the links below to access the resources:
- “Living Tradition” document
- Father Sosa's video presentation of the document
Schedule
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Meditation on Incarnation
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Contextualized Education
10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Question storming and Socratic circles
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Models of Jesuit education
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Reacting to past exercise mini game -
Location
We will begin in the Willings Alley room located on the fifth floor of McShain Hall at 9:30 am. A light breakfast will be served.
Schedule
9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Application to My Context, cross sharing & final reflections
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch
Mission Service Leave Policy
We are proud to announce that SJU employees are eligible to participate voluntarily in University sponsored retreats/ reflections, community service experiences or approved mission-related service activities that occur during regularly scheduled workdays. Eligible staff and administrators can take a maximum of three working days per calendar year, or up to nine days in any rolling three-year period.