Category: News
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Formation of the University Community
Fr. Joel E. Tabora, S.J. July 10, 2015 Address delivered at the 2015 Melbourne Conference on Jesuit Higher Education Melbourne, Australia This afternoon I have the privilege to share with you some personal thoughts on the formation of the Jesuit university communities towards social justice based on my experience as current President of the Ateneo…
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AJCU-AP Commitments to the Melbourne Summit of Jesuit Higher Education
1 The AJCU-AP will contribute to the Global Jesuit Case Studies Series. Case studies, evolving from stories are business-oriented but not confined to business, and which can feature Asia Pacific contexts. One of these would be business within the ASEAN+3 context. The objective is to develop emerging leaders by providing transformational learning experiences using unique…
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AJCU-AP Status Report
1) The AJCU-AP will contribute to the Global Jesuit Case Studies Series (http:// www.gjcs.org). Case studies, evolving from stories are business-oriented but not confined to business, and which can feature Asia Pacific contexts. One of these would be business within the ASEAN+3 context. The objective of this initiative is to develop emerging leaders by providing…
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Jesuit universities boost green initiatives
Jesuit schools in Asia Pacific are committed to growing green campuses in response to the Society’s growing ecological concern. As a group, the members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Asia Pacific (AJCU-AP) recognise the need to develop ways to reduce consumption of waste material and to find a means to recycle…
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A Teacher’s Journey to Animo Teaching in Myanmar by Riza Racho, PhD
DAY 1 Leaving home, stepping away from my comfort zone, doing without the comfortable and familiar is a step towards reclaiming my lost passion. I am so glad I am one of those who will work at St. Aloysius Gonzaga English Language Institute (SAG ELI). Can I deliver? Will my fear of the unknown make…
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Service Learning Program 2014: Engaging the Frontiers by Victoria Melissa C Pulido
Inspired by the 40th Year Anniversary of Fr Pedro Arrupe’s Historic Address on Jesuit Education apostolate entitled “Man for Others”, AJCU-AP Service Learning Program 2014 is themed as, “Jesuit Education in the Frontiers of Greater Societal Engagement”. The Program is aimed at: (1) Provide opportunity for interaction to Service Learning Communities to facilitate understanding of…
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Our Shared Educational Mission in the Light of the Common Good by Fr. Patrick Riordan SJ
Is it unrealistic to reflect on the common good where the reality of our lives is difference, diversity, polarisation, disagreement and conflict? I don’t have to recall the diversity of languages, cultures, nationalities, religious and other world-views with which we engage. I am particularly interested in conflict. These are the more serious problems arising from…
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Annual Meeting of AJCU-AP held in Davao, Philippines
“Every Jesuit academy of higher learning is called to live in a social reality… and to live for that social reality, to shed university intelligence upon it and to use university influence to transform it.”Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ The Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City, Southern Philippines, hosted the Annual Meeting of the Association…
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General Information on the 2014 AJCU-AP Meeting Ateneo de Davao University Davao City, Philippines. August 26-27, 2014
Dear Members of AJCU-AP: Christ’s Peace! On behalf of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Asia and the Pacific, I am pleased to invite you to our Annual Meeting which will be held in the Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines this 26-27 August 2014. Our meeting precedes the Association of Southeast…
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Fourth Sophia-Sogang Festival of Exchange (SOFEX) Held in Tokyo
SOFEX is Sophia Sogang Festival of Exchange, where there are sports, cultural and academic exchanges of students and faculties held every year between these two Jesuit Universities, Sophia(Japan) and Sogang(South Korea), since 2010.