Ministries: Research
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Access to Justice Institute – Immigrant Detainee Justice Project (Seattle, WA)
The Immigrant Detainee Justice Project is a partnership between the Access to Justice Institute (ATJI) at Seattle University School of Law, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) in Tacoma, and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University (NYU) School of Law. NWIRP is one of the largest legal services organizations in the country committed to promoting justice for low-income immigrants.
Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business (Washington, DC)
The mission of the Arrupe Program is to promote the pursuit of truly human values by business managers and executives and the people who run them. The program offers an eight-week seminar entitled Faith and Values at Work, to help the participants develop a faith-centered framework for thinking about themselves, the purpose of business, and the vocation of organizational leadership. The Arrupe Program has also developed a one-day workshop centered around these same themes for groups of Jesuit high school and university alumni, and a values-based course, The Foundations Seminar, for use with business management teams.
Center for Faith in Public Life (Fairfield, CT)
The center is a cross-disciplinary forum for students, scholars, policy makers and religious leaders, to converse and reflect on the many issues where religion intersects with civic life. The center houses the Jesuit Migration Network, the Jesuit Humanitarian Action Network and the Faith Meets Politics Series where politicians and students of various political background discuss issues in a non-argumentative format.
Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Worcester, MA)
The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture sponsors and supports programming that explores basic human questions of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation. Following the principle that faith and learning are partners in liberal education, the Center’s programs foster dialogue that respects differences, and provides a forum for intellectual exchange that is interreligious as well as interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international in scope. Most events are free and open to the public.
Center for Retirement Research (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| The Center provides decisionmakers in the public and private sectors with critical information to better understand the issues facing an aging population. The Center's research program spans the four main areas that affect a household's retirement income: 1) Social Security; 2) employer-sponsored pension plans; 3) household saving; and 4) labor market trends among older workers |
Center for Technical Cooperation (Washington, DC)
The Center for Technical Cooperation trains residents in strategic planning, data collection, analysis and management and to establish a community information management unit. A community-based organization, the Center aims to enhance the community’s ability to undertake strategic planning and research.
Center for Urban Research and Teaching (Washington, DC)
The Writing Program and the Center for Urban Research and Teaching jointly sponsor symposia focusing on Writing for and with the Community. These symposia address questions and possibilities that concern the faculty's intellectual work (both scholarly and pedagogical). Joined by community leaders active in developing university-community partnerships, the faculty participants explore ways of developing community-based research projects and ways of integrating community service within the academic work of their courses. There are follow-up meetings during the academic year to consider further scholarly and/or pedagogical projects developed during the symposia. Symposia topics include:
Center for Urban Research Learning (Chicago, IL)
The Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) of Loyola University Chicago seeks to promote equality and to improve people's lives in communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan region.
CURL pursues this goal by building and supporting collaborative research and education efforts. These partnerships connect Loyola faculty and students with community and nonprofit organizations, civic groups, and government agencies. Such collaborations link the skills and wisdom present within every community with the specialized knowledge and academic discipline of a vital urban university. Working together, community needs are addressed and the academic experience is enriched.
Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| To discover, communicate, and apply primary qualitative and quantitative multidisciplinary research on spritual life in an age of affluence, with a special focus on the biographical meaning and practice of wealth, financial security, fundraising, the intergenerational transfer of wealth, planned giving, donor advisement, and the Ignatian model of discernment. |
Current Projects:
| "Boston Metropolitan Area Wealth Transfer Study", "Wealth Transfer Estimates for African Americans", "Wealth Transfer on Track?" |
Corporate Accountability Project (Washington, DC)
The Corporate Accountability Project analyzes the impacts of business behavior on the ability of poor people to meet their basic needs - sustainable livelihoods, housing, food, and access to education, healthcare and credit.
Education for Justice (Washington, DC)
The Education for Justice Project promotes outreach and education throughout the U.S. on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and social justice issues. The Project provides resource materials, presentations, training and consultations to Catholic high schools and colleges, to diocesan offices and groups, to parishes, small faith communities, and to a variety of networks and organizations.
Environmental Studies Holy Cross (Worcester , MA)
The Environmental Studies Program at Holy Cross is a multidisciplinary, student-designed major and concentration run by the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies. The aim of Environmental Studies is to allow students to assemble a series of courses that bridges three or more disciplines and that provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental issues. Students are expected to study the causes, mechanisms and effects of environmental problems by investigating the relevant natural processes and the interplay between the environment and social, political and economic institutions.
Environmental Studies Program Gonzaga University (Spokane , AL)
The ENVS Program at Gonzaga connects a community of faculty and students who bring the diverse perspectives of a liberal arts education to bear on issues of human interaction with the natural world. Current studies include: an evaluation of American Legacy Foundation/Washington State Department of Health Media Literacy Pilot Study.
Environmental Studies Program, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Economics, culture, policy, society and science all play key roles in the impact modern society has on the Earth's natural systems. This program is designed to provide students with a fundamental knowledge of the structure and function of these systems, and develop awareness of paths toward global sustainability.
Environmental Studies, Seattle University (Seattle, WA)
Seattle University offers an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies that includes natural science, social science, and humanities and emphasizes social and environmental justice and fieldwork.
Environmental Studies, Wheeling Jesuit University (Wheeling , WV)
The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary program which addresses the needs of society to protect and enhance land, water and air resources. The curriculum was designed with the intention of training students in a broad spectrum of interrelated scientific and social fields.
Faith and Justice Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
The Institute explores contemporary issues of faith and justice through academic courses, public forums, and experiential field seminars. These initiatives seek to critically analyze the sources of and reasons for injustice and to actively fashion more just communities at local, national, and international levels.
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (Washington D.C., DC)
The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal is a scholarly publication that is dedicated to the advancement of legal knowledge in the field of immigration law. The Journal is published quarterly and is dedicated to exploring and critically analyzing international and domestic events as they shape the field of immigration law. Each issue features articles by scholars and legal practitioners, as well as a significant number of student notes and a section reviewing current developments in immigration.
Immigration Law Group (Newton, MA)
This student organization is appointed by the elected student government of the law school. They focus on researching immigration law.
Institute for Catholic Media (Milwaukee, WI)
ICM studies Catholic media at the national and international levels.
