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The Ellacuría Initiative Office

The Beginning

In October of 2000, a delegation of µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø administrators, faculty and professional staff attended a conference on Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education at Santa Clara University.  At that conference, challenged all U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities to emphasize “the service of faith and the promotion of justice…in who our students become, in what our faculty does, and how our universities proceed.”

This meeting spawned a number of gatherings at the µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø, leading to the creation of a Task Force on Education for Justice to examine, publicize and promote campus initiatives, to research and propose new ones, and to propose a permanent structure to guarantee that such initiatives would continue to be effective.  The  made its recommendations at the end of the 2004/2005 academic year, and a Coordinator of Education for Justice was named in the fall of 2007.

After a decade under the Provost’s Office, Education for Justice moved to the Jesuit Center in 2016. We did so because of our shared commitment to working with faculty and staff to promote justice-related initiatives on campus. In 2017 Education for Justice was renamed The Ellacuría Initiative.

Today

The Ellacuría Initiative sponsors a range of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations at The µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø and in the µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø community. The Initiative's signature event is the annual Teach-In for Justice, a day-long series of lectures which showcase how faculty and community members are thinking about and working for justice in various ways, and which invite students to learn more about these efforts. The event draws over 500 audience members across the course of the day, and showcases ways The µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø is engaged in "the service of faith and the promotion of justice."
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