ā€œA retreat experience for staff to discuss the vocation of working at a universityā€

The mission of Boston College, as a Jesuit and Catholic university, includes the intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual formation of its students. What role does the faculty and staffā€”a group that includes people of different faith traditions as well as atheists and agnosticsā€”play in this formation?Ā  We might see ourselves as educators of the mind, but do we have a role in shaping the heart and the spirit as well?Ā  How do we understand and go about whole-person education, assuming weā€™re inclined to do so?

In his 2000 speech at Santa Clara, Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. said that the ā€œreal measure of our Jesuit universities lies in who our students become.ā€ Do we know what we want our students to become? What role do we play, as mentors and conversation partners, in their journeys? Join us on a seminar-like retreat where colleagues gather in a peaceful setting to discuss the vocation of working at a university.

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