As CATHOLIC

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As CATHOLIC LASALLIAN COLLEGE or UNIVERSITY?
What do you say and do
that is common to all LASALLIAN COLLEGES and
UNIVERSITIES?
that is distinctive of all LASALLIAN COLLEGES
and UNIVERSITIES?
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Personal Introductory comments

• Personal Introductory Comments
• Thank You
• Secretary for Jesuit Hi Ed and
• General Congregation 35
• Learn from you
• A Conversation

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21st CENTURY CHALLENGES
Agenda topics 1, 2, 3 only

• Identity and Mission
• Service to the Church and to society
• Focus of/on Research, Teaching Curriculum
• Governance, Collegiality
• Fiscal Reality Accessibility
• GLOBAL NETWORK Si, No

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as CATHOLIC
Topic 1

• Foundation - scripture, etc
• Elements - Catholic intellectual teaching, etc
• Integrating Principle/s - faith, justice, etc
• Point of View - common good, etc
• Pedagogy solidarity and content, etc

• CONTEXT for IDENTITY AND MISSION
• Complex reality not a quantitative list
• Multiple pieces
• Culture as Distinctive
• Distinctive learning communities universal and
  particular

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IDENTITY AND MISSIONas CATHOLIC
Topic 1 Background not in the power point
presentation

• Foundation Scripture, Tradition and Human
  Wisdom
• Elements Catholic intellectual social
  teaching, Historical writings etc, with Ex Corde
  Ecclesiae as a summary and not an all inclusive
  statement
• Integrating Principle/s Jesuit Service of
  faith with the promotion of justice in dialogue
  with cultures and religions LASALLIAN Faith
  in the presence of God, Respect for all cf. slide
  entitled LASALLIAN CORE PRINCIPLES
• Point of view common good to individualism,
  theology and humane as the context OR economic
  markets as the context, stance in the world?
• Engagement Pedagogy of experience and concept
  ministry define and focuses

Context for

• Who are you? With whom do you serve? What do you
  do? And For whom?
• Complex reality that can not be reduced a list,
  statistic, or orthodoxy test by the right or
  left.. cf Benedict at Catholic University of
  America
• Integration of multiple pieces of a university,
  some are necessary but not individually
  sufficient.
• Creation of a culture and not (def)
  numbers/quantifiable
• Distinctive different from secular private or
  public institutions -- way of putting the pieces
  together and way of doing things that impacts
  learning.
• Integral education learning and doing to
  transform the world.

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1
The purpose of Lasallian education is to develop
the potential of a student's mind, heart and
spirit. Addressing these three areas empowers
students to live a fully human life with personal
integrity used in service of their communities
and society.
How does this make a difference in research,
teaching and curriculum (academic and
co-curriculum).. Is this common to all? How
does this make a Lasallian education disticntive?

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1
The purpose of the Institute of the Brothers of
the Christian Schools is to give a human and
Christian education to the young, especially the
poor, according to the ministry which the
Catholic Church has entrusted to it.
Is this different from prior slide? How?
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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1

• COMMON EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPALS
• Faith in the Presence of God
• Respect for all Persons
• Concern for the Poor and Social Justice
• Inclusive Community
• Quality Education

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1

• COMMON EDUCATIONAL FOCUS
• Rights of Children
• Educational Renewal
• Proclamation of Faith
• Lasallian Presence in
• Multi-Religious Societies

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1 Background not in the power point
presentation
THE PURPOSE OF A LASALLIAN SCHOOL. United, these
three factors spiritual growth, intellectual
development, and social skills -- empower
students to live full, human lives in service of
themselves and the world at large.. The
Lasallian education model develops the potential
of a student's mind, heart and spirit. Addressing
these three areas empowers students to live a
fully human life with personal integrity used in
service of their communities and society.
Lasallian schools are Catholic schools, and are
places where teachers accept all young people,
whatever their race, culture, economic situation,
or spiritual beliefs. These schools strive to
help young people develop themselves in accord
with their personal gifts and talents, whatever
they are. The Lasallian Education Fund (for
Social Equality) (LEF) stems from the vision of
Saint John Baptist de La Salle, who saw education
as a way to break the vicious cycle of poverty
and the means of personal liberation. De La
Salle's prescient vision shapes LEF and the
Lasallian educational network. For over 300
years, students around the world have been
educated in Lasallian schools organized with
caring, dependable teachers who balance the
basics with social skills such as personal
responsibility, leadership and cooperation, as
well as spirituality, faith and service to
others.
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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1 Background not in the power point
presentation

• The purpose of the Institute of the Brothers of
  the Christian Schools is to give a human and
  Christian education to the young, especially the
  poor, according to the ministry which the
  Catholic Church has entrusted to it.
• 2. CYCLE OF POVERTY Through education a child
  can escape the vicious cycles of poverty,
  ignorance and exclusion. The Lasallian
  Education Fund believes that every young
  personregardless of race, gender, economics or
  religious beliefshas a right to an education.
  For when you teach a person to read, to think,
  and to respect others, you free them from the
  constraints of poverty, oppression and
  hopelessness.
• 3. In every village, town and city around the
  world you'll find people struggling to reach
  their full human potential. Whether they are
  victims of poverty, ignorance or exclusion, they
  have been denied their right to an education.
  They are in need of resources and initiatives
  that will give them the opportunity to fulfill
  their intellectual, creative and spiritual
  promise. Equal access to education is our best
  hope. With a safe environment to learn and the
  right encouragement, people of all ages can grow
  to resist the destruction of the human spirit and
  become whole in spite of difficult circumstances.
  

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as LASALLIAN
Topic 1 Background not in the power point
presentation

• 4. Facts about children
• Alarming numbers of children are victims of
  poverty in both economically developed and
  underdeveloped countries. One out of every five
  children in some of the richest countries of the
  world is categorized as poor.
• In economically developed countries, 25 of
  children are deprived of their right to study.
  Poor families frequently permit only one child to
  go to school, nearly always a male child. The
  quality of education is often very low.
• One billion persons today are illiterate
  two-thirds are female and one-sixth are children.
• In Lasallian schools, reading, writing and
  arithmetic are as important as faith, respect and
  tolerance. Only when the mind, heart and spirit
  are in harmony are students prepared to take
  their place in the world.
• Many children suffer when the slow rate of
  economic growth drags down wages, particularly
  when they are from single-parent families. These
  single parents, usually women, are often young
  and possess limited work skills. Government
  assistance is rarely sufficient or efficacious.
• While poverty affects people of all ethnic
  groups, it strikes primarily those of the
  so-called "minority" groups, including immigrants
  and refugees. They are often victims of blatant
  racism and xenophobia. Y
• Your donation is a ground-level investment in
  social justice for some of the most Disadvantaged
  people in the world. ALL STATISTICS FROM
  UNICEF, 1999.

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IDENTITY AND MISSION as CATHOLIC and JESUIT
Topic 1 Background Jesuit ONLY as a point of
comparison for identity and mission

• Intellectual Apostolate/ Learned Ministry
• People, Time and Place both Universal and Local
• New context at frontiers GC 35
• Faith and Justice - Cultures and Religions
• Whole person - Well-being of student and society
• Pedagogy of engagement

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Topic 2
SERVICE TO THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY

• students and community
• the Church intelligent citizens for the
  Church universal and local
• society intelligent moral citizens and sacred
  to the life of society
• research and learning
• ? Knowledge for serious
• contemporary issues
• ? and attend to ethical and
• religious dimensions

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Topics 2-3 Background not in the power point
presentation
SERVICE TO THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY

• Educators, not social centers, parishes, retreat
  houses, not and also different from high
  schools
• Church does it best learning and thinking.
• Doing for example, ministry to youth in a
  technology driven world or youth who are poor
  affects the definition of identity and mission.
• Service as college, by faculty, students and
  staff, by graduate
• Ex Corde Eccelesiae is a summary, not the
  totality of defining identity, mission nor is it
  comprehensive in determining curricular content
  it does identify service as a rationale/purpose
  for research and teaching.

Educating leaders informed by the wisdom of
Catholic theological tradition."
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SERVICE through RESEARCH and TEACHING
Topic 2 to 3

• Research and Teaching as integral and essential
  to being a college / university
• Service as university to the Church and society
  local, national and global
• New Context universal and local

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Topic 3 RESEARCH and LEARNINGfor a GLOBALIZING
WORLD
New Context for Education GLOBALIZING WORLD
NB Will cover only 3 of these topics
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FISCAL REALITIES POVERTY
Point of View Political Economy
2.50 a day.
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ECOLOGY, SUSTAINABILITY and ECO-JUSTICE

• Fossil fuel and climate
• Deforestation and climate change
• Depletion of natural resources
• Air and Water pollution
• Biomass energy for cooking
• versus
• Alternative Energy sources
• ? Solar and Wind and Nuclear

Statistics from globalissues.org
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THEOLOGY, SCIENCE and CULTURE
? Academic excellence enhanced and engaged
Enhanced a justice of faith in culture and
dialogue
Engaged by a pedagogy of well-educate
solidarity and content theology, science, all
academic areas.
? Humane / Christian Anthropology that every
person is sacred and social New atheism,
intelligent design as anti evolution or as
anti religion or science, religious
fundamentalism, greed as virtue, etc undermine
the dignity of each person and good common as
well as a humane and Christian anthropology.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God and
There lives the dearest freshness deep down in
things God (the Spirit) at work in all of
creation.
? Global education more just, humane, and
sustainable world for ALL
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Thank You