A Jesuit university does more than provide intellectual opportunities, or preprofessional education in an array of fields. As the century closes, we have seen that our ways of living, working, and getting along have grown more complicated. The patterns of life in community are less connected. Public life and engagement with it becomes more tentative and more precarious.
American society becomes more diverse every day, and more homogenized at the same time.
The power of science gives us choices about our lives that we never faced before, from before conception to the moment of death. It is essential to our mission that we prepare our students to face these challenges as well.