Shared Mission Program Event Is March 19

03/07/2025

SLU’s Division for Mission and Identity invites all faculty and staff to participate in the Shared Mission program on Wednesday, March 19, at 11:30 a.m. in the Pere Marquette Gallery.

The Shared Mission program offers an in-depth, community-based opportunity for faculty, staff, administrators and trustees of Saint Louis University. This foundational program opens the door for deeper participation in the wide variety of mission programs offered by SLU's Division for Mission and Identity.

The ongoing formation of SLU's community strengthens the Catholic Jesuit mission of the university, a mission steeped in over five centuries of history in the Ignatian tradition yet arguably more vital now than ever before.

Over the course of an academic year, six Ignatian luncheons bring together small group cohorts to meet, learn, discuss, and integrate the history, impact and lived reality of the Jesuit mission and Ignatian identity of Saint Louis University. Participants in the Shared Mission program come from diverse academic, professional and religious backgrounds.

All are welcome to participate as SLU seeks to form an Ignatian “band of companions” centered on mission as SLU seeks to build a community of belonging.  

The next Shared Mission lunch and conversation begins at 11:30 on Wednesday, March 19, in Pere Marquette Gallery. Session 5 focuses on Jesuit Higher Education. This session will focus on the global Jesuit mission and reflect on the following questions. 

• What does it mean to “care for the whole person”?
• How does Saint Louis University make education about more than information and academic progress?
• Why is it significant that Jesuit universities collaborate nationally and globally?

Lunch will be served. Email Patrick Cousins to reserve a spot.