Welcoming The Ellacuría Initiative
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. Now, in 2017, Education for Justice has been renamed The Ellacuría Initiative.
Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., was rector of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in El Salvador. Fr. Ellacuría was a tireless advocate for justice in the midst of a brutal twelve-year civil war in his adopted country. He transformed the UCA into a model of Jesuit education praised throughout the world. He argued that the university’s purpose was “that of contributing to social change in the country. It does this in a university manner and with a Christian inspiration.” Fr. Ellacuría, five fellow Jesuits, and a woman and her daughter were brutally murdered by a U.S.-trained Salvadoran military battalion on November 16, 1989.
The work we do will not change. We will continue to work in three areas: our biennial theme (see below); issues of importance to Northeastern Pennsylvania (such as the Living Wage Report); and other justice-related programming that emerges because of opportunity or unfolding circumstances.
If you are interested in designing your own programs to explore how people of faith are called to engage with the most controversial political issues of our day, we would be happy to support you.
Contact me or any member of the Advisory Board.
Read The Ellacuría Initiative newsletter here.
Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., was rector of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in El Salvador. Fr. Ellacuría was a tireless advocate for justice in the midst of a brutal twelve-year civil war in his adopted country. He transformed the UCA into a model of Jesuit education praised throughout the world. He argued that the university’s purpose was “that of contributing to social change in the country. It does this in a university manner and with a Christian inspiration.” Fr. Ellacuría, five fellow Jesuits, and a woman and her daughter were brutally murdered by a U.S.-trained Salvadoran military battalion on November 16, 1989.
The work we do will not change. We will continue to work in three areas: our biennial theme (see below); issues of importance to Northeastern Pennsylvania (such as the Living Wage Report); and other justice-related programming that emerges because of opportunity or unfolding circumstances.
If you are interested in designing your own programs to explore how people of faith are called to engage with the most controversial political issues of our day, we would be happy to support you.
Contact me or any member of the Advisory Board.
Read The Ellacuría Initiative newsletter here.
