Catholic and Jesuit Mission and Identity

...anchoring all our endeavors in the Jesuit tradition

Following up on a recommendation that grew out of deliberations during an academic long range planning process, in early 2001 then-President Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., created the position of University Facilitator for Catholic and Jesuit Mission and Identity.

In seeking to preserve and strengthen Fairfield's defining characteristics, the Facilitator will help raise to conscious awareness a mission which, for nearly 500 years, has sought:

 To integrate the intellectual and spiritual, and
 To instill awareness that academic achievement brings with it a responsibility to serve

In the Jesuit tradition, that desire is born of an academic rigor that includes embracing difference, incorporating the best of "the new," examining social systems critically, and becoming directly involved with those who are underprivileged and underserved.