Vision & Values

OF JESUIT EDUCATION

• Assists in the total formation of each student
• Includes a religious dimension that permeates the entire education
• Respects Roman Catholic faith particularly, and other religions generally
• Promotes individual care and concern for each student
• Emphasizes active learning on the part of each student
• Encourages lifelong openness to growth
• Affirms that this created world is good
• Encourages a realistic knowledge, love and acceptance of self
• Provides a realistic knowledge of the world in which we live
• Proposes Christ as the model of human life
• Celebrates faith in personal and community prayer, worship and service
• Serves the faith that does justice, with a particular concern for the poor
• Seeks to form “Men for Others"
• Is an apostolic instrument, in service of the church as it serves human society
• Prepares students for active participation in the church and the local community
• Values the pursuit of excellence
• Employs various means and methods to achieve its purpose most effectively
• Assists in the professional training and on-going formation of faculty and staff
• Depends on a spirit of community among:
  • faculty, staff, and administrators
  • the Jesuit community
  • governing board
  • parents and students
  • alumni
  • benefactors