We look forward to seeing you the morning of Thursday, April 11th for Mission Day, a time to pause, reflect and re-energize for our shared educational mission!
Mission Day will feature renowned speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, who will help us recenter, reconnect and reclaim our sense of belonging as collaborators in building a more just and humane world.
How is Mission Day different this year?
Kimmerer reminds us:
“Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging – to family, to a people, and to a land. It marries the mundane and the sacred… the community creates ceremony and the ceremony creates communities.”
Choose a breakout session
RSVP to attend lunch
We look forward to welcoming you to Mission Day 2024!
Opening Remarks: Jen Tilghman-Havens, Executive Director, Center for Jesuit Education
Opening Prayer: Arturo Araujo, S.J. , Rector, Arrupe Jesuit Community
Introductory Remarks: President Eduardo Peñalver
Panelist Remarks:
Charles Tung, Professor of English and Special Assistant to the Provost
Paige Gardner, Assistant Professor, Student Development Administration
Angie Jenkins, Director, Learning Assistance Programs
Stacey Jones, Senior Instructor, Economics
Marrakech Maxwell, President, SGSU
Daniel Tamayo , President, GSC
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Heart of Jesuit Education.”
with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University sociologist and best-selling author of Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America and most recently, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America. With responses:
AyeNay Abye, Deputy Director, Center for Service & Community Engagement
Azrael Howell, President, SGSU, Alfie Scholar
Amber Larkin, President and Board Chair, Graduate Student Council, Strategic Planning Steering Committee Member
Joelle Pretty, EdD, Director of Student Academic Services
Christina Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor of English, Women and Gender Studies and Director, Indigenous People’s Institute
Program accessible with SU credentials: Mission Day 2019
Creating the Commons, Living the Tensions: Ignatian Tools for our Times, Consolations, Desolations and Hopes for moving forward as a Seattle University community.
Honoring our Past to Inform our Future: Seattle University's Mission at 125
The Promise and Challenge of Racial Justice
Global Engagement and the Nicaragua Initiative
The Call to Environmental Justice and Sustainability at a Jesuit University
The Jesuit Mission at the Frontiers: Past and Present
The Faiths that Do Justice: Seattle University’s Mission and Interfaith Dialogue
A Fire that Ignites Other Fires: Igniting Wonder, Pursuing Justice
Seattle University and Our Neighborhood
Empowering Leaders for a Just and Humane World: A Dialogue
Integrated Jesuit Education/Strategic Directions: Implementing the Strategic Plan-Six Initiatives
Jesuit Education in a Broken World
The Arts and Jesuit Education
Educating the Whole Person - the Spiritual Dimension
The Developing World and Seattle University - What does our experience of the developing world as of Seattle University?
Award of Honorary degree to Corazon Aquino
Seattle University Gathering IV: Implementing Education for Justice
Seattle University Gathering III: Developing a community that Models and Educates for Justice
Seattle University Gathering III: Deepening our Commitment to Education for Justice
First Annual Mission Day of Reflection on Our Mission
Seattle University Gathering II: Exploring our Commitment to Justice Education
Seattle University Gathering I: Enhancing our University Mission for Service and Justice