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About JesuitNET
This term, thousands of students in many of the 28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities have returned to class. But unlike their 195,000 fellow students at Jesuit schools, they are not going to classrooms. Rather, they are receiving instruction, discussing issues, asking questions, and completing assignments over the Internet--all largely at their own convenience and from practically anywhere. Some of these 350 online courses are being taken as electives for on-campus degrees; others are part of fifty entirely online degree and certificate programs. In either case, the students' goal remains the same: to receive the equivalent level of dynamic, quality learning that characterizes the best Jesuit on-campus lectures, seminars and laboratories.
The Jesuit Distance Education Network (JesuitNET) was created in 1999 as a collaborative effort of the U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities to develop, share and deliver a broad range of online academic programs and services for a national and eventually international audience. Educational quality is paramount in JesuitNET-supported curriculum design and development. Through its contracts and grants projects, JesuitNET actively supports incorporating academic rigor, personalized instruction, faculty support, service learning and ethical concerns into the design and structure of Jesuit courses and programs.
JesuitNET's founding and ongoing mission is to broker the vast intellectual resource of Jesuit online courses among the AJCU colleges and universities. While assisting these institutions in the design, production and marketing of their online offerings, each school retains full academic credentialing authority over and responsibility for their own courses and programs.
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