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Loyola University Maryland

Loyola University Maryland
Contact: Rev. Timothy Brown, S.J.
Phone: (410) 617-5524
Email: tbrown@loyola.edu

Mission Statement
Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.
Loyola’s mission is supported by its embrace of a set of core values long held by the University and its community: academic excellence, focus on the whole person, integrity and honesty, diversity, community, justice, service, leadership, discernment, and the constant challenge to improve.
Inspired by and nurtured through Loyola’s Jesuit history and identity, the University’s mission and values lie at the heart of every endeavor, including its current strategic plan, Grounded in Tradition, Educating for the Future. This document, which will guide the University’s programs and objectives through 2013, boldly asserts that Loyola will be the nation’s leading Catholic, comprehensive university. Designed to elevate every aspect of the institution, the plan encompasses initiatives in undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty development, community engagement, and athletics.

Structure
In its new strategic plan, Loyola highlighted the importance of a mission office to further our goals as a Catholic Jesuit institution.  Therefore, in the academic year 2009-2010 Fr. Tim Brown, S.J. was named Special Assistant to the President for Mission Integration.  Another Jesuit Sam Sawyer acted as Formation Assistant for the office and there was also a part time Program Assistant.  The Office of Mission Integration took over the Ignatian Retreats, and does a variety of programming for faculty, staff and administrators.  The office has an advisory board that met several times in its formative year.  Mission Over a Meal lunches were held throughout the spring semester where faculty, staff and administrators shared spiritual discussion over lunch.  Fr. Tim Brown led many departmental retreats and reflections for technology services, human resources, business and finance, and more.  The new office partnered with Alpha Sigma Nu, Staff Council, Student Development Diversity Reading Group, and more.  The first year was spent building relationships and structure for the new office.

Orientation Programs
The Shared Vision videos are used in new faculty orientation. There are also live presentations about Jesuit spirituality and educational ideals from the Special Assistant to the President for Mission Integration and other Jesuits at new faculty orientations, Alpha faculty orientations, new employee orientations, summer and fall freshman orientations (parents and students), and student life staff orientations.

Ongoing Educational Programs
Faculty participates in the campus interdisciplinary seminars hosted annually by the Program in Catholic Studies. The Dean's Symposium Series sponsors lectures and discussions on developments in Jesuit higher education. Undergraduates may participate in student-led faith-sharing groups called Koinonia groups; these typically meet in the residence halls. Campus Ministry is piloting a number of new retreats which are Ignatian in character; and the first- and second-year enrichment programs (Alpha, FE 100, Collegium, Sophomore Initiative) include training and discussion of the Ignatian Jesuit tradition, notably, the practice of the examen.

Posted 7/26/2010