New Editor Selected for Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The National Seminar for Jesuit Higher Education has announced that the new editor of Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education will be Fr. Ed Schmidt SJ of the Chicago-Detroit Jesuit province. Fr. Schmidt had extensive experience with the former Company magazine and was the former provincial of the Chicago Jesuit province. He begins immediately as the editor for the next issue of Conversations (issue #44), which will be published in August in conjunction with the Conference on Justice in Jesuit Higher Education to be held at Creighton University from August 1-3.

For more information, please contact Seminar Chair Rev. Patrick Howell, SJ: PATRICKH@seattleu.edu

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"Immersion experiences can open eyes, destroy prejudice, and change lives. I have watched countless students return from developing countries as changed persons, with renewed hearts eager to live as men or woman for others."

Rev. Stephen A. Privett, S.J., President of the University of San Francisco, commenting on the power of immersion experiences

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