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FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO MICHAEL J. GARANZINI, S.J.


Our world is a changing one.


As we look at the world that our present students will inherit, we know that they will live in communities and participate in workplaces that are increasingly a mix of cultures, races, creeds, and values. We can see that technology will offer more and more information, and perhaps less and less analysis. We can envision a furthering of environmental degradation and depletion of the planet’s resources. And we anticipate that growing financial and educational gaps between and among different constituents in our societies will lead to even more political and social strife and upheaval around our worlds.


Fundamentally, all education is about preparing PRESIDENT’S


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students for their own future. It is about helping them become critical thinkers who can absorb and create new knowledge. It is about giving them the skills to lead and serve in the world they’re going to inhabit—in a world that will need their leadership. When Jesuits started educating children 450 years ago in Messina, Sicily, it was at the request of the town’s merchant class. They wanted their sons to take over the management not only of their companies but of their city. So the Jesuits devised an educational program, which has been reformed and fine-tuned since that time, to prepare people to be not just merchants, or whatever their parents were, but to become ethical leaders with a passion for service in their communities. It is, of course, necessary to have the best training possible in one’s discipline or career area. But a Loyola education, rooted in Igna-


tian pedagogy, is based on the belief that learning is not limited to the disembodied mind but happens through the experience of the particular—places, faces, cultures, contexts, and problems—and through the movement of our hearts as well, the affective dimension of our lives. This is well-recognized here as an essential ingredient in a well-rounded, engaged education.


Father Garanzini spoke to the City Club of Chicago, a group of local community and business leaders, this fall.


We hear a lot about whether, in this economic climate,


a college degree is worth the financial investment required to gain it. Research shows time and again that the lifetime value of a college degree is well worth the cost. At Loyola, we see the fruits of our efforts in the lives of our graduates who go on to serve as women and men for others. For more on the value of a Loyola education, please see


page 8 in this magazine. Thank you for your continued interest in and support


of Loyola.


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