Ignatian Global Scholars Program

• Intercultural experience

Students will take part in a sustained experience where they form a relationship with an organization, group, or a set of people that allows them to interact with a culturally diverse group while sharing a common vision. This should help deepen their awareness of their place and responsibilities in our interconnected world. Examples: Educational travel experiences, virtual exchanges, transnational lived experience within one's own community or family, ongoing service, local affinity dialogues, work experiences that have cultural diversity or a mission that relates back to global issues.

• Co-Curricular Involvement

Students will have an ongoing, active involvement with a group that focuses on either the pursuit of a sustainable earth, a more humane world, or an increasing interconnectedness and understanding of perspectives or cultures other than their own. This may take the form of formal or informal leadership roles. Examples at MUHS: Ecology Homeroom, Model United Nations, Asian Culture Club, Orgullo Latino Homeroom, Brothers of Culture Homeroom, Campus Ministry.

• Students will continuously complete self-reflections to evaluate their work in becoming global citizens and to understand how this deepens their relationship with God. At the end of the program, they should complete a final reflection to review their time in the program and how it will inform their future interactions with others, God, and the world.

• Students will participate in an ongoing local relationship-building experience that correlates to the global citizenship goals as articulated in the “Ignatian Definition.” Examples: Community Garden, tutoring students, conversations with those on the margins. 

• Students will engage in an on-going, school-facilitated evaluation process with the program advisor to assess successes and develop opportunities moving forward.