Manresa for Faculty in the Center for Teaching and Learning provides seminars, programs, workshops, faculty learning communities and university faculty conferences in an effort to support Marquette's Catholic Jesuit mission.
The vocation journey of the teacher/scholar is a challenging one full of opportunities. Manresa provides resources on Jesuit education as well as other relevant topics, e.g. contemplative practices, reflection in the classroom, community based-learning, social justice education, etc.
Manresa (Man-ree-suh) is a town in Spain where St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits spent a year in prayer and discernment about his future direction and service.
Faculty guide students through serious discernment about their life choices, careers and vocations as they teach and advise. Manresa programs assist faculty in exploring their important role in the development of our students as "men and women for (and with) others."
Upcoming Events
Contemplative Practices in the Classroom to Improve Learning
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from noon-1:30 p.m. in Raynor, Suite A
Where is there a national initiative in higher education to include contemplative practices in classes from physics to history? What is contemplative “practice”? Why and how can regular use of contemplative practices in your classes improve student focus and learning?
This interactive workshop will explore contemplative practices as well as lead you through some classroom activities which might be adapted for you and your students.
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One Thing Led to Another
Thursday, February 16, 2012 from noon- 1:30 p.m. in Raynor, Suite A
(lunch and refreshments will be provided)
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 from noon-1:30 p.m. in Raynor, Suite C
(lunch and refreshments will be provided)
Join faculty and graduate students to hear the intriguing research journeys of Marquette faculty. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored programs and Manresa for Faculty in the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Faculty Seminar in Catholic Identity
The purpose of the Faculty Seminar in Catholic Identity, which has been offered each spring semester over the past seven years, is to introduce new faculty to Catholic intellectual traditions and commitments in higher education in order to enable them, via their research, teaching and advising, to carry on and strengthen these traditions and commitments.
Most new faculty, both Catholic and non-Catholic, have a limited understanding of Catholic higher education and how it differs from secular higher education, and they ordinarily have given little thought to how they might contribute to Catholic identity and mission.
The role of faith in an educational atmosphere often dominated by reason seems at first very foreign. However, as new faculty participate with colleagues and the instructors in discussions of the readings for this seminar they come to have a much better appreciation of the centuries-old Catholic commitment to the mutually reinforcing roles of faith and reason in Catholic higher education and how they can contribute to this tradition.
Contact Dr. Susan Mountin or 288-3693 for more information.
OTHER RESOURCES
Fr. Adolfo Nicholás, Father General of the Society of Jesus
