Berkley Center

This chapter by Thomas Banchoff, published in The Jesuits and Globalization, tracks the evolution of the global and civic dimensions of Jesuit higher education through the three successive phases of globalization: the early modern, modern, and contemporary. It shows how both dimensions, present at the outset, have grown more intertwined as successive waves of globalization have made the world—and its economic, social and political problems—more interdependent. It concludes that deeper collaboration across the Jesuit network to promote the global common good, through teaching, research, and outreach, will succeed best when this is grounded in a distinctive educational philosophy and advances specific institutional interests.