LMU | LA - Loyola Marymount University

Fr. Stephen Hess, SJ, with experience in academic and administrative positions at four Jesuit Universities in the U.S., will dialog with participants about how changing student demographics bring about specific challenges to the purposes for which Jesuit colleges and universities were founded.  How we can approach this situation from an Ignatian perspective that is counter-cultural from what is occurring in higher education at large?

Fr. Hess currently works as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Education.  His areas of interest are:  social class issues in higher education, working class studies, college student peer culture, and mission and identity. He has worked as the Associate Vice-President for Student Life and Development, St. Peter’s College; Interim Vice-President for Mission, Gonzaga University; Dean of Student Development, Gonzaga University; Director of Residence Life and Housing, Seattle University; Director of Mikono Center, Jesuit Refugee Service East Africa;  Associate Pastor, St. Ignatius Parish, Portland, OR; and as Director of Campus Activities, Gonzaga University.