About Us
Connecting Campus + Community for a More Just and Equitable World CCSJ Aims: 1. Engage Loyola students, administrators, faculty and staff to serve, and work toward a more just and equitable world as we learn from one another. 2. Collaborate with partners on York Road and beyond, to secure human rights and establish an intimate connection between human and environmental flourishing. 3. Advance racial justice and anti-racism through programs, policies, culture, and operations, in collaboration with community and campus partners. 4. Advance integral ecology through programs, policies, culture, and operational excellence consistent with Laudato Si’, in collaboration with community and campus partners. 5. Form Ignatian servant leaders for an ever-changing world. 6. Animate Loyola’s mission through measuring, highlighting, and communicating our work internally and externally. • Anti-racism, as racism affects all other structures of inequity. • The dignity of all people and our common home by practicing love in action with our neighbors. • Local community power, wisdom and relationships. • Collaboration, education and connecting through relationships to promote positive collective social impact. • Dismantling systems of oppression, transparent and inclusive decision-making processes and the equitable distribution of power and resources. Commitment to Racial Justice: Inspired by our mission to connect campus and community for a more just and equitable world, Loyola's Center for Community, Service, and Justice (CCSJ) strives to become an anti-racist organization. We will pursue this commitment by investing in our capacity to think critically about the role race plays in our relationships, programs, and organization and we acknowledge that we will be personally and professionally challenged in this work. Please read our commitment statement which has been uploaded to this site. Additionally, please join us in utilizing CCSJ's social and racial justice databases on our website which is available to all: https://www.loyola.edu/department/ccsj/resources
