Dear SJEM Sponsored Institution Leaders,
Each year, SJEM sponsored institutions are asked to provide an annual report asking you and your community to reflect upon and provide evidence of both your Catholic identity and mission/charism being lived out on your campuses. As SJEM sponsored institutions committed to being Catholic ministries in the CSJ tradition, we are responsible to integrate Catholic identity and our charism of unifying love. Provided below, are eight aspects of the life of Catholic educational ministries in which integration should be continuously growing, practiced, and deepened.
Please ensure that submissions are in Word document format. The prompt for SJEM’s 2025 Annual Sponsorship Report is: Please choose four of the following areas for integration and explore how your SJEM sponsored institution goes about weaving both Catholic identity and CSJ charism into the fabric of your community and work. Each area of integration should have no longer than 2 paragraphs response. One paragraph should address Catholic identity and one paragraph should address the CSJ charism. Please submit related visuals/photos, as you have on hand.
Please invite 4 authors to contribute a response to one aspect for integration below. Authors should include one faculty member of a discipline unrelated to theology, religious studies, or pastoral care, one fourth year student (In the case of St. Joseph Hearing + Speech, please choose a community member of your preference, perhaps an alum or an administrator), the president of the educational ministry and a board member of the institution. For example, if your institution chooses Curricular Development and Integration as one of the four areas for response, maybe invite a science teacher to respond to a way in which you integrate Catholic identity and a way you integrate charism in 2 paragraphs. Each author should be identified by name and title for the submission and responds only to one of the four chosen on behalf of your ministry. (Please note: all report content, although not comprehensively, will be subject to use for SJEM purposes in our annual report to the Vatican and SJEM newsletters.)
- Curricular Development and Integration
- Hiring, Orientation, and Onboarding
- Ongoing Formation of Mission and Charism
- Space, Art, Environment, and Symbolism
- Inclusive Worship/Ritual and Reflection
- Engagement in Community and Celebrations
- Sponsorship and Ecclesial Relations
- Catholic Social Teaching in Action
Please refer to SJEM’s website on Catholic Identity and Charism as helpful resources for responses.
The 2025 deadline for submission is: May 15th