"Establishing an Evaluative Mechanism for Cura Personalis" by Jarrod Stadnyk
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Abstract

Cura personalis is an important characteristic of Jesuit education. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. helped to focus attention on the importance of cura personalis in Jesuit education. However, rather than simply being individual care for the whole person, cura personalis is an illusive concept that is easier to recite than apply in practice. This article proposes an evaluative mechanism that can be used to gauge a person’s or organization’s depth in providing cura personalis for higher education students. The Higher Education Cura Personalis Reflection Chart within this article is a new mechanism that can help guide the process of determining what cura personalis specifically looks like in action in addition to evaluating how cura personalis is being practiced on university and college campuses. The Higher Education Cura Personalis Reflection Chart can be used in future case studies in order to help establish the use, and evaluate the impact, of cura personalis in Jesuit higher education apostolates. Having more depth to the understanding of cura personalis can help ensure the distinct characteristics of Jesuit education are purposely being animated on the campuses of Jesuit universities and colleges.

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