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• JST is offering supplemental assistance for students who are experiencing financial need as a result of developments related to COVID-19.  This is available for living expenses only.  Degree-program students who are enrolled at least half-time at a minimum of 4.5 units this semester, and who have already completed at least one full semester of study at JST, are eligible to apply.  Please see the full information and application form at JST Supplemental Assistance. The deadline to apply is Monday, October 5. If you have questions, please contact Paul Kircher, pkircher@scu.edu.
• Here's a great opportunity for JST/SCU students to participate with the SpeakOut Institute Youth Summit on Saturday, October 3rd. The Summit will be held online and feature a number of prominent speakers, including Angela Davis and several young activists.  (the wording was confusing.)

   

    To learn more:  https://www.flipsnack.com/BFCDE6EEFB5/speakout-youth-summit-program-2020-1j84j9przp.html
  
  The Office for Diversity and Inclusion will be covering the registration fees for up to 50 SCU students, including JST students, 35 and younger.
  
  If you are interested, please complete the following form via this link:  https://forms.gle/gDKW3diVh1FzTAhD7  by Monday, September 28th. You will then receive instructions for how to register so that you can be set for Saturday, October 3rd.
  
  For those that are interested, we do ask that in return, you participate in one debrief session with other SCU students following the Summit. You will be contacted about scheduling this session. If you have any questions, please contact Raymond Plaza at rplaza@scu.edu. 
• Students, faculty, and staff: the fall 2020 directory is in the works! If you need to make a change/correction to your information from the past, please contact Mary Beth Lamb, melamb@scu.edu. If you have never been in the directory before, please submit this survey. You can also upload a new photo if you don't want to use the one from your student ID, but it needs to be a headshot against a solid background.
• The 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge is a 21-day journey conducted online by the Ignatian Solidarity Network, with different opportunities to learn, pray, and act for racial equity.  It is designed to fit into one's daily life.  If you would like to make this journey in the company of others at JST, please contact Paul Kircher, pkircher@scu.edu, and we will put those with the same interest in touch with each other to form a JST group.

In the midst of a political environment that is highly polarized, faithful Catholics may find themselves in disagreement, and may even be inclined to disengage from politics altogether. However, Pope Francis reminds us that "Good Catholics meddle in politics... Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good."  Disagreements can serve as an invitation to humility and to deeper prayer, reflection, analysis and dialogue. To assist in this process, the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology has created an Ignatian Guide to Civic Engagement. 

This fall, the Ignatian Solidarity Network invites us  ". . . to exercise the right and responsibility to vote for candidates and issues that support the common good and concern for the most vulnerable people in our society." Please see more information at Voting Is an Act of Love, an ISN initiative to provide voter registration resources, in partnership with When We All Vote, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that is on a mission to increase participation in every election and close the race and age voting gap.