Category: Education & Higher Education

Discover the article ” The idea of the University in Pope Francis “

Prof. Dr. Jorge Baeza Correa, sociologist, currently a researcher at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Youth at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez Silva Henriquez (Santiago de Chile, Chile) and formerly Rector of this university, has written an article entitled “The idea of University in Pope Francis“, which has recently been published in…
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The Newman Framework featured in a newly-published book!

We are glad to share with you that the IFCU Newman Framework is featured in the book “Managing Social Responsibility in Universities: Organisational Responses to Sustainability”, edited by L. Tauginienė and R. Pučėtaitė (Palgrave MacMillan). The book explores the concept of university social responsibility drawing on a wide range of geographical perspectives and examines the…
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The Newman Framework: Testimony of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa

In 2017, the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), through its research center CIRAD, launched a flagship international project with a view to providing Catholic higher education institutions with a comprehensive framework on university social responsibility (USR) called the Newman Framework. Based on the latter, a whole Assessment system on social responsibility was designed for universities…
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