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CEIE at ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ

The Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement (CEIE) at ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ is rooted in a Jesuit, Catholic commitment to ecumenical and interreligious engagement, spiritual and indigenous pathways, and cultural wisdom. At CEIE, we Engage, Learn, Grow and Lead.

Where Difference Becomes Relationship

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Advancing ecumenical and interreligious engagement

Through dialogue, formation, and collaborative leadership, the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ helps people meet one another as persons whose dignity precedes every role, identity, or accomplishment.

Rooted in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition and open to the wisdom of diverse religious, spiritual, Indigenous, and cultural pathways, CEIE creates opportunities for honest dialogue, deeper learning, and common purpose. At CEIE, we Engage, Learn, Grow, and Lead. Join us!

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Cultivating a path of Ignatian discernment

Beginning with core purpose, growing in awareness, and unfolding into collective transformation, the CEIE Leadership Academy is rooted in the conviction that leadership arises from inner values and external impact. Explore year-round self-paced on-demand courses, our Discerning Leadership Summer Certificate, and our Seeking Religious Literacy offering. 

Our Engagement at CEIE

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Our Leadership

CEIE at ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ places a high value on leadership by integrating the student experience through our student affiliate program. We integrate trusted long-term contractors, staff and faculty fellows, SU alumni ambassadors, and an expansive advisory council. CEIE includes a Coordinator, Assistant Director, and our Executive Director-Spehar-Halligan Professor.

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Authored Scholarship

CEIE Scholarship unfolds as a journey of Ignatian discernment, a guiding Jesuit insight. The CEIE Scholarship program convenes scholars and practitioners across disciplines to engage with pressing moral and social challenges, inviting contributors to weigh diverse perspectives and emerge with leadership practices grounded in justice and adaptive response.

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Leadership Academy

The CEIE Leadership Academy draws upon the Ignatian principles of values discernment, personal action, and individual and collective transformation. When we cultivate a sense of core purpose, awareness and wisdom grow, as does our leadership in responsibility to ourselves, to our communities, to the spaces where we work, and to the places we call home.

Engage. Learn. Grow. Lead.

CEIE's June 2026 message

From Rev. Dr. Michael Reid Trice Founding Director, Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement, and Spehar-Halligan Endowed Professor

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100% of your Financial Gift supports core operations at CEIE. Your gift allows us to hire student employees, increase scholarships to worthy students, employ top-tier instructors and facilitators, and to create programming that supports the strategic objectives and initiatives that you value at CEIE.

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