Good Listen

Is there a common good in our common home? The Integral podcast tries to find out.

That’s a question explored in INTEGRAL, a new series of podcasts launched by SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. Each season highlights a different theme, with season one discussing how issues of racial and ethnic justice intersect with the concept of the common good.

Featuring Santa Clara scholars from a broad range of disciplines, episodes use faculty research to explore urgent ethical dilemmas—immigration and national identity, race and mass incarceration—and inspire listeners to act in the best interest of humanity. So far this season, Bill O’Neil, Cruz Medina, Hsin-I Cheng, Anthony Hazard, Brett Solomon, and Margaret Russell have all appeared on the podcast.

Give it a try at scu.edu/integral

First-Time Grads

Overcoming all odds due to the pandemic, the Class of ’24 finally get to experience the graduation that they have long been waiting for.

Brain Games

The therapeutic potential of AI-powered brain implants is no doubt exciting. But questions abound about the inevitable ethical ramifications of putting new, largely unregulated tech into human beings.

Sociology, Gen Ed, and Breaking the Rules

Fewer students are majoring in social sciences but they’re still one of the most popular areas of study. Santa Clara sociologists explain why.