"Every Jesuit academy of higher learning is called to live in a social reality and to live for that social reality, to shed university intelligence upon it and to use university influence to transform it."

- Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.

The Center for the Study of Justice in Society (CSJS) was established by the Office of the Provost in 2001 to promote interdisciplinary faculty scholarship on topics of social, economic and environmental justice and to support faculty who are leaders in identifying, exposing and documenting critical issues of justice in our local and global communities.   

The goal of the CSJS is also to mentor faculty in the creation and execution of meaningful resolutions to those issues, including community-based research and faculty partnerships with external change-makers in government, business, and civil society designed to impact positive change. 

The CSJS recognizes that our faculty justice scholars serve as role models for Seattle University students as they are themselves leaders for a just and humane world.