The JSEA The Jesuit Secondary Education Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C., oversees all 48 Jesuit high Schools throughout the United States.
Updated: 1/25/2007
Our Jesuit Identity
Profile of the Graduate at Graduation
In one sense, the graduate is a threshold
person: he or she is on the threshold of adulthood. The world of childhood has been left behind. The movement from childhood toward adulthood has involved physical, emotional and mental
development which has brought out strengths, abilities, and characteristics which adults and peers began to appreciate. The adolescent during those four or five years prior to graduation
began to realize that he or she could do some things well and some things very well. There have also been failures and disappointments. Even these, however, have helped the student to move
toward maturity.
For descriptors, we chose those qualities which seem most desirable not only for this threshold period, but those which seem most desirable for adult life. These six general categories
sum up the many areas of life most in accord with a full adult living of the Christ life. These characteristics are
All of the characteristics described are in dynamic interaction. The division into the six categories simply provides a helpful way to analyze and describe the graduate.
In one sense, the graduate is a threshold
person: he or she is on the threshold of adulthood. The world of childhood has been left behind. The movement from childhood toward adulthood has involved physical, emotional and mental
development which has brought out strengths, abilities, and characteristics which adults and peers began to appreciate. The adolescent during those four or five years prior to graduation
began to realize that he or she could do some things well and some things very well. There have also been failures and disappointments. Even these, however, have helped the student to move
toward maturity.
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