Center for Ignatian Service

Transform a City While the City Transforms Your Education

Saint Louis University’s Center for Ignatian Service (CIS) offers students a cross-disciplinary consideration of who we are, what we do, and how we do it as we learn to work together toward the integral human development for all.

The Center for Ignatian Service (CIS) directs a service-learning program that runs a networked educational pathway for grades 1-8 at under-resourced schools to help end the cycle of poverty in St. Louis. The center manages all the logistics for running the pathway including scheduling, student-background clearances, service-learning onboarding and related training, service attendance and transportation to and from service sites.

Ignatian Service Courses (SERV)

Ignatian Service Courses (SERV) in Ignatian Spirituality, Leadership, and Vocation (the three required courses of the Ignatian Service Minor) provide service-learning courses that enable students to help deliver the networked educational pathway. All SERV courses and electives/contract courses include at least 25 hours of service for an average of two hours per week over 12 weeks at CIS-approved service sites within the network of service sites. SERV courses and electives provide a pathway through SLU’s core curriculum.