Centers and Institutes
SOE's centers and institutes build bridges — through interdisciplinary education and socially conscious research — that cross borders and connect the Bay Area to the rest of the world.
The McGrath Institute for Jesuit Catholic Education supports Catholic education around the world and promotes an engagement with the social reality and a broad vision of a hope-filled world.
The Center for Humanizing Education and Research (C-HER) promotes the generation, application, and diffusion of high quality, methodologically rigorous research that is conducted in solidarity with local and global communities to address pressing issues through humanizing frameworks.
C-HER Freedom Dreaming Mini Grant Recipients
Grant applicants described how they would participate in the cycle of theory and practice to engage in radical imagination, how they would work collectively to try new creative ways of being, healing, and doing, and how they would generate new knowledge and accountable practices through this process.
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