“Both lecturing and discussion-based classes work, just as a professor you have to find your own authentic way of teaching,” Serazio said. “But if either side is not bringing energy, focus, curiosity, and passion, that doesn't work. It has to be both.”

“Keep talking,” Landrigan said. “Keep impressing on the elders the importance of the issue. The fact that your generation is going to have to live with [climate change] for a lot longer than we do. And keep making the argument that climate change has to be taken seriously, especially in a Jesuit Catholic University.”

“Sustainability is going to be so important going forward,” Ryan said. “It doesn't matter what your career interest is, or, you know, your individual interests—It's going to apply to so many different disciplines, so I think it's important for students to view it as something they should be paying attention to and being proactive about.”

“How we evaluate our kids is really, really subjective at times, and we really don't know the right way forward—and [AI] is quite a disruption," Blanco said. "I think by definition, exams are not authentic assessments. In the sense that when you graduate and go to your jobs, you're not going to be taking an exam, right? You're going to have to demonstrate what you know, through your ability to produce things.”

“We also remind the students that they're moving into a community—a hard working community where people are,” Boyle said. "It's not college life. You know, it's not the Mods.”