SI in the News

History is contested because what we learn about the past often reflects who we are in the present and who we aspire to be in the future. SI's Ethnic Studies social science program embraces this tension. 

St. Ignatius College Preparatory's 163rd commencement exercises were held at the University of San Francisco War Memorial Gymnasium in a return to a more traditional graduation ceremony after two years disrupted by the pandemic, while the Fr. Sauer Academy held its fifth commencement exercises in the Carlin Commons, on SI's campus.

When SI's Religious Studies Department put together their summer reading assignment for the incoming Class of 2026, they turned to Thomas Fong ’23.

On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 the SI Alumni Board voted to award Justice Peter Siggins '73 the highest honor it bestows upon an alum of St. Ignatius College Preparatory, the Christ the King Award.

SI Jesuits are now the official chaplains for the San Francisco Fire Department. SI President Edward A. Reese, S.J. and John Mitchell, S.J. ’58, the superior of SI's Jesuit community, had been offering chaplain services to the SFFD since the fall of 2020, but pandemic measures prevented them from having this formal ceremony, which finally happened on April 12.