Photo Exhibit Highlighting Work of SLU's Jesuit Worldwide Learning Students Opens Thursday, February 5

ST. LOUIS - Unbound, a student photography exhibit featuring the work of Saint Louis University-Jesuit Worldwide Learning scholarship recipients living in Nigeria, Kenya, and Malawi, opens Thursday, Feb. 5. The SLU-JWL program allows marginalized students abroad to pursue a remote B.A. at SLU at no cost.

Unbound showcases life through the camera lenses of individual SLU-JWL students.

The Saint Louis University-Jesuit Worldwide Learning program offers bachelor's degrees to international students displaced by conflict, lack of opportunity, and poverty in places such as refugee camps in Nigeria, Kenya and Malawi.

Jesuit Worldwide Learning classes are offered through a community-based cohort. Each student begins their time at SLU with 30 credits already completed through either Creighton University or Xavier Institute of Management in India's one-year certificate program.

Once enrolled, they are full-time remote students with access to all forms of SLU support, including identification cards and online library resources.

SLU-JWL students take online courses in eight-week terms instead of a traditional 16-week semester. The classes are delivered asynchronously via Canvas, and students regularly communicate with program coordinators in St. Louis.

The SLU-JWL students will graduate with a B.A. in General Studies through the School for Professional Studies. The first cohort is on track to graduate in summer 2027.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, February 5
• Time: 5:30 -7 p.m., Presentation begins at 6 p.m.
• Location: Brouster Hall, 3840 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO 63108
• Cost: Free to attend. Guests may participate in a silent auction of student artwork. Proceeds from the auction and drink sales support the SLU-JWL scholarship fund.

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Jesuit Worldwide Learning

JWL provides equitable high-quality tertiary learning to people and communities at the margins of societies - be it through poverty, location, lack of opportunity, conflict or forced displacement - so all can contribute their knowledge and voices to a global community of learners and together foster hope to create a more peaceful and humane world.

Saint Louis University

Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious Catholic research institutions. Rooted in Jesuit values and its pioneering history as the first university west of the Mississippi River, SLU offers more than 15,300 students a rigorous, transformative education that challenges and prepares them to make the world a better place. As a nationally recognized leader in research and innovation, SLU is an R1 research university, advancing groundbreaking, life-changing discoveries that promote the greater good.