Dear students, professors, faculty and employees,

this year sees us personally involved in the process of integrating the 3 Jesuit academic institutions in Rome: the Pontifical Biblical Institute, the Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Collegium Maximum-which has been erected as an internal articulation of the University-in which the Faculties, Institutes and Centers of the Gregorian as we have known it until now are framed.

In this process, the Quality Commission can perform an important service for integration at different levels of university life, from the point of view of norms and procedures to be integrated and unified, for example in plagiarism cases, faculty publications, faculty promotions, different services, etc.

In the Strategic Plan, made before the integration, priority No. 4 said that the University should “Strengthen the articulation and commitment of the shared educational mission in every area of the University through the process of Integration of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Oriental Institute in the Gregorian.” The implementation of integration will entail adjusting the Strategic Plan and reshaping it. Integration requires each of us to make personal and institutional contributions to create an even more efficient and well organized University, seizing the new opportunities that arise day by day to fulfill our mission of integral formation of students.
We are all called upon personally to offer our contribution for quality improvement in the integration process.

I thank everyone for their cooperation and greet you cordially,

P. Mark A. Lewis, SJ