Urban college campuses represent a critical nexus in cities where physical, natural, economic and social capital meet. Ideally, many urban colleges aim to establish and maintain mutually reinforcing relationships among these forms of capital to the ultimate benefit of the campus and the surrounding community. The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) represents 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States, and many of these campuses are located in urban settings, including Loyola University New Orleans, located in the 2018 host city for ESA. Jesuit institutions are not proselytizing; rather, they seek an understanding of many faiths and cultures. Additionally, these institutions all share a mission of social justice and service to others. We seek to understand how ecologists and ecology are helping to fulfill this mission at the various campuses. Consequently, our session will bring together ecologists from other AJCU schools to discuss best practices regarding the integration of ecology in the pedagogy, curriculum, and operations of their respective campuses. There is a Jesuit ideal called cura personalis, which means care of the whole person. We seek to include a broader understanding of this ideal to include all the living members of the campus, cura campus. After the meeting, we plan to showcase this session and the resulting lessons learned in an issue of Conversations magazine, which is a journal that goes to the entire faculty at every Jesuit college or university in the nation. A quantitative synthesis across US urban campuses will reveal best practices and areas for improvement in the application of ecology to campus planning goals.