Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC

Contact Information

Rev. Timothy Richard Scully, CSC
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and
Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dame

Degrees

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science

M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science

M. Div., University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology

B. A., University of Notre Dame, Department of Economics

Honors/Awards

Crystal Apple Award, a Tribute to Outstanding Educators, made possible by D. Forrest-Pressley in memory of Michael Pressley, The College of Education, Michigan State University, October 26, 2007.

Samuel Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, and Nicolás Somma, “The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options.” Comparative Politics 40, 1 (October 2007). Winner of the “Federico Gil Prize” of the Chilean Political Science Association for the best paper presented in the field of Comparative Politics at its Eighth Annual Meeting held in Santiago, Nov. 15-17, 2006
Awards, cont.

Daniel A. Lord, S.J. Award , November 5, 2004, for distinguished service in the cause of youth, awarded by the Loyola Academy Community, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, Illinois.

Blessed Pauline Award, July, 2004, for dedication and leadership in education, awarded by the board of directors of Josephinum School, Chicago.

Educational research interests

Values and Higher Education, Spirituality and Education

Select Publications

“Cast Your Nets Deeper,” (coauthored with Lou DelFra, C.S.C.) in John Watzke, ed., Beyond Alternative Teacher Education: Integrating Community, Spirituality, and Leadership, Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2007.

“Epilogue: A Community of Educators,” (coauthored with Lou DelFra, C.S.C. and Sean McGraw, C.S.C.) in John Watzke, ed., Beyond Alternative Teacher Education: Integrating Teaching, Community, Spirituality and Leadership, Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2007.

“Building ACE: Improvising on Providence,” in Michael Pressley, ed., Teaching Service and Alternative Teacher Education, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, pp. 15-34.

“Come and You will See: Spirituality in ACE,” in Michael Pressley, ed., Teaching Service and Alternative Teacher Education, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, pp. 184-213.

Bio

Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C. is a professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and currently serves as director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, where he oversees the work of the Alliance for Catholic Education, the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, and other education-related programs. His research and graduate teaching focuses on comparative political institutions, especially political parties. He serves as a Fellow and Trustee of the University of Notre Dame. He has served as executive vice president of the University of Notre Dame from 2000 until 2003, where he had responsibility for the University’s budget, endowment, as well as business operations and human resources. From 1994 until 2000, he served the university as vice president and senior associate provost.

Fr. Scully serves as a member of the Trinity Foundation Board in Dublin and is a Fellow and Trustee of the University of Notre Dame, Australia. In 1979, Fr. Scully founded the Holy Cross Associates Program, an organization which has provided an opportunity for hundreds of young volunteers to serve the poor throughout the United States and Chile. In 1993, Fr. Scully founded the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), Notre Dame’s signature program which provides hundreds of Catholic school teachers to scores of underserved communities across the United States, as well as in Ireland and Chile. In 2006 he chaired the year long, national task force to study the future of Catholic education in the United States. Fr. Scully presented the final report, entitled: Making God Known Loved and Served, The Future of Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in the United States, to the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops in January of 2007, and is now in the midst of launching 12 new initiatives outlined in the report aimed at sustaining and strengthening Catholic schools nationally.