News and Events

Dr. Katy Lichon , Dr. Monica Kowalski , and Fr. Joe Corpora, CSC, will explore how Catholic pastors have reacted to the clergy sexual abuse scandal with the support of a $35,000 grant. The grant is one of 11 awarded as part of the University’s response to the abuse scandal. Lichon, the director of...

Dr. Pam Grossman, the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, visited the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, March 4, 2020, to deliver a talk entitled, "Exploring Core Practices in Teacher Education".

Don Shalvey, the Deputy Director of US Programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, visited campus on Friday, October 11, 2019 for "Building Bridges, Empowering Educators, and Naming That Tune: A Conversation with an Education Reform Warrior"

Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) founder Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., announced he will step down from his role as director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame and become director emeritus of the institute beginning in January. “During the more than...

A newly published, special issue of the Journal of Catholic Education sends a challenging message: The future of Latino enrollment in Catholic schools may be at a “critical juncture.” Notre Dame political scientist Luis Ricardo Fraga , a driving force behind the journal’s project, suggested this...

As more than 250 teachers and school leaders are missioned back to their Catholic schools after a busy summer on campus, a beloved leader of the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) community is transitioning to a new phase of her distinguished career. Dr. Joyce Johnstone will retire from her...

ACE was privileged to host Dr. Seán Delaney , an administrator and educator at the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin, during the winter of 2014 as he pursued further research at Notre Dame regarding K-12 education—and the education of Catholic school teachers—in dialogue with the Alliance for...

Joe Waddington, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate with the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) has been named a recipient of the annual Dissertation Award from the Catholic Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Waddington’s...