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Neil Boothby —professor and director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) —recently joined the GC-DWC’s Communications Associate, Brooke Parker , for a conversation on creating pathways out of adversity for children living on the margins of society, with a specific...

Matthew Kloser , founding director of the Notre Dame Center for STEM Education and faculty for ACE Teaching Fellows, has been named Hackett Family Director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) effective October 1. Kloser succeeds Associate Professor of the Practice Christine...

Nicole McNeil has been appointed the inaugural Sweeney Family Director of the Institute for Educational Initiative’s new Center for Educational Research and Action (ERA), effective October 1. The new center, known as ERA, will be led by McNeil, who is the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)...

Ernest Morrell , the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers. Morrell—who is also the director of the Institute for...

Today, one out of every two Americans lives in a mental health workforce shortage area, according to the United States Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW). In many communities, the lack of providers means behavioral health, mental health and substance use-related needs go untreated. To meet Americans’...

The Telangana state government asked the University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child ( GC-DWC ) to develop curriculum focused on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Whole Child Development (WCD) for a new course being implemented in over 70 universities and...