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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...

The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) has received a $1.7 million award from Porticus to support the implementation of a safe and inclusive schools initiative in Haiti, aiming to transform Catholic school communities to support Whole Child...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child’s (GC-DWC) Fernanda Soares has recently transitioned from a research staff position to an assistant research professor role. Soares is a researcher, evaluator, and technical advisor in the education and youth sectors with over 12 years of...