Three Notre Dame professors, Rev. Ronald Nuzzi, James Frabutt and Anthony Holter, have recently completed a national research study, Faith, Finances and the Future: The Notre Dame Study of U.S. Pastors, to be published by The University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press.

Three professors in Notre Dame’s Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) are the authors of a forthcoming book that presents a promising “new way to sustain and strengthen Catholic schools” through action research.

Mark Berends, Ph.D., Director of the National Center on School Choice, has joined the Institute for Educational Initiative as the new director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO).

The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives has awarded the 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Grant to Raymond Cummings, Jr. Mr. Cummings is pursuing his Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University.

The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns has awarded course development grants to four Fellows of the Institute for Eductaional Initiatives (IEI).

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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels recently appointed IEI Fellow Joyce Johnstone, Ph.D., to serve on the Indiana Professional Standards Board.

Four University of Notre Dame undergraduate students had the rare opportunity to conduct research side-by-side over the summer with the famous Irish nun Sister Cyril Mooney, known as “the Mother Teresa of education,” who has turned an elite Catholic school for girls in Kolkata, India, into an educat

The Center for Children and Families, part of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), will host a symposium Oct. 10-12, probing human nature as experienced and influenced in early life.