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Notre Dame Awarded AmeriCorps Funding to Connect 500 Volunteer Tutors to Cognitive Science

The University of Notre Dame has received a $640,108 grant from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism. This funding, provided through the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF), is...

Elizabeth Watters Schwartze

A Generational Legacy of Catholic Education

“In a way, ACE has always been a part of me.” Elizabeth recounts warmly, “Both my parents worked in Catholic education for more than 40 years.” Born in San Francisco...

The Necessary Path: ACE in Haiti Since the Earthquake (Part One)

Since 2010, when a devastating earthquake hit Léogâne, Haiti, sixteen miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, ACE has sought to support and revitalize Haitian Catholic education through a number of...

February 9, 2015

The Necessary Path: ACE in Haiti Since the Earthquake (Part Two)

The second part in ACE's look back at its work in Haiti in remembrance of the 2010 earthquake the struck the nation. Check out Part 1 here. * * *...

February 9, 2015

Wait, Christian Went to Saskatchewan? In January? On Purpose? (2/3/2015)

Greetings from a snowbound Notre Dame! Hope you all are doing well and keeping warm. I just returned from a visit to RLP 13's Curtis Kleisinger - that's right, I...

February 2, 2015

A Higher-Level Vision in Hawaii

When it comes to Catholic education, Susan Hendricks values history. She values her own winding path to Catholic schools. One of seven children, she was raised in the Catholic faith...

February 1, 2015

Christian's Three Requests to Improve Catholic School Leadership (1/26/2015)

Dear Remick Leaders, Happy feast of Sts Timothy & Titus! I hope you all are well and enjoying a great start to Catholic Schools Week. Today's first reading contains one...

January 26, 2015

8 Summer Opportunities for Catholic School Teachers and Leaders

Warm, sunny days. Big, bright blue skies with puffs of white clouds floating in the distance. This is summer at the University of Notre Dame, a time far removed from...

January 15, 2015

New Year, New Semester, New Beginnings (1/5/2015)

Happy New Year! Welcome back from the holiday break! I hope you are all rested and excited to start the Spring semester. As we kick off the new year, we...

January 5, 2015

Lost Classroom, Lost Community

In an important new book, Notre Dame scholars Nicole Stelle Garnett and Margaret Brinig demonstrate that Catholic schools are profoundly important not only for the children who receive a proven...

June 19, 2014

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Notre Dame Awarded AmeriCorps Funding to Connect 500 Volunteer Tutors to Cognitive Science

A Generational Legacy of Catholic Education