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The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program

The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program in the Alliance for Catholic Education

The ACE Leadership Program began in 2002 as an extension of the University of Notre Dame’s nationally recognized Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Program. Led by the Rev. Ronald J. Nuzzi, Ph.D. the program provides an intensive 26-month experience, encompassing the dispositions of becoming a professional administrator, fostering school community, and promoting spiritual formation. The ACE Leadership Program is responsive to the ongoing needs of Catholic schools across the country for qualified, faith-filled leaders to serve as principals.

Participants engage in three summers of coursework at Notre Dame and an administrative internship, after which they are eligible for administrative licensure. ACE Leadership participants are required to secure an administrative internship in a Catholic school under the supervision of a certified principal. This internship is a vehicle for calling forth qualified teachers and inviting them to consider service as a school leader. By the offer of an administrative internship, current Catholic school principals participate in the vocational discernment of potential leaders, and the internship provides a hands-on, practical setting where ACE Leadership participants can share in the administrative responsibilities of leading a Catholic school.

In 2008, the program was generously endowed by Mrs. Mary Ann Remick, of Rochester, Minnesota, and renamed the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program in the Alliance for Catholic Education.

ACE was founded in 1993 by the Rev. Timothy R. Scully, CSC and the Rev. Sean McGraw, CSC. Since its inception, ACE has enjoyed great success in developing a community of professional, highly motivated and committed teachers to serve in under-resourced Catholic schools. ACE teachers began a transformation of Catholic education that has provided the foundation for the ACE Leadership Program. The first cohort of the program (pictured with Fr. Nuzzi) began Summer 2002.

ACE Leadership Conference

On July 10, 2009, the ACE Leadership Program will host its second annual ACE Leadership Conference, showcasing the action research of the candidates for the Master of Arts degree. The Conference will be held in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on campus, from 9:00am – 12 noon. Gregory Sterling, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School, will provide the keynote at 10:30am. The Conference is free and open to all who are interested.