Leadership Program
ACE Leadership Program
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.
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
In the summer of 2008, the ACE Leadership Program will host its first annual ACE Leadership Conference, showcasing the action research of the first candidates for the Master of Arts degree. More information
