Abstract
“Déjà vu All Over Again”: Commentary on the Catholic Higher Education Collaborative Conference on Leadership at Loyola University Chicago
Highlights
“Déjà vu All Over Again”1: Commentary on the Catholic Higher Education Collaborative Conference on Leadership at Loyola University Chicago
In 1960, while I sat in my fifth grade classroom, was anyone thinking about the potential catastrophic events that would turn the Catholic Church and Catholic schooling into a proverbial tailspin for the 50 years? At that time the Benedictine Sisters provided all the educational leadership for my grade school with one exception: My fifth grade teacher, a married lay woman, had abandoned public school teaching to donate her time to the parish grade school
American Catholics were accepted as good citizens and became more financially secure outside their ethnic ghettos (Dolan, 2002; Gibson, 2003; O’Toole, 2008)
Summary
During the efforts to create a strategic plan for the NCEA, leadership preparation received attention and became a critical recommendation (NCEA, 2004) Into this environment arrived the University of Notre Dame report, Making God Known, Loved, and Served: The Future of Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in the United States (Notre Dame Task Force on Catholic Education, 2006). Following a conference in response to this recommendation, cohosted by the University of Norte Dame and the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in fall 2007, nine Catholic colleges and universities began a collaborative process to explore ways CIHE could increase effective support of pre-K-12 Catholic schools This new organization, Catholic Higher Education Collaborative (CHEC), committed to hosting a series of six conferences focused on forming partnerships to generate innovative responses to the critical nature of the current state in Catholic schooling. The fate of Catholic higher education and its distinctive mission is in jeopardy if Catholic schooling withers
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