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Marie Fazio | Thursday, October 26, 2017
For the last 25 years, Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) has sent almost 2,000 graduate students to teach in Catholic schools across the country. The program hosted ACE Night on Wednesday, an annual gathering of the current campus ACE interns and staff as well as former ACE teachers, to publicize the program and allow interested
Ashley Hovorka | Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Saint Mary’s senior Renee Reyes said the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) has provided her with an unprecedented opportunity to share her faith and pursue her passions by educating future generations of underprivileged children in Catholic schools across the country. ACE is a fellowship program which recruits and trains students like Reyes to teach in Catholic
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, March 7, 2017
During the spring of 2016, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies (PLS), made the 45-minute trip from South Bend to Westville, Indiana, every week to teach a course on opera history. Polzonettis’s class in Westville was unlike anything he taught at Notre Dame — the final destination on his trip was
Andrew Cameron | Thursday, February 2, 2017
In 1993, Fr. Sean McGraw, C.S.C. and Fr. Tim Scully, C.S.C. received $5,000 from the President of the University to found the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) with the goal of preserving and spreading access to quality Catholic education throughout the country. “The core mission of the program is to provide a ray of hope
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 5, 2016
If the definition of success is “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose,” then how do you—or is it even possible to—measure success without the existence tangible results? For my first few weeks in Chennai, India, I felt certain that my success rate with the students of Vidya Sagar was going to be negligible if
Courtney Phelan | Thursday, January 28, 2016
To become an elementary school teacher, you major in education. To become a secondary school (middle or high school) teacher, you major in the subject you want to teach and earn a minor in secondary education. While teaching English at the secondary level isn’t the only use for a degree in English, it’s mine. I want to be
Nicole Caratas | Monday, March 23, 2015
Saint Mary’s welcomed alumna Anne Pugliese Kasprzak and her Neuqua Valley High School Chamber Singers on Monday. Zae Munn from the Department of Music introduced Kasprzak, who graduated with a music education degree and high honors in 1994. Kasprzak also received department awards in both music and education during her time at Saint Mary’s. Kasprzak
Dennis Latimore | Friday, January 30, 2015
Playing basketball for the Fighting Irish was a huge part of my life at Notre Dame. I loved my classes in O’Shaughnessy Hall, my friends, nights at Finny’s Bar, but I also always looked forward to the next time I could step onto the Joyce Center floor in my blue and gold jersey. Playing basketball
Haleigh Ehmsen | Monday, January 27, 2014
Listening to people’s stories is one of the best gifts Saint Mary’s alumna Monica Murphy said she has received through the College’s post-graduate service program. Murphy, a social work major, said she arrived in Ghana last August and will teach at Our Lady of Holy Cross School in Kasoa until mid-June. Murphy said she decided