Catholic Educational Leadership

The courses offered by the Catholic Educational Leadership (CEL) Program, in collaboration with the McGrath Institute for Jesuit Catholic Education (MIJCE), seek to meet the specific needs of students who are preparing to serve the Catholic educational community, K-graduate school, as teachers, administrators, or auxiliary personnel. Course content includes the dimension of “call, covenant, and mission.”

For more information about the Catholic Educational Leadership program, please visit the MIJCE pages.

THE CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Students will become integrated leaders of Catholic education, which includes religious, spiritual, and moral competencies
• Students will become academically and professionally competent leaders in Catholic Education
• Students will engage in a lifelong learning process and are the catalysts for lifelong learning in Catholic education
• Students will foster in their schools the four aims of Catholic Education, namely, message, community, worship, and service
• Students will seek to develop the essential personal skills of Catholic educational leadership as modeled by Jesus Christ

THE CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the vision, mission and values of Catholic education with the ability to communicate them to the various stakeholders of their schools
• Students will demonstrate competency in coursework assignments and apply research skills to Catholic education and the field of education in general
• Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills required within contemporary models of learning, which are characterized by transformative, reflective, and engaging modes of learning and higher order thinking
• Students will apply Gospel values with their school communities, demonstrate a knowledge of Catholic social teaching and the promotion of social justice, and will integrate cura personalis (care for the person) in their relationships with their stakeholders

Programs

• Catholic Educational Leadership, EdD
• Catholic Educational Leadership, MA
• Catholic Educational Leadership, Preliminary Administrative Services Credential, EdD
• Catholic Educational Leadership, Preliminary Administrative Services Credential, MA

• Catholic Educational Leadership Minor

• Catholic Educational Leadership Certificate