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2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Catholic Educational Leadership Minor


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The Catholic Educational Leadership Program develops leaders who can engage Catholic mission and identity in all aspects of Catholic educational leadership in the following ways: applying learning in educational contexts of Catholic social teaching through a transformative leadership style by practicing engaged scholarship that addresses societal challenges; work in solidarity with communities locally and globally, especially historically marginalized groups; engage on going research and best practices in Catholic and faith based educational environments for the formation of self and others; engage self and others in spiritual discernment and the process of reflection and personal faith development.

Program Learning Outcomes


  • Students will be able to communicate the vision, mission and values of Catholic education to the various stakeholders of Catholic education including the research community.
  • Students will evaluate current research in Catholic Education and develop projects of inquiry that reflect transformational leadership with a personal and professional commitment to liberation, equity, and inclusion.
  • Students will apply Gospel values to their research epistemologies and demonstrate a knowledge of Catholic social teaching and the promotion of justice as part of their theoretical frameworks.
  • As leaders in Catholic institutions students will research current political and social reality as a core text.  Students will develop inquiry projects based on research and praxis that acts in solidarity with communities locally and globally, especially historically marginalized groups.

Minor Requirements (12 Units)


Complete 12 units in CEL (600:799)

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