The Second Vatican Council exhorts the faithful “to assist to their utmost in fi nding suitable methods of education and programs of study and in forming teachers who can give youth a true education” (Vatican Council II, 1965, §6). Two manifestations of this exhortation have been the University Consortium for Catholic Education (UCCE), a collaboration of 13 programs at colleges and universities across the country,1 which receive and form recent college graduates to teach and serve in K-122 Catholic and parochial schools (see Figures 1 and 2, Tables 1 and 2), and the Association for Catholic Leadership Programs (ACLP), a confederation of graduate programs in educational administration, focused on the preparation of principals for Catholic schools (see Figures 3 and 4, Table 3). With the declining numbers of vowed and ordained religious men and women to staff Catholic schools, the UCCE and the ACLP have been major contributors to the renewal of Catholic education by providing a steady supply of valuable, well-prepared professionals to serve as teachers and administrators. Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the UCCE supports primarily Catholic colleges and universities as they design and implement graduate-level teaching service programs for the purpose of service to Catholic and parochial schools in the USA. The ACLP, organized in 1983, promotes degree and licensure programs for Catholic school principals.
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Smith, P.A., Nuzzi, F.R.J. (2007). Beyond Religious Congregations: Responding To New Challenges In Catholic Education. In: Grace, G., O’Keefe, J. (eds) International Handbook of Catholic Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5776-2_6
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