top of page
This site was designed with the
.com
website builder. Create your website today.Start Now
  • Facebook

 Click here for all the latest MCL events

 2018-2019

Extension and Outreach

2018-2019 

Service Partnerships

 2019-2020

Service Partnerships

 Committee Work

  • Faculty Advisor for the Arizona Mission. Traveled to Douglas AZ over spring break to help facilitate lesson planning, youth ministry and community outreach with our Carmelite Sisters.

  • Traveled to Lander Wyoming with COR expeditions. Developed the Leadership Summit in Cora, Wyoming for July 2020. Worked with HR to provide 2 scholarships and Brother Daniel Klimek and Mr. Zeph Swope will attend to offer leadership training.  

  • Developed the English Enhancement Program with St. Bonaventure Schools in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Traveled to Hong Kong in 2018 in collaboration with the parish and school board, 5 FUS alumni were hired for a year of ESL instruction and faith formation. 2019 2 of the five will stay and they are seeking three to five more. Housing, salary, insurance, and flight are included in the package.

  • St. Thomas Mission ~In partnership with Archbishop Bashar Warda, 15 Iraq students and two chaperones will visit campus and area Catholic schools~ Sept. 21-28, 2019. I am collaborating with local administrators a team on campus and their support staff in Erbil to build the calendar for this event.

  • Fourth-year of bringing  Symphony on Ice to area youth. Facilitated  tickets for Mount Carmel Baptist, Weirton Christian Center and Calvery CommunityBaptist

  • Created a partnership discussion for  Mike Florak and Ruth Winfield https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-winfield-887a34100/ . Paster Winfield will be on campus in April to discuss conference opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs.

  • Secretary: Religion and Education SIG (Comparative and International Education Society)

  • ILA: International Leadership Association

  • Inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success

  • Consulting with Sara Droddy and her mission to form a Women’s Catholic Leadership community within  Franciscan University.

  • Scheduled and coordinated Anna Halpine of FEMM to meet with Nursing, Education, Catechetics and Biology. Her visit was to propose FEMM training and academic opportunities for those serving in the healthcare and education field.

  • Ms.Halpine is the Keynote at the Leadership Summit Luncheon.

  • Scheduled and coordinated Dr. Tim Uhl, Montana Superintendent and Catholic Schools Matter program with NCEA. Tim met with CI and education while on campus. He will return to campus in July to record with the MCL and CI programs.

  • Scheduled and coordinated Mr. Ken Ogorek, Archdiocese of Indianapolis and consultant for Evangelium to speak in Scott Sollom’s class and record for the program.

  • Strategic Plan: Was lead on the external Listening Visited Washington DC and met with 11 organizations that week, participated in phone calls, created a project Capstone with visit summaries, materials and sent surveys as well. ~June-September

  • From this, I was able to connect Mr. Don McCabb, Executive Director of the United States Catholic Mission Association. He is writing an article on Rhett’s work and the Arizona Mission.

  • Working with Father Harry Sands of the Black and Indian Mission for the MCL program and meeting Father Michael Carson, Assistant Director Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church (USCCB) & Subcommittee on Native American Affairs Feb.18 for dinner and opportunities with the CL and serving on a committee with the USCCB~November 19, 2019 :Notified the grant has been awarded. The project will receive $80,000 to fund a documentary with 4PMMedia featuring Father Dave Pivonka, speaker series, and development of curriculum to support school intervention.  

​

  • Met Bishop Dornsonville who requested invitations for myself and Dr. Mello to attend the Town Hall day on Catholic Latino Education at the Catholic University of America. Met Dr. Hosffman Ospino, Ph.D. who will be at the MAC conference in February.

  • Working with the Tepeyac Institute to form an Articulation Agreement between their leadership program and the MCL. Traveling to AZ in April to speak to the cohort and finalize this partnership https://tliprogram.org/.

  • Working with President Dot Teso of St. Michael’s school in AZ to recruit her students to FUS and their native American schools' consortium to the MCL. Father Sands is helping with this.

  • The St. Thomas Mission. Iraq

  • The English Empowering Program, HK

  • Nov 2019 ~ We will have our grant response for the Native American Suicide Grant with 4pm media. *submitted

  • January 2020 ~ New Orleans Black Catholics: working with Father Daniel Green, Dr. Breuninger and Dr. Miller for a proposal to serve the Diocese of New Orleans

  • 2020 ~ Grant to Our Sunday Visitor with the Catechetical Institute to provide a pilot program for MCORE and Dr. Breuninger's "Flourishing" curriculum to two Diocese and create workshop resources. *completed

  • January 17 & 18, 2020 ~ In charge of putting together with the Academic Lecture Series for Professional Programs and working with the Center for Leadership to host an evening and next day leadership conference for undergraduates. * Lieutenant Sam Blair, Mrs. Holly McIIwan and Mr. Steve Gavatorta and a panel session for men and women with Professional Program faculty as guests

  • February 2020 ~ NCEA national webinar featuring Dr. Breuinger. Matt, Hala Warda, and I will present at the NCEA national conference in April. All connected to the MCL and work we are doing. 

  • 2020 ~ Recruiting for the cohort and teaching/action research advisor in year 1 and 2

  • February 2-7, 2020 ~ Hosting Father Dankha on campus.

  • February 12 & 13, 2020 ~ Bringing COR Expeditions to campus for leadership workshops-will announce at Faculty Council in December. Also, HR is providing two grants to the pilgrimage in July 2020

  • March 2020 ~ Brother William of St. Bonaventure, Kowloon will be visiting campus to recruit for the Hong Kong program 

  • March 2020 ~ Arizona Spring Break Mission, 3rd year as faculty advisor

  • Faculty Council/Faculty Governance

  • Building workshop offerings from MCL courses as support and recruiting tool for the University 

  • Director responsibilities: Dr. Jungers approached me about the Criminal Justice degree and a future track in the MCL. Deacon Mark has given me potential contacts for Health Care.

  • May 2020 ~ Cohort 2 begins

  • Summer 2020 ~ Second Annual Catholic School Leaders’ Summit the Monday of the John Bosco Conference-Implementing a Montessori program in the Catholic School is our theme. Dr. O' Shea will speak again for us. I am now a consultant with MCORE and Josh and I will be facilitating a workshop during the conference.

  • July 2020 ~ Summer Pilgrimage: working with Noelle Crowe, Brother Daniel Klimek, and Mr. Josh Swope to recruit for the pilgrimage with COR Expeditions

​​

  • Franciscan University Innovation and Extension Faculty Fellow

  • Faculty Council ~secretary 2020

  • Faculty Governance

  • St. Thomas the Apostle Mission~Erbil, Iraq Partnership: MOU Agreement and working with Aid to the Church to seek funding for scholarships, teacher training & online course development. 

  • Strategic Planning Committees: Global Partnerships, Evangelization and Outreach, Online Learning

​

  • Chaired New Faculty Committee for 4 years

  • Member : CHESCS: Catholic Higher Education Supporting Catholic Schools

  • Chaired New Faculty Committee (spring 2018)

  • Organized and implemented the opportunity for Javier Carreno to join the meetings from Gaming.

  • Served on Faculty Welfare

  • Served on Faculty Awards

  • Traveled to Connecticut and New Hampshire to meet with Dr. Tim Flanagan and Mr. David Mosher

  • Coordinator of the ELISA and LCI partnership added new school partnership in 2018

  • Spoke at the alumni reception, Phoneix Diocese and Biblical Conference

  • Participated in  faculty tours for summer visitors

  • Eucharistic Minister and reader, St. Joseph’s  Cathedral Wheeling WV

webinar_banner.jpg

Master of Catholic Leadership's national webinar in partnership with NCEA (National Catholic Education Association)

aired January 8, 2020

​

​

Fully Alive: Integrating Positive Education into Our Catholic Schools

Currently, our education system is experiencing some of the highest rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidality that it has ever seen among students. While our Catholic schools excel at transmitting knowledge, we have struggled to simultaneously foster our students' psychological and emotional well-being. These psychological/emotional struggles not only impede academic and vocational pursuits but also have significant consequences for students' spiritual lives. This presentation seeks to introduce educators to positive psychology, a field concerned with happiness and well-being. Further, it offers insights on ways principles from positive psychology can be intentionally and thoughtfully integrated into Catholic education in order to cultivate a culture of well-being among our students. Educators will learn some of the exercises and interventions used in positive psychology as well as be provided with resources for further exploration of the topic.

d (5) (1).jpg

Student Feedback

Undergraduate Service Partnerships 

Tower of Power, Steubenville

​

Created off-campus teaching opportunities for graduate education majors. Students designed lessons focused on classroom and text examples with follow up reflections on the teaching experience. 

​

Worked with the Wheeling Symphony to secure  tickets to Symphony on Ice, an interactive symphony concert and ice skating show for the community -December  2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

 

Tower of Power

Ministry to Moms

Weirton Christina Center

Mount Carmel Church

Chiron Student Advisory

​

Backpacks for Haiti-helped organize a backpack drive to send school supplies to Haiti.

​

Student Teacher Dedication - Formal fall program that honors fall and spring Ed. seniors. A guest speaker is invited from the community to give a speech on an educational topic.

​

Christmas classroom learning bags for urban, low income Catholic school.

Center for Leadership

​

Teacher for 3 p.m. session and Advisor for freshmen and sophomores.

​

Traveled with sophomores to DC over fall break 2015

​

Worked with a new program that connects seniors with freshmen for mentoring and classroom discussions during Friday sessions.

bottom of page