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June 22, 2001 FADICA, Catholic Educational Associations and Teagle Foundation Launch New Initiative to Train College and University Boards Washington, D.C. ----- Members of FADICA, an association of private foundations, and leadership associations for higher education have begun a new joint multi-year initiative to help lay trustees become better able to keep their Catholic institutions focused on their religious mission. The initiative grew out of a January, 2000 foundation conference entitled: Trusteeship Governance and Institutional Mission. The meeting found that despite the precipitous decline in the numbers of religious serving on boards and in leadership positions of Catholic schools, colleges, hospitals and social service institutions, few Catholic institutions sponsored board education and training programs. The new In Service Education Program for Governing Boards of Catholic Colleges and Universities, co-sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, and the Association of Governing Boards, will consist of a new training guide and regional trustee workshops. Funders for the project are two members of FADICA itself and the Teagle Foundation who together have provided over $126,000 for the program. Contributions are also coming from the AJCU and ACCU. Director for the program is Sr. Margaret Crowley, SM. Consultants to the project will be Father Charles Currie, SJ, Dr. Monika Hellwig, Thomas Ingram, Sr. Sharon Euart, SM, Charles Wilson, Dr. David O’Brien and Sr. Alice Gallen, OSU. Copies of the printed proceedings of FADICA’s Symposium on Trusteeship, Governance and Institutional Mission are available for order through this web site or by mail c/o FADICA, 1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. $14.95. |