Centers of Excellence
Putting Loyola to work in the community
Our Centers of Excellence are a place for faculty, students, and the community to converge and interact. They represent the best in Jesuit education, and a chance for you to play an active role in promoting worthy causes and finding solutions to society's ills.
Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage
This center exists to help faculty and students recognize and research Roman Catholic thought and its links to every academic discipline in the University. Programs include faculty workshops, publication luncheons, and informal reading groups. CCIH supports research through reading-for-research groups, research project support, and a growing library of current Catholic magazines and journals.
Center for Catholic School Effectiveness
This center was founded in response to the need that elementary and secondary Catholic schools have for high-quality, research-based professional development in the context of Catholic identity and mission. The center works with schools and dioceses to design and deliver professional development in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and instructional leadership. In its first four years of operation, the center has worked with over 400 schools, in over 85 dioceses, as well as Australia, and has served over 5,000 teachers.
Center for Math and Science Education
The Center for Science and Math Education represents a cooperative effort between Loyola's School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences. Dedicated to improving the quality of science and math education in area schools, the Center and its faculty have developed a number of programs to achieve this goal.
Center for Risk Management
Loyola University Chicago's Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance is a partnership between the School of Business Administration and the School of Law. Housed in the SBA, the center provides an integrated approach to risk management, focusing on corporate governance and compliance, business ethics, financial and accounting risk, and operational risk.
Center for the Human Rights of Children
Established in 2006, this center represents, coordinates, and stimulates efforts of the Loyola University community to understand and protect the human rights of children, locally and abroad. The center's approach to the rights of children reflects the University's commitment to the Jesuit social justice mission. Supported activities include a biennial symposium on the rights of children, publications for professionals and students, international immersion programs, a fellows program, and campus educational events.
Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy
Established in 2005, the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy is an interdisciplinary program focusing on research of the urban environment and how human populations can interact with this landscape in a sustainable way. CUERP is committed to teaching and training through the integration of a variety of academic departments and the Environmental Studies/Science Program.
Center for Urban Research and Learning/Community Outreach
Loyola University Chicago's Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) is a non-traditional university research center. CURL promotes an innovative model of teaching and learning that reaches beyond Loyola's campuses and classrooms to develop equal partnerships between the University and city or suburban communities. By working closely with community leaders outside the University, the center connects University researchers with community organizations in non-academic settings. This produces stronger research outcomes that are highly effective in addressing current and emerging community needs.
Family Business Center
The Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center, part of the University's School of Business Administration, is an internationally recognized pioneer and leader in family business program development and research, serving as a resource to family businesses in the Chicago region and throughout the nation. The center's research projects have focused on issues such as family business leadership, the communication patterns of business-owning families, the role of trusts and trustees in family firms, the performance of family businesses compared with non-family managed counterparts, and demographic profiles of family businesses throughout the United States.
Gannon Center for Women and Leadership
As part of its continuing commitment to women's higher education, Loyola University Chicago established the Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, Center for Women and Leadership. Designed to honor an outstanding past president of the original Mundelein College, a former women's college that joined with Loyola in 1991, the Gannon Center promotes women's studies programs and progress and provides archives documenting women in leadership and education. The Gannon Center also sponsors a Faculty Fellows Program in Women Studies to encourage research on women and their contributions to society, and to promote active learning and scholarship.
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