DATE: June 8, 2001

                                                      NEWS RELEASE
                                                                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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                                                                        Bud Bunce (503) 233-8373
                                                                        bbunce@archdpdx.org

Catholic Educational Leaders Prepare for Their Successors: A Conversion

    Because of his work in helping teachers discern if they are called to the ministry
of administration, Brother William J. Campbell, S.M., Archdiocesan Assistant
Superintendent of Schools for personnel/technology is one of forty Catholic national
educational leaders who was invited to join the staffs of the Institute for Catholic
Educational Leadership at the University of San Francisco and the Education
Department of the United States Catholic Conference, Washington D.C., to engage in a
three-day conversation about the preparation of future teachers and administrators for
the Church's schools, which took place at the University of San Francisco June 8-12,
2001.

    The purpose of the conference is to provide an environment and climate for
having a conversation about how to (1) prepare future personnel for Catholic Schools,
(2) identify the academic, formative and cultural components of a preparation program,
(3) build a collaborative network of higher education personnel and superintendents to
design quality preparation programs, (4) to determine who is best able to mentor future
Catholic school ministers, and (5) to publish a set of recommendations regarding
content and strategies.
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