Hispanic Scholarship Fund leader to address ACE graduates | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Hispanic Scholarship Fund leader to address ACE graduates Hispanic Scholarship Fund leader to address ACE graduates Published: July 06, 2005 Author: Michael O. Garvey Sara Martinez Tucker, president and chief executive officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, will be the principal speaker Saturday (July 9) at 2 p.m. at the 10 th annual graduation ceremony for 82 volunteer teachers in the University of Notre DamesAlliancefor Catholic Education (ACE) program. Notre Dames president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., will preside at the graduation ceremony. J. Patrick Rooney, chairman emeritus of the Golden Rule Insurance Company, will receive the 2005 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education during the ceremony, which will be held in the Leighton Concert Hall of theDeBartoloCenterfor the Performing Arts. Prior to assuming her present position in 1997, Tucker, a native ofLaredo,Texas, worked for many years at AT&T and was the first Hispanic female to reach that companys executive level.In 2001, she was appointed by President Bush to the Board of Directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae).She received an honorary degree from Notre Dame in 2001. Rooney founded the Educational Choice Charitable Trust in 1991 inIndianapolisto provide privately funded vouchers for grade-school children of lower-income families.The program has become a model for similar efforts nationwide. Founded in 1994 by Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., and Rev. Sean McGraw, C.S.C., the ACE program provides college graduates an opportunity to earn master of education degrees while serving as teachers in understaffed Catholic schools nationwide. In exchange for a modest stipend and a tuition-free graduate program, ACE participants make a two-year commitment to teach in these schools. More than 80 recent college graduates from a wide variety of educational disciplines enter ACE each year.They take courses and participate in teacher training projects at Notre Dame during their two summers in the program before being assigned to full-time teaching positions at schools in some 30 cities in 14 states during the school year.After two years, the students graduate with a master of education degree and 75 percent elect to stay in the teaching profession. * Contact: * _Mary Jo Adams Kocovski, senior associate director of ACE, at 574-631-5157 or Adams.76@nd.edu _ TopicID: 12102 Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn