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Annual Report of the Faculty of Theology INVITE DIALOGUE DESIRE TO FLOURISH EFFECT ANNUAL REPORT (2015-2016) of the Faculty of Theology, VALUE Pontifical University, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth PROMOTE Contents 1. Desire to Flourish (2015-2020): Mission Statement and Strategic Goals 2. Report of the Dean 3. Report of the Director of Post-Graduate Studies 4. Programme Reports 5. Report of the the Irish Theological Quarterly 6. Highlights from the Centres 7. Visiting Lecturers and Scholars 8. Faculty Events 9. Honorary Awards 10.Publications, International Conference Papers and Presentations 11.In Memoriam 12.Student and Graduate Achievements 13.Scholarships and Prizes Desire to Flourish (2015-2020) Mission Statement and Strategic Goals Mission: Drawing on its Catholic tradition, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth is committed to the highest level in teaching and learning, research, and publication. As an institution it promotes the intellectual, human, and professional development of its students within an environment that respects autonomy and diversity. The Faculty of Theology, further, strives to communicate, to conserve, and to innovate from within the Christian theological tradition and so contribute creatively to the wider church, society, and culture. Therefore we will: 5 Build Relationships with 6. Strengthen Governance and 1. Enrich our Identity 2. Enhance Student Experience 3. Increase Student Recruitment 4. Augment Staff Capacity Partners Infrastructure Foster partnerships, nationally Celebrate and deepen a Provide a helpful and Enhance staff capacity in areas and internationally, with other distinctive identity that is rooted Review and propose sustainable challenging learning Increase recruitment, retention of research related to our higher education institutions, in our mission and Catholic means to strengthen environment in which our and progression of students of mission, pedagogical best statutory bodies, ecclesial and tradition, and practiced in an organisation, infrastructure and students become reflective, diverse backgrounds practice, administrative other relevant organisations and inclusive and supportive funding skilled and confident graduates effectiveness, and wellbeing individuals who share our community mission Invite 2.1 into a personable learning 1.1 Into an inclusive community 4. 1 Qualified, skilled and 6.1 Supplementary skills and environment, especially in first 3.1 Potential new cohorts 5.1 Collaboration with HEIs rooted in a Catholic identity diverse staff experience into governance year Dialogue 1.2 With other Christian and 2.2 Towards fuller participation 3.2 Towards identify 5.2 With organisations that 6.2 Towards a review of religious traditions, society and 4.2 Within academic disciplines of students collaborative opportunties share our mission corporate governance culture Effect 1.3 Contributions to church, 2.3 Innovations that foster 3.3 New programmes and 6.3 New internal organisational 4.3 Professional development 5.3 Sustainable agreements society and culture graduate attributes flexible modes of delivery structures Value 1.4 The liturgical and spiritual 2.4 Highest standards in 3.4 Progression, especially of 6.4 A resourced administration 4.4. Staff well-being 5.4 Our alumni life of the community teaching and learning postgraduates and infrastructure Promote 3.5 Targeted initiatives and 5.5. Community and academic 1.5 Visibility 2.5 Student achievement 4.5 Research culture 6.5 Financial Stability marketing engagement Report of the Dean The Academic Year began in September 2015 with just under 200 Overall there is a good atmosphere and a strong sense of collaboration in undergraduate students (including visiting and Erasmus students) the Faculty both between academic and administrative colleagues and registered on different undergraduate programmes (BD/BATh/BTh) and between lecturers and students. Our relatively small size facilitates a approximately 80 postgraduate students registered on Masters, Licentiate personal interaction with the student body. The recent period of adverse and Doctoral programmes in Theology. Our part-time Diploma media publicity regarding seminary formation was a difficult one. A special programmes (including in Theological Studies, Pastoral Theology, Liturgy meeting of Faculty took place in August to discuss the various issues and Education) also continue to attract students. involved and how the Faculty might respond. A small working group is in place to develop some of the suggestions made (e.g. a symposium on At its opening meeting of the year Faculty agreed to implement the priesthood, media ethics, etc.). Staff morale on the whole continues to be recently devised Strategic Plan – ‘Desire to Flourish’ – and to engage our good and remains clearly focused on both the challenges and various stakeholders. The six priorities are to: 1. Enrich Our Identity 2. opportunities for growth ahead. Enhance Student Experience 3. Increase Student Recruitment 4. Augment Staff Capacity 5. Build Relationships with our Partners and 6. Recently introduced initiatives include: a Prize giving ceremony for Strengthen Governance and Infrastructure. This is a work in progress. students prior to Conferring, new post-graduate scholarships in theology, and a new management team – the Council of Studies – all of which bode Faculty is conscious of the changing landscape for theology education, well for the future. after the closure of the Milltown Institute and All Hallows College. On the other hand, St. Patrick’s College is now the primary location for The Faculty welcomed new members Drs Andrew Meszaros and Luke seminarians to study theology and now welcomes students from religious McNamara OSB and occasional lecturers Drs Aoife McGrath and Tom orders and from the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary House Surlis. It bade farewell to Dr. Mary McCaughey, mourned the passing of of Formation. Rev. Martin McAlinden (RIP), and acknowledged their very significant contributions to the life of the Faculty and College. Faculty is aware that we are challenged (see Strategic Plan) to: recruit and retain high calibre students to our BATh and other programmes; to Prof. Declan Marmion, SM – Dean of the Faculty of Theology strengthen our links with MU; to revise all our current programmes (undergraduate and postgraduate) and to implement new ones. As Irish society develops in a more pluralistic direction, this has implications for the kinds of modules we offer – even in a confessional setting. For example, the Teachers Council of Ireland and other stakeholders are asking us not just to have an inner Catholic focus but to engage with the major world religions and secular belief systems and that this element be more explicit, especially in our undergraduate programmes. Report of the Director of Post-Graduate Studies The Faculty of Theology has a long and venerable tradition in Postgraduate As the quality and standard of research is also key to the future of postgraduate Studies, offering the STL and DD (STD) since its inception. In the more recent studies in Maynooth, the Faculty has fostered certain initiatives to permit the past, the postgraduate offering has diversified in response to an ever more Pontifical University better fulfil its role as a community of learning. In particular, rapidly changing academic environment. Consequently, as well as the STL and the introduction of a monthly Research Seminar where both staff and DD, we offer a PhD in Theology, Masters programmes in all theological postgraduates can present their current research, an annual Joint Research disciplines, and postgraduate Higher Diplomas in Theological Studies, Pastoral Seminar with the Universidad Pontifical de Salamanca—an institution very Theology, and Pastoral Liturgy. Furthermore, the Faculty has diversified the similar to Maynooth in ethos and context, and the support of active mode of delivery of these programmes, particularly at Masters level, so that participation of postgraduates and staff in national and international academic currently students can take a Masters full-time or part-time, or can undertake a associations (viz. ITA, IBA, and CBA, CTEiWC). Masters which is almost completely research-based, or one with a short dissertation and a very significant number of taught courses. The past year has also seen a more active valuing of the international character of the postgraduate student body, and of the enrichment that can occur when In the current academic year (2016–17) the Faculty of Theology is offering 22 this cultural diversity is cherished and engaged. It is among postgraduates that semester-length postgraduate courses, and six year-long reading courses to 63 cultural diversity of the College is most in evidence. A new Masters Induction postgraduate students at PhD, STL, and Masters level. This formal Week, as well as opportunities to meet, worship and celebrate together have postgraduate offering, which is comparable with that of continental Catholic provided occasions to appreciate how much we have to learn from our faculties, far outweighs the postgraduate offering of any theological institution in students who come from beyond our shores, and who now comprise the Ireland, or of any Catholic faculty in these islands. majority of the postgraduate cohort. However, it is not only size that matters: the quality and vitality of the Significant challenges remain. Too frequently, research has remained postgraduate programmes in a faculty or university, mirroring relevant and solid unpublished—due in part to our historic ethos, with its particular emphasis
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