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I want to welcome each prospective and current student, alumnus, and community partner to the Franciscan University School of Professional Programs!
As a School, we are committed to renewing the world through educational training grounded in a Catholic worldview that upholds the dignity of every human person and illuminates what it means to create a just society amid the challenges of the modern world. This worldview inspires and informs our faculty and students’ understanding of how to be ethical professionals and leaders in the business, healthcare, mental healthcare, social welfare, education, and criminal justice fields.
Faculty of our school are trained practitioners and leaders who bring a wealth of real-world experience to the classroom. Faculty know the joys and challenges of their chosen professions; they understand what it takes to move successfully from student to career professional and from career professional to leader; and they are invested in mentoring students and alums along their way. Supporting students’ personal and professional development is our passion.
Faculty of the School also are dedicated scholars who engage in research related to their field. Their research deepens the classroom experience for students and provides them with opportunities to be involved in exciting scholarly projects and professional conferences in areas such as special education, forgiveness and forgiving, child welfare and rural human services, reparation and responsibility among perpetrators of wartime atrocity, and maternal/fetal attachment.
As a school, we have set a course for ourselves that includes the following goals centered on the ethical formation, professional training, and leadership development of our students. We aim to:
Being part of the School of Professional Programs will prepare you for success in your field and help you to become an ethical, compassionate, and skilled professional who is ready to renew the world wherever you may be called to serve!
Christin Jungers, Ph.D., LPCC-S
Dean, School of Professional Programs
The School of Professional Programs prepares highly skilled, career-ready professionals committed to the sacredness of human life and the transformation of the world into a just environment. Grounded in Catholic virtues and professional ethics, our programs form students as moral professionals competent to engage in socially responsible practice. Faculty are respected scholars and practitioners who prepare students to serve through instruction in evidence-based practices and contemporary theory applied in real-world environments. The outcome is principled, trained leaders who can renew the world by serving the common good and empowering others to realize their human potential.
Franciscan University of Steubenville (FUS) offers multiple programs designed to lead to licensure or certification in the state of Ohio. This means that, when a student graduates from a licensure program at Franciscan University of Steubenville (FUS), he or she has the minimum educational qualifications to apply for Ohio licensure.
Franciscan’s Education Department one of only 22 educator preparation programs nationwide honored with CAEP’s Frank Murray Leadership Award for excellence and continuous improvement.
Dr. Tiffany Boury, Senior International Officer and Professor of Education received a grant for 80,000 from the USCCB to support work on with Catholic schools on the Native American Reservations.
Dr. Megan Reister shares how Franciscan’s Education Department is involved with the local community.
Dr. Michael Welker, professor of economics, has been appointed the inaugural director of Catholic Business Management and Entrepreneurship
Two professors in Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Education Department received a $75,000 grant from the Ohio Deans Compact on Exceptional Children to create an online module to help educators across the state teach evidence-based behavior management practices.
Douglas Perry
Assistant Professor and Chair of the Accounting, Business Administration, and Economics
Executive Director of the Leadership Institute
