The Center for the Study of Church Management offers a variety of educational, research, and training programs. Our educational programs range from one-day workshops on selected topics to a week-long summer certificate program to a comprehensive on-line masters degree in Church Administration. Our research-related programs include a working paper series, reports based on funded research, research conferences on special topics, and scholarly publications. All of the education programs emphasize the practical, every-day management issues that church managers at all levels face regularly.

A graduate degree program offering an M.S. degree in church administration will be offered beginning in the summer of 2008. The program will be entirely online, with the exception of a one-week residential experience. The degree program is expected to attract both a national student-body and faculty. Click here to learn more about our innovative Master of Science in Church Management program.

In Summer 2007, we co-sponsored a national conference on Best Practices in Church Management: the Assessment and Formation of Personnel. The conference was co-sponsored with (and held at) the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington D.C.

The 2008 Summer Church Management Institute, an intensive executive education experience for diocesan and religious order managers, will be held July 7-11 at the Villanova Conference Center.

We also sponsor a distinguished speaker series that brings renowned writers and speakers to the Villanova campus for community-wide events. Soon we will be publishing a newsletter highlighting best practices in church management.