Founded to Provide Lasallian Formation and Accompaniment
The Institute for Lasallian Studies provides support to members of the regional and international Lasallian families.
The Institute will offer master's-level and doctoral-level degree programs, as well as certificates, designed to serve the needs of those working in Lasallian ministries around the world. In addition, the Institute anticipates hosting retreats and workshops on emerging issues of special concern to members of the Lasallian family.
International Symposium on Lasallian Research
Axis: Journal of Lasallian Higher Education
The Institute for Lasallian Studies consists of one program:
Doctor of Education in Leadership
This doctoral program (with contextual electives in Lasallian Studies) prepares participants to manage people, lead departments, and serve as top-level executives.
While IALU promotes and fosters research collaboration among Lasallian researchers in strategic areas, these themes certainly must not preclude the pursuit of other lines of research according to the individual missions and visions of IALU member institutions. For the period 2013 to 2018, the following are the IALU strategic research themes.
- Food, Nutrition and Health (e.g. biochemistry of food products, science and engineering of potable water, cancer risks and cures from food, economic impact studies of nutrition programs in schools)
- Sustainability and the Environment (e.g. dealing with climate change, eco-design of houses and urban centers, industrial ecology, air and water quality monitoring in megacities)
- Education and Learning Innovations (e.g. access to education among the poor, impact of use of tablets for learning math and science, coping mechanisms among children with learning disabilities, predicting the academic emotions of young learners based on physiological signals)