SSND Founded Schools and Co-Sponsored Ministries

Founded in 1833 with the belief that education of girls is the foundation for a healthy society, the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the Atlantic Midwest Province continues
to sponsor young people's education.

Sponsored High Schools

Co-Sponsored Middle Schools

Co-Sponsored Middle Schools

University

University of Notre Dame of Maryland

The SSNDs established College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1895 as the first Catholic college for women in the United States to award the four-year baccalaureate degree. Learn more about Notre Dame of Maryland University's undergraduate and graduate programs for women (and men) in Baltimore, MD at https://www.ndm.edu

Notre Dame Preparatory School

NDP Students Visit Stella Maris Sisters

By Sister Rose Federici, SSND

NDP graduate Carolyn Gugerty Hrdlick is a nurse who brought students to Stella Maris last week. Five NDP students who are interested in being nurses visited our Sisters on Two South for two afternoons.  

They had a Tea Party...

NDP Graduation Celebration - Since 1877!

The Class of 2024 joins a 150-year legacy of alumnae who have taken part in this special day. White gowns have been part of NDP’s commencement since the school’s opening when the 1877 student handbook directed students to have “a white muslin dress, white sash and gloves for commencement…”

End of the Year Liturgy Celebration

The NDP community joined together in celebration at the End of the Year Liturgy, where we officially closed out our 150th Anniversary Year. Gratitude, faith, and community were the focus of this spiritual gathering.

Academy of the Holy Angels

Fond Farewell - Joan Connelly Retires from AHA

Joan Connelly, the Academy of the Holy Angels' director of mission and ministry, will be retiring July 1. Joan's 28 years of service to the Academy include work as a religious studies teacher and director of mission and ministry. She has invested countless hours organizing faculty retreats,...

Angels Sleep Out to Support Covenant House Programs

A handful of tenacious teens from Holy Angels spent the night of June 7 at the Academy’s first Sleep Out. Together, these students raised $5,410 to benefit Covenant House, an organization that provides shelter for young people who are experiencing homelessness and trafficking. 

Cap Toss at the Cathedral: AHA's 144th Class Graduates!

The class that entered Holy Angels at the height of the pandemic graduated on May 31 with pomp, circumstance, and a cathartic cap toss. The Academy recognized the Class of 2024 at a jubilant commencement ceremony and Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by The Most Reverend Michael A. Saporito....

Notre Dame of Maryland

How One Woman's World Opened Up

It was 1983, and Velma Sampson and her mom were touring the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Velma was anxious.  "I was not ready to leave home and stay on a campus of women from all walks of life. In fact, I was called a hermit at home. But when I stepped into a French class taught by Sister...

NDMU Students Present Research at National Research Symposium

Five NDMU Morrissy Honors Program students traveled down Charles Street to Johns Hopkins to present original research on a variety of topics at the 2024 Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium!

NDMU Hosts 2024 Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference

NDMU welcomed honors programs from across the state to campus last Friday as the host site for the 2024 Maryland Collegiate Honors Council (MCHC) conference!

Institute of Notre Dame Alumnae News

Remembering the Institute of Notre Dame

By Sister Patricia Murphy, SSND

The morning of June 5, Villa Assumpta Sisters were treated to a traveling exhibit of IND heritage that is permanently housed at Notre Dame of Maryland University.  

Institute of Notre Dame Collection Arrives at Milwaukee Archives

On May 15, 2021, archival documents from the Institute of Notre Dame (IND) arrived safe and sound at their new home at the School Sisters of Notre Dame's North American Archives (NAA) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

IND’s Heritage Lives On

Even though the Institute of Notre Dame closed its doors on June 30, 2020, residents of the Latrobe homes directly across Aisquith Street received traditional Thanksgiving boxes as gifts from the IND Alumnae Association. On Sunday, Nov. 15, at the Alumnae Reunion Mass, Fr. Tom Malia, from Mercy...