Mary Ellen Hrutka is the Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium. Based out of Annapolis, MD, Mary Ellen has spent her entire career in higher education, having served as the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland. Now she leads a group that works with 309 catholic schools to ensure affordability and educational excellence.
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>> Hi, I'm Mary Ellen Hrutka, and I am the Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium. We represent the Catholic Schools in the 6 dioceses in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Washington, DC. And we represent almost 100,000 students in 309 Catholic Schools, helping to make Catholic school education available, affordable, accessible and academically excellent. The one, there are two sort of things that kind of guide every day. One is always mindful of our mission and then making sure that we are maximizing our very small staff's resources to bring the benefits and opportunities and collaboration to our Catholic schools. We have 2 employs, so a very small organization, a very small budget. And my colleague is a permanent full-time teleworker. I work a lot from home, but we have an official office in Annapolis, Maryland. Typically we work what would be considered a workday. But like many professionals today, we work, we're available in the evening. We're doing emails if we're in a project. But we try and respect the weekends. Like today I worked at home on my computer, prepared for some meetings, we had a meeting with several of our dioceses in Washington, and then I did a reference check for someone and I'm here today. Tomorrow I will be traveling to the diocese of Richmond to attend an event honoring the governor and will be working with the superintendent and the chief education officer there. And then on another day we'll be writing grants and doing our annual appeal to raise funds for our organization.
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