Welcome to the Avila Digital Archives
The Avila Digital Archives is a joint project of the Martha Smith, CSJ, Ph.D. Archives & Research Center and the CSJ Center for Heritage. The resources and information presented here tell the history of Avila through the heritage of our founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
We present these materials through the lens of the Avila community values:
- Excellence in teaching and learning
- The worth, dignity, and potential of each human being
- Diversity and its expression
- The development of the whole person
- Right relationships with God, self, others, and creation
- Service with the dear neighbor
Click for more information about the Martha Smith Archives and the CSJ Heritage Center
This project is made possible with generous funding from CIC/NetVUE through their Reimagining the Institutional Saga grant program.
Acknowledgements
Repositories Visited
- Carondelet Consolidated Archives of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
- Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Archives
- Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library
- State Historical Society of Missouri
- St. Teresa’s Academy Archives
Project Team
- Amy Moorman, MA, CA, DAS – Archivist, Martha Smith, CSJ, Ph.D. Archives & Research Center
- Carol Coburn, Ph.D. – Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and Director of the CSJ Center for Heritage
- David Armstrong, MA – University Director of Mission and Ministry
- Stacey Keith, Ed.D. – Vice President for Academic Affairs