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 .The entire Class of 2026 of St. Ursula Academy has much to celebrate, including:

·      100% acceptance to a four-year college

·      College applicants earned more than $45.2 million in academic and athletic scholarships

·      A total of 122 students received merit-based scholarships (98 percent)

·      Fifteen student-athletes will participate in collegiate athletics

·      One student will attend college at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Members of the Class of 2026 received the following esteemed awards and scholarships:

·      Bowling Green State University Sidney A. Ribeau President’s Leadership Academy Scholarship - full tuition

·      Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship - full tuition and room/board

·      University of Findlay Oiler Scholarship - full tuition

·      Governor’s Merit Scholarship - $5,000/year toward any college in the state of Ohio (6)

·      National College Match Scholarship Recipient and QuestBridge Scholar at the University of Notre Dame - full tuition, room/board, books and supplies, and travel expenses

·      The Ohio State University Land Grant Opportunity Scholarship - full tuition and room/board

·      The Ohio State University Morrill Program Excellence Scholarship - full tuition

Seventeen members of the Class of 2026 began their SUA journey as sixth graders in our Junior Academy.



We are endlessly proud of our graduating seniors. Not only have they shown exceptional academic achievement, but they have also exemplified strength, kindness, faith, courage, compassion, and leadership. Our mission at SUA is to not only prepare them for college, but for lives of purpose and meaning. We know they are prepared for this next chapter, and we’re excited to watch them fly. 

transfer of leadership
june 12, 2026

Left: Sr. Sharon Derivan, OSF/S Congregational Minister for the Sylvania Franciscan Community

Right: Sr. Shannon Schrein, OSF/S Appointed Delegate/Leader for the Ursuline Community

At the last General Chapter meeting of the Ursuline Sisters, March 11, 2026, the Sisters approved of a new form of government for their Community. The following information was sent out publicly explaining this change:

"After many years of prayer, discernment, consultation with canon and civil lawyers, and based on the demographics (17) and pool for leadership of the Ursuline Sisters, the Ursuline Community has made the difficult decision to seek canonical leadership outside of ourselves.

In June, 2026, the present leadership team completes its term of office and new governance will come from the Sisters of St. Francis, Sylvania, Ohio. Based on our recommendations and petition to Rome, the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Sister Sharon Derivan, OSF/S, Congregational Minister, has been named the Canonical Appointed Leader for the Ursulines, and has named Sister Shannon Schrein, OSF/S as her delegate to fulfill the role of the commissary/canonical appointed leader of the Ursuline Sisters of Toledo, Ohio. Sister Shannon will work with two advisors from the Ursuline Community for her term of three years.

Everything remains the same for the Ursuline Sisters except for the governance model. The Decree from Rome was promulgated on January 27, 2026, the feast of St. Angela Merici, the foundress of the Ursulines around the world.

The Ursuline Community asks for your prayers during this time of transition. St. Angela was a Third Order Franciscan and so the relationship between the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania and the Ursuline Sisters seems meant to be."

A simple ceremony will take place on June 12, 2026 in the Ursuline Center Chapel with Ursuline Sisters and Associates and a large number of Sylvania Franciscan Sisters present. Sister Sandy, present Superior, will invite Sister Sharon Derivan, Congregational Minister of the Sylvania Franciscans, and Sister Shannon Schrein, her delegate to the Ursulines, to come forth and assume this Canonical responsibility.