Dr. Andrew Seeley

For fifteen years, Dr. Seeley has been a tutor at Thomas Aquinas College in California, where his love has been teaching and learning with his fellow faculty and students from the greatest minds of Western Civilization. A 1987 graduate of Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Seeley received his Licentiate from the Pontifical Institute in Medieval Studies (Toronto) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto (1995).  His dissertation was a study in St. Thomas’s teaching about the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

His teaching experience includes courses in Biblical Studies, Logic, Natural Philosophy, Geometry, Cartesian Algebra, Differential Calculus, Modern Philosophy and Literature, Newtonian Physics, and Music Theory.

Desiring to share his love of learning, in 2005 Dr. Seeley became Director of Academic Services at the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education.  He has spoken at conferences, led in-service workshops, offered consultations to schools and colleges and directed the Institute’s Academic Retreat for Teachers.

Dr. Seeley is co-author of Declaration Statesmanship: A Course in American Government.

Michael J. Van Hecke, M.Ed

Mr. Van Hecke is the President and Founder of The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. He has been a Catholic educator for 20 years, currently serving as Headmaster of St. Augustine Academy in Ventura. He received a B.A. in classical Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from the University of North Texas. He is President and CEO of Catholic Textbooks, LLC, a company producing the first history textbooks specifically for Catholic Schools in over 40 He enjoys life with his wife and three children in bucolic Santa Paula, California.