New President of Santa Clara is a woman, and a convert.
Mar 2, 2022 8:17:53 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 2, 2022 8:17:53 GMT -5
I had always thought BC and Santa Clara would be the last universities with Jesuit presidents as they are home to the Jesuit schools of theology. My thinking was obviously in error.
UC San Diego is not the same institution as University of San Diego
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Santa Clara University’s new president looks nothing like her predecessors.
The Catholic school announced Tuesday that, for the first time, a woman and lay person will lead the 171-year-old institution after generations with Jesuit priests at the helm.
Julie Sullivan comes to SCU from the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic school in Minnesota she has presided over for nine years, and will take over roughly a year after the Rev. Kevin O’Brien resigned as president after an investigation into inappropriate behavior with graduate students.
The search committee, which considered dozens of candidates from across the country, hopes Sullivan’s tenure will bring stability, but also growth and innovation.
“You’re always building on what came before you,” Sullivan said during a nearly hour-long interview on campus, “and it’s very important to gain a deep understanding of what came before you and build on that strong foundation.”
She becomes the school’s 30th president, after O’Brien’s stunning and mysterious departure just months after he presided over Mass for President Joe Biden’s inauguration and sought treatment for alcohol and stress management.
An investigation concluded he had engaged in behaviors at informal dinners with students on the path to priesthood that involved drinking and mostly conversations that were “inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols and boundaries.” Provost Lisa Kloppenberg was appointed acting president, and the university’s board of trustees updated the bylaws to remove a requirement that the president be a Jesuit priest.
Now, they’ve turned to Sullivan, who converted to Catholicism as an adult, and has a history of breaking barriers:
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Raised in Florida, Sullivan is a first-generation college student who holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a master’s in taxation and a Ph.D. in business from the University of Florida. The 64-year-old taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UC San Diego before serving as executive vice president and provost at the University of San Diego.
Her husband, Robert “Bob” Sullivan, now retired, was founding dean of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. The pair have a blended family of five children, including two who live in the Bay Area, and eight, soon to be nine, grandchildren.
The Catholic school announced Tuesday that, for the first time, a woman and lay person will lead the 171-year-old institution after generations with Jesuit priests at the helm.
Julie Sullivan comes to SCU from the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic school in Minnesota she has presided over for nine years, and will take over roughly a year after the Rev. Kevin O’Brien resigned as president after an investigation into inappropriate behavior with graduate students.
The search committee, which considered dozens of candidates from across the country, hopes Sullivan’s tenure will bring stability, but also growth and innovation.
“You’re always building on what came before you,” Sullivan said during a nearly hour-long interview on campus, “and it’s very important to gain a deep understanding of what came before you and build on that strong foundation.”
She becomes the school’s 30th president, after O’Brien’s stunning and mysterious departure just months after he presided over Mass for President Joe Biden’s inauguration and sought treatment for alcohol and stress management.
An investigation concluded he had engaged in behaviors at informal dinners with students on the path to priesthood that involved drinking and mostly conversations that were “inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols and boundaries.” Provost Lisa Kloppenberg was appointed acting president, and the university’s board of trustees updated the bylaws to remove a requirement that the president be a Jesuit priest.
Now, they’ve turned to Sullivan, who converted to Catholicism as an adult, and has a history of breaking barriers:
....
Raised in Florida, Sullivan is a first-generation college student who holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a master’s in taxation and a Ph.D. in business from the University of Florida. The 64-year-old taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UC San Diego before serving as executive vice president and provost at the University of San Diego.
Her husband, Robert “Bob” Sullivan, now retired, was founding dean of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. The pair have a blended family of five children, including two who live in the Bay Area, and eight, soon to be nine, grandchildren.
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