Regis University is a private Jesuit university in Denver,Colorado. Founded in 1877 by the Society of Jesus,the university offers more than 120 degrees through 5 colleges in a variety of subjects,including education,liberal arts,business,nursing,and technology. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Michael J. Garanzini,S.J. is an American priest in the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as President of both the International Association of Jesuit Universities and the US-based Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. From 2001 until 2015,Garanzini served as the twenty-third President of Loyola University Chicago in Chicago,Illinois,a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Lawrence H. Biondi,SJ is a Catholic Priest who served as the President of Saint Louis University from 1987 to 2013,a period that saw significant changes to campus and the university as a whole.
The General Congregation is an assembly of the Jesuit representatives from all parts of the world,and serves as the highest authority in the Society of Jesus. A General Congregation (GC) is always summoned on the death or resignation of the administrative head of the order,called the Superior General or Father General,to choose his successor,and it may be called at other times if circumstances warrant. A smaller congregation of worldwide representatives meets every three years to discuss internal business and to decide the need for a general congregation.
Regis College is a postgraduate theological college of the University of Toronto. Founded in 1930,it is the Jesuit school of theology in Canada and a member institution of the Toronto School of Theology.
Joseph Michael McShane is an American Jesuit priest,who served as President of Fordham University from 2003 until his retirement in 2022. Before becoming President of Fordham University,McShane was the President of the University of Scranton and Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill. In addition to his role as President of Fordham,McShane was appointed to the Commission on Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Financing by New York Governor David A. Paterson in 2008. On July 1,2009,McShane threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium to commemorate the 150th anniversary of baseball at Fordham. In September 2021,he announced his resignation in June 2022. Soon after his resignation,he was unanimously named President Emeritus of the university by Fordham's Board of Trustees.
Leo Jeremiah O'Donovan III is an American Catholic priest,Jesuit,and theologian who served as the president of Georgetown University from 1989 to 2001. Born in New York City,he graduated from Georgetown,and while studying in France,decided to enter the Society of Jesus. He went on to receive advanced degrees from Fordham University and Woodstock College,and received his doctorate in theology from the University of Münster,where he studied under Karl Rahner. Upon returning to the United States,he became a professor at Woodstock College and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology,before becoming the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and a senior administrator in the Jesuit Maryland Province.
Rev. Brian F. Linnane,S.J. is the former president of Loyola University Maryland. Before assuming the presidency,he served as an assistant dean and associate professor at College of the Holy Cross,a Jesuit institution in Worcester,Massachusetts.
The Reverend Stephen Arena Privett,S.J. is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus. Father Privett was the 27th president of the University of San Francisco. Father Privett currently serves as the 5th President of Verbum Dei High School,a member of the Cristo Rey Network of schools. He was inaugurated as President of Verbum Dei High School on September 18,2018.
William C. McInnes,S.J. was an American Jesuit and academic. McInnes served as the 5th President of Fairfield University located in Fairfield,Connecticut from 1964 to 1973 and the President of the University of San Francisco from 1972 to 1977.. He then headed the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities,a consortium of Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States,from 1977 until 1989.
Joseph Aloysius O'Hare was a Jesuit priest,New York City civic leader and editor. He was president of Fordham University from 1984 to 2003 and chaired New York City's Campaign Finance Board for its first fifteen years from 1988 to 2003.
Royden B. Davis,SJ served as Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University from 1966 to 1989.
The Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM) is a Jesuit school of graduate theology at Boston College. It is an ecclesiastical faculty of theology that trains men and women,both lay and religious,for scholarship and service,especially within the Catholic Church.
Scott R. Pilarz was an American Jesuit priest and academic. He served two stints as president of the University of Scranton,first from 2003 to 2011 and again from 2018 until 2021. Pilarz was announced as the successor of Kevin Quinn on March 21,2017,serving until his death in 2021. Prior to returning to Scranton,Pilarz served as the president of Marquette University and Georgetown Prep.
Charles J. Beirne,S.J. was an American Jesuit and academic administrator. Beirne served as the 11th President of Le Moyne College in Syracuse,New York,from 2000 until 2007. During his seven-year tenure,Beirne oversaw the drafting of a new mission statement,launched in the largest capital campaign in Le Moyne's history,grossing $91 million by June 2010 when the campaign ended,and adopted a twenty-year architectural plan for the campus.
John Lo Schiavo S.J. was an American Jesuit and academic who was the 25th president of the University of San Francisco from 1977 until 1991 and later a USF chancellor.
Roberto Chan Yap,S.J. known as "Father Bobby",is a Filipino economist and Jesuit who currently serves as the 31st president of the Ateneo de Manila University. He assumed office on August 1,2020 and succeeded Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin. Prior to this,he was president of Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan.
J. Donald Monan,SJ was the chancellor of Boston College from 1996 to 2017 and its 24th president from 1972 to 1996—the longest such tenure in the university's history until it was surpassed by his successor. A native of Blasdell,New York,he joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. Monan earned a bachelor's degree,a licentiate of philosophy,and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology at Woodstock College. He then studied at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium,where he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. He was ordained a priest in 1955.
The International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) is an association of higher education institutions run by the Society of Jesus. It was founded in 2018,upon the approval of Rev. Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ,Father General of the society. The current chair of the IAJU board is Fr. Michael Garanzini,SJ.
Neil Gerard McCluskey,a former Jesuit Catholic priest known as Reverend Neil Gerard McCluskey,S.J. from 1938 to 1975,was a prominent voice for Catholic Education in the United States in the time of Vatican II. McCluskey wrote the famous Land O'Lakes Statement,as a member of the committee headed by Fr. Theodore Hesburgh. McCluskey was also the last surviving nephew of Blessed Solanus Casey.
