winter 2010-2011 - The University of Scranton

REVEREND KEVIN P. QUINN, S.J.,
J.D., PH.D., APPOINTED
UNIVERSITY’S 25TH PRESIDENT
T he S c r a n t o n J o u r n a l
EDUCATION
A n esteemed professor of law, respected
scholar and advocate for Catholic and Jesuit
education will be the next Jesuit to lead The
University of Scranton.
The Reverend Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., J.D.,
Ph.D., executive director of the Ignatian Center
for Jesuit Education and a professor of law at
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif., was
named the University’s 25th president during an
on-campus news conference Dec. 15. The
announcement came following the Board of
Trustees’ unanimous decision to select Father
Quinn earlier that morning.
Father Quinn will assume his duties as president
on July 1, 2011, succeeding the Rev. Scott
R. Pilarz, S.J., who announced in August that he
would leave Scranton to begin service as president
of Marquette University in the summer of 2011.
“Father Quinn is an accomplished administrator,
distinguished teacher and recognized scholar with a
deep and demonstrated commitment to higher
education and to the Catholic and Jesuit mission
that is at the heart of The University of Scranton,”
said Christopher “Kip” Condron ’70, chair of the
University’s Board of Trustees and the Presidential
Search Committee. “We have great confidence that
he is prepared to lead the University forward and to
sustain our outstanding momentum.”
A national search was conducted by the search
committee, which included trustees and representatives
from the University’s faculty, staff, student
body, alumni and administration.
“The University of Scranton is an outstanding
institution, and I look forward to working with
the board, faculty, staff, students, alumni and
friends as we move Scranton to the front ranks of
the nation’s leading master’s-level universities,”
said Father Quinn. “People make a university
great, and what has impressed me most about
Scranton is the people.”
Christopher “Kip” Condron (right), chair of the University’s Board
of Trustees, announced the board’s unanimous selection of Reverend
Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., J.D., Ph.D., as The University of Scranton’s 25th
president in the Rose Room of Brennan Hall Dec. 15.
“I am thrilled for The University of Scranton and
for my friend, Kevin Quinn, S.J.,” said Father Pilarz.
“I can attest that he is an outstanding scholar,
teacher and administrator with an unmatched
passion for Catholic and Jesuit higher education.”
Father Quinn, 54, has distinguished himself as
both a teacher and scholar. As a professor of law,
he has taught at Santa Clara University since
2007, also serving as the executive director of the
Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa
Clara. From 1994 to 2006, he served at Georgetown
University Law Center, first as associate
professor before being promoted to full professor.
Father Quinn’s legal scholarship is primarily in
health care ethics, including book chapters and
journal pieces on issues of end-of-life decision
making, stem cell research and justice in health care.
Born in Queens, N.Y., and raised on Long
Island, N.Y., Father Quinn is the eldest of Patricia
and the late Patrick Quinn’s four children.
Several media outlets were on hand to report
on the announcement of Rev. Kevin P. Quinn, S.J.,
J.D., Ph.D., as the University’s next president.
www.scranton.edu/25thpresident