Four new members have been selected to join Santa Clara University’s Board of Trustees, bringing to 46 the number of individuals who help set policies and strategy for the 168-year-old University.
The newly elected trustees, elected at the board’s June meeting, are recent SCU alumna Elizabeth Connelly ’15; former executive chairman and founder of Trust Company of America, Stephen A. Finn MBA ’76; and human-rights attorney, Jesuit priest, and president of the Jesuit University of Guadalajara (ITESO) Luis Arriaga Valenzuela, S.J. Investment banker Peter Morin ’85 was added as an ex officio (non-voting) member by virtue of being chair of the University’s Board of Regents.
“Santa Clara University is grateful for the tremendous dedication of time, talent, and expertise being offered by our new trustees,” said Michael E. Engh, S.J., whose term as president of Santa Clara University ended June 30. “Their diverse personal and professional life experiences will enrich the university as it seeks to finalize an ambitious comprehensive campaign, and beyond.”
From Santa Clara University press release.
Congratulations!
Now if they had trustees the likes of Father Spitzer, Fessio, Pacwa then Santa Clara would have a chance at becoming the ‘CATHOLIC’ University for which it was established!!!!
It’s been ‘Catholic’ in name only as so many of the Jesuit Universities are, i.e. University of San Francisco, Fordham…. I sadly could go on and on.
SCU’s annual tuition is now $52,998 (another $15,507 for room & board), and for this students are offered classes like Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretations, which “opens the Bible to critical readings from feminist and queer theory,” or the school’s Gender and Judaism course, which “explores ideas and images of Jewish ‘femininity,’ ‘masculinity,’ and ‘queerness’ . . . ”
This is the shool’s idea of justice? What would St. Ignatius think?
Why do they need so many trustees? I suspect some or many are honorific for large donors or other major contributors.
This “Catholic” in name only bad, Jesuit school has a horrific record of immorality and heresy! And does their insurance still cover abortions??
I recall the motto of the old Jesuits , using the initials AMDG. Now I think TAS might be the operating principle, Thesis Antithesis Synthesis, with a bow to Marx.